* The Payson, Dunton and Scribner Manual of Penmanship (New York: Woolworth, Ainsworthand Company, 1873)
This manual provides instructions for teaching practical handwriting in schools. Illustrated.
* Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings by Julia Miller (Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023)
Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. This handbook combines an overview of the history of the codex with basic information about many of the materials and structures found on historical bindings. The book also includes description-survey guidelines and is supported by a variety of appendices. The text is illustrated by 390 images, all in color, and close to 1,500 color images on the exclusively accessed pdf which represent structural and decorative elements from a variety of bindings made before 1900. The book's focus on primarily non-luxury bindings adds depth to an often-neglected segment of the history of bookbinding. This book is a call to action to urge custodians of every kind of historical book collection, public and private, to assess the physical character of the historical bindings in their care and record the changes that have accrued to those bindings during their passage through time.
* A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell (New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1970)
First Edition. A systematic attempt to make plain the evolution, impact and importance of the printed work, it is not a history of printing but rather an effort "to recapitulate the essential story of Western calligraphy and printing." With 200 illustrations. The typography, binding, and jacket design are by Chappell. Presentation copy, inscribed and signed by Chappell on the half-title and dated October 1987.
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The Czech Avant-Garde and Czech Book Design: the 1920s and 1930s
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Four Private Libraries of New-York. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America by Henri Pene du Bois
* The Czech Avant-Garde and Czech Book Design: the 1920s and 1930s (Madison, NJ: Farleigh-Dickinson University, no date [1996])
First Edition. The exhibition that formed the basis for this catalogue was commissioned by the Ginza Graphic Gallery in Tokyo in 1996 and drawn from the Fairleigh Dickinson University Library's Emma Dana Collection, as well as private collections. The exhibition and resulting catalogue examine one stream in Czech publishing between the wars, the work of the avant-garde. The examples on display demonstrate the links between Czech artists and the European avant-garde, which largely inspired them, and also make clear the Czechs' own special contributions to the international avant-garde movement.
* Four Private Libraries of New-York. A Contribution to the History of Bibliophilism in America by Henri Pene du Bois (New York: Duprat & Co., 1892)
First Edition. Of the 1,000 copies printed, this is one of 800 numbered copies printed on Holland paper. Preface by Octave Uzanne. Printed at The De Vinne Press. With a frontispiece and twelve photogravure plates reproducing the bindings of famous craftsmen as well as bookplates and book illustrations. With chapters on The Art of Bookbinding, Historical Book-Covers, The Elzevirs, and more.
