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Anderson, Frank J. PRINTING FOR PLEASURE: A REPORT ON THE WOFFORD COLLEGE 1969 INTERIM PROJECT #67.
Spartanburg, SC Wofford College Library 1969 4to stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound unpaginated
A report on a seminar-workshop held at Wofford in 1969, which covered the history of early printers and their books, type design, technology and the private press movement. Black and white illustrations. Brochure "The Carolinas Collect," held in 1970 at Wofford, laid in.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109347

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(Applegath and Cowper) MESSRS. APPLEGATH AND COWPER’S PRINTING PRESS (drop title)
[London] Mechanic’s Magazine, No. 157 1826 8vo. self paper wrappers pp. (257)-272.
Shows a diagram of the press, accompanying a four column description of it. Disbound.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 79908

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Banzhaf, Robert A. THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING.
Boone, NC Appalachian State University (1977) 4to. stiff paper wrappers vi, 89+(1) pages
A historical overview of letterpress printing from its ancient origins to the 20th century. Part I has more of a historical focus; Part II focuses on equipment and techniques. Foreword by the author. Bibliography and glossary of terms. Wrappers very lightly soiled.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 114753

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Barber, Giles FRENCH LETTERPRESS PRINTING A LIST OF FRENCH PRINTING MANUALS AND OTHER TEXTS IN FRENCH BEARING ON THE TECHNIQUE OF LETTERPRESS PRINTING, 1567-1900.
Oxford Oxford Bibliographical Society 1969 square 8vo. paper wrappers. x, 39 pages.
An essential guide to the study of French printing manuals.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 57688

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(Bird & Bull Press) Hopkins, Richard L. (editor) PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.
Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2008 small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages.
First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A single machine weighs almost a ton and a lot of practice and experience is required in order to decently produce the most basic work. This once-costly equipment came into the hands of printing enthusiasts when hot-metal typesetting was forced into decline by the computer. The members of this hot-metal fraternity comprise a network of small shops using the machines and matrices which once supported the hot-metal letterpress era. They are, in effect, a group of small, working museums. The work of fifteen of these typecasters has been gathered into the pages of this book. Here you will see unknown, newly-created types, ancient types cast from 200-year-old matrices, proprietary types and a beautiful Civilité face designed by Hermann Zapf, which was never released to the commercial market. There are five fold-out pages, two of which open together to make a 32-inch spread. One of the fold-outs is a recreated page from the 36-line Gutenberg Bible with rubrication. It took six months to turn the printed images on the original page into a complete font of hand-fitted metal types. Printed on dampened handmade paper, this leaf required a week's work, and handling it is as close as most of us will get to experiencing the genuine page.
A biographical sketch of each contributor precedes his alphabets and the specimen pages which show the alphabets in use. Produced over a 14-month period, the labor and expense lavished on this work exceeds any previous book from Bird & Bull Press.
The Private Typecasters, a 194-page small folio printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, is beautifully bound in quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides and leather spine label. The same cloth and spine label are used on the clamshell case which houses the book.
Price: $ 900.00 other currencies Order nr. 100094

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Bodoni, Giambattista MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
2 volumes. London The Holland Press 1960 4to. decorated paper cover boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. lxxii,267; (iv),279 pages.
One of 500 copies. An exact facsimile of the famous Bodoni specimen book - manual originally printed in Parma by the Presso la Vedova in 1818. Slipcase with top and bottom partially detached. Spines of books show some foxing.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 700

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Brown, James K. PRINTING ROLLERS, WHAT? HOW? WHY?
Chicago, IL Sam'l Bingham's Son Mfg. Co. 1959 4to. self paper wrappers 10 pages
Reprinted from the January and February 1959 issues of "The American Pressman". An article about the printing roller manufacturer. Minor wear and soiling.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 102376

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CAPE COD HOBBY PRINTERS ASSOCIATION
(Barnstable, MA Cape Cod Hobby Printers Association) n.d. oblong, 32mo stapled, stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Booklet issued by the Association with samples of printing and illustrations. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 106952

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Carter, John and Brooke Crutchley THE PRINTED BOOK, THE ORIGINAL MANUAL BY HARRY G. ALDIS..
Revised and Brought Up to Date by John Carter and Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge University Press 1951 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 142 pages.
Third edition, revised. Excellent short guide to the history of printing, binding and illustration. Jacket rubbed along edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 12283

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Cartwright, H.M. ILFORD GRAPHIC ARTS MANUAL VOLUME 2. PHOTOLITHOGRAPHY.
Ilford, Essex Ilford Limited (1966) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xvii+(i), 473+(1) pages
An Ilford Graphic Arts manual. Overview of photolithography, including its history. The bulk of the text is instructional. Preface by the author. Black and white illustrations. Two appendices, addendum, bibliography and index. Dust jacket faded and slightly torn at edges.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109598

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(Caslon, H.W.) CASLON COMPOSING-ROOM EQUIPMENT.
London H.W. Caslon & Co. n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers 32 pages
Catalogue of equipment offered by the Caslon firm, Illustrations throughout, many in color. Wrappers lightly tanned and lightly soiled.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 109801

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Collingridge, W.H. & L. COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO PRINTING AND PUBLISHING A MANUAL OF INFORMATION ON MATTERS CONNECTED WITH PRINTING PUBLISHING, ETC, ETC..
London W.H. and L. Collingridge 1877 8vo. later cloth with original pink heavy paper wrappers bound in. 52 pages followed by 13 different sized pages demonstrating different type sizes and 8 pages demonstrating different methods of illustration. Also tipped-in is a very large foldout plate showing different typographical arrangements and a heavy board sheet containing "Directions for Correcting the Press.".
Tenth edition. Issued by the printer, Collingridge. (St. Bride Catalogue p.230). From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemorative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 2198

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De Vinne, Theodore Low MANUAL OF PRINTING OFFICE PRACTICE.
Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1883, with an Introductory Note by Douglas C. McMurtrie. New York Press of Ars typographica (Battery Park Books) 1978 8vo. cloth. vi, 52 pages.
Reprint of the 1926 edition, the first issue with the McMurtrie introduction.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 2108

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Fach, Wolfgang (editor) DIE GANZE WELT IST UNSER FELD.
Reclame-Kunst um 1900 der Ausrüster für das Graphische Gewerbe/ The whole World is our Field of Activity, Advertisements for Ourselves: The Printing Equipment Manufacturer at the Turn of the 19th Century. Frankfurt (Maschinenbau-Verlag GmbH 1985) 4to. cloth, dust jacket 131 pages
Written in German and English. Laid-in is a postcard-sized order form. With many color and black-and-white plates of advertisements throughout. All text translated by W. P. Jaspert. Superb condition.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 100936

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Fielding, T. H ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF PAINTING IN OIL AND WATER COLOURS ... WITH A MANUAL OF LITHOGRAPHY
Illustrated with Plain and Coloured Plates. Fourth Edition, Much Enlarged London Ackermann & Co. 1846 8vo. modern cloth xii, 236, (2), 12 plates of illustration and 6 plates of mixed tint samples, 4 pages
The manual occupies pp. 201-228.The frontis is a color plate, as are some of the 12 plates that follow the text. A four page catalogue of Ackermann's artists' supplies at the end. Pages clean and nice, but with some scattered offset among the plates. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 98553

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Ganderton, Vernon S. MECHANICAL FEEDERS.
London Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons 1946 12mo. cloth iv, 145-207+(1) pages
No. 8 in "Printing Theory and Practice" series under the general editorship of John C. Tarr. Different kinds of mechanical feeders and their operation. List of titles in the series, table of contents, author's note. Black and white illustrations throughout. Boards tanned with very light tanning at edges of text.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114265

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Hardwich, T. Frederick A MANUAL OF PHOTOGRAPHIC CHEMISTRY, INCLUDING THE PRACTICE OF THE COLLODION PROCESS.
London John Churchill 1859 8vo. stamped cloth, with gilt lettering on spine vi, [iii]-xii, 13-300 pages
Fifth edition. Greatly expanded and revised from the first edition of 1855. This manual quickly became the standard for its time. Several plates are included with illustrations of the chemical processes, a complete index and useful information. The introduction to the second edition is included and concludes with "In conclusion, a hope is expressed that this 'Manual of Photographic Chemistry' may be found to be a complete and trustworthy guide on every point connected with the theory and practice of the Collodion process." With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. Interior and exterior hinges are cracked, light foxing throughout, edges of covers are worn with bumped corners. Back cover detached.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 97837

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Hudson, Graham THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 160 pages
First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic. American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain, yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all with an interest in the visual arts. Graham Hudson is secretary and a founding member of the Ephemera Society and a member of the Ephemera Society of America. His published articles on aspects of ephemeral printing include contributions to the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Art Libraries Journal, the Journal of the Writing Equipment Society, Industrial Archaeology and numerous articles in The Ephemerist..

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 95868

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(Kauffert) Käuffert, Hans SETZMASCHINENKUNDE, 500 TECHNISCHE FRAGEN UND ANTWORTEN FÜR LINOTYPE- UND INTERTYPESETZER.
Stuttgart Otto Blersch (1949) small 8vo. cloth, gold lettering. viii, (12 pages of plates), 255, in addition to 4 pages of plates tipped in.
Technical manual for linotype and Intertype setters, illustrated with diagrams, and black-and-white photographs of machinery.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 74791

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(Koenig, Frédéric) Ferriot, René FRÉDÉRIC KOENIG.
(Mainz Egebrecht-Presse 1950) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 28 pages
Text in French. First edition. Printed jointly by the Société Gutenberg and Koenig and Bauer to celebrate the firm's founder and inventor of the cylinder press. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers lightly toned.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 114266

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Levenson, Roger THE PRESSMAN'S TRADE: A COMMENTARY ON THE TRADITIONAL HANDPRESS.
Davis, CA University of California Davis 1969 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (vi), 21+(1) pages
Limited to 600 copies. Keepsake Number 2 in a series issued by the Library Associates of the University Library. Author was proprietor of the Tamalpais Press in Berkeley. Frontispiece and foreword by Robert H. Power, president of the Library Associates. A historical overview of the handpress with a list of references. Letter from the president of the Associates laid in.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 114272

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(Lithography) LITOGRAFIEN I DANMARK
N.P. Dansk Litografisk Principalforening 1922 4to. patterned paper-covered boards, leather spine label, all edges speckled green 62, (2), 25 leaves, 92, 72 pages
Three separately numbered sections. The first section is on lithography techniques, includes diagrams and illustrations of printing equipment, The second section describes the twenty five year history of the printing company, Dansk Litografisk Principalforening. The last section provides biographies of notable Danish lithographers. Twenty five different examples of lithographic processes are included, many of which are in color, some are tipped-in and one is folded in. The spine's edges are slightly chipped, corners scuffed.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 73834

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Loy, William E. (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe) NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS OF TYPE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 9 x 12 inches hardcover, dust jacket 164 pages
New technology, such as electrotyping, the pantograph and router, introduced in the middle of the nineteenth century, combined with the expansion of commerce as America moved westward, created a great outpouring of exuberantly ornamented typefaces. Though these "Victorian" faces have moved in and out of favor, many of them have great charm and usefulness. They were produced in conditions of a commercial free-for-all, even outright piracy, not unlike the "desktop font" boom of the 1990s. While many Victorian types have been revived by digital foundries, their sheer number has intimidated historians unable to establish their true origins.

In 1896 William E. Loy, a San Francisco printing equipment salesman and scholar, had the idea of writing a series of profiles of type designers. Loy took a long view of history, and realized that it was important to document the men in the background who created the nineteenth century's fanciful types, even as the furiously competing type foundries got the credit for introducing them to the printing trade. His work was serialized in The Inland Printer over the next three years and included biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they had designed or cut, which Loy had painstakingly compiled through correspondence with the type founders and other craftsmen. Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations of a monthly periodical, it was not possible to show the typefaces mentioned. Finally here is the work as Loy envisioned it, with over 800 illustrations of typefaces designed by the craftsmen he discusses.

Here, written by a man who knew many of the designers and engravers, is the behind-the-scenes story: biographies of men - artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden - who were the creators of these innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding much incidental detail about the politics & business practices of the time and the innovations of each of these thirty men. Now, a century later, typographical historians Alastair Johnston and Stephen Saxe have realized Loy's vision, fully illustrated and annotated. This is one of the first reference books on nineteenth-century American type design, and as such is an important addition to typographical history.

William E. Loy (1847-1906) grew up in the Midwest and moved to California in 1874. He worked as a newspaperman, printer and printing equipment salesman. He was associated with Nelson Crocker Hawks at the Pacific Type Foundry in San Francisco, before branching out on his own. His vast typographical library formed the core of the Kemble Collection now at the California Historical Society.

Stephen O. Saxe is the author of American Iron Hand Presses (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1995); he annotated the revised edition of Annenberg's Typefoundries of America and their Catalogs (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A graduate of Harvard and Yale, he was a stage and television scenic designer before he became interested in printing history. Alastair Johnston is the author of Alphabets to Order: the Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens (Oak Knoll & The British Library, 2000). A co-founder of Poltroon Press, he has taught at the University of California since 1979. He also teaches book arts in public elementary schools. He is currently writing a biography of Richard Austin, the English type cutter, and his son the wood-engraver.
Price: $ 59.95 other currencies Order nr. 96679

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Mackellar, Thomas AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNERS, AS WELL AS PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING EVERY DEPARTMENT OF A PRINTING OFFICE ...
Philadelphia MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan 1871 8vo. original cloth. xii, 7-336, (8) pages.
Sixth edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,3; ATF Cat. 1512). With one page of ads. for printers' text books, two pages showing type and one of printing ink. Wear at spine ends. Well-preserved copy.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 37869

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Mackellar, Thomas THE AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNERS, AS WELL AS PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING EVERY DEPARTMENT OF A PRINTING OFFICE.
(Neveda City Harold A. Berliner 1977 8vo. cloth. (vi), xiv, 13-384, (6) pages.
Facsimile of 15th edition which was printed in 1885 by Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan. (Bigmore & Wyman II,3; ATF Cat. 1512). With some changes from the previous edition and additional matter added. Contains a new introduction by Terry Belanger.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 19605

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