Spawn Willman (28 results)
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Published by Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr, 1999
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stiff paper wrappers. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 206 pages. First edition. The paper wrappers depict various binder's tickets in color. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries, followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are…described in great detail, including information on the binder. This is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new reference book in the study of English binding. Bookbinding (illustrator).
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Published by Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr, 1999
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cloth. small 4to. cloth. 206 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries, followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail, including information on the binder. This… is followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important reference book in the study of English binding. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr, 1999
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unbound signatures. small 4to. unbound signatures. 206 pages. First edition. Unbound sheet variant of this book. Suitable for binding. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Published by Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn., 1983
- Softcover
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Add to basketSoft cover. Condition: Fine. Offprint. 8 Pages. Book.
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Published by Bryn Mawr College Library / Oak Knoll Press, 1999
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Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition. SIGNED by author Willman Spawn at title page. 11.25 x 8.75 in. 206 pp. b/w illustrations, 24 color plates. Glossy illustrated wraps. Faint shelf-wear, no internal markings. Near Fine. Signed by Author(s).
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, 1983
- Softcover
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerstiff paper wrappers. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp.29-36. Not in S-K. An offprint from the book BOOKBINDING IN AMERICA, 1680-1910 published by Bryn Mawr. A near fine copy. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Published by Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, New Castle and Bryn Mawr, 2007
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Contact seller5-star sellercloth. 4to. cloth. 300 pages. First edition. Some uneven fading to spine and boards, else a fine copy. In this the first major study of American signed bookbindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through 1876. The det…ails of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the book trade, deeply enmeshed with the related trades of booksellers, stationers and publishers. Two hundred and thirty-three binders are represented, many with multiple designations. Locations of binders cluster up and down the east coast from Maine to Virginia, with tickets as far south as New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. The study identifies binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns. Brief descriptions of bindings are provided, along with explanatory notes for many binders, especially in the binding centers of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The strength of the study is in its attention to nineteenth-century trade binders such as Benjamin Bradley and Peter Low of Boston, George W. Alexander and Colton & Jenkins of New York, and Benjamin Gaskill and Joseph T. Altemus of Philadelphia. Spawn, a retired conservator at the American Philosophical Society, has written numerous articles on early American bookbinding. Since 1985 he has served as honorary Curator of Bookbindings at Bryn Mawr College where he has helped to build the splendid collection of signed bindings described here. Kinsella is the Associate Professor of British Literature at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He has written on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, among other subjects, and, for the past 20 years, has collaborated with Spawn researching the history of bookbinding. The volume has two introductory essays and is well-indexed. Co-published with Bryn Mawr College Library. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Language: English
Published by Oak Knoll Press / Bryn Mawr College Library, New Castle, DE / Bryn Mawr, PA, 2007
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Hardcover. 4to. Blue cloth with gilt spine lettering. 299pp. Numerous small illustrations, color pictorial endpapers. Fine. Pristine first edition of "the first major study of American signed bookbindings." Press release laid in.
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Like New. signed by author in fne shape thin book with illustrations.
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Contact seller4-star sellerHardcover. Condition: NF. Brown cloth boards, [24] pp. numbered 442 - 437, 7 BW plates. Appearing at the bottom of the first page: "[Separate from the Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, volume fifty-seven, fourth quarter, 1963.]".
More imagesPublished by Oak Knoll Press & Bryn Mawr College Library, New Castle and Bryn Mawr, 2007
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Add to basketcloth. 4to. cloth. 300 pages. First edition. In this the first major study of American signed bookbindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through 1876. The details of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the book tra…de, deeply enmeshed with the related trades of booksellers, stationers and publishers. Two hundred and thirty-three binders are represented, many with multiple designations. Locations of binders cluster up and down the east coast from Maine to Virginia, with tickets as far south as New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. The study identifies binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns. Brief descriptions of bindings are provided, along with explanatory notes for many binders, especially in the binding centers of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The strength of the study is in its attention to nineteenth-century trade binders such as Benjamin Bradley and Peter Low of Boston, George W. Alexander and Colton & Jenkins of New York, and Benjamin Gaskill and Joseph T. Altemus of Philadelphia. Spawn, a retired conservator at the American Philosophical Society, has written numerous articles on early American bookbinding. Since 1985 he has served as honorary Curator of Bookbindings at Bryn Mawr College where he has helped to build the splendid collection of signed bindings described here. Kinsella is the Associate Professor of British Literature at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He has written on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, among other subjects, and, for the past 20 years, has collaborated with Spawn researching the history of bookbinding. The volume has two introductory essays and is well-indexed. Co-published with Bryn Mawr College Library. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain
Spawn, Willman; Middleton, Bernard C.;Kinsella, Thomas E.; Bernard C. Middleton (essay)
Language: English
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library/Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr, PA and New Castle, DE, 1999
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Buckram. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. First Edition. Dark green buckram, lettered in gold foil on spine panel. Fine, without wear. Clearly our copy does not retain its original binding; it appears to be an unbound copy that a former owner had bound in functional buckram. 206 pp., illus. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book.
Language: English
Published by American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, 1986
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Seller: Harry E Bagley Books, Fredericton, NB, CanadaHarry E Bagley Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. no d.j. as Issued. 1st Edition. red, gilt decorated cover, gilt spine,: xxiv, 230 pages : illustrations CONTENTS ; Scottish-American bookbindings, The amazing career of Andrew Barclay, Scottish bookbinder, of Boston"Bound in Boston by Henry B. Legg" Caleb Buglass, binder of the proposed Book of Common… Prayer, Philadelphia, 1786, John Roulstone's Harvard bindings, Full gilt and extra gilt,Thomas Jefferson's last bookbinder : Frederick August Mayo Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book.
TICKETED BOOKBINDINGS FROM NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN. [Ticketed Book-Bindings from 19th Century Great Britain.]
Spawn, Willman and Thomas E. Kinsella. Bernard C. Middleton (essay). Bryn Mawr College Library.
Language: English
Published by Bryn Mawr, PA - New Castle, DE: Bryn Mawr College Library - Oak Knoll Press, 1999., 2002
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Seller: David Hallinan, Bookseller, Columbus, MS, U.S.A.David Hallinan, Bookseller
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206 pages. Paperback: H 27.75cm x L 21.75cm. Glossy paper covers rubbed. Slight foxing to text block edges with small stain at top edge. Foxing on front cover's blank verso and rear cover's blank recto. Past owner's pencil inscription at top of title page; some minor foxing and soiling spots to interior leaves which, overall, re…main clean. Binding is firm. ISBN 1884718957.
Language: English
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr, 1999
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cloth. small 4to. cloth. 206 pages. First edition, the hardbound variant. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including plates in color. Foreword by Elliot Shore, Director of Libraries followed by historical information on binding. The first 219 bindings are described in great detail including information on the binder. This i…s followed by shorter descriptions of 485 ticketed bindings also in the collection but not pictured. An important new reference book in the study of English binding. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, 1983
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Chanticleer Books, Fort Bragg, CA, U.S.A.Chanticleer Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. 122 pp, color frontispiece and 5 full-page color plates from photographs, many monochrome reproductions throughout; quarto, original blue cloth with pictorial paper inset on front cover. Illustrated catalogue of more than 60 examples of American binders' art from the extraordinary colle…ction of Frederick E. Maser.
Bookbinding in America 1680-1910 from the Collection of Frederick E.Maser with an Essay by Willman Spawn [new, in publisher's shrinkwrap]
Dooley, John; & James Tanis (editors); Willman Spawn; Frederick E. Maser
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1983
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- First Edition
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.About Books
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: New. in publisher's shrinkwrap. First Edition. Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania: Bryn Mawr College Library, 1983. BRAND NEW in perfect condition. STILL SEALED in the publisher's clear plastic SHRINKWRAP. NO rubbing. NO fading. Bright, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remain…der. Fresh and crisp -- obviously never read. Preface by the editors. Introduction by Frederick E. Maser. Seventy b/w illustrations. Six full page, gorgeous full color photos of old bindings. Fully described here are 71 significant American book bindings, most in leather. Includes William Spawn's informative essay: THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN BINDING STYLES IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Bound in the original blue cloth, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Mounted on the front cover is a paper label illustrated with a scene from an early bookbindery. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. . First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. New/in publisher's shrinkwrap. 123pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
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Published by Bryn Mawr College Library, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, 1983
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Seller: Leopolis, Kraków, PolandLeopolis
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to (29 cm). 122, [2] pp. Original publisher's blue cloth, pictorial paper label to upper board printed in red depicting a colonial-era bindery interior (minor shelf-wear). First edition, published to commemorate the gift of the Frederick E. Maser Collection of American Bookbindings to the Bryn M…awr College Library and issued in conjunction with the exhibition of the collection. An important institutional catalogue documenting more than two centuries of American bookbinding, from the colonial period through the revival of the hand-bound book at the beginning of the twentieth century. The sixty-two catalogue entries present a representative survey of American binding practice from the earliest identifiable native craftsmen — including John Ratcliff, among the first recorded American bookbinders -- through eighteenth- and nineteenth-century trade bindings, decorative work, fine bindings, and the renewed artistic movement associated with the Arts and Crafts era. The volume opens with a personal introduction by Frederick E. Maser, reflecting on the pleasures and responsibilities of collecting bindings and on the human dimension of the craft preserved through individual books. An editorial preface by John Dooley and James Tanis places the Maser Collection within the developing scholarship of American bookbinding history, discussing the early interest of the Grolier Club, Dorothy Miner's influential Baltimore Museum of Art exhibition of 1957-58, and the pioneering catalogue of the Michael Papantonio Collection prepared by Hannah D. French and Willman Spawn in 1972, to which the present volume serves as a complementary contribution. The principal scholarly essay, "The Evolution of American Binding Styles in the Eighteenth Century," by Willman Spawn, provides a concise historical framework for understanding colonial and early national binding traditions. Spawn examines the development of American styles, materials, tools, decoration, and workshop practices, establishing the context for the catalogue that follows. The sixty-two detailed entries describe individual bindings with information on binder or shop (where known), place and approximate date of execution, structure, leather, tooling, spine decoration, board decoration, edges, turn-ins, endpapers, measurements, and provenance. Numerous illustrations document the variety and quality of the examples, making the work both a reference catalogue and a visual record of an important private collection. A valuable contribution to the literature of American bookbinding and an essential reference for collectors, historians, and institutions concerned with the development of the decorative and artistic binding tradition in the United States. Scarce, particularly outside institutional collections.
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Add to basketCondition: VG. NY 1963 first edition. vol 57 4th quarter 1963. original brown printed octavo wraps. Greenly article pp. 422-437 plus 7 fullpage photo illustrations. Complete issue paginated 403-503. VG plus. Early American book binding.
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Add to basketCondition: Very Good. Very Good condition. No Dust Jacket (books, bookbinding) A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Contact seller5-star sellerSPAWN, Willman, and KINSELLA, Thomas E. Ticketed Bookbindings from Nineteenth-Century Britain. With an Essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Orig. cloth. Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999. Illus. Fine.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. 299 p. 29 cm. Examples pictured. Blue cloth hardcover. Still wrapped in cellophane (our picture is of an opened copy). An extensive resource.
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Hardcover. Condition: New.
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Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB
Contact seller5-star sellerunbound. 4to. unbound. 300 pages. First edition. Smyth-sewn book block complete with end sheets but without a case. In this the first major study of American signed book bindings, Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella describe and illustrate 315 bookbinder's tickets, stamps, and engraved designations dating from the 1750s through… 1876. The details of the study reveal a vibrant segment of the book trade, deeply enmeshed with the related trades of booksellers, stationers and publishers. Two hundred and thirty-three binders are represented, many with multiple designations. Locations of binders cluster up and down the east coast from Maine to Virginia, with tickets as far south as New Orleans and as far west as Little Rock. The study identifies binders from 19 states and 84 cities and towns. Brief descriptions of bindings are provided, along with explanatory notes for many binders, especially in the binding centers of Boston, New York and Philadelphia. The strength of the study is in its attention to nineteenth-century trade binders such as Benjamin Bradley and Peter Low of Boston, George W. Alexander and Colton & Jenkins of New York, and Benjamin Gaskill and Joseph T. Altemus of Philadelphia. Spawn, retired conservator at the American Philosophical Society, has written numerous articles on early American bookbinding. Since 1985 he has served as honorary Curator of Bookbindings at Bryn Mawr College where he has helped to build the splendid collection of signed bindings described here. Kinsella is Associate Professor of British Literature at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He has written on Samuel Johnson and James Boswell, among other subjects, and, for the past 20 years, has collaborated with Spawn researching the history of bookbinding. The volume has two introductory essays and is well indexed. Co-published with Bryn Mawr College Library. Bookbinding (illustrator).
Published by Bryn Mawr College Library & Oak Knoll Press, [New Castle], 1999
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Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB)
Contact seller5-star sellerFirst Edition. First edition, 4to, pp. 206; 24 color plates of bindings; a survey of 219 bindings from Bryn Mawr College Library, with images for each ticket recorded, with an appendix survey of 485 bindings from the Canadian Library and the E. P. Wormersley collection. This is likely one of the editions originally in sheets, no…w bound in half brown morocco over marbled boards, spine in 6 compartments with black leather labels in two; fine.
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Add to basketFirst Edition. Pp. 300(last blank), numerous text illustrations, coloured pictorial endpapers, bibliography, indices; demy 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Oak Knoll Press/Bryn Mawr College Library, New Castle & Bryn Mawr, 2007. First edition.
Published by Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE, 1999
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Add to basketFirst Edition. With an essay by Bernard C. Middleton. Pp. 206, illustrated in colour and black & white, indices; demy 4to; Bryn Mawr College Library/Oak Knoll Press, Bryn Mawr & New Castle, 1999. First edition. .
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Add to basketUS, Bryn MawrCollege Library, 1999, 4to mezza tela, dorso con fregi e titolo in oro, pp. 205 con num. ill.
