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. PROSPECTUS FOR A PAIR ON PAPER. Bird & Bull Press, N.P., 1976.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Description: broadside (9 1/4 by 7 1/4 inches). bottom edge uncut. Prospectus for Leonard B. Schlosser and Henry B. Morris, A Pair on Paper. Facsimile of title and descriptive information. Work cited in Taylor and Morris A17.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarter brown morocco gilt with printed paper-covered boards, square 8vo., 70, (1) pages, illustrated with 11 plates, 16 reproductions and a double specimen of an assignat in a pocket. One of "approximately" 220 numbered copies printed from Centaur types on Morris' hand made coarse laid paper, bound by Edward G. (Gray) Parrot. Four page prospectus, with one soft fold, laid in. The lower outside corner of eleven leaves are affected by old damp-stains, not overly objectionable. Otherwise the book is fine, in archival mylar.
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$152.64 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of approximately 220 copies. Quarter Oasis leather and boards with cover illustrations, small 4to, 25 cm, 70 pp, ills, (1 folded in pocket). From the descriptions in the prospectus of the two works : "[1]The great body of presently-known European ream wrappers are of the 18th century, with examples before mid-17th century being very uncommon. For reasons which are unclear, Italian ream wrappers are unknown, nor were they' known even to the eminent Italian paper his torian, A. F. Gasparinetti. The collection of printed wrappers which are shown and described here are important, therefore, not only because they are early - they are all of the latter half of the 16th century and the first half of the 17th - but because they are Italian, Milanese in origin. They are not ream wrappers in the strictest sense, but are quire wrappers, and all bear the sign oí the cartolaio or stationer who sold them. We are fortunate that this collection was acquired by Mr. Leonard Schlosser, who has been kind enough to permit their publication, and has also provided a well-researched description of these rarities of pa permaking history'. The collection consists of sixteen wrappers, all of which are reproduced in their original sizes .[2] These Adventures' describe a series of events which began in Paris in 1970 with the purchase of two assignats. Assignats were a form of paper currency issued by the French government in the late 18th century, and probably constituted the first use of stereotypes for large-scale currency printing. The place of the assignats in the history of papermaking and watermarks has been generally ignored, and their place in the history of printing and stereotyping has only been partly explored Several illustrations are included, as are also a pair of assignats cut from an uncirculated sheet." Copy no. 202. Minor fingersoiling to rear board, otherwise Near Fine. Prospectus folded horizontally) laid in.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: small 4to. quarter brown morocco over paper-covered boards. 70, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 220 numbered copies, and printed on paper made by hand by Henry Morris (Taylor A17). This interesting book contains a essay by Morris on his discovery of a number of books printed on French paper made from assignats, those pieces of currency used in France during the French Revolution. Includes a number of illustrations and two actual specimens of this currency inserted in a pocket opposite page 29. Schlosser writes on "Some Early Milanese Paper Wrappers," i.e. ream wrappers, with reproductions of a number of them. quarter brown morocco over paper-covered boards
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edition ltd. to "approximately" 220 copies, 8vo, pp. 70, [1]; decorated title-pages for book & parts printed in 2 colors, 11 photographic illustrations, 16 reproductions of devices from ream wrappers, and 2 actual specimens of the French Revolutionary era currency known as "assignats" inserted in a pocket in the text; a fine copy in the original quarter brown morocco over decorative tan paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine. Morris recounts his discovery, in 1970, of watermarks of the light and shade type upon sheet of assignats printed between 1789 and 1796, well before the 1812 date Dard Hunter assigned to the earliest watermark of this type. Printer's Choice, 22.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Edition ltd. to "approximately" 220 copies, 8vo, pp. 70, [1]; decorated title-pages for book and parts printed in 2 colors, 11 photographic illustrations, 16 reproductions of devices from ream wrappers, and 2 actual specimens of the French Revolutionary era currency known as "assignats" inserted in a pocket in the text; a fine copy in the original quarter brown morocco over decorative tan paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine. Morris recounts his discovery, in 1970, of watermarks of the light and shade type upon sheet of assignats printed between 1789 and 1796, well before the 1812 date Dard Hunter assigned to the earliest watermark of this type. Printer's Choice, 22.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$281.25 + shipping
Description: Edition ltd. to "approximately" 220 copies, 8vo, pp. 70, [1]; decorated title-pages for book & parts printed in 2 colors, 11 photographic illustrations, 16 reproductions of devices from ream wrappers, and 1 actual specimen of the French Revolutionary era currency known as an "assignat" inserted in a pocket in the text; a fine copy in the original quarter brown morocco over decorative tan paper-covered boards, gilt-titled spine. Bookplate of Jacob Chernofsky. Morris recounts his discovery, in 1970, of watermarks of the light and shade type upon sheet of assignats printed between 1789 and 1796, well before the 1812 date Dard Hunter assigned to the earliest watermark of this type. Printer's Choice, 22.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Fine. One of 220 copies on handmade paper. 1st edition. Binding is 1/4 morocco.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$333.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: #182 from an edition limited to "approximately" 220 copies. Text composed with Centaur types on Morris' hand made coarse laid paper, bound by Edward G. (Gray) Parrot in original, brown, quarter morocco, gilt titled spine, over pictorial printed paper-covered boards. 70, (1) pages, illustrated with 11 plates, 16 reproductions and a double specimen of an assignat in a pocket. Schlosser essay deals with early Milanese ream wrappers, and contains reproductions of a number of them. Morris discusses light-and-shade watermarks and Assignats, with original specimen of the French Revolutionary era currency known as an "assignat" inserted in a pocket in the text, opposite page 29. Morris recounts his discovery, in 1970, of watermarks of the light and shade type upon sheet of assignats printed between 1789 and 1796, well before the 1812 date Dard Hunter assigned to the earliest watermark of this type. Printers' Choice 22. Decorated title-pages for book & parts printed in 2 colors, 11 photographic illustrations, 16 reproductions of devices from ream wrappers,
Seller: Meir Turner, New York, NY, U.S.A.