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PRACTICAL HINTS ON DECORATIVE PRINTING, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD, AND PRINTED IN COLOURS

PRACTICAL HINTS ON DECORATIVE PRINTING, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD, AND PRINTED IN COLOURS by (COLOR PRINTING - EARLY). SAVAGE, WILLIAM

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
PRACTICAL HINTS ON DECORATIVE PRINTING, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS ENGRAVED ON WOOD, AND PRINTED IN COLOURS
Author
(COLOR PRINTING - EARLY). SAVAGE, WILLIAM
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: Published for the Proprietor by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1822 [1823]. FIRST EDITION, ONE OF 227 COPIES. 288 x 220 mm. (11 3/8 x 8 5/8"). 3 p.l., vi, [2], 100, [8], [103]-118 pp., [2] leaves. Pleasing 20th century rich green crushed morocco, gilt-framed covers and smooth spine, gilt lettering to spine, edges untrimmed. In a burgundy calf-backed clamshell box (meant for this book, but for some reason substantially larger), green morocco title label on spine. WITH 60 ENGRAVED ILLUSTRATIONS, as called for in Abbey, 48 PRINTED IN COLORS, including decorative title page, dedication with Earl Spencer's coat of arms, six plates with a total of 18 color ink specimens, two type specimen plates, four engravings of printing presses (Columbian Press in two states, one before letters), nine defaced plates printed recto-verso, and six headpieces, three color printed, 28 engraved plates printed in colors: five in a single block, six in two to four blocks, 14 in five to nine blocks, and three full-color in 13, 14, and 29 blocks, respectively, as called for in the contents and in Abbey. Front pastedown with the bookplate of the Robin Collection. Abbey Life 233; Ray, "England" 99. Occasional mild thumbing, otherwise nothing but the most trivial imperfections--quite a fine copy, internally clean and fresh, with pleasing colors, in a very appealing unworn binding. This virtuoso production was, in Ray's opinion, Savage's magnum opus, a work that was "both a highly idiosyncratic volume and a notable landmark in the history of color printing from wood." Printer and engraver William Savage (1770-1843) was, in Ruari McLean's words, "the first true colour printer of the nineteenth century in England." One of his great innovations, which made possible color printing as seen here, was a new formulation of ink. DNB reports, "Printing ink in England at that time was of a very poor quality and Savage, by various experiments, made a printing ink without any oil in its composition. This made it more serviceable for artistic work and easier to manufacture." Savage's inks transferred so cleanly from the engraved wooden block to the paper that the blocks did not have to be wiped between impressions--speeding up the process considerably, especially when (as here) one image could require up to 29 colored blocks. The oil-free inks were also less inclined to smear or to bleed through the paper. While Savage's elaborate methods were not economically viable for mass printing of color-illustrated works, his improvements to printing ink and his use of multiple blocks paved the way for the use of chromolithography. The engravings in this work are rare, because the work was strictly limited and because Savage, despite some protests, fulfilled his promise to subscribers that all the blocks would be destroyed. While the plate count in the work can vary from copy to copy, the present item collates as indicated by the table of contents and includes Clymer's Columbian Press plate in two states, as called for by Abbey. This work appears on the market from time to time, but seldom in the kind of agreeable condition seen here..
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Further Fables for Our Time by THURBER, James

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
Further Fables for Our Time
Author
THURBER, James
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition, stated "Special Printing". About fine in mildly sunned else near fine illustrated slipcase (issued without dust jacket). A follow-up to Thurber's excellent 1940 collection *Fables for Our Time*, with 47 new fables including ten printed here for the first time (the others appeared in *The New Yorker*). Inscribed in pencil by Thurber to Peter De Vries and his wife Katinka, Thurber's close friend and colleague at *The New Yorker*. Thurber was nearly blind and his infirmity is reflected in the difficulty of transcribing the inscription, here's our best guess: "Merry Christmas to Pete & Katinka from Jim & Helen." Thurber had convinced De Vries to leave his job at *Poetry Magazine* (where De Vries had met his poet-wife, Katinka) to go to *The New Yorker.*.
[Small broadside]: The Buxton Wonders

[Small broadside]: The Buxton Wonders

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Title
[Small broadside]: The Buxton Wonders
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
East Des Moines, Iowa: R. E. Patten, 1950. Unbound. Fine. Small doube-sided photographically illustrated broadside. Thin card. 8.5" x 6.25". Fine. Portrait of the shortlived (1902-1907) but excellent Black baseball team, with an account of the teams history on the verso, and being offered for sale by African-American printed R. E. Patten.Undated but probably 1950s. *OCLC* locates no copies.
Rime estemporanee di Amarilli Etrusca; Saggio di versi estemporanei.

Rime estemporanee di Amarilli Etrusca; Saggio di versi estemporanei. by [Bandettini-Landucci, Teresa] Amarilli Etrusca.

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Title
Rime estemporanee di Amarilli Etrusca; Saggio di versi estemporanei.
Author
[Bandettini-Landucci, Teresa] Amarilli Etrusca.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Verona: Nella stamperia Giuliari, 1801. First edition. Good. Octavo (20 cm); 127, [2], 39 pages, and engraved frontispiece portrait. Engraved publisher's device on title page. Engraved head-pieces and tail-pieces in text. In original green, pink, and black woodblock printed wraps with paper title label on spine. Lower portion of original spine perished. Original wraps protected in contemporary or slightly later improvised dust jacket in woodblock-printed floral pattern. Missing portions of dust jacket reinforced. Hinges reinforced, and old repairs (guarding) to some leaves. References: Ferri, "Biblioteca Femminile Italiana," p. 34; Parenti, "Rarità bibliografiche" (1958) vol 4, p. 78; Parenti, "Prime edizioni italiane," p. 51. Bound (as issued) with a reprint of Bandettini's Saggio di versi estemporanei, originally published in Pisa in 1799.
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The Nemesis of Faith. by Froude, James Anthony.

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Title
The Nemesis of Faith.
Author
Froude, James Anthony.
Seller
Savoy Books (United States)
Description
London: John Chapman, 1849. Book. 8vo, original cloth. Pp. 227 + ads dated January 1849. Trifle rubbed. A wood engraved portrait of Froude is pasted in at the rear. A very nice copy. First edition of this tortured narrative of self-examination and religious doubt. Infamous in its da y, the novel was suppressed and in one instnace burned in public. A scarce title, Wolff noted that his copy was the only one ever offered to him..
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Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens: BOCCIONO, CARRA, RUSSOLO, BALLA, SEV by PARIS. BERNHEIM-JEUNE & Cie

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Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens: BOCCIONO, CARRA, RUSSOLO, BALLA, SEV
Author
PARIS. BERNHEIM-JEUNE & Cie
Seller
Ursus Books (United States)
Description
1912. [FUTURISM]. BERNHEIM-JEUNE & Cie. Les Peintres Futuristes Italiens: Boccioni, Carra, Russolo, Balla, Severini. 32 pp Illustrated with black-&-white plates. 8vo, bound in publisher's orange wrappers. Paris, Chez Mm. Bernheim - Jeune & Cie. (1912). The first major exhibition of the major artists of the Futurist movement outside Italy. The wrappers are slightly soiled, but it is nevertheless a sound copy.
Günter Brus: Handzeichnungen 1969-1971/Drawings 1969-1971, Zeichnungen 2

Günter Brus: Handzeichnungen 1969-1971/Drawings 1969-1971, Zeichnungen 2 by (BRUS, Günter)

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Title
Günter Brus: Handzeichnungen 1969-1971/Drawings 1969-1971, Zeichnungen 2
Author
(BRUS, Günter)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
83 black & white full-page illus. [18], plates, [1] p. check-list of works & colophon. 4to, printed softcover. orig. dust-jacket & glassine. Cologne & New York: Verlag Gebr. König, 1971. The rare second installment in König’s “Drawings” series, the first presented Stanley Brouwn’s this way brouwn series. For this book, the Viennese Actionist Brus (1938-2024) contributed a series of 83 pornographic and obscene drawings, with introductory text by curator Peter Weibel in German and abridged English. A check-list at the end records the owners of these works, such as Kasper König, Michael Werner, Hermann Kern, Gerhard Rühm, Weibel, Armin Hundertmark, etc. Near fine, edition of 600 numbered copies, but this one is unnumbered.
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A VIEW OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE FROM THE SACRED RECORDS. WHEREIN THE PARTIES IN THAT COVENANT, THE MAKING OF IT, ITS PARTS CONDITIONARY AND PROMISSORY, AND THE ADMINISTRATION THEREOF, ARE DISTINCTLY CONSIDERED.. by Boston, Thomas

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A VIEW OF THE COVENANT OF GRACE FROM THE SACRED RECORDS. WHEREIN THE PARTIES IN THAT COVENANT, THE MAKING OF IT, ITS PARTS CONDITIONARY AND PROMISSORY, AND THE ADMINISTRATION THEREOF, ARE DISTINCTLY CONSIDERED..
Author
Boston, Thomas
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Glasgow: Robert and Thomas Duncan, 1770. Attractive original calf, with raised spine bands [light wear]. 407, [1 blank] pp. Rear free endpaper torn, contemporary ownership signature of Thomas Manning. Scattered light foxing, modern bookplate, Very Good. ESTC T74880.
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A Dissertation on Speech by Amman, John Conrad

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Title
A Dissertation on Speech
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Amman, John Conrad
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
London: Sampson, Low, Marston, 1873. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good+. Rebound in 3/4 leather and marbled boards. A nice copy.
Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea

Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Harland, Marion [pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]

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Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea
Author
Harland, Marion [pseudonym of Mary Virginia Terhune]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 459, [2] pages. Advertisements. Later printing, with the slight change in name of the publisher, which occurred in 1878. The second in the author's "Common Sense in the Household" series. Marion Harland was the pen name of Mary Virginia Terhune, a Virginia born novelist and author of non-fiction, mostly for women. She wrote a number of cookbooks and domestic works, and was the first woman elected to the Virginia Historical Society. Her daughter, Christine Terhune Herrick, was also the author of several cookbooks and other works. Internally shaken and with some signatures pulling loose. In publisher's green cloth, titled and decorated in black and green, with some rubbing to edges. Overall, near very good. With five handwritten recipes, on blank pages in the front and rear. With the ownership inscription of food historian and cookery re-enactor Marion Walke. [Bitting 214; Brown 2382; Cagle 326].
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RECORDS OF THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES

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RECORDS OF THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES
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Joseph J. Felcone Inc. (United States)
Description
1938. THE RECORDS OF THE SWEDISH LUTHERAN CHURCHES at Raccoon and Penns Neck, 1713-1786. [N.p.], 1938. xv, 387 p. Frontis. Cloth. Important historical and genealogical source material on the South Jersey Swedes. Compiled by the Federal Writers' Project of the W.P.A., with an introduction and notes by Amandus Johnson.
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My Brother Gregg by ANDERSON, Keith

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Title
My Brother Gregg
Author
ANDERSON, Keith
Seller
Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description
[Pasadena, Grant Dahlstrom, 1947]., 1947. 8vo. Text with ruled line in orange. Original stiff white wrappers. Fine. Scarce. 8 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Tribute to printed Gregg Anderson, killed during the Allied invasion of Normandy, 1944.. Soft cover. Fine.
Normandy 1944: Allied landings and breakout (Campaign, 1)
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Normandy 1944: Allied landings and breakout (Campaign, 1) by Badsey, Stephen

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Title
Normandy 1944: Allied landings and breakout (Campaign, 1)
Author
Badsey, Stephen
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780850459210
Condition
Very Good
Description
Osprey Publishing, 1990-01-25. Paperback. Very Good. 7x0x9. 1990 Osprey Publishing edition. Cover shown is a stock image. Actual cover features a graphic of a topographic map and an illustration of a soldier. Trade paper wrappers are clean, glossy, and crisp-cornered. Spine is secure and unlined. Pages are clean and unmarked. Photos and diagrams are both full-color and black and white. All images are crisp and vivid. Professional packaging and prompt shipping. JB.
Aska's Birds

Aska's Birds by Aska, Warabe (Illus); Day, David (Auth)

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Title
Aska's Birds
Author
Aska, Warabe (Illus); Day, David (Auth)
Seller
E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780385253888
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Doubleday, 1993 Blue cloth titled in silver in color pictorial dust jacket with original price intact ($15.00). Poetry by David Day matched with Aska's paintings of birds. Lovely work by this Japanese-Canadian artist.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Warabe Aska. Oblong 4to.
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Transatlantic Crossing; American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century by ALLEN, Walter, ed

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Transatlantic Crossing; American Visitors to Britain and British Visitors to America in the Nineteenth Century
Author
ALLEN, Walter, ed
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Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description
hardcover. 8vo, cloth, d.w. N.Y.: William Morrow, (1971). vg

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