Vignettes Eclectic Assemblage Anecdotes Papermaking by Morris Henry (6 results)

Single sheet. Condition: Fine. [4] pp., single sheet folded to 12.25 x 9 in., printed on three sides. Fine copy.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Limited, Numbered Edition. No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p., including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of the original 1958 Bird & Bull handmade paper is tipped in along with twenty additional tip-ins, most of which are in color. An adjunct to the article "Better Late Than Never" is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals. The seals date from 1900-1600 BC, and the two clay impressions, about 1 X 2" in size, are in a recess inside the front cover of the clamshell box. A color insert shows (for the first time in the recorded history of the private press) how the production run of these impressions was accomplished by the Bird & Bull engineering staff in charge of reproduction of ancient artifacts; also included with this copy is a laid-in Appendix to "A History of Die Cutting", without which no copy of this title is complete; book and clamshell bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in identical light to medium brown cloth. Size: Folio. Hard Cover.

Bird & Bull Press (illustrator). large 4to. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine label. 72, (5) pages, with additional pages of color illustrations. Limited to 150 numbered copies printed at the Bird & Bull Press (Berger A62). Includes chapters on Bird & Bull Incunabula, 19th-Century Security Papers, Lessing J. Rosenwald, Numismata Typographica, Farewell to Papermaking, A History of Die Cutting, The Wurzburg Lithography and more. Includes a tipped-in sample of the first Bird & Bull handmade paper (1958). The portfolio case includes two removable cylinder seal impressions. These clay impressions, attributions to the article "Better Late Than Never," bear images of people and inscriptions from ancient cylinder seals in Babylonia. Full of illustrations in both black and white and color, many tipped-in. Text in Ehrhardt types on Arches Mouldmade paper. Several pages printed in two colors. Prospectus inserted. cloth with leather spine label, in special cloth solander case with leather spine label.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1999. Fine. Full brown cloth hardcover in matching clamshell box with two removable clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals place in an inside recess of the box. Includes original prospectus. 11 pages of b&w illustrations, two pages of color inserts, and 21 tip-ins. Number 138 of 150 copies. Book.

77 pp; orig light brown cloth with leather spine label, 10.25 x 13.25; printed on Arches mouldmade paper; no. 50 of 150 copies housed in a clamshell case. Eleven pages of b&w illustrations, 2 pages of color inserts, 21 tip-ins. A pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals are placed in an inside recess of the clamshell box. A fine and fresh copy, with prospectus laid in.

Edition limited to 150 copies, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out-of-series; folio, pp. 72, [6]; title page printed in ochre and black, the text in red, blue, ochre and black; numerous tip-ins, facsimiles, and illustrations throughout, some in color; in a recessed well of the clamshell box which houses the volume is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals; original full brown cloth, morocco label on spine, brown cloth clamshell, also with a morocco label. Original prospectus laid in. Forty-Four A62.