LEATHER - THREE QUARTER LEATHER / THREE QUARTER BOUND < Back to Terminology List LEATHER - THREE QUARTER LEATHER / THREE QUARTER BOUND Feature Three quarter leather (3/4), or three quarter bound, describes books bound in leather at the spine and corners, usually when the latter are large, with boards covered in paper, cloth, or other material. The first image shows a three quarter leather binding with large leather corners, with paper over boards. The second image shows a similar binding with marbled paper over boards. Previous Next

Lothar Meggendorfer's "Lebende Bilder" [Living Pictures] Eight Fantastic Hand Colored Moveable Plate PRICE $ 3500 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile [MOVABLE BOOK]. MEGGENDORFER, Lothar. Lebende Bilder [Living Pictures] von L. Meggendorfer. 15. Auflage.München [Munich]: Verlag von Braun & Schneider, [ca. 1890]. Fifteenth German Edition. Folio (page size: 11 7/8 x 9 1/8 inches; 301 x 232 mm.; Board size: 12 7/8 x 9 3/8 inches; 327 x 238 mm.). [1, foreword], [2-18] pp. Eight hand-colored lithograph plates with movable parts (included in pagination), each with a tab to set the scene in motion. Original color lithographed pictorial boards with black cloth backstrip. Small rectangular booksellers label on rear turn-in (Brentano's New York). Inner hinges expertly and almost invisibly repaired, all of the movable parts in perfect working order. Minimal rubbing to extremities of boards, still a spectacular copy of this rare title. According to OCLC the earliest edition that we can locate is 6. Auglage (ca. 1890) - there are very few copies of any of the original Braun & Schneider editions listed - we believe this 15th edition to have also been published around 1890. “Meggendorfer’s reputation today is based almost solely on his ingenious mechanical picture-books for children. These he began to design during the late 1880s, and many of these books went into multiple German editions besides translations into English, French, Italian, Spanish, Bohemian, Hungarian, and Russian. Deservedly, he is considered the creator and chief innovator of moveable toy books, and his printed works are eagerly sought after by collectors of historical children’s literature. He produced books with moveable figures, transformation pictures segmented into three parts and thus interchangeable, books with pop-up designs, rotating wheels as well as four-panel slat pictures which change the illustrations through movement, and simply funny picture books for children that would certainly make them laugh and generally contributed to some educational benefit” (Justin G. Schiller’s Introduction to The Publishing Archive of Lothar Meggendorfer. “There is little doubt that the most elaborate and ingenious movables ever produced were those of the German Lothar Meggendorfer (1847-1925) made during the 1880s and 1890s…the mechanisms and operations of Meggendorfer’s books—not to mention the originality of his figures—are far superior to any others published before or since. The devices that operated the various figures in Meggendorfer’s books consisted of a series of inter-connecting cardboard levers sandwiched between the coloured illustration on the front of the oblong leaf and the dummy pasted behind it. The animated limbs and heads were cut-out models on the front of the picture, and moving the tab set the whole scene in motion” (Haining, Movable Books, p. 65). The Plates: 1. "Herr Staberl" (Mr. Staberl) 2. "Die Jungfer Köchin" (The Spinster Cook) 3. "Der Klavierpieler" (The Piano Player) 4. "Der Schreiber" (The Writer) 5. "Der Herr Magister" (The School Master) 6. "Der Tiroler Sänger" (The Tirol Singer) 7. "Frikchen und der Kakadu" (Frikchen and the Cockatoo) 8. "Das naschafte Käklein" PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Lothar Meggendorfer's "Lebende Bilder" [Living Pictures] Eight Fantastic Hand Colored Moveable Plate See Item

TITLE PAGE (TP) < Back to Terminology List TITLE PAGE (TP) Feature At the front of a book (usually the first or second page), containing such important information as the author, title, and typically, the city where the book was published, the publisher, and date. Previous Next

< BACK TO MEMBER DESK November 19, 2024 iPhone Photography for Booksellers Presented by Ed Lefkowicz In this visual culture, great photos will help you sell books, manuscripts, and ephemera. This webinar will help you up your photographic game using just your iPhone. (And if you have an Android phone, don't worry—this webinar applies to either platform.) Topics covered: Light: how it applies to photographing books, manuscripts and ephemera and how to use it to your advantage The iPhone camera, its capabilities, and how to maximize them Post-production of images: everything that you have to do between taking the photos and posting them online iphone photog for booksellers .pdf Download PDF • 333KB Ed Lefkowicz has been making photographs for decades, first photographing on film, developing it, and making his own prints. He was an antiquarian bookseller for over 25 years, specializing in rare books, manuscripts, and maps relating to the sea and its islands, nautical science, and naval history. With his background in photography, he photographed his wares for printed catalogs, initially on film, then digitally. He has been a professional photographer for the past 15 years, and has nonprofit, corporate, and editorial clients. Previous Next

Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Swineherd," hand-colored miniature book PRICE $ 50 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile Title: The Princess and the Swineherd Author: Andersen, Hans Christian Publication: Manteno, Illinois: The Bronte Press, 1988. Description: Miniature book containing the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Princess and the Swineherd." Printed, illustrated, and signed by book artist Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki. Number 10 of 100 copies. Hand-colored illustrations, including title page and eleven full-page illustrations. Bound in full maroon calfskin with gilt lettering and marbled endpapers. 2.375 x 3 inches; [2], 24, [2] pages (first and last leaf blank). A Fine copy with brightly-colored illustrations. Colophon: "Printed from hand set 8 pt. Goudy Old Style type, & hand coloured by Suzanne Smith Pruchnicki in an edition of 100 copies..." PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Head to Tail Books 1548 Aldine Press edition of Cicero's Epistolae Familiares See Item Letter from a father to his son, with a charming illustration of dog driving a car, dated 1959 See Item Tauchnitz 1926 "Copyright edition" of "The Forsyte Saga" in custom block-printed paper bindings See Item Hans Christian Andersen's "The Princess and the Swineherd," hand-colored miniature book See Item Massachusetts Woman's Christian Temperance Union cookbook, annotated with recipe for dandelion wine See Item Advertising card for Dandy, a high-diving King Charles Cavalier and Cocker Spaniel mix, circa 1900 See Item Collection of books from the personal library of author Erica Jong See Item Soviet-era miniature book about Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels See Item Maya Angelou's The Aristocrat, miniature book by Tamazunchale Press See Item 1904 autograph letter signed from bloodhound breeder C.A. Appley to prospective buyer See Item Master's Violin, by Myrtle Reed, in binding designed by Margaret Armstrong, 1910 See Item Patricio Tricasso's "Epitoma chyromantico," 1535 treatise on palmistry, with 78 woodcuts See Item

Quaker Sammelband Goat Lane Meeting House 1752 – 1771. First Book of Extracts 1762. PRICE $ 800 PURCHASE / MORE INFO View Member Profile An important Quaker Sammelband of three works, bound up for the 'Friends Library, Goat Lane Meeting House, Norwich, circa 1780-90, concurrent with Elizabeth Fry's involvement with the Friends at Norwich. With the First Edition and First Printing of the Quaker Book of Extracts of all Annual Printed Epistles (1762), revised updated and printed to this day, along with two other works. With a manuscript Table of Contents in a neat flowing hand. PURCHASE / MORE INFO More items from Third Floor Rare Books Quaker Sammelband Goat Lane Meeting House 1752 – 1771. First Book of Extracts 1762. See Item Daniel Defoe. A New Voyage Round the World, by a Course Never Sailed Before.... See Item

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FLEXIBLE BINDING < Back to Terminology List FLEXIBLE BINDING Feature Limp, leather, plastic, paper covers which are flexible. Generally less rigid than a softcover and less rigid than a hardcover. Previous Next

MINIATURE BOOK SOCIETY (MBS) < Back to Terminology List MINIATURE BOOK SOCIETY (MBS) Trade Organization The Society is an international organization actively supporting those who create, collect, or appreciate miniature books and the related book arts. In service of those aims, member and public events are hosted, book exhibitions are staged, and an annual competition is hosted to encourage the production of high-quality miniature books. A Young Bibliophile Book Collection Essay Contest fosters interest in the collecting of any type of book by 7- to 18-year-olds. https://mbs.org/ Previous Next

BLIND < Back to Terminology List BLIND Feature (-Stamped, -Tooled, or -Embossed). Impressed into paper or binding material without color or gilding, leaving an impression only. The example shown is from the Freemasonry title Morals and Dogma. The front board (inset) shows the image in gilt; the larger rear image show the same image blindstamped. Previous Next

LEATHER - HALF LEATHER / HALF BOUND < Back to Terminology List LEATHER - HALF LEATHER / HALF BOUND Feature Half leather (1/2), or half bound, describes books bound in leather at the spine and with boards covered in paper, cloth, or other material. The usage is subjective, and the term is more traditionally used for books bound in leather at the spine and corners, usually when the latter are somewhat limited in size, with boards covered in paper, cloth, or other material. The first image shows a half leather binding without leather corners, with paper over boards. The second image shows a half leather binding with leather corners, with paper over boards. Previous Next

UNIFORM EDITION < Back to Terminology List UNIFORM EDITION General A series of volumes of an author's works with a uniform binding style and size. These were commonly published as complete sets, but were sometimes serialized with volumes published sequentially over a period of time. The example images show a uniform edition that was issued in a serialized manner. The volumes were issued individually, every two years, until the edition was complete. Previous Next