[WOOD ENGRAVING, ETC.]. Group of 16 works on wood engraving, book artists, printers and publishers from the library of Barry Moser. Most with his bookplate and/or signed by Moser.

Comprising:

GILL, Eric. Autobiography. London: Jonathan Cape, 1940. 8vo, original cloth. FIRST EDITION. — GILL, Eric. Letters of… Edited by Walter Shewring. New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1948. 8vo, original cloth. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. — BEEDHAM, R. John. Wood Engraving. With an Introduction and Appendix by Eric Gill. London: Faber and Faber, 1948. 12mo, original cloth; in defective dust jacket. Later printing. — KINDERSLEY, David. Mr. Eric Gill. Recollections of… Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press, 1967. 12mo, original printed wrappers, with a printed card about this keepsake signed by Ward Ritchie and Joseph Simon laid in. — MOSER, Barry. Wood Engraving. Boston: David Godine, 2006. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — MOSER, Barry. Wood Engraving. Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, 2021. 4to, original pictorial wrappers. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — MOSER, Barry. “On Wood Engraving,” in: Fine Print. A Review for the Arts of the Book, Vol IV, No. 3. San Francisco, July 1978. 4to, stapled self-wrappers. SIGNED BY MOSER at the head of his article on the first page of the issue.

— MOSER, Barry. The Lord of Letterpress: Harold Patrick McGrath, 1921-2000. Athens, GA: The Press of the Nightowl, 2002. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies with a signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Moser. — MOSER, Barry. Leonard Baskin, 1922-2000. [N.p.]: Barbarian Press, 2000. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 150 copies with a signed wood-engraved frontispiece by Moser. (2 copies). — MOSER, Barry. “God, Posterity, and Well-Made Objects,” extract from: Princeton University Library Chronicle, Vol. LVII, No. 2 (Winter) 1996. 8vo, stapled printed wrappers. — MOSER, Barry. In the Face of Presumptions. Essays, Speeches & Incidental Writings… Boston: David R. Godine, 2000. 8vo, original cloth; dust jacket. SIGNED BY MOSER on the title-page. — LILIENTHAL, Philip E. Letters from Phil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. 8vo, original printed wrappers. One of 1,000 copies printed by Harold McGrath at the Pennyroyal Press. — STUDLEY, Vance. Make Your Own Artist’s Tools and Materials. New York: Dover Publications, 1992. 4to, original wrappers. INSCRIBED BY STUDLEY TO MOSER on the front free endpaper: “Barry: Many thanks for our talks and friendship: / Vance Studley.” — And 2 others.

Property from the Collection of Mr. Barry Moser