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28 Oak Knoll Press Books about Papermaking DER VOLLKOMMNE PAPIERFÄRBER The Accomplished Paper Colorer translated by Richard J. Wolfe This new work, limited to 300 copies, is a facsimile reproduction and translation of an important early German manual on decorated and marbled paper. In the historical introduction to his translation of this work, Richard J. Wolfe summarizes the professional literature on marbling and paper coloring that began to appear in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Der Vollkommne Papierfärber, published around 1823, is the earliest work of its kind that has survived. Wolfe shares his experience with a seemingly unique copy of this rare and seminal treatise that he initially encountered in Leipzig in 1987. The story has a somewhat surprising ending. Following the introduction, the book displays the facsimile on the left page and a parallel translation on the opposing page. 2008, hardcover, 5 x 7.5 inches, 180 pages ISBN 9781584562436, Order No. 99499, $60.00 EDWARD SEYMOUR & THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY The Story of a British Marbled Paper Manufacturer by Sidney E. Berger In this limited edition, Berger shares the vicissitudes of the Fancy Paper Company’s fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and the touching correspondence he found among its business records. With 20 tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a wellresearched text about one of the last marbled paper manufacturing firms. 2006, hardcover with slipcase, 6 x 9 inches, 104 pages ISBN 9781584561897, Order No. 90944, $150.00 paper mould and mouldmaker by E.G. Loeber This book covers the development and handling of paper mould, the mouldmaker, the deckle, the wire profile, and variants of the European mould and deckle. It also includes illustrations, various appendices, and sections on studying paper and watermarks. 1982, hardcover, 8 x 12.5 inches, 83 pages ISBN n/a, Order No. 70709, $100.00 LETTERPRESS PRINTING A Manual for Modern Fine Press Printers by Paul Maravelas The comprehensive text for beginning and intermediate letterpress printers. Using clear explanations and more than 80 illustrations, the manual describes presses, ink, paper, press operation, type and photopolymer plates. Includes glossaries of terms relating to paper and printing. An up-to-date work for students and fine press printers. 2005, 8.5 x 11 inches, 220 pages Hardcover, dust jacket: ISBN 9781584561675, Order No. 88731, $65.00 Paperback: ISBN 9781584561743, Order No. 88733, $24.95 Available in the UK from The British Library FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRINTING by S.H. Steinberg Fully revised and updated by John Trevitt; republished in a larger format, with over 100 superb illustrations chosen afresh from the rich collections of The British Library. This volume is essential reading for book collectors, cultural historians, book designers and students. 2001, 7 x 10 inches, 272 pages Hardcover, dust jacket: ISBN 9781884718199, Order No. 43776, $45.00 Paperback: ISBN 9781884718205, Order No. 43777, $29.95 Available outside North and South America from The British Library Books about Printing & Publishing PERIODICALS AND PUBLISHERS The Newspaper and Journal Trade, 1740–1914 Part of the Print Network Series edited by John Hinks, Catherine Armstrong, and Matthew Day This tenth volume contains eleven exciting chapters from scholars working on provincial periodicals and newspapers in England, Scotland and Ireland. The topics focus on the book trades between 1740 and 1914, and include case studies of individual publishers and their experiences in the print market. This volume demonstrates the cultural and political significance of newspapers and periodicals and their producers. The main theme emerging from the papers is that of provinciality and specifically the relationship of producers and consumers of print who live and work in the provinces to each other and to London. Examination of the question of provinciality in this volume helps to illuminate the connections between book trade people in all parts of the British Isles. 2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 6 x 9 inches, 256 pages ISBN 9781584562665, Order No. 100486, $49.95 Available in the UK from The British Library 800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com
Oak Knoll Press—Printing & Publishing 29 The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America, 1720–1920 by Graham Hudson This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and time period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. The book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. It is richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color. 2008, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 160 pages ISBN 9781584562245, Order No. 95868, $65.00 Available outside North and South America from The British Library early printing in Saint Vincent The Island’s First Printers and their work, With a List of Saint Vincent Imprints, 1767–1834 by Gregory Frohnsdorff foreword by Donald N. Mott This book traces its history from the first printing in Kingstown, as early as 1767 through 1834, the year slavery was abolished in the British West Indies. Several early printers are identified, and details about them and some of their publications are provided. It includes an annotated list of more than 250 items printed in Saint Vincent prior to 1835. Illustrated in black and white. 2009, hardcover, 8.5 x 11 inches, 120 pages ISBN 9781584562580, Order No. 100465, $45.00 BE MERRY AND WISE Origins of Children’s Book Publishing in England, 1650–1850 by Brian Alderson and Felix de Marez Oyens When did children come to be seen as a special readership? Child readership is the subject of this bibliographical study, in which the authors show how creative talents appealed directly to children and how the publishing industry realized that children were a profitable market. 2006, hardcover, 9 x 12 inches, 320 pages ISBN 9781584561804, Order No. 90644, $115.00 Co-published with The Pierpont Morgan Library, The Bibliographical Society of America, & The British Library; available outside North & South America from The British Library The printed Greek book 15th to 19th Century edited by K. Staikos and T. Sklavenitis An International Congress on the History of Greek Printing was held in Delphi, Greece where leading scholars presented over 40 papers pertaining to dissemination of the Greek language via manuscripts, books and documents. The collection of essays compiled in this book is the publication of these learned papers. The essays appear in a broad variety of languages, and many are printed in Greek. There is a useful appendix that contains abstracts in English for all 30 of the essays in Greek. 2004, hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, 710 pages ISBN 9781584561422, Order No. 76423, $95.00 Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens, Greece Books for Sale The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century Part of the Publishing Pathways Series edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote This volume of eight original essays, with contributions by specialists in the promotion and marketing of print, as well as by leading historians of the book, explores themes that include the advertising and marketing techniques of booksellers and publishers across early modern Europe, the increasing use of newspaper and periodical advertisements in England and Ireland during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the dramatic impact of online marketing on the book trade. Other promotional tools discussed range from the illustrated trade cards of eighteenth-century Paris to the rise of the book jacket and the cult of literary prizes in the twentieth century. 2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 6 x 9 inches, 208 pages ISBN 9781584562658, Order No. 100485, $49.95 Available in the UK from The British Library BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Writer and Printer by James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass This work focuses on Franklin as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement, by which time his was the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on his newspaper and popular almanacs, but also on his own writings, first for his brother’s press in Boston and then for his own press in Philadelphia. 2006, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 192 pages ISBN 9781584561873, Order No. 90643, $49.95 Co-published with the Library Company of Philadelphia and The British Library; available in the UK from The British Library Disbound and dispersed The Leaf Book Considered This is the first in-depth examination of a bibliophilic phenomenon that began in the early nineteenth century and continues today. A leaf book is one that contains an original leaf from an imperfect copy of an historic book bound with an essay about the significance of the historic book. As such they provide a unique medium for both learning the history of books while providing the opportunity to inspect (or own) a specimen of the original. Includes 242 leaf books, and 41 images, many in color. 2005, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.25 x 10.5 inches, 160 pages ISBN 9781584561613, Order No. 79481, $45.00 Distributed for the Caxton Club 800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com
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