Printed Books, Maps & Manuscripts, including Bookbinding Books & Equipment - Part 1

An almost complete collection of books issued by the press , comprising 64 titles of the 66 printed up to 2001 and 5 other more recent titles ( l...

Collection (A) of Receipts in Cookery, Physick and Surgery, for the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. By Several Hands, ...

Morris (Henry) & others. - Five on Paper: A Collection of Five Essays on Papermaking, Books and Relevant Matters, number 95 of 169 copies, ins...

Morris (Henry) - Omnibus: Instructions for amateur papermakers , one of 500 copies, 1967; A Visit to Hayle Mill, one of 210 copies, 1970; ...

Voorn (Henk) - Old Ream Wrappers: An Essay on Early Ream Wrappers of Antiquarian Interest, number 4 "H.Morris` copy" of 375 copies, this insc...

[Morris (Henry)] - The Bird & Bull Commonplace Book, one of 255 copies, inscribed by Morris "Fior Mel Kavin `The Impressario` Henry Morris 5/13/7...

Sumner (James) - The Mysterious Marbler, one of 250 copies signed by the printer, 1976 § Weisse (Franz) The Art of Marbling, one of 300 copie...

Weimann (Christopher) - Marbled Papers: being a Collection of Twenty-Two Contemporary Hand-Marbled Papers , number 117 of 200 copies signed by t...

Barrett (Timothy) - Nagashizuki: The Japanese Craft of Hand Papermaking, one of 300 copies signed by the printer, 1979 § Morris (Henry) Japonic...

Wolfe (Richard J.) - Jacob Bigelow`s American Medical Botany 1817-1821, one of 300 copies, inscribed by the author to Mel Kavin on front free end...

Bachaus". Private Presses of San Serriffe, one of 350 copies Bachaus". Private Presses of San Serriffe, one of 350 copies (all "number 1"), or...

Henry Morris. Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull Henry Morris. Twenty-One Years of Bird & Bull: A Bibliography, 1958-1979 , 2 vol., one of ...

McClure (Floyd Alonzo) - Chinese Handmade Paper, one of 325 copies, 1986 § Schmoller (Hans & Tanya) and Henry Morris. Chinese Decorated Paper...

Heaney (Howell) & others. - Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine: Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and De P...

Middleton (Bernard) - Recollections: My Life in Bookbinding, one of 200 copies, inscribed by the author "Signed for my friend Mel with gratitud...

Morris (Henry) - Broadside Vignettes [and] Vignettes, together 2 vol., vol.1 one of 145 copies, 21 broadsides, each loose in paper folder, all i...

Dard Hunter & Son, number 85 of 225 copies, specimens (Henry, editor ) Dard Hunter & Son, number 85 of 225 copies, specimens, plates and ...

Arbuckle (Clyde) - History of San José, original green morocco, gilt, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, spine gilt, g.e. with a fore-edge painting ...

Circle Press.- King (Ronald) - The White Alphabet, number 55 of 150 copies cut and creased by the artist and signed by him, folding concertina st...

Grastorf (Dennis J.) - Wood Type of The Angelica Press, 4 parts, number 33 of 220 copies, specimens, illustrations, loose as issued in original ...

Keats (John) - Unpublished Poem to His Sister Fanny April, 1818, one of 489 copies, printed on vellum, engraved pictorial colophon at beginning a...

Lee (Brian North) - Bookplates and Labels by Leo Wyatt, one of 300 copies, printed in rd and black, original cloth-backed paste-paper boards, sli...

Marks (Lillian) - Saul Marks and the Plantin Press, one of 350 copies signed by the author, Los Angeles, 1980 § Wentz (Roby) The Grabhorn Press...

.- Thomas Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices (Peter, binder , 1930-2003).- Thomas (Dylan) Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices. A Reproduction...

Wheat (Carl I.) - Mapping the Transmississippi West 1540-1861, 5 vol. in 6, one of 1000 copies designed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, maps, many...

Whittington Press.- - Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles, vol.1-25 and Index to Matrix 1-5, limited editions, plates, illustrations ...

-. Hanscomb (Brian) - Cornwall, one of 135 copies, inscribed by the printers "To Mel - with our love & thanks John & Rose ", copper-engraved ...

-. Cave (Roderick) - Chinese Ceremonial Papers: An Illustrated Bibliography, 2 vol., number XXX of 50 special copies with an additional 20 sampl...

Bosch (Gulnar) & others. - Islamic Bindings & Bookmaking, Chicago, 1981 § Pedersen (J.) The Arabic Book, Princeton, 1984 § Premchand (Neeta...

Briquet (C.M.) - Papiers et Filigranes des Archives de Gènes 1154 à 1700, a little browned, later cloth, faded, Geneva, 1888 § Weaver (Alexande...

Chambers (Anne) - The Principal Antique Patterns of Marbled Papers, Introduction by Bernard Middleton, one of 250 copies, inscribed by Middleton...

Hughes (Sukey) - Washi: The World of Japanese Paper, inscribed by the author to Mel Kavin, Tokyo, New York & San Francisco, 1978 § Barrett (T...

Hunter, II (Dard) - The Life Work of Dard Hunter: A Progressive Illustrated Assemblage of his Works as Artist, Craftsman, Author, Papermaker, and ...

McKitterick (David) - A New Specimen Book of Curwen Pattern Papers, one of 335 copies, tipped-in samples, original cloth-backed patterned-paper b...

Miura (Einen) - Classic Marble Papers, number 17 of 50 copies signed by Kerstin Tini Miura , colour plates, prospectus loosely inserted, origi...

Thomas (Peter & Donna) - A Collection of Paper Samples from Hand Papermills in the United States of America, number 40 of 195 copies, paper sampl...

Wakeman (Geoffrey) - Twentieth Century English Vat Paper Mills, one of 102 copies, samples in pocket at end, original morocco-backed marbled boar...

Woolnough (C.W.) - A Pretty Mysterious Art: A Lecture to the Royal Society of Arts, number 28 of 30 specially-bound copies with an additional po...

Carter (J.) & Percy H.Muir. - Printing and the Mind of Man, 1967 § Thomas (Alan G.) Great Books and Book Collectors, New York, 1983 § Barker (Nico...

Dilke (O.A.W.) - Roman Books and their Impact, one of 460 copies, Leeds, Elmete Press, 1977 § Diringer (David) The Alphabet: A Key to the Histo...

Earhart (John F.) - The Color Printer: A Treatise on the Use of Colors in Typographic Printing, colour-printed plates, lightly soiled, hinges we...

French (Hannah D.) - Bookbinding in Early America, Worcester, 1986 § Wolf (Edwin, 2nd ) From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American Embossed L...

A Leaf from the Letters of St.Jerome First Printed by Sixtus Reissinger (Bennett, editor ) A Leaf from the Letters of St.Jerome First Pr...

Moran (James) - The Double Crown Club: A History of Fifty Years, one of 500 copies signed by the author, 1974 § McLean (Ruari) Joseph Cundall:...

Usinger (Fritz) - Buchstaben-Buch, one of 200 copies signed by the author and artist, hand-painted initials by Karlgeorg Hoefer, original wrapper...

Walters (Henry) - Incunabula Typographica, contemporary calf with bands in mediaeval style, t.e.g., others uncut, spine faded, Baltimore, 1906 ...

] Tertia Controversia Generalis, de Reparatione Gratiae per Jesum Christum ( Cardinal Robert)] Tertia Controversia Generalis, de Reparatione ...

Chivers (Cedric).- Marmontel (Jean-François) - Moral Tales, illustrations by Chris. Hammond, contemporary "vellucent" binding, by Cedric Chiver...

.- Johnson Typographia, or the Printers` Instructor , 2 vol (Douglas, binder , 1870-1945).- Johnson (John) Typographia, or the Printers` In...

Cottage-Roof Binding.- - Treatise on the Religious Observation of the Lord`s Day, according to the Express Words of the Fourth Commandment, a li...

Fore-Edge Paintings.- Rogers (Samuel) - Italy, a Poem, engraved frontispiece, illustrations after Turner and others, light spotting, upper hinge ...

Fore-Edge Painting.- Wurtz (A.) - A History of Chemical Theory..., contemporary pictorial calf, gilt, g.e. with double fore-edge paintings bene...

Humphreys (Henry Noel) - Parables of Our Lord, original morocco-backed black papier maché binding incorporating figure of the sower in central pa...

1821-90, and Henri François, 1846-1925, binders )], "Marius Michel" 1821-90, and Henri François, 1846-1925, binders )], "Marius Michel".- De Vo...

[My World of Bibliophile Binding], text in Japanese, illustrations (Kerstin Tini) [My World of Bibliophile Binding] , text in Japanese, illust...

The Works, engraved portrait, bound in attractive turquoise blue morocco (Alfred, Lord ) The Works, engraved portrait, bound in attractive ...

Almack (Edward) - Fine Old Bindings..., one of 200 copies signed by the publishers, 1913 § Oldham (J.Basil) Shrewsbury School Library Bindings:...

Binding.- Adam (Paul) - Der Bucheinband: Seine Technik und seine Geschichte, illustrations, bound in attractive crimson morocco, by E.F.Allerd...

Brassington (W.Salt) - A History of the Art of Bookbinding, 1894 § Matthews (William) Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered, one of 300 copi...

Brugalla (Emilio) - El Arte en el Libro y en la Encuardernacion, limited edition signed by the author, original morocco elaborately stamped in bl...