Bird & Bull Press - Oak Knoll Books

§ With A Leaf From De Proprietatibus Rerum §
4. (Bird & Bull Press) Heaney, Howell, Lotte Hellinga, and Richard Hills.
THREE LIONS AND THE CROSS OF LORRAINE,
BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS, JOHN OF TREVISA,
JOHN TATE, WYNKYN DE WORDE,
AND DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM.
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992, tall 4to., quarter leather, paper over boards.
40, (22) pages. $ 1,500.00
Limited to 138 numbered copies. Printed at the Bird & Bull Press by Henry Morris
using Van Dijck types by M&H Type, and printed on Frankfurt mouldmade paper.
Foreword by Henry Morris. Contains four essays written for this volume, 19 facsimiles
of the woodcuts from DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM, and an actual leaf, inserted in
a mylar folder, from the text of DE PRORIETATIBUS RERUM, representing the first
English book printed on paper made in England (See Chalmers 200 for leaf books). Hills
has written about John Tate and his papermill. Such a leaf is rare, for it is highly unlikely
another incomplete copy of Bartholomaeus will be on the market again. Henry Morris in
his foreword says about this book, “I knew it would probably be the most important work
I could ever hope to produce in the field of papermaking history.” Loosely inserted is a
printed note from the publisher commenting on the small limitation. [36463]
5. (Bird & Bull Press) Morris, Henry.
FORTY-FOUR YEARS OF BIRD & BULL. A BIBLIOGRAPHY, 1958–2002.
Two parts in a larger clamshell box. Newtown, Pennsylvania: Bird & Bull Press, 2002, large 4to., quarter morocco with Japanese
cloth sides, leather spine label, Japanese cloth portfolio, cloth-covered clamshell box, leather spine label. 99 pages plus not
paginated inserts. $ 500.00
Printed in an edition limited to 150 numbered copies (Leaf Book - Chalmers 225). The third volume of the Bird & Bull bibliography,
providing entries from 1988-2001 (A46-A66 plus B and C items) and complements the previously published Twenty-One Years of
Bird & Bull and Thirty Years of Bird
& Bull. The main volume includes an
introduction by Morris, his bibliography
(written with his usual candor) and
8-, 12-, and 16-pp. specimen sections,
large posters, prospectuses, and other
ephemera. 24 tip-ins or inserts bound
in, including five 4-pp. inserts, two
6-pp. inserts, and a fold-out broadside
on handmade Italian “Roma” paper.
The other portfolio contains a variety
of specimens, all loosely inserted.
Among the items included is a 16-pp.
small folio booklet with the complete
woodcuts of Three Lions and the Cross
of Lorraine (1992). Dard Hunter & Son
(1998) also makes an appearance here
in the form of various leaves from the
book. Several prospectuses, exhibition
posters, and paper samples are included
in this specimen group. Composed in
Dante types and printed on Arches
mouldmade paper. [71716]
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