vignettes volume eclectic assemblage anecdotes di henry morris (6 risultati)

Single sheet. Condizione: Fine. [4] pp., single sheet folded to 12.25 x 9 in., printed on three sides. Fine copy.

hardcover. Condizione: As New. 1999; numbered #105 of 150; beige cloth covered book and leaflet about the book are laid in a clamshell box of same color cloth; leather spine title labels on box and book; laid in recess of box are two clay impressions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals; many tipped in pictures; very clean inside and out; 10" x 13", book is 77 pages; Additional shipping charges may be requested.

Cloth. Condizione: Fine. Limited, Numbered Edition. No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p., including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of the original 1958 Bird & Bull handmade paper is tipped in along with twenty additional tip-ins, most of which are in color. An adjunct to the article "Better Late Than Never" is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals. The seals date from 1900-1600 BC, and the two clay impressions, about 1 X 2" in size, are in a recess inside the front cover of the clamshell box. A color insert shows (for the first time in the recorded history of the private press) how the production run of these impressions was accomplished by the Bird & Bull engineering staff in charge of reproduction of ancient artifacts; also included with this copy is a laid-in Appendix to "A History of Die Cutting", without which no copy of this title is complete; book and clamshell bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in identical light to medium brown cloth. Size: Folio. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Light brown cloth with leather spine label gilt, matching drop-back box with leather label gilt, folio, 72, (6) pages, 16 photos in black and white, some mounted; 11 photos in color, some mounted; 9 mounted specimens or facsimiles; numerous illustrations throughout the text. Of 150 numbered copies, this is number 4 of 4 copies "with extra material", as noted in Morris' hand in pencil in two places. The extra material consists of an envelope with the Morris CP and Tower watermark, a stationery sheet of with a WFS and Tower watermark, the original prospectus for "Three Erfurt Tales", noted "1 of 4 copies", initialed and dated by Morris, and one of the endpapers from Erfurt, printed with a descriptive line and with a watermark. A pair of clay impressions after ancient cylinder seals of Babylonia are secured in a recess of the drop-back box. Appendix to "A History of Die-cutting" laid in along with the prospectus. Additional shipping cost may be requested. A fine copy in a fine box. Signed by the Printer.

Edition limited to 150 copies, the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery and out-of-series; folio, pp. 72, [6]; title page printed in ochre and black, the text in red, blue, ochre and black; numerous tip-ins, facsimiles, and illustrations throughout, some in color; in a recessed well of the clamshell box which houses the volume is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals; original full brown cloth, morocco label on spine, brown cloth clamshell, also with a morocco label. Original prospectus laid in. Forty-Four A62.

77 pp; orig light brown cloth with leather spine label, 10.25 x 13.25; printed on Arches mouldmade paper; no. 50 of 150 copies housed in a clamshell case. Eleven pages of b&w illustrations, 2 pages of color inserts, 21 tip-ins. A pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals are placed in an inside recess of the clamshell box. A fine and fresh copy, with prospectus laid in.