TO THE CROSS: A SEQUENCE OF DRAMATIC POEMS FOR HOLY WEEK by Davis, Michael Justin - 1984

Ithaca, NY: (Elfriede Abbe), 1951. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt emblem on front board, fore-edge uncut, slipcase. Abbe, Elfriede. 4to. quarter cloth, paper covered boards, gilt emblem on front board, fore-edge uncut, slipcase. (viii), 34 +(1) pages. Limited edition of 275 numbered and signed copies. Abbe (1919-2012) was a sculptor and wood engraver who had won numerous prizes for her work. This is copy # 1 presented to Abbe's mother on Christmas 1951. Woodcut engravings by Elfriede Abbe. Text printed from handset type. Invoice for slipcase laid in. Xerox of one illustration inlayed on slipcase.

Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. hardcover, dust jacket. 10.75 x 17 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 594 pages. 3. The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 is one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's greatest treasures. Aside from Shakespeare's First Folio, it is the only book in the Folger collection to have an entire exhibition devoted to it, in 2004. Its 594 oversized pages depict life in Shakespeare's England in all of its brilliant complexities-from the mythical to the mundane, poetical to practical, religious to secular. Thomas Trevelyon, the compiler, was a skilled scribe and pattern-maker who had access to a stunning variety of English and Continental woodcuts, engravings, broadsides, almanacs, chronicles, and emblem books, which he transformed from small monochrome images into large and colorful feasts for the eyes. Ostensibly created for the entertainment, education, and edification of his friends and family, Trevelyon's miscellany is a lifetime achievement that continues to… Read More

Berlin: Verlag von J. Müller, 1900. original cloth, boards with rounded edges, decorated endpapers. 4to. original cloth, boards with rounded edges, decorated endpapers. x, 48, (38), with 3 additional leaves. Ein wirkliches Hilfsbuch für den Farbendruck und die Farbenmischung im Buchdruck nach jahrelangen praktischen Erfahrungen und Versuchen bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J... [Practical Guide for Color Book Printing...]. A book meant to give "those printers and pressmen who have little opportunity for on-the-job training in this branch [i.e. color printing] a way of doing all color printing, of whatever sort, effectively and with full assurance of a good result, and of mixing colors for the work at hand correctly and efficiently" (pp.vii-viii). A brief chapter on the theory of color is followed by chapters on color jobbing printing, printing of multicolored illustrations, and halftone three- and four-color printing. Following this is an explanation of the color tables and then the tables:… Read More

London, England: Eugrammia Press, 1965. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Fournier, Pierre Simon. oblong 4to. cloth, paper wrappers, both volumes enclosed in a slipcase. Facsimile of the 1742 manual accompanied by the 20 page introduction. 2 volumes. Printed in an edition limited to 600 copies. Loosely inserted in this copy is the 12 page publisher's catalogue describing this book and others they published. One joint split about one inch from opening of slipcase. Minor wear to slipcase. Else a pristine copy of this scarce facsimile. Reproduced from the copy in the Printing Library of the St. Bride Institute. Thirty-three plates depict samples of the types cut by Fournier c. 1742, which then appeared in his Manuel Typographique. Introduction by Mosley, renowned typography professor and then librarian at the St. Bride Printing Library. Printed in collotype by Louis van Leer & Co. of Amsterdam on rag cream paper. A consummate artist and craftsman, Fournier (1712 - 1768)… Read More

France: Singer-Polignac Foundation with Trianon Press, 1966. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. Trianon Press. folio. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. not paginated. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 388 unnumbered copies. This is the fifth in the series about rock painting in South Africa with a collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and a foreword by Roger Heim. This volume describes two expeditions made by Abbe Breuil to Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and 1950. His study reveals affinities with the White Lady, and traces of immigrants from the north several thousand years before the white settlers of our own time. Most of the paintings here have never before been published and are largely unknown. Regions include Dandabari, Chamavara, Mbara, The Chibi Reserve, the White Rhino shelter, and more. It is illustrated with 63 color plates, reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process by the Trianon Press, 19 photographs in monochrome collotype, and 3 line… Read More

Washington, DC: Folger Shakespeare Library, 2007. hardcover, dust jacket. 10.75 x 17 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 594 pages. 3. The Trevelyon Miscellany of 1608 is one of the Folger Shakespeare Library's greatest treasures. Aside from Shakespeare's First Folio, it is the only book in the Folger collection to have an entire exhibition devoted to it, in 2004. Its 594 oversized pages depict life in Shakespeare's England in all of its brilliant complexities-from the mythical to the mundane, poetical to practical, religious to secular. Thomas Trevelyon, the compiler, was a skilled scribe and pattern-maker who had access to a stunning variety of English and Continental woodcuts, engravings, broadsides, almanacs, chronicles, and emblem books, which he transformed from small monochrome images into large and colorful feasts for the eyes. Ostensibly created for the entertainment, education, and edification of his friends and family, Trevelyon's miscellany is a lifetime achievement that continues to… Read More

Berlin: Verlag von J. Müller, 1900. original cloth, boards with rounded edges, decorated endpapers. 4to. original cloth, boards with rounded edges, decorated endpapers. x, 48, (38), with 3 additional leaves. Ein wirkliches Hilfsbuch für den Farbendruck und die Farbenmischung im Buchdruck nach jahrelangen praktischen Erfahrungen und Versuchen bearbeitet und herausgegeben von J... [Practical Guide for Color Book Printing...]. A book meant to give "those printers and pressmen who have little opportunity for on-the-job training in this branch [i.e. color printing] a way of doing all color printing, of whatever sort, effectively and with full assurance of a good result, and of mixing colors for the work at hand correctly and efficiently" (pp.vii-viii). A brief chapter on the theory of color is followed by chapters on color jobbing printing, printing of multicolored illustrations, and halftone three- and four-color printing. Following this is an explanation of the color tables and then the tables:… Read More

France: Singer-Polignac Foundation with Trianon Press, 1966. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. Trianon Press. folio. cloth, dust jacket with a cardboard slipcase. not paginated. First edition. Printed in an edition limited to 388 unnumbered copies. This is the fifth in the series about rock painting in South Africa with a collaboration of Mary E. Boyle and a foreword by Roger Heim. This volume describes two expeditions made by Abbe Breuil to Rhodesia, then Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and 1950. His study reveals affinities with the White Lady, and traces of immigrants from the north several thousand years before the white settlers of our own time. Most of the paintings here have never before been published and are largely unknown. Regions include Dandabari, Chamavara, Mbara, The Chibi Reserve, the White Rhino shelter, and more. It is illustrated with 63 color plates, reproduced by the collotype and hand-stencil process by the Trianon Press, 19 photographs in monochrome collotype, and 3 line… Read More

Copenhagen: Levin & Munksgaard, 1938. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. Bookbinding. large 4to. quarter cloth over paste paper covered boards. 128 pages. Edition limited to 250 copies. Volume I is the only volume published. Bookbinding and its aesthetic aspects are beautifully shown with the help of books accumulated through the centuries. Illustrations with text range from the XIIth through the XIXth centuries. The Royal Library contains a wealth of specimens of Italian, French, and German Renaissance bindings, but scarcely anything of interest of early English. The descriptive text alongside the pictures draws attention to the peculiarities of the binding, the method of forming the decoration, the colors, and other features not directly observable on the illustrations.Matters of technique have been given special attention. Includes an historical note by Carl S. Petersen, Chief Librarian of the Royal Library Copenhagen. The book has been bound by Andker Kyster. Bookseller's label on… Read More

New York and Durham, NC: Grolier Club and Duke University, The, 2019. Stiff paper wrappers. 9.15 x 11 inches. Stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages. "The value of 'Five Hundred Years' went beyond the parade of exceptional women who managed to keep up with the guys, doing the things guys do. It lay in the show's interleaving of spectacular achievements and humble ones... At the Grolier, it was easy to find yourself gently and subversively nudged into reconsidering the parameters of 'achievement' altogether." - Susan Tallman, The New York Review of Books With essays by Lisa Unger Baskin, Elizabeth C. Denlinger, and Laura Micham. Women's work. The phrase usually conjures up domestic duties or occupations traditionally associated with women-such as teaching, nursing, or housekeeping. The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection upends those associations and makes the true breadth of women's contributions visible. By bringing together materials from across the centuries, Baskin reveals what has been hidden-that… Read More