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This volume offers a new edition of Andrea Krupp's groundbreaking article, which first appeared in the Papers of
the Bibliographical Society of America, and includes an expanded Catalogue of Bookcloth Grains, with illustrations in
a larger format and, for the first time, in color. Sue Allen has written the preface for the book. Ms. Krupp's
three-part essay, with several illustrations, covers the introduction of bookcloth and the early decades of its use,
discusses bookcloth grain nomenclature and concludes with detailed observations on several cloth grain patterns.
The first of three appendices is an information-dense table that lists each grain pattern with date range and
frequency and provides cross references to previous nomenclature. Appendices 2 and 3, which together comprise
the Catalogue of Nineteenth-Century Bookcloth Grains, include images of the various grains, reproduced at actual
size. The swatches are printed in color, and many of the ribbon-embossed patterns in Appendix 3 are formatted to
represent the patterns more completely than when first published. Co-published with the Bibliographical Society
of America and The British Library. Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from The British
Library. [Order No. 94204]
83. (Bookplates) Tattersfield, Nigel. BOOKPLATES BY BEILBY & BEWICK, A BIOGRAPHICAL
DICTIONARY. London and New Castle: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999, large 8vo.,
cloth, dust jacket. 384 pages. ISBN 9781884718915. $95.00 $71.25
Forty years before the turn of the 18th century, a small, prestigious bookplate workshop was established, the likes
of which were never to be seen again after its employment of one man: Thomas Bewick. To this day, the works of
the bookplate shop of Beilby & Bewick are highly collectible and valued in the antiques world. This account offers
several hundred bookplates engraved on copper and wood, executed and printed in the workshop over a period of
89 years. It is quite the most extensive and thorough study of this subject in its use of primary sources. The author's
lively enthusiasm and careful scholarship have combined to produce a valuable and truly pioneering work on a
subject clouded by speculation and optimistic attribution until now. Nigel Tattersfield has taken full advantage of
the recently-opened archives of Beilby & Bewick to reveal a vast range of work, from banknotes and inscriptions in
silver, to the making of type punches and bottle moulds. The workshop's surviving records are unique in their
diversity and quantity. In recent years, the records have been used in the study of engraved silver, pottery
transfers, and the preparatory studies for Bewick's wood engravings. Bookplates is fully illustrated, with over 300
examples, and its wealth of biographical information on the owners of the bookplates represents an important
contribution to the social history of the north of England. [Order No. 54988]
84. Fleck, Robert D. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS: A HISTORY AND
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OAK KNOLL PRESS, 1978-2008. New Castle,
Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 6 x 9 inches, Hardback, dust jacket.
238 pages. ISBN 9781584562498. $45.00 $33.75
Written to mark Oak Knoll Press's thirtieth anniversary, Books about Books is a
comprehensive history and bibliography of the press, from its beginning in
1978 through the fall of 2008. Bob Fleck, founder, owner, and president of the
Press, tells the story of his adventures in publishing. The book begins with a
fifty-page history of the press, which is well illustrated with more than fifty
images. The history is followed by the bibliography, which lists 320 books in
order of publication. Each entry includes the author, title, edition, and a brief
physical description, as well as a paragraph describing the contents of the book.
Any subsequent reprints are also listed. The bibliography includes about
twenty full-page images of Oak Knoll Press publications. Books about Books is
sure to be a useful tool for all of those wishing to expand their Oak Knoll Press
collection or understand individual titles in the context of the whole. [Order
No. 99582]
85. Fleck, Robert D. BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS: A HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY OF OAK
KNOLL PRESS, 1978-2008. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 6 x 9 inches, Paperback.
238 pages. ISBN 9781584562481. $25.00 $18.75
Paperback edition. [Order No. 99583]
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