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  (New York Public Library) 64 TREASURES FOR THE FAIR
An Exhibition (New York, NY) (New York Public Library) (1964) tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers Unpaginated
A book showcasing the sixty-four items that the New York Public Library displayed at the 1964 World's Fair, including the Johann Gutenberg edition of the Bible and the Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson's own hand. Pictures of several of the items. Engraving by Paul Revere on the cover. Crease near the head causing a wave effect.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 96434

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  Nicholson, William ALPHABET.
San Francisco Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1975 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (iv) pages followed by the facsimile in color of this alphabet book.
Reprinted from the 1898 first edition. Jacket is faded.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 22568

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  Nielsen, Lauritz DANMARKS MIDDELALDERLIGE HAANDSKRIFTER, EN SAMMENFATTENDE BOGHISTORISK OVERSIGT.
Kobenhavn Gyldendalske Boghandel 1937 tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 191 pages.
First edition, limited to 1500 copies. History of writing in Denmark in the Middle Ages. With many illustrations. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 37228

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  Ogg, Oscar THE 26 LETTERS.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell (1964) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 262 pages.
Reprint of the first edition. More than 275 black-and-white with some color drawings by the author in this history of the alphabet. Jacket shows wear.
Price: $ 6.00 other currencies Order nr. 9834

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  Ogg, Oscar THE 26 LETTERS.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell (1948) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 254, (3) pages.
First edition. More than 275 illustrations by the author to enhance the text. Executed in black and orange. Jacket chipped along edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 17211

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  Ogg, Oscar AN ALPHABET SOURCE BOOK.
N.P. Dover Publications (1947) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 199 pages.
Reprint of the 1940 first edition. General history followed by descriptions of tools to use and an illustrated guide to different alphabet forms. Jacket worn; marks on pastedowns where jacket was taped to them.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 38174

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  Ogg, Oscar AN ALPHABET SOURCE BOOK.
New York Harper & Brothers (1940) 4to. cloth, wrap-around paper label. 199 pages.
First edition. General history followed by descriptions of tools to use and an illustrated guide to different alphabet forms. Covers soiled with some spotting. Wear along edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 40048

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  Ogg, Oscar LETTERING AS A BOOK ART
Brooklyn George McKibbin & Son (1949) 8vo. cloth. (32) pages.
First edition. With illustrations and a biography of the author.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 12697

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  Ogg, Oscar LETTERING AS A BOOK ART
Brooklyn George McKibbin & Son (1949) 8vo. cloth. (32) pages.
First edition. With illustrations and a biography of the author. Spine faded.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 114947

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  Osley, Arthur S. LUMINARIO. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ITALIAN WRITING-BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 small folio cloth xiii, 173 pages,
The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books. With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.

Price: $ 230.00 other currencies Order nr. 103728

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  Osley, A.S. MERCATOR, A MONOGRAPH ON THE LETTERING OF MAPS, ETC. IN THE 16TH CENTURY NETHERLANDS WITH A FACSIMILE AND TRANSLATION OF HIS TREATISE ON THE ITALIC HAND AND A TRANSLATION OF GHIM'S VIA MERCATORIS.
New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1969) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 209 pages.
First U.S. edition. With 103 halftones and 20 line illustrations. A discussion of the "revolutionary influence which Mercator's example exercised in the Low Countries not only on the lettering of maps and globes, but also on book production..." Minor jacket wear at head of spine.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 31060

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  (Ouy, Gilbert) LE RECUEIL EPISTOLAIRE AUTOGRAPHE DE PIERRE D'AILLY.
Amsterdam North-Holland Publishing Company 1966 4to. cloth. xlii, (6), with illustrations.
Volume 9 in the series Umbrae Codicum Occidentalium. Facsimile reproductions of two late 14-century manuscripts; sheds light on the birth of humanism in France in the last decades of the 14th century. Introduction by Gilbert Ouy. Corners and head and tail of spine bumped.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 48672

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  Palmer, David THE BRYANT FEDDEN SLATE, ITS JOURNEY FROM GLOUCESTERSHIRE TO THE UCLA LIBRARY SCHOOL.
(Los Angeles Horn Press 1982) 16mo. stiff paper wrappers (16) pages.
Second Editition. Limited to 75 copies. A recollection of the events surrounding the Bryant Fedden slate of alphabets at UCLA. With two photographs of the 34" x 11" slate.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 102104

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  Palomares, Francisco Xavier de Santiago ARTE NUEVA DE ESCRIBIR
Inventada por el Insigne Maestro Pedro Diaz Morante, e Ilustrada con Muestras nuevas, y various discursos conducentes al verdadero Magisterio de Primeras Letras Madrid Antonio de Sancha 1776 small folio modern wrappers (iv) xxviii, 136 pages
First edition. Forty engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. "Influential text, the result of a commission to design a more efficient national script." (Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612,299945). Includes engraved additional title, lacking errata leaf. Spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored. With fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates and plate 33 wormed and probably supplied from another copy.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 96419

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  Parker, Bertha M. THE STORY OF WRITING.
Washington American Council on Education (1932) 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages.
Achievement of Civilization, number 1. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 22637

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  Patterson, Rhodes ZYX, 26 POETIC PORTRAITS.
Developed and designed by Mark Oldach and Rhonda Taira. N.P. Society of Typographic Arts in association with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress 1989 folio blue cloth lettered in red and white. Not paginated.
First edition. Foreword by Josef Godlewski, In Celebration by John Cole, Introduction by Rhodes Patterson. 26 different designers executed a letter of the alphabet as a drawing in color and accompanied their letter by a few lines of verses. Beautifully produced and designed book.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107490

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  Peace, David GLASS ENGRAVING: LETTERING AND DESIGN.
London B.T. Batsford (1985) 8vo cloth 168 pages
Guidebook to engraving on glass surfaces, ranging from windows to drinking vessels.Introduction by Jim Ede. Introduction and acknowledgements. Index. Black and white illustrations and diagrams throughout, including glassware in the possession of the British royal family.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 108695

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  Peach, H.H. (editor) CRAFTSMEN ALL, AN ANTHOLOGY.
With a Foreword by Frank Pick. Leicester Dryad Press (1948) tall 12mo. cloth-backed decorated paper covered boards. viii, 141+(1) pages.
Fourth impression of the first edition. With sections on writing and printing, painting and woodcuts. Printed by The Curwen Press. Pencil acquisition note by former owner at top of free endpaper.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 106266

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  Pearson, F. Arthur TICKET AND SHOW CARD DESIGNING.
London Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons 1929 8vo. cloth. viii, 73, (3) pages.
Reprint of the 1924 first edition. Discussion of the necessity of advertisement, the alphabet, style in lettering, word making, designing and tools, colour, ornament, stencil and others. Illustrated. Covers rubbed. Spotting of front pastedown and free endpaper.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 108308

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  Pelletier, David THE GRAPHIC ALPHABET.
New York Orchard (1996) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Not paginated.
Reprint of first edition. An elegant alphabet book in full color.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 110182

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  PEN, BRUSH AND FOLIO: THE ART OF THE MEDIEVAL BOOK.
(Ithaca) Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University 1986 4to. stiff paper wrappers. iv, 32 pages.
Preface by Robert G. Calkins followed by a number of essays on the subject and descriptions of the items in the exhibition. Illustrated (poorly) in black and white. Covers faded along edges.
Price: $ 17.00 other currencies Order nr. 100281

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  Philip, Ejnar. BOGTRYKKETS FORTID OG NUTID.
Copenhagen New Nordic Publishing House Arnold Busck 1952 large 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards. 107, (3) pages.
Two short works in one volume. In "Calligraphy and Book Type" (pp.9-50), E. Philip discusses medieval calligraphy and the typefaces of incunabula and early 16th-century books. Following this, C.V. Nordlunde, in "From Kelmscott Press to Penguin Books" (pp.51-101), discusses the development of modern book typography with William Morris to Penguin Books productions of the late 1940's. Both with index, bibliography. (In Danish)
Price: $ 11.00 other currencies Order nr. 51890

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(Phillipps, Sir Thomas) BIBLIOTHECA PHILLIPPICA, MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, NEW SERIES. PARTS I-XI
London Sotheby & Co. 1965 - 1976 small 4to. boards.
The illustrated version of these catalogues, including many plates in full color. Some fading.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 25352

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  Phillips, Dana THE BLACKSMITH'S TALE OR ONCE UPON A FLOWER.
(Chevy Chase, MD) Posterity Press (1999) 4to paper covered boards, dust jacket (vi), ii, 97, (1), iii-iv pages
Children's tale. Illustrated by Sheila Waters. Design and calligraphy by Julian Waters. Signed by designer and illustrator on half-title. Color illustrations. Card to Deborah Evetts and brochure about another publication laid in.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 106904

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  (Piccolomini Library) THE HISTORY OF POPE PIUS II IN THE TEN FRESCOES OF PINTURICCHIO, THE PICCOLOMINI LIBRARY IN THE CATHEDRAL OF SIENA.
Siena Piccolomini Library 1935 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated.
The frescoes are reproduced in full color and printed on glossary paper. Facing page contains text in English on each frescoe. Accompanied by other color illustrations of the library and a short history of the library accompanied by reproductions of illuminated manuscript pages.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 100274

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