Search Results: Books-on-Books from Royoung bookseller, Inc.

Brooklyn: Long Island Univ. Press, 1950. First edition. Paperback. Orig. printed wrappers. Very good. 19 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Ex-library.

New York: Hispanic Society of America, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 18 pages in text. 28 x 21 cm. Illustrated in black and white with sixty plates and eight figures in the text. Glossary of Bookbinding Terms. Examples of the binders' craft in Spain through six centuries.

Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1973. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Near fine in tattered dust wrapper. 148 pages. 2456 entries. Thirty-eight languages are covered, with virtually complete coverage in English and Russian. Index of Names. The most complete bibliography of Solzhenitsyn published.

San Francisco: Roy Vernon Sowers, 1942. First edition. Boards. Orig. illustrated boards. Near fine in worn glassine overwrapper. 76 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Illustrated.

Cleveland: World, 1952. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. ruby cloth. Near fine in rubbed dust wrapper. 256 pp. More than 750 illustrations of ornamental art of the past 500 years; some pages printed in black and red. Bibliography. Included are fleurons and borders,letters and alphabets, headpieces and vignettes, silhouettes and shadow figures, scripts and scrolls, applied ornaments and pattern books, heraldic ornaments and more. Armorial bookplate.

New York: Macmillan, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Near fine in chipped dust wrapper. 961 pp. Index. The Guide is in a sense a bibliographic panorama as well as an inventory ofthe best historical literature extant at the time of publication.

New York: Grolier Club, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. gray cloth spine, dark gray boards, black spine labels, covers with Grolier Club escutcheon in black. Very good. 2 Vols. [XXXi; List of Plates, American Engravers & Notes] 391 pages & [X: Preface to the Reader, Notes] 566 pages. 25 x 16 cm. Limited edition, one of 350 copies printed on mould made paper by The De Vinne Press. In his Preface the author notes that '"The great majority of early American engravers were relatively obscure men; many were gold and silver-smiths, only working upon copper to meet a limited demand....." Slight chipping to backstrip labels, interior contents clean and fresh.

Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. terracotta cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 152 pages. Illustrated. List of Titles. Chronological List. 347 entries; the present compilation is based primarily upon the Wegelin list and the Atkinson catalogue, and purports to be the first bibliography in print of the plays written and published between 1714 and 1830 by: [1] American authors; [2] foreign authors living in America; and [3] American authors living abroad.

Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1980. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. beige cloth spine and blue boards. Fine.. 163 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Facsimiles, plates and text illustrations. Oxford Bibliographical Society: New Series, Vol.XX.

Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1929. Reprint. Stiff Wraps. Orig. blue/gray printed wrappers. Near fine. 48 pages. Illustrated. American Antiquarian Society. Proceedings. October, 1928. Sixty seven entries. Small portion lower back cover lacking.

London: Phaidon, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. royal blue illustrated cloth. Very good in fine dust wrapper. 235 pages. 30 x 23 cm.Translated from the Italian by Alison M.Brown. With additional notes on the plates by M. Alison Stones. 145 plates with twenty-four in full-color. Notes on the Plates. Bibliography. List of Collections. A concise and informative survey of the history of miniature painting, tracing the development of the different schools and analysing briefly their stylistic features. Two tiny dings at upper and lower extremities.

Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. white cloth. Near fine in slightly chipped dust wrapper. 232 pages. Introduction by Philip Hofer. Voluminously illustrated in black and white, and a handful of color plates. Bibliography. Index. Index of Publishers. Index of Printers. Individual entries are classified by country, instead of by artist; France 182, US 47, Germany 39, England 26, Switzerland 14, Belgium 7, Italy 6, Spain 3, and Austria 2. Owner inscription.

Boston: Heron Press, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. light brown cloth spine and decorated boards. Fine. Unpaginated. 25 x 14 cm. Limited edition of of 150 copies set in Century & Goudy and printed on Fabriano. This copy signed in pencil as artists proof. Signed by Stuart R. Lavin, 3/25/70 on title page.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1970. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Near fine in nicked dust wrapper at heqd and foot. 192 pages. 29 x 22 cm. Forty-three pages in text. 149 black and white reproductions of Baroque Book Illustrations. ARNTZEN/RAINWATER N33. "An excellent visual outline of the complicated mass of 17th century illustrated books." This edition with new Introductory material.

Berkeley: Tamalpais Press, 1962. Wraps. Orig. publisher's gray/green wrappers printed in red, and saddle sewn. Fine. 3 pages in text. 34 x 23.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 22 of 100 issued with a leaf having one or more woodcuts and reserved for the members of The Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. The original leaf from Jacobus de Voragine's Legendario de Sancti in double columns printed recto and verso contains one woodcut illustration in the text. The leaf book herein is from an imperfect broken copy.

London: Scolar Press, 1974. Hardcover. Orig. delft cloth. Near fine in near fine dust wrapper. 363 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Voluminously illustrated in black and white. Biographical Index. Compilation of the original run of the amusing record of Cambridge prior to World War I. Includes early work by Galsworthy Lowes Dickinson, Shane Leslie, Philip Noel Baker, Hugh Dalton and E.M. Forster, as well as the first publications of major poems by Arthur Waley and Rupert Brooke.

Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. vellum spine and marbled boards. Fine in original worn and chipped glassine overwrapper. Hunter, Dard. 116 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 169 of 219 signed by Bruce Rogers, printed at the press of A. Colish, New York on paper made in the author's mill at Lime Rock Connecticut. The water-mark portrait shows him half-way before life began. The cover paper made by Veronica Ruzicka. In this biography, Hunter, six foot tall at the age of 14 enlisted, and accepted into the cavalry during the Spanish American War only to have his father drag him back home. Also, a good deal of material on his days spent working at the Roycrofters with Elbert Hubbard. Bright, sharp copy, bookplate.

Pittsburgh: Carnegie Institute of Technology, 1941. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. boards and navy cloth. Near fine. Goudy, Frederic W.. 113 pages. Preface by Glen U. Cleeton, Head, Department of Printing. Sixteen black and white plates. Produced as a student project in Printing Production. Monotype Goudy Village 410 was used for text pages. Limited edition, one of 1600.

London: Bibliograhical Society, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Fine.. 351 pages. 22 x 18 cm. Bibliography.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1970. Reprint. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth. Near fine. 123 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Originally published 1935.