Endpaper sample/swatch book from the Buntpapier- and Leimfabrik A.-G. in Aschaffenburg, Germany , and dated 1901/2. The volume is in the Ha...

A few weeks ago Peter Zillig (Vuscor) shared a book he had found on ebay that was being offered by a dealer in Cologne, Germany. The book i...

Today would have been Ernst Collin's 127th birthday. To honor him I am pleased to share the still rough and incomplete bibliography of ...

A small etching from my collection...  Etching by Christian Mischke, 1994

Recently acquired the 1927 issue of the Allegmeiner Anzeiger für Buchbindereien , the leading trade weekly for bookbinders, in part because...

Hand-colored etching, signed in pencil E[rnst] Heig[enmoser], ca. 1945. 5.5 x 9.5cm. Click to enlarge I recently acquired this desolat...

Written with Ruth Wiseman When I began translating Ernst Collin's Pressbengel ( The Bone Folder ) it was because I felt such an affin...