 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
CALLIGRAPHY
/ WRITING BOOKS[
]
20th-Century Renaissance Man — Medievally Inspired MANUSCRIPT Memorial
Erie Railroad Company (Follansbee, Mitchell Davis). Manuscript on paper, in English. “In memoriam Mitchell D. Follansbee 1870 – 1941.” [Chicago: 1941]. 8vo (27.4 cm, 10.75"). [8 (1 blank)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements.
beautifully calligraphed and illuminated on vellum by the Harris Engrossing Studio of Chicago. The capitals are accomplished in whitework, gilt, purple, and green, and the text in an even, handsome modern Gothic hand, with a gilt border surrounding the text on each page. Each leaf is protected by a moiré-patterned tissue guard. The final page was signed by the chairman and the secretary of the board, and pressure-stamped with the Erie Railroad Company's seal.
Binding: Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.
• Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled. 
Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact. (38417)
A Quick Introduction to Early Bookhands — A King Penguin BookFairbank, Alfred. A book of scripts. [London]: Penguin Books, (1952). 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.125"). 36, [4] pp., 64 pp. of illus.
Click the images for enlargements.
A lovely, informative guide to a considerable variety of handwritings both useful and ornamental.
• Original illustrated paper over boards, with the dust jacket. 
Very nice copy. (40798)
A Series of Medieval LEAVES(Medieval Manuscript Leaves). A selection
eminently suitable for use in the teaching and practicing of paleography.
Click the images for enlargements.simply lovely. Most represent scribal work of the 13th to early 16th century and most are from books of devotion.
Moore's St. Nicholas: The Night Before Christmas Shop Early?Moore, Clement Clarke; Mary C. Ogden, illus. A visit from St. Nicholas. [New York: Time, Inc., 1951]. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). [16] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements.• Ribbon-tied in original color-printed wrappers. Age-toned with some minor creasing and light edgewear; first two leaves with short tear from outer margin. (41058)
Hand-Printed, Hand-Colored, Hand-SIGNEDNative-American + Jewish Traditions Rothenberg, Jerome. Seneca journal I. A poem of beavers. Mt. Horeb, WI: The Perishable Press, 1973. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.5"). [4] pp., 6 ff., [4] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Perishable Press, spent five months crafting this edition; according to his colophon, “all of these various Japanese text papers were used because 1) we were not in production of our own Shadwell at starting time & 2) it was very difficult to get any good handmade in quantity & thus the edition is small . . . The title-page is hand-colored mostly on whim and was impossible to make more than one alike.”This is numbered copy 71 of only 97 hand-printed on several different types of Japanese paper; it was
signed by the poetacross from Marta Anderson's hand-colored drawing on the title-page. The poem is bound in Shadwell textured cream-grey wrappers printed with “Old Man Beaver's Blessing Song “ (calligraphed by Bettye Lou Bennett) in brown on the front and with the title in cream on the back.
• Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 58. Binding as above. A clean, fresh copy. (41059)
A Micro-Carved Ivory Love Gift: Remember Me Shen Zhong-Xing, artist. “Love Seeds”: Ivory micro-engraving. China: [ca. 1990?]. Small case (14.5 cm, 5.6").
Click the images for enlargements. Additionally, both the Chinese and English texts are presented on a folded slip of paper, with additional commentary in Chinese characters only.
The ivory is mounted within a black frame affixed to a small square of gold paper, on red velvet, and contained in a beautiful, eminently displayable case covered in olive-green silk with a woven Asian-inspired knotwork pattern in bronze and blue, decorated with a Chinese-printed label on the front cover. The case closes with a fabric loop and white-painted wooden toggle.
• Box as above, showing the faintest hint of rubbing to one corner, overall in excellent condition. Small compartment beneath presentation window seems to indicate a long slender item was at one point laid in, but it is difficult to say what that might have been. (30544)
Works of a Master Engraver — With Signed PrintStone, Reynolds. Reynolds Stone engravings. London: John Murray (pr. at the Curwen Press), [1977]. 8vo (29.1 cm, 11.5"). xli, [3], 151, [3] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in a striking slipcase covered in combed paper in black, grey, and white, matching the endpapers; volume spine sunned, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear. Pages crisp and clean. A beautiful book for collectors of calligraphic and/or bookplate art as well as connoisseurs of wood engraving. (39551)
485 Stunning Viewsof
England,Scotland, & Wales
EACH IMAGE Hand-Captioned Storer, James Sargant. Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. London: W. Clarke, J. Carpenter, & H.D. Symonds, 1807–11. 8vo. 10 vols. I: [approx. 112] pp.; 56 plts. II: pp.; 49 plts. III: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. IV: [approx. 92] pp.; 46 plts. V: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. VI: [approx. 106] pp.; 53 plts. VII: [approx. 98] pp.; 49 plts. VIII: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. IX: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. X: [approx. 72], [16 (index)] pp.; 36 plts. (15 plts. lacking of 500).
Click the images for enlargements. hand-inked calligraphic captions. Those images depict such scenic high spots as Dunstaple Priory in Bedfordshire, Roman remains in Brecknockshire, the “great oak” at Silton, a Crusader monument in Winchester Cathedral, Tintern Abbey (of course), and many, many churches and castles; they were engraved by J. Greig, W. Angus, W. & G. Cooke, and J. Storer after drawings by various hands. Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress description, generally about two pages long.
A luxurious, in fact in its way spectacular, production. (22855)
|
PRB&M/SessaBks |  |
