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Catalogue 183 Part I E Book Arts, Printing History & Graphic Arts Items 1-65 E POST OFFICE BOX 382369 CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS 02238 T (617) 868-1711 F (617) 868-2960 [email protected] PART I BOOK ARTS, PRINTING HISTORY & GRAPHIC ARTS A RARE SPECIMEN OF PRINTERS’ INKS 1. ACME PRINTING INK CO. Lithographic Inks. Chicago, 131521 West Congress St., n.d. [ca. 1940] $300.00 The above is the cover title; there is no actual title page. A substantial specimen, about 150 pages, and full of color. Specialties of the firm included Acme Paste Drier, Cobalt Dryer, Offset Liquid Reducer, Acme Non-wash-up Compound, Litho Linseed Varnishes, and Lakatine. The first seven leaves are a progressive proof of a full color advertising image. All the following plates are color samples numbered for identification. The final thirteen plates are color samples of inks for certificates (i.e., for stocks, bonds, etc.). OCLC locates just three copies: UCSB, Yale, & U Del. 8vo, orig. cloth, cover title printed in green, gold and black. Circa 150 leaves, printed on rectos only. Slight rubbing to hinges and head and tail of spine; else a fine copy. “NATURAL ILLUSTRATION” THE STANDARD AMERICAN PRINTER’S MANUAL WITH TEN MOUNTED SPECIMENS OF DRIED THROUGH THE MIDDLE YEARS OF THE GRASSES IN PERFECT CONDITION NINETEENTH CENTURY 3. AMOS, WILLIAM. Minutes in agriculture and 2. ADAMS, THOMAS F. Typographia: or the printer’s planting...illustrated with specimens of eight sorts of the best, and instructor; a brief sketch of the origin, rise and progress of the two sorts of the worst, natural grasses, and with accurate typographic art. Fourth edition, with numerous emandations and drawings and descriptions of the above practical machines on additions. Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co., 1851 $300.00 seven copper plates. Boston [U.K.]: Printed by J. Hellaby, Originally published in 1837, this was a standard work and 1810 $2000.00 stayed in print until 1864. It was a comprehensive manual First published 1804. The present copy is in fine condition, abridged from Johnson and Hansard (both English printed on thick paper and illustrated with ten mounted manuals). The final chapter illustrates improved presses: specimens of dried grasses all in perfect condition. The the Colombian, invented by George Clymer; the American ‘practical machines’ referred to in the title are as follows: Press invented by Sheldon Graves; the Washington Press sward dresser, thistle cutter, compound roller, tree- invented by Samuel Rust; the Wells Press invented by John transplanter, scuffle, couch grass drag and a couch grass I. Wells; a large platen press manufactured Seth Adams & rake. Though it appeals to us today primarily as an Co. of Boston; and the Screw Press invented by Mr. A. example of a now extinct form of book illustration, in its Ramage. Except for the platen press all of the others were day this was intended for farmers to show them how best invented and manufactured by Americans. JPHS E18. to grow crops of grass. The mounted grasses are identified Burke Printing Collection 883. by both their Latin names and common names; their 8vo, orig. cloth. x+7-282 pp with numerous imposition diagrams and 6 perfect state of preservation is remarkable. This book wood-engr illus of presses. Spine a little dull else a nice copy. would make a great display item. Called ‘natural illustration’, this method was used from the 18th century and reached it height of popularity in the middle of the [1] CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS [1] nineteenth. Expensive and time consuming to produce, BERRI’S PEOPLE’S PRINTING PRESS “the results rarely justified the effort, since the plants were difficult to fix securely into the books, were often fragile, 5. [BERRI, D. G., Engraver & Stamp Maker]. Berri’s and prevented the book from closing properly, even when People’s Printing Press, used by the Army and Navy. London, they were guarded in.” - Wakeman, Victorian Book Illus., p. 1864 $275.00 65. None of those problems appear in the present work. A single sheet handbill printed on both sides; Berri claimed OCLC/WORLDCAT locates 7 copies in American libraries. that this press, a small cylinder design, could be used for Large 4to, modern binding of linen spine & corners; original printed letterpress, lithographic and copper-plate printing. The boards have been reproduced on both covers. (ii)+viii+92 pp with 10 press is illustrated. See Wakeman, Literature of Letterpress mounted specimens of dried grasses on three leaves with letterpress Printing, no. 12. See also Moran, Printing Presses, pp. 238-9. mounting labels and manuscript numeration, original tissue guards; 2 Berri published a handbook to go with the press in 1864; it hand-colored engr plates of grasses, and 7 folding engr plates of machinery. A fine large untrimmed copy with half title. was quite successful as a second edition was published in 1865 and a third in 1871. The handbill is full of interest; it lists numerous uses for the press, sizes and prices, type, RARE MILWAUKEE TYPE FOUNDERS’ SPECIMEN lithographic stones, inks, etc. Rare; not in OCLC. Single sheet (9 ½ xx 7 ½"); printed on both sides. 4. BENTON & WALDO FOUNDRY. Portable Book of Specimens from Benton & Waldo Foundry operated by American Type Founders’ Company. Patentees and Manufacturers of ILLUSTRATED WITH 42 MOUNTED HELIOTYPES Benton’s Self Spacing Type. Milwaukee, [1893] $1000.00 A rare specimen; OCLC locates only two copies (Columbia 6. BICKELL, DR. L. Bookbindings from the Hessian and RIT). Founded in 1873, this foundry had a tortured Historical Exhibition illustrating the art of binding from the history until about 1873 when Linn Boyd Benton became XVth to the XVIIIth centuries. Leipzig: Karl W. Hiersemann, involved. The history of the firm would have stopped at 1893 $800.00 that point were it not for the inventiveness and leadership A fine folio work, illustrated with mounted heliotypes of of Mr. Benton, the senior partner of the firm. “Benton, who bindings from photos taken by the author and limited to had never had mechanical or technical training, soon found 100 copies. This book grew out of the Jubilee Exhibition of his niche, and upon his death it was counted that there the Hessian Historical Society at Marburg in the summer of were over twenty patents to his credit. Among them were 1890. To make his selections, the author, who was the ‘self-spacing’ measuring system...[but]...the invention conservator of antiquities at Cassel, visited the libraries at and machine that really made the Benton name truly Marburg, Cassel, Fulda, and Giessen. He opens with brief famous was his punchcutter, based upon the old histories of the libraries in question. This book fits into a pantograph method, and patented in 1885...Benton became long list of similar works, compiled in the late 19th century, involved with the invention because the plant did not have illustrating selected binding treasures in various major available punchcutters and they had requirements for libraries: British Museum, Dresden [Library], Bibliotheque making over 3000 special punches. He personally studied Nationale, Bodleian Library, Royal Library Windsor Castle, the project and designed a machine to do the work that was Vienna Imperial Court Library, etc. They are all listed in B. formerly done by hand. The invention and the product was Breslauer’s The uses of bookbinding literature (1986), p. 23. an immediate success.” - Annenberg, p. 63. In 1892 the This is copy no. 71 of 100 with English and German title American Type Founders Company acquired the business pages and text in both languages. Mejer 211. and in 1894 the Benton and Waldo plant was dismantled. Large folio (19 x 14"), orig. heavy cloth, re-hinged with orig. morocco But Mr. Benton was hired by ATF and he continued to spine, gilt, laid down. Top edge gilt. 14+18 pp with 53 mounted heliotypes work with the new organization until he retired, just fifteen on 52 leaves. Very good copy. days before his death in 1932. 8vo, orig. stiff printed blue wrappers, neatly rebacked. 272 pp with a bis leaf between pp 32 & 33. Small area of damage and loss (about the size of 7. BISHOP, H[ENRY] G[OLD]. The Job Printer’s List of a quarter) on p. 161/162. One small clip on p.207/208; ditto on p. 213/214. prices and estimate guide: containing prices to be charged for all But, in fact, a very good copy. And rare. kinds of job and book work, from a small card to a large volume. New York: H. G. Bishop, 1893 $200.00 First edition. Published or manuscript “Lists of prices” [2] CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS CHARLES WOOD RARE BOOKS [3] have a long history in the various trades, going back to at 10. BLANEY, HENRY R. Photogravure. With least the middle of the 18th century. The present work lists introduction and additions by the editor. New York: Scovill & 72 alphabetized categories from ‘Addressed Envelopes’ to Adams Co., 1895 $275.00 ‘Wine lists.’ Bishop was a printer in Albany, New York. In Fine copy of the first edition in book form; this originally his Appendix he prints extracts on Rules and Usage from appeared in the columns of The Photographic Times (but the Cincinnati Typothetae and the Typothetae of New without the additions by the editor and without the York. OCLC locates 8 copies. specimen plate as frontispiece). Chapters on Early history; 12mo, orig. publisher’s cloth, title stamped in gilt on cover. 88 pp. Front The Negative; The Transparency; The Carbon tissue; flyleaf is loose; front inner hinge tender. The final 13 page are illustrated Cleaning & graining of the copper plate; Development of ads.