Search Results: Titles starting with L from 20 Ants Fine Books, IOBA

Pasadena, CA: The Zamorano Club. Fine with no dust jacket. 1982. Limited Edition. Stapled wraps. A treatise on this early English printing manual with a tipped in original leaf from Typographia or the Printer's Instructor, by John Johnson, 1824. Johnson (1777-1848), an early English printer, wrote the dense, but consise 2-volume Typographia. The first volume is a treatise on the origins and history of printing, with biographical notes on English printers of importance. The second volume is the 'Printer's Instructor,' a technical manual about presses, type, typography and design, and printing. Typographia became one of the period's most popular books on the craft and the art of printing, typesetting, and typography. The 7" x 4 1/4" leaf is from a 12mo Volume 2 and is pp 459-460 from a copy printed by Johnson's own The Apollo Press for Longman, et al, London. Framed in an ornamental, typographical border, the text is a description of 4 of the 6 graphic… Read More

Crestline, CA: George Frederick Kolbe. Fine with no dust jacket. 2001. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Slightest roll to spine.; The text is Renaissance scholar Roberto Weiss' first English translation of the essay Nota, a treatise on written works about the growing interest in coins of Ancient Rome. The first book dedicated to numismatics is attributed to Andrea Fulvio and is comprised of pages for individual Roman emperors, with their woodcut portraits, and explanations of coins issued during their tenure. The purchase of an incomplete, disbound copy of Illustrium Imagines led the publisher to produce this edition featuring an original, woodcut leaf from the 1517 edition, mounted in a die-cut leaf that shows both verso and recto of the original. The frontispiece reproduces the title page of the 1517 edition of Illustrium Imagines. Large medallion illustration by Wesley W. Bates, Canadian wood engraver. The title and colophon pages have small, red, woodcut 'medallion'… Read More

Kirkwood, Missouri: The Printery. Near Fine. 2006. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. The first frontis photo is not present. Spine is sun lightened with gilt title still bright. The front cover paper is slightly darkened, except for the edges. The slightest splay to the covers.; This book states the author's concise views on the importance of William Morris in fine printing and book design, and how, with a limited budget, one can methodically build a collection of Morris' work. William Morris (1834-1896) was a writer, poet, lecturer, artist, textile designer, printer, and socialist political activist. Author Jack Walsdorf was a bibliophile and noted collector of Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson, Doves Press, and William Morris' Kelmscott Press. From a limited edition of 150 copies, this is copy 29 of 68 that have a tipped-in original leaf from the 1895 Kelmscott edition of Child Christopher and Goldilind the Fair. The leaf is tipped in at the left edge, thus the verso can be… Read More

Birmingham, New York: The Silverado Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. Limited Edition. Softcover. Several light, shallow creases to the front cover. Lightest bumps to head and tail corners. Front cover slightly lightened adjacent to spine.; This book reproduces T. J. Cobden-Sanderson's 20 November 1914, written in bed, personal letter to "Rbt." In it, Cobden-Sanderson recounts the workings of his Doves Press "...we are binding Shelley and printing Keats," the loss of an employee called to "the front" of World War I, and being "daily depressed by the atmosphere of the world yet happy in one another." He mused "At the actual moment I am in bed tho it is already 11 a.m. I find the morning time in bed between waking and getting up the golden time of day, the borderland between the dreams of night and the still, still stranger dreams of the world without." Cobden-Sanderson was an author, editor, a founder of Doves Press, and… Read More

West Branch, Iowa: Toothpaste Press. Fine. 1979. Limited Edition. Softcover. Seven, tiny poems, each creating a scenario for a mystery. Example: "You return to / your bedroom / visibly shaken / as you turn down / the covers a cobra / leaps for your throat / paralyzed you collapse // you are no longer suspect". Each is accompanied, on the facing page, by one of Ann Mikolowski's illustrations of board game pieces, objects, and textures. Signed and inscribed to Kenward Elmslie. "For Kenward - / these big enigmas / Ken Mikolowski / Grindstone City" Provenance: From the library and estate of Kenward Elmslie, prolific poet associated with the New York School of poetry, editor, performer, and founder of Z Magazine and Z press. Ken Mikolowski was a founder of "Alternative Press" in Detroit and a friend of Elmslie. Monochrome drawings and cover illustration by Ann Mikolowski. This is the letterpress edition limited to 800 copies. Designed, handset in Blado and… Read More

San Francisco: twowindows Press. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1968. Limited/Numbered Edition. Hardcover. Faint smudges of silkscreen ink to front cover and tail corner of the rear cover. Tiny hole in the cloth at the tail edge of both covers.; Don Gray's six short-lined, jagged poems for his very young child, Rasan. Interspersed with the text are Rasan's drawings of people, all in the manner of a child just learning to depict people. Some figures don't have arms, one has a single arm, some don't have pupils in their eyes, one has eyelashes, one has a beard. Of an edition of 262, this is copy 9 of 12 that are specially bound in cloth and signed on the front endpaper by the the author "9/12 / Don Gray / 24 June 68" Don Gray was a poet, artist, and founder of twowindows press, publisher of numerous authors of poetry. This book was a family effort with poetry and presswork by Don Gray, drawings by Rasan Gray, and Elenore Gray bound the special copies and… Read More