831. Lee & Severin & Reid
Two Books on Bookplates

Lee, Brian North. THE BOOKPLATE DESIGNS OF REX WHISTLER. Private Libraries Association: 1973. 1 of 350 copies, in slip-case, with tipped-in frontispiece bookplate.Forty-one black-and-white plates.
Severin, Mark & Anthony Reid. ENGRAVED BOOKPLATES: EUROPEAN EX LIBRIS 1950-70. Private Libraries Association: 1972.

100/200     SOLD: $69.00

832. Broomhead, Frank
The Zaehnsdorfs (1842-1947): Craft Bookbinders

Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 1986
Royal Octavio. 109 pp.

Black-and-white photographic illustrations throughout. Glassine wrapper.

25/50     SOLD: $34.50

833. Taubert, Sigfred
Bibliopola: Picture and Texts About the Book Trade

Hamburg: Dr. Ernst Hauswedell & Co., 1966
Imperial Octavo. 648 pp. Two Volume Set.

Profusely illustrated with full-color and black-and-white plates. Bindings and boards covered in pewter linen with gold stamped title on backbone.

100/150     SOLD: $126.50

834. Chambers, Dibdin, Kerrigan, Lee, Ransom, Reid
Six Books on Books

Chambers, David. THE PRIVATE LIBRARY: A COLLECTION OF ITALIAN WRITING BOOKS. The Private Libraries Association: 1989.
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall. BIBLIOGRAPHER & BIBLIOMANIAC EXTRAORDINARY 1776-1847. Private Libraries Association: 1967. Dustjacket.
Kerrigan, Philip. PRIVATE PRESS BOOKS. Private Libraries Assocation: 1989.
Lee, Brian North. THE BOOKPLATE JOURNAL. The Bookplate Society: 1990.
Ransom, Will. COLLECTING PRESS BOOKS. The University of Oklahoma Association: 1955. Limited Edition.
Reid, Anthony. A CHECK-LIST OF THE BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS OF JOHN BUCKLAND WRIGHT. Private Libraries Association: 1968. Limited Edition.

60/120     SOLD: $34.50

835. Tschichold, Jan
Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering

New York: Reinhold, 1966
First American Edition. Imperial Octavo. 236pp.

Maroon cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Illustrated dustjacket. A Source Book of the Best Letter Forms of Past and Present for Sign Painters, Graphic Artists, Commercial Artists, Typographers, etc.

50/100     SOLD: $69.00

836. Chambers, David & Sandford, Christopher
Cock-A-Hoop

Middlesex: Golden Cockerel Press, c. 1962
Medium Octavo. 126pp.

Subtitled: [A Sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote and Cockalorum; Being a Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, September 1949 - December 1961.] Includes a list of Prospectuses 1920-62 and Illustrations from the books. Woodcuts. Illustrated dustjacket.

30/60     SOLD: $34.50

837. Simon, Oliver [editor]
The Fleuron; A Journal of Typography

Westport: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1970
Super Royal Octavo. Five Volume Set.

Cream cloth with red & black text and design to front covers and spines. Seven parts in five vols. Reprint of the 1923-30 original editions by Fleuron and The University Press, Oxford. Includes reproductions.

500/750     SOLD: $172.50

838. Cox, Morris and The Gogmagog Press
Gogmagog

Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1991
Limited Edition. Super Royal Octavo. 184 pp.

Limited to 1650 copies. Morris Cox, poet and printer, began the Gogmagog Press in 1957.
Orange cloth with vertical embossed black stripes.

50/100     SOLD: $34.50

839. Levarie, Norma
The Art & History of Books

New York: James H. Heineman, Inc., 1968
First Edition. Broad Quarto. 316 pp.

176 facsimile pages from books of extraordinary beauty or interest which range in time from ancient Egypt to the 1960's.

60/120     SOLD: $69.00

840. Pierpont Library & Wilson
Two Books on Book Art

ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955. Masterpieces of typography through five centuries from the collections of the Pierpont Morgan Library New York. Pierpont Morgan Library: 1974. Second Printing. Dustjacket.
Wilson, Adrian. THE DESIGN OF BOOKS. Reinhold: 1967. Dustjacket. Some wave to paper and dustjacket, otherwise: Very Good.

30/60     SOLD: $40.25