Fine And Designer Bindings. from Bromer Booksellers

Weston, MA: M&S Press, 1991. Gonet, Jean de. Octavo. 98pp. One of 350 copies. This copy specially bound by Jean de Gonet in revorim covers with exposed red bands and red titling to leather spine. The text is a reprint of the Boston edition of 1855, here with introduction and annotated index contributed by Roger E. Stoddard, at the… Read more about this item

Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894. 16mo. 130pp. One of twenty copies printed on vellum, a substrate on which Morris' skill with the materials of printing shines particularly well. The pairing of the two tales herein relays the historical arc of Morris' literary and aesthetic interests: Emperor Coustans ruled in 4th-century Byzantium, and the Tale of Over Sea follows the exploits… Read more about this item

(Chillicothe, OH): Mountain House Press, 1923. Hunter, Dard. Quarto. 111pp., + (11)ff. of paper samples. One of 200 copies. With a tipped-in frontispiece showing Hunter's mill. Begun in late February 1922, this title is the first to be designed, written, and printed at the Mountain House Press and is Hunter's first work on the subject of papermaking. This history… Read more about this item

San Diego, CA: E. C. Press, 1993. Collins, Evron. (15)pp. One of 70 copies. Cumming's brief account, in both English and Spanish, of the Ojo de Dios and its origins among the Huichol people is printed in black and red. Bound in boards, with upper cover sporting its own miniature Ojo created by Evron Collins. Fine. (2 1/4 by… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson, and others. In black leather with gilt stamping to… Read more about this item

Los Angeles: Mariana Blau, 1993. 26pp. One of 90 copies issued as a keepsake for the Zamorano Club. A touching memorial to renowned miniature-binder Bela Blau upon his death. Published privately by his wife Mariana, who also bound the book and wrote the dedication. Eulogies by Francis Weber, Glen Dawson, and others. In black leather with gilt stamping to… Read more about this item

Worcester: St. Onge, Achille J., 1973. 55pp. From an edition of 1,500 copies, this is one of thirty-four in a special binding executed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Printed with large ornamental initials in red by Joh. Enschedé en Zonen. Tiny book label to rear paste-down, else fine in burgundy morocco, with gilt-stamped title and decorative rules. A.e.g. (Massmann 41;… Read more about this item

East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1900. Kinder, Louis. Octavo. 8ff., frenchfold. One of twenty-five (i.e., twenty-one) copies printed on vellum. Signed on the colophon by Elbert Hubbard, and with an inscription by the illuminator, Frances Carmody. Designed by Samuel Warner. Illustrated throughout with hand-illumined art nouveau borders. The Last Ride was one of only two or three books printed on… Read more about this item

Hyattsville, MD: Rebecca Press, 1984. Estorick, Michael. (58)pp. From an edition of 2,200, this is one of 200 specially bound deluxe copies, signed by Erté. Erté, whose fashion images adorned the pages of Harper's Bazaar from 1932 to 1937, was one of the most prominent French illustrators of the Art Deco period. With a foreward by Bingham, and an… Read more about this item

Cincinnati, OH: Mosaic Press, 1986. (48)pp. One of an unspecified, but no doubt small, deluxe edition specially bound by Hugo Grummich in full brown leather with gilt spine titling and unique scrimshaw exemplar onlaid to upper cover. An impressive production that pairs the internal text's writ method with its realization on ivory. (15/16 by 3/4; 24x19mm).

Hyattsville, MD: Rebecca Press, 1984. Estorick, Michael. (58)pp. From an edition of 2,200, this is one of 200 specially bound deluxe copies, signed by Erté, this one out of series and noted as the binder's copy. Erté, whose fashion images adorned the pages of Harper's Bazaar from 1932 to 1937, was one of the most prominent French illustrators of… Read more about this item

East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1907. Avery, Harry. Octavo. (vii), 67, (2)pp. One of 203 copies, signed by Hubbard. Frontispiece reproduction of a bas relief portrait of William Morris, executed by Jerome Conner. Between pages 20 and 21 is inserted a two-page facsimile of a letter written by Morris. A laudatory project by Hubbard, who here comments on Morris' biography,… Read more about this item

(London): Essex House Press, 1902. Bourbeau, David. Small quarto. 87pp. One of 250 copies on paper. Each of the 150 Psalms opens with a woodcut initial, often related to the theme of the particular passage. A court jester stands around a "T" at Psalm 53, which proclaims that "the foolish body hath sayed in hys hert: there is no… Read more about this item

London: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1870. Currie, Miss C.B.. 16mo. iii, (1), 199pp. Engraved portrait of Napoleon at title page, along with head- and tailpieces throughout the text. Third edition. Resplendant in a Cosway binding by Rivière & Son in full blue morocco with a matching design to both covers: gilt rule frame with leaves stamped in gilt… Read more about this item

London, 1916. Sangorski, Alberto. Small quarto. (11)ff., + 3ff. Signed at the colophon, after the certification statement, by Alberto Sangorski. A unique illuminated manuscript on vellum, in which Sangorski engages with and inserts himself into a genealogy of Neoclassicism. His devotion to the tradition of the medieval manuscript is at once classical and modern, and deeply entrenched in naturalistic… Read more about this item

Coaraze: Les Editions Coaraze, 1955. Gonet, Jean de. 16mo. 30, (2)pp., + 3 inserted plates. From an edition of twenty-four copies, this is one of twelve printed on Alfa Ivoire paper and labeled for a month of the year. Signed by Arman, the illustrator, on the colophon page. Arman's contributed plates offer a relatively early glance at his realized… Read more about this item

(Alès: PAB, 1960. Picasso, Pablo. One of forty regular copies, signed by Picasso, and the author/publisher Pierre André Benoit. Thematically similar to plate 22 in La Tauromaquia (1959), which depicts the instant of death of a bull in a bullfight, this single drypoint etching accompanies a brief poem by Benoit. This is the first of two miniature books illustrated… Read more about this item

London: R. Wilkin, 1728. A wonderfully illustrated thumb Bible with sixteen copperplate engravings, including two frontispiece illustrations, one preceding the Preface and another prior to the main text, as well as two engraved title pages. Issued by printer and bookseller Richard Wilkin, this is the first English thumb Bible in prose, all earlier editions having been in verse, and… Read more about this item

Barcelona: José Porter, 1945. Brugalla, Emilio. Octavo. xvi, 96pp + 50 plates. One of 330 copies. Brugalla's treatise on bookbinding, illustrated with both in-text figural drawings and color plates of bindings, offers an educated and thorough historical and technical analysis of the craft. Brugalla demonstrates his own skill on this copy's binding, which replicates a 16th-century French binding exhibited… Read more about this item

Paris: Gruel Engelmann, 1889. Gruel, Léon. Three 12mo. vols, each a distinct copy of Engelmann's production; one from the 1870 first issue, and two from the later 1889 issues. (iv), 628; (xii), 649, (ii); (vi), 649, (2)pp. Two- and three-line initials, woodcut illustrations in the fashion of medieval religious imagery, and, in only the 1889 copies, chromolithographs inserted as… Read more about this item