OAK KNOLL BOOKS

267. (Bookbinding) Rossi, Filippo. MOSTRA
STORICA DELLA LEGATURA ARTISTICA IN
PALAZZO PIT TI. Firenze: Palazzo Pitti, 1922, tall
12mo., stiff paper wrappers. 269 pages followed by 24
pages of plates of bindings. $ 50.00
Catalogue of the books held in this Italian library with a concentration
of early printed books in fine bindings. The plates in the back picture
these bindings. Wrappers torn along spine. With the Randeria
bookplate on the half-title. [71948]
268. Rottinger, Heinrich. ALTE BUCH UND
SEINE AUSSTAT TUNG VOM XV. BIS ZUM XIX
JAHRHUNDERT. BUCHDRUCK, BUCH­
SCHMUCK UND EINBANDE. Wien: Gerlach &
Wiedling, n.d., 4to., loose signatures. (viii), 148 pages.
$ 45.00
With 1376 illustrations on 148 plates illustrating binding, type
specimens, printer’s marks, etc. The outer case is not present. [76390]
269. (Bookbinding) SALE OF THE WORKING
LIBRARY OF THE LATE HOWARD M. NIXON
COMPRISING BOOKS ON BOOK­BINDING,
BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS OF THE
ROXBURGHE CLUB . . . London: Bloomsbury
Book Auctions, 1983, 8vo., cloth­backed marbled papercovered
boards with original paper wrappers bound­in.
Frontispiece portrait and two page foreword by Mirjam
M. Foot followed by listing of 245 lots. $ 85.00
S-K 70. One of 14 bound thus and containing a photograph of a book
in the auction. Signed by Foot. With prices realized bound-in. [5868]
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270. (Bookbinding) Schunke, Ilse. STUDIEN ZUM
BILDERSCHMUCK DER DEUTSCHEN RE­
NAISSANCE­EINBÄNDE. Wiesbaden: Otto
Harrassowitz, 1959, 8vo., later cloth, leather spine label
with original stiff paper wrappers bound­in. (viii), 151
pages. $ 65.00
First edition. Volume Eight of the series of booklets issued by
Harrassowitz on book history; edited by Carl Wehmer. Includes a
lengthy list of rolls and wheels used by binders in the back. With the
leather bookplate of Julia Parker Wightman. [75525]
271. (Bookbinding) Searle, W.J. BOOKBINDING
FOR SENIOR SCHOOLS With a Foreword by
Dr. H.J. Larcombe. London: Sir Isaac Pitman &
Sons, 1931, 8vo., cloth. 136, (16) pages. $ 45.00
First edition. Not in Brenni. Well-illustrated manual. Corner
bumped. Ownership inscription in pencil. [12957]
272. (Bookbinding) Shepherd, Rob. HAND­MADE
BOOKS, AN INTRODUCTION TO BOOK­
BINDING. (Tunbridge Wells): Search Press, (1994),
small 4to., stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. $ 55.00
First edition. Fully illustrated in color. [102697]
273. Sheppard, Roger (editor). DIRECTORY OF
LITERARY SOCIETIE S AND AUTHOR COL ­
LECTIONS. London: Library Association Publishing,
(1994), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. viii, 288 pages. $ 55.00
First edition. Over 500 societies are described with cross-references
to subject and library. Useful for finding the addresses of those groups
which might be useful for direct mail campaigns. [41517]
274. (Bookbinding) Silfverstolpe, Gunnar. BOK­
BINDARE I STOCKHOLM 1630–1930. FE ST­
SKRIFT PÅ UPPDRAG AV BOKBINDARE—
MÄSTARE—FÖRENINGEN I STOCKHOLM.
Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1930, 4to.,
quarter cloth with paper­covered boards. variously paginated.
$ 45.00
First edition, limited to 600 copies (S-K 7958). A survey of Stockholm’s
bookbinding history from 1630–1930. Illustrated in black-and-white,
with numerous images of twentieth-century binders. Original stiff
paper wrappers bound at rear. In Swedish. With Randeria bookplate.
Fading of boards. [71452]
275. Silver, Rollo. BOSTON BOOK TRADE, 1800–
1825. Three volumes. In The Bulletin of the New York
Public Library, Vol. 52, Nos. 10, 11, and 12, 1948. tall 8vo.,
stiff paper wrappers. $ 45.00
Excellent guide to the publishers, binders, booksellers, etc. active in
Boston during this period. Gives addresses at corresponding dates.
[7604]