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

Cobden-Sanderson (Thomas James) - Ecce Mundus: Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful, original vellum-backed boards, rubbed and soiled, 190...

[Cowie (George)] - The Bookbinder`s Manual: containing a Full Description of Leather and Vellum Binding; also, Directions for Gilding of Paper & ...

Crauzat (E. de) - La Reliure Française de 1900a 1925, 2 vol., one of 500 copies, plates, some colour, original printed wrappers, uncut, spines s...

Davenport (Cyril) - Roger Payne: English Bookbinder of the Eighteenth Century, one of 250 copies, original cloth, gilt within similar cloth fold...

Fletcher (Willam Younger) - English Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1895; Foreign Bookbindings in the British Museum, 1896, each one of 500 ...

Fletcher (Willam Younger) - English Bookbindings in the British Museum, one of 500 copies, 1895 § Barwick (George F.) A Book Bound for Mary Que...

Goldschmidt (E.P.) - Gothic & Renaissance Bookbindings, 2 vol., 1928 § Oldham (J.B.) English Blind-Stamped Bindings, Cambridge, 1952; Blind Pa...

Hannett (John) - Bibliopegia; or, the Art of Bookbinding, fourth edition, contemporary cloth, spine faded, original printed upper wrapper bound i...

Larsen (S.) and Anker Kyster. - Danish Eighteenth Century Bindings 1730-1780, original cloth-backed boards, Copenhagen, 1930 § Nielsen (C.P.) ...

Lydenberg (H.M.) & John Archer. - The Care and Repair of Books, limited edition, original cloth-backed marbled boards, New York, 1946 § Plender...

Maggs Bros. Ltd. - Bookbinding in the British Isles, Catalogue 1075, 2 vol., one of 850 copies, original printed wrappers, 1987 § Esmerian (Ra...

Middleton (Bernard C.) - A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, inscribed by the author "Signed for Mel & Phyllis with best wishes B...

Miura (Kerstin Tini) - Beautiful Bindings, number 50 of 200 copies signed by the author, text in Japanese, original red calf, gilt, designed by M...

Nicholson (James B.) - A Manual of the Art of Bookbinding also, The Art of Marbling Book-Edges and Paper, first edition , lithographed fronti...

Researches concerning Jean Grolier: His Life and Library, one of 300 copies ( Baron Roger, editor ) Researches concerning Jean Grolier: H...

Prideaux (S.T.) - An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding, original cloth, small stain to upper cover, head of spine worn, 1893; Bookbinders and th...

Schmidt (Adolf) - Bucheinbände aus dem XIV. -XIXe Jahrhundert in der Landesbibliothek zu Darmstadt, Leipzig, 1921 § Schunke (Ilse) Leben und We...

Turner (D.), Colin Franklin & others. - The Mystique of Vellum, number 30 of 225 copies, specimen sheet of parchment printed in 3 colours, illust...

Valuable Secrets in Arts and Trades: or, Approved Directions from the best Artists, damp-stained at upper margin causing some fraying and two pr...

Wakeman (Geoffrey) - Nineteenth Century Trade Binding, 2 vol. including folder, one of 150 copies, bookbinding tool and leather & cloth sample...

Weber (Carl J.) - Fore-Edge Painting, New York, 1966 § Dudin (M.) The Art of the Bookbinder and Gilder 1772, one of 490 facsimile reprints, o...

Wilcox (Michael) - Twelve Bindings, number 22 of 225 copies, prospectus loosely inserted, original cloth, uncut, Austin, 1985 § Werner (Arno) O...

Abbey (Major J.R.) and others. - A large collection of auction catalogues for the libraries of the Rt. Hon. Lord Hillingdon, 1932; Marie Louise, ...

Alivon (J.B.) - Fers a Dorer pour la Dorure a la Main, specimen book for numerous palettes, roulettes and fleurons on 40pp., title-page frayed, l...

Johnston (Edward) - Writing & Illuminating & Lettering, first edition , illustrations, original cloth-backed boards, autograph specimen by Johns...

Meunier (Charles).- - Reliures d`Art executées par Charles Meunier, et provenant de sa bibliothèque particulière, etched frontispiece (separately ...

Papermaking.- Turner (S.) and Birgit Skiold. - Handmade Paper Today, 2 vol., one of 200 copies with a volume of samples and signed or with mono...

Rudbeck (Johannes) - Svenska Bokband under Nyare Tiden, 3 vol., numerous illustrations, upper cover and first few leaves of vol.3 gnawed, origina...

Armorial tools, a collection of armorial designs, monograms, etc., for Lord Carnarvon, R.J. Balston, the Library of the Institute of Civil Enginee...

Collection of old covers, 2 boxes of cloth and leather covered boards from various old bindings, vs. View on bloomsburyauctions.com ...[more]

Collection of tools, complete alphabet in 14 point `Times`, plus 17 others, brass and original wooden handles (43). View on bloomsburyauctions...

Corner pieces, an extensive collection of 180 tools including 77 pairs, the majority for corners, with a wide variety of floral, foliate and den...

Decorative tools, a collection of 215 pieces in brass, including 27 pallets and a wide range of centre and corner pieces with circular, lozenge, f...

Decorative tools, a varied collection of 67 tools including five foliate or stylised pallets, two single line pallets, various ornamental centrep...

Decorative tools, 35 ornamental tools including five large roundels, a set of four quadrants, three smaller roundels, a large crown, a ram s head,...

Floral Sprays, a collection comprising various leaves, buds, flowers and stems, arranged in six sets to produce floral sprays, the sets of 8 tools...

Foliate and other tools, an extensive collection of ornamental tools, approximately 1200 in all, including over 450 centre pieces, leaves, sprays ...

Marbled paper, collection of 90 sheets of red, blue, green and brown Spanish printed marbled paper, small quantity of book binding cloth various ...

12 in all, including three ornamental rolls, one w 12 in all, including three ornamental rolls, one wide centre line with and thinner outer lines...

Letters and numerals, a collection including sets labelled Thurston (no numerals); Camberwell, 10, 12 , and 14 pt.; De Vinne Light, 14 and 18pt.; ...

Letters and lettering tools, a collection including a set of Scripta incised letters, in original wooden case ; five similar Gravograph sets, i...

Arion Press.- Heath-Stubbs (John) - [The Twelve Labours of Hercules], 12 etched sheets by Michael Amey incorporating illustration with verse belo...

Buckland Wright (John).- Poe (Edgar Allan) - The Masque of the Red Death and other tales, number 31 of 175 copies on hand-made paper and signed b...

Cuala Press.- Yeats (William Butler) - Broadsides, 38 parts (comprising nos.1-5, 11 & 12 first year, 1-5, 8 & 12 second year, 1-6 & 10-12 th...

Doves Press.- - Credo, [one of 250 copies], 1908; Laudes Creaturarum, [one of 250 copies], 1910; In Principio, [one of 200 copies], 191...

Dropmore Press.- Cubbin (Thomas) - The Wreck of the Serica: A Narrative of 1868, Foreword by H.M.Tomlinson, number 24 of 30 specially-bound copi...

France (Anatole) - Histoire de doña Maria d’Avalos et de don Fabricio, duc d’Andria, unique copy with the original watercolours incorporating man...

Gill (Eric) - Engravings... A Selection of Engravings on Wood and Metal , out-of-series copy from an edition limited to 490, Gill`s own copy w...

Gill (Eric) - Clothes, number 66 of 160 copies signed by the author/artist on colophon leaf at end, original pigskin-backed Cockerell marbled boa...

Song of Songs (The), called by many the Canticle of Canticles, number 591 of 750 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved plates and illu...

Swift (Jonathan) - Directions to Servants, number 15 of 30 specially-bound copies signed by the artist , from an edition limited to 380, print...

Breton (Nicholas) - The Twelve Moneths, edited by Brian Rhys, number 280 of 500 copies, printed in red and black, wood-engraved illustrations by...

Gibbings (Robert) - The 7th Man: A True Cannibal Tale of the South Sea Islands, one of 500 copies, original cloth-backed patterned-paper boards,...

Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ (The), according to the Authorized Version of King James I , number 354 of 500 copies, wood-engraved illus...

Shakespeare (William) - Twelfth Night or, What You Will, number 216 of 275 copies, wood-engraved title, borders and illustrations by Eric Ravili...

Lascaris (Evadne) - The Golden Bed of Kydno, translated by P.Mathers, number 84 of 200 copies, printed in yellow and black, engraved title illus...

Chair (Somerset de) - The Golden Carpet, number 93 of 500 copies, this copy inscribed by the author and several others including the Earl of Br...

Keats (John) - Endymion, number 299 of 500 copies, foxing to a few leaves as often, original vellum-backed pictorial cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others ...

Greenwood (Jeremy) - Edward Bawden: Editioned Prints, one of 450 copies from an edition limited to 505, illustrations, many colour, original clo...

A.J.Wyatt, translators . The Tale of Beowulf, one of 300 copies on Perch paper A.J.Wyatt, translators . The Tale of Beowulf, one of 300 c...