Research Catalog

Thirty years of Bird & Bull : a bibliography, 1958-1988

Title: Thirty years of Bird & Bull : a bibliography, 1958-1988 / compiled by Howell J. Heaney ; with a foreword & commentary by Henry Morris.
Author: Heaney, Howell J.
Publication: Newtown [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1988.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Schlosser 913	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

Details

Additional Authors

Description

103 p. : ill., facsims. (some mounted); 29 cm. +

Uniform Title

Bird & Bull chronological type specimen list. 1988.

Alternative Title

Thirty years of Bird and Bull.
30 years of Bird & Bull.

Subject

Genre/Form

Type specimens.

Note

Spine title: 30 years of Bird & Bull.
Continuation of: Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull / by W. Thomas Taylor and Henry Morris. 1980. With a short-title list of items included in the earlier work (p. 97-99).
The ill. are printed in black and several colors on various European mouldmade papers; facsim. on p. [87-88] printed on folded leaf.
"San Serriffe: twenty-five coronas" (facsim. of banknote issued by the fictitious republic) laid in.
Includes index.
Binding, publisher's, by Barbara Blumenthal, of quarter gray morocco and maroon paste paper boards; paste paper made at the Press. Issued with the portfolio in case (33 cm.) by R.C. Lohwasser.
"All copies ... are accompanied by a generous portfolio of assorted and varying ephemeral material"--Prospectus. All portfolios include "Bird & Bull chronological type specimen list" (5 sheets joined to form strip folded accordion-style ; 207 x 28 cm. folded to 20 x 28 cm.), made especially for this work.

Call Number

Schlosser 913

OCLC

19043554
NYPG91-B46652

Author

Heaney, Howell J.

Title

Thirty years of Bird & Bull : a bibliography, 1958-1988 / compiled by Howell J. Heaney ; with a foreword & commentary by Henry Morris.

Imprint

Newtown [Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1988.

Local Note

No. 190 of 300 copies printed in black and maroon on paper handmade at the Press. "Made in 1986, this paper is the first made at our new home [2 Jericho Mountain Road, Newtown, Pa.] and is appropriately watermarked Bird & Bull/Jericho."--Prospectus.

Schlosser Coll. copy portfolio contains 25 additional pieces, chiefly prospectuses and illustrated excerpts from works previously issued by the Press. Includes 4 mounted samples from: Chinese decorated papers / Hans Schmoller, Tanya Schmoller, Henry Morris (1987); 2 marbled paper specimens (1 mounted on prospectus) by Richard J. Wolfe, made for: The art of marbling / Franz Weisse (1980); and copper trade token struck for the Press in 1988 as part of prospectus for: Trade tokens of British and American booksellers & bookmakers / compiled and edited by Henry Morris.

Prospectus (1 sheet ([2] p.)) laid in.

Local Subject

Paper, Handmade -- Pennsylvania -- Newtown (Bucks County) -- Specimens.

Paste papers -- Specimens.

Marbled papers -- Specimens.

Decorative paper -- China -- Specimens.

Tokens -- Specimens.

Added Author

Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.

Taylor, W. Thomas. Twenty-one years of Bird & Bull.

Bird & Bull Press.

Added Title

Bird & Bull chronological type specimen list. 1988.

Thirty years of Bird and Bull.

30 years of Bird & Bull.

Research Call Number

Schlosser 913

View in Legacy Catalog