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FINE PRINT ON TYPE.
Bigelow, Charles, Paul Hayden, and Linnea Gentry (editors)
The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography.
First edition. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. Private book-label tipped-in.
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BIBLIOTHECA PEPYSIANA, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE LIB...
This bibliography gives a complete accounting of the library of seventeenth-century naval administrator Samuel Pepys. Volume I, entitled "Sea" Manuscripts, was written by J. R. Tanner and describes 114 works associated with naval history. Volume II gives a general introduction to the library by F. Sidgwick along with a catalogue of Early Printed Books to 1558 by E. Gordon Duff. Volume III, Mediaeval Manuscripts by Dr. M. R. James, lists and fully describes 51 mediaevel manuscripts. Volume IV, Shorthand Books with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes, catalogues over twenty authors and their works on shorthand, with biographical and bibliographical notes. All but the fourth volume signed and dated by previous owner on front free endpaper. Extra spine label laid-in and bookseller's ticket on front paste-down in third volume. Volume IV stamped on front free endpaper. Volumes I and II have glassine wrapper under the dust jacket. All volumes, corners bumped, jacket soiled in places and tanned at edges and spine, worn at edges. Volumes I and II boards tanned at head, some loss at head and tail of spine of wrapper, paper loss at spine of jacket, jacket loose at upper joint. Volume III boards lightly tanned, cloth at spine foxed, two small yellow stains on upper board. Volume IV minor wear to boards.

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