1072 - 1314 FINE PRINTING and ILLUSTRATED BOOKS (including CARICATURE)
= Also printed under aliases, i.a. Cog Press, Landseer Press, Zygodactyl Press etc.
- In need of restoration: bookblock broken into several pieces; bookplate and some brown offsetting on first blank. Lacks backstrip. Otherwise text and plates clean.
= Monod 5463. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXII.
- Two sm. stains on frontwr. = Rare.
WITH a facsimile edition of the work (Amst., 1976).
AND 3 others: IDEM, l'Elephant (ibid., 1935, col. lithogr. plates and orig. col. lithogr. boards by N. ALTMAN); IDEM Un conte du chat perché (ibid., 1937, col. lithogr. ills. and orig. hcl. by M. PARRY, 4to. Hinges weak; covers soiled) and IDEM, Autres contes du chat perché (ibid, 1950, col. plates and ills. by N. PARAIN, orig. hcl., 4to).
- Wr. sl. worn along extremities.
= Album de Père Castor. A fine example of a Père Castor educational children's book complete with all the playing cards intact and with striking and colourful illustrations by the avant-garde Ukrainian-Jewish artist Nathan Altman.
= One of 10 numb. copies with a suite of the etchings and bound in hmor. by G. VAN DAAL, orig. board slipcase.
- Wr. sl. frayed and fingersoiled along edges.
= Rare bi-annual periodical with contributions of famous French artists from the art nouveau period.
- Contents fine. Chemise and slipcase partly worn along extremities.
= Monod 837. One of 80 copies on Pur Fil Johannot
= Copy of the first state (30 copies), printed on various types of paper (the second state all printed on the same paper). With the prospectus loosely inserted. According to a private letter to the previous owner, two typespecimens lacking, but perhaps added later or with two other sample sheets.
= Endgrain Editions 3.
- Contents very fine. Upper lid (sl.) soiled and sl. worn/ chafed.
= I.a. a multiple w. mounted bird fluff and one with burned holes. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
= The text printed in 1920 and supposed to be published by J.B. Neumann, Berlin, but the etchings were only finished in 1929 and Neumann emigrated to the U.S, according to the artist in the bound-in text at the end.
- A very fine and attractively bound copy.
= Monod 7863; cat. Cassiers p.119. Nicely illustrated work on Minna van Daële, Maria Wolmans and Katlyn. SEE ILLUSTRATION PLATE XXIII.
= With the prospectus loosely inserted. Also contains a facsimile reprint of the article The Manufacture of Japanese Paper by Henry S. Munroe (New York, 1876).
Newtown, Bird & Bull Press, 1987, 77,(2)p., 33 samples of Chinese decorated paper tipped on lvs., printed in 325 numb. copies, half oasis w. mor. letterpiece and gilt dec. boards, obl. 8vo. Nevins, I. Varieties of Spanish Marbling. A Handbook of Practical Instruction. N.pl., Bird & Bull Press and Iris Nevins, 1991, 79,(2)p., 12 tipped-in samples of marbled paper, ills., printed in 250 numb. copies, orig. hcl. w. mor. letterpiece. Wolfe, R.J. On Improvements in Marbling the edges of Books and Paper. A nineteenth marbling account. Ibid., idem, 1983, 64p., 14 tipped-in marbled paper samples, printed in 350 copies, orig. giltlettered hmor. w. marbled boards, obl. sm. 8vo. - AND 1 other by the same: BON MOT. A Bird & Bull Press commonplace portfolio (Newton, n.d., 12 letterpress broadsheets (w. ills.), loose as issued in orig. (?) paper portfolio, 4to).
