Milroy Rollin (10 results)

Wraps. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. #36/50 signed copies. Two copperplate etchings and a facsimile of the artist's first book. Card from the author (also printed by him) laid in. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition, Special Edition. DESCRIPTION: Quarto (4to) 12 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches, 310 x 208 mm, 67 pages + numerous sample leaves bound in. Limited edition, no. 2 of 10 deluxe editions, total edition of 40 numbered copies (+ 3 A.P.). The book is a descriptive checklist / bibliography of the first 20 years (2000 to 2020) of the Heavenly Monkey fine press of Rollin Milroy. The first part of the book describes 41 titles published under the imprint Heavenly Monkey, the second part of the book describes the 20 titles published as Heavenly Monkey Editions. Arranged chronologically, each title contains a description of edition size, materials, description of methods, typefaces, paper(s) used, and other information unique to each publication. Numerous specimen pages and graphics from projects are interleaved and bound into the book. Handwritten marginal notations, comments and doodles by Barbara Hodgson are written alongside several of the listings. Printed in Perpetua type with the HM Ostrander-Seymour handpress on dampened Guarro laid paper. Title page calligraphy in red by Martin Jackson. Bound at HM in quarter paper-vellum with green-gold painted paper over boards. Signed by Rollin Milroy and contributors Barbara Hodgson and Claudia Cohen in the colophon. The ten deluxe editions contain an additional eight folders with dozens of items and specimens including a large folder (12 x 8 1/4 inches) labeled HM containing eleven items, and seven smaller folders (10 x 7 inches) containing dozens of items, pages, etc., several of which were never published. All contained in a black cloth-covered clamshell box with traycase and gold-color spine with green paper label and gold titling made by Claudia Cohen. Book is protected with an archival clear Grafix Dura Lar dust wrapper. _____CONDITION: Fine condition throughout including clamshell box/traycase, book and eight additional specimen folders._____DISCUSSION: Rollin Milroy is one of the very few remaining practitioners of printing with the iron handpress and all of the publications from Heavenly Monkey are distinguished by superb letterpress printing on an assortment of fine handmade and mouldmade papers, always dampened before printing. Taken together, the dozens of additional items, broadsides, pages, etc., contained within the eight folders in the deluxe edition form a mini-library of varied and interesting typefaces on an assortment of exquisite papers, all expertly printed. _____ NOTE: International shipping cost using USPS International Priority Mail to Canada and the United Kingdom is $85. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Signed by Author(s). …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First and Limited Edition. One of 40 copies, folio size, 68 pp., signed by Rollin Milroy, Claudia Cohen, and Barbara Hodgson, with accompanying letter and booklet. Rollin Milroy has earned an enthusiastic and devoted following through his attention to detail and exquisite letterpress printing. This checklist is itself a work of art, replete with tipped-in specimens. Although, as Milroy wrote in a letter announcing the book, the book is "Heavenly Monkey's next / sort-of-last publication." He would issue, two years later, "The Lady, or the Tiger? [bound tête-bêche with] The Discourager of Hesitancy", also under the "HM" imprint. Issued in an edition of only forty copies, the first ten containing extra specimens in a box. Again, we cannot help but quote from the same letter: "I do not call these deluxe, they simply are extra. I do not recommend them to anyone who actually owns HM books. My best hope is that the extras might prove useful to institutions in some educational or cautionary context." Accompanying the book is the aforementioned letter, as well as a separate "sort-of announcement" which replicates some of the pages in the book, along with a selection of cuts. ___DESCRIPTION: Parchment paper back lettered in black with painted paper over boards, Ingres endpapers, frontis a cut of a print shop with a monkey-headed character in center stage, title page in black and brown, the calligraphy by Martin Jackson, the Contents page lists the books published by Milroy under both the "Heavenly Monkey" imprint as well as "HM Editions", the Dramatis Personae page lists those who have been involved in the enterprise, marginalia throughout in Milroy's hand, some of which are printed and some manuscript; folio size (the binding 12 1/8" by 8 1/2"), pagination: [1-4] 5-[66] [1, colophon] [1, press mark], with an additional speciman tipped onto the rear flyleaf; total edition 40 copies, this no. 19, the colophon signed by Claudia Cohen, Barbara Hodgson, and Rollin Milroy. ___CONDITION: Fine, we acquired it directly from the publisher; it remains clean, crisp, and as new. ___CITATION: This Monkey's Gone to Heaven, no. I.42. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note the following: (i) additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs, please inquire for details; and (ii) any taxes, duty, or tariffs charged by your country will, of necessity, be your responsibility. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help. Signed.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarto. 40pp., + 4ff. samples of paper made by Reg Lissel and 4ff. of specimens of the metal types held at Heavenly Monkey. The deluxe edition also includes a limited, signed portrait of Lissel by Andrea Taylor, additional paper samples, and an original Doves Press leaf bound in. This last is in addition to the four leaves from works influential to the press are bound in, dating from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries. Represented therein are Henricvm Dendrinvm of Amsterdam, Longmans of London, The Riverside Press of Boston, and Robert Reid and Takao Tanabe of Vancouver. Bound by Claudia Cohen in black and white paste paper with a design of the press's initials, backed with gilt-ruled morocco. An extremely fine discussion of the art of the book. One of fifteen deluxe copies, with additional material. Signed by all contributors.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very fine. Quarto. 67pp., + sample leaves. This copy with an extra sample laid-in by Milroy. An intrepid summation, by way of both bibliographic description and interleaved samples, of twenty years of presswork, written in a tone suitably playful to the usual attitudes of the primary contributors (listed as Dramatis Personae at the volume's outset). Glosses written by Milroy supplement the text; some are printed and others are manuscript, but all appear in his hand. Bound in quarter paper-vellum with painted paper over boards. Very fine. One of forty copies. Signed by the collaborators, Rollin Milroy, Claudia Cohen, and Barbara Hodgson.…

Hand-sewn in stiff wrappers. Condition: As New. Limited Edition. 8vo. Pp. 20 plus facsimile. Frontis. wood engraving by George Kuthan. Title page printed in black and green. Facsimile of the Lawrence letter on vegetable parchment by David Clifford at the Black Stone Press. Hand-sewn and put into a limp case of Reg Lissel parchment paper, titles in black on spine and covers. Published in an edition of 50 copies, with an additional 20 copies issued hors commerce. Of the latter, this is signed by Wilson and Stewart and hand-numbered XV. A bright, sharp copy. George Kuthan (illustrator). Signed.…

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition, Deluxe Issue. Deluxe limited issue. Descriptive checklist of all books published by the Canadian fine press Heavenly Monkey during its first 20 years. Copy #3 of 40 numbered copies of which only the first ten (+ 3 A.P.) copies, comprising the deluxe issue, were issued in a traycase with additional samples laid in. Signed by publisher Rollin Milroy (his signature printed) and his two primary collaborators, Claudia Cohen and Barbara Hodgson, the latter of whom has "randomly" embellished and annotated the material. Quarto, 67 pp. + sample leaves. Printed in Perpetua type on dampened Guarro laid paper. Bound in publisher's stenciled green and bronze paper-covered boards over art vellum spine titled in black. Together with 7 gray card folders containing prints and samples from various collaborators, "Dramatis Personae" sheet, colophon position proof, and publisher's prospectus. In a black cloth traycase made by Cohen, gold and green bronze-lettered paper label to spine. Some of the smaller samples in the misc. folder have stuck to the folder's interior adhesive; else Fine. A gorgeous reference book and benchmark of fine printing featuring numerous artists and printers including Shinsuke Minegishi, Robert R. Reid, and Charles van Sandwyk. Signed.…

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. The printer's copy, outside an edition of 26 lettered copies. Bound in publisher's swirled red paste paper semi-flexible boards with paper spine label. Faint rubbing to corner, else Fine. Together with A Catalog of Books from Heavenly Monkey And Its Predecessor A Lone Press 1998-2003 bound in green wrappers, also Fine. A bibliography of works published from 2000-2010 by Rollin Milroy's two printing ventures, Heavenly Monkey and A Lone Press. Sample sheet from six Heavenly Monkey books append the volume. Printed in Dante type on Guarro paper originally imported by Robert Reid in the late 1960's.…

K/26 COPIES, printed on Guarro paper in black and red, a tipped-in paper sample, Harold Budd illustration, followed by a section of 6 tipped-in 'Sample Sheets from HM Books', some on grey-green paper pp. [16] + Sample sheets, original black cloth, grey printed labels to upper board and backstrip, edges untrimmed, plain paper dustjacket, fine. A bibliography of both Heavenly Monkey and its fore-runner, A Lone Press. …

Condition: Fine. Limited Edition. 8vo. Unpaginated. Introduction by van Sandwyk. With a tipped in facsimile of van Sandwyk's miniature book "Wee Folk." Edition limited to 50 copies. This copy was specially bound for booksellers Wessel and Lieberman; at the colophon, the number of this copy is struck in pencil, with the note: "Made-up copy for Wessel and Lieberman Booksellers." A curious publication, lacking the two plates called for, and with the quires bound out of sequence. While all leaves are present, the pagination is non-sequential. The first book published by Heavenly Monkey. Provides descriptions of van Sandwyk's limited and trade edition books issued during the first 18 years of his career. Wessel and Lieberman, for some-20 years served as Seattle's leading antiquarian bookshop, was a steadfast booster of book arts in the Pacific Northwest and, particularly, the work of Charles van Sandwyk. The firm's involvement with Heavenly Monkey included co-publishing ventures. Of this bibliography, OCLC locates seven institutional copies. Charles van Sandwyk (illustrator).…