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(Audin, Maurice and André Jammes) ESSAI SUR LA LETTRE D'IMPRIMERIE A PROPOS DES COLLECTIONS CONSERVÉES AU MUSÉE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA BANQUE
Lyon n.p. n.d. large 8vo stiff paper wrappers 69, (3) pages
Text in French. Traces the history of type from the sixteenth to the twentieth century with many illustrations of the historic types.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 95632

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Barbier, Olivier DES MARQUES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
Utilité de les Connoitre Paris J. Techener, Libraire 1864 8vo. not bound (i), 992-1013+(1) pages
This is an article about typographic marks from the July-August 1864 issue of the Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire--a monthly revue published by the Paris bookseller J. Techener. This essay has been salvaged from the original publication and the original printed paper wrappers have been saved. This copy shows wear and the leaves have separated from one another, but the text and images are intact. It is currently housed in a sleeve with a clear plastic front. A loosely laid-in bookplate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 79774

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Bjorkbom, Carl. DET GAMLA TRYCKERIET, ETT TRYCKERI PA 1500-TALET, ETT FRANSKT LANDSOR.
N.P. (Stockholm?) "Bibliophiles" (i.e. Society of B...?) n.d (c1960) 12mo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages.
Limited to 700 copies. Three articles by Björkbom, previously published elsewhere. The "printing shop of the 1500's" is that of C. PLantin. No.10 in the "Bibliophile's Miniature Series."
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 52925

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Bossange, Hector CATALOGUE DE LIVRES FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ALLEMANDS, ESPAGNOLS, GRECS ET LATINS, ITALIENS, PORTUGAIS, ORIENTAUX, ETC. ... SUIVI DE PRIX COURANTS.
Paris Hector Bossange, Maison de Commission 1845 thick 8vo. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (xvi), 984 pages
A massive catalogue of 984 pages, the vast bulk of which (pp.1-802) is devoted to books as noted in the title. Some of this is very interesting, especially the section on the arts and architecture, which includes some rare and expensive books. The second part is of even more interest as it contains sections on maps, globes and spheres, astronomical instruments, and "machines typographiques" (with lithographic illustrations of the Stanhope Press, the Columbian Press, the Presse Française and the Machine à Glacier). This is followed by eight leaves of type specimens and "Les Articles pour la Reliure" which includes four folding plates of shiny glazed black paper printed in gold showing 'Fers a Doreur.' The two final plates are more fers a doreur and include two fully blocked spines, a fully blocked cover and other stamps, rolls and lines. These are in perfect condition and have great appeal as well as obvious documentary value for historians of 1840s binding. The letterpress lists also include skins for binding with prices. The final leaf of this section is Daguerreotypes, both full apparatus and plates. Contemporary bookplates of the Franklin Library of Boston and the later 19th century bookplate of the Lawrence Public Library. Rubbed, hinges rubbed but sound.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 81799

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BULLETIN OFFICIEL DES COURS PROFESSIONNELS.
Paris Chambre Syndicale Typographique Parisienne 1925 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 80 pages followed by the specially printed typographic examples.
A special number issued by this group of Pariesene book professionals. This magnificent issue has paper supplied by different manufactures containing printing by various type founders. Filled with illustrations and a section of typographic examples printed on different colored paper stock. Small tear in front hinge at top; corner bumped.
Price: $ 275.00 other currencies Order nr. 105400

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(Caflisch, Max) "LE CÉLÈBRE GARAMOND", ZUR SCHRIFT DIESES HEFTES.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers 29-36 pages
Written in German. This is presumably an essay by Max Caflisch, originally for the "Typografische Monatsblätter", which he contributed many articles to. With several type specimens and black-and-white plates throughout. Caflisch has signed his name beneath the title.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101416

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(Caine, Michael) CONCATÉNATION DE CARACTÈRES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
(Paris) Atelier de la Cerisaie 2001) thin folio stiff paper wrappers, slipcase. (20) pages.
Limited to 25 numbered copies signed by Michael Caine who was a co-printer wtih Jon von in handseting and printing this magnificent specimen book. With showings of type from the following founderies: Amsterdam, Bauer, Beaudoire, Deberny & Peignot, Doublet, Enschedè, Nebiolo, P. Ribaudeau & Dumas, Stempel, Stephenson Blake, Tipografica Cooperativa, Typographique Francaise, Wagner (Weber).
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 105414

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Christian, Arthur DÉBUTS DE L'IMPRIMERIE EN FRANCE, L'IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE, L'HÔTEL DE ROHAN.
Paris Imprimerie Nationale 1905 small 4to. later cloth. xxiv, 340, (4) pages.
First edition. (St. Bride Cat. p.184). Preface by Jules Claretie followed by a history of the beginning of printing in France and histories of the two famous French printers, L'Imprimerie Nationale and Hotel de Rohan. Printed in different type faces to demonstrate types available and profusely illustrated with decorations, vignettes and other designs in various colors.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 22254

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Cirier, Nicolas L' OEIL TYPOGRAPHIQUE.
Offert aus Hommes de Lettres. De l'un de l'autre sexe (1), notamment a MM. Les correcteurs, protes, sous-protes, etc. N.P. Éditions des Cendres (2004) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (iv), 34 pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 375 numbered copies printed on Munken Ivoiré. Facsimile of the original published by Didot in 1839. Includes fold-out Cirier illustration from the collection of the Bibliothèque de Reims. Pamphlet with a note from the publisher, a facsimile page from L'Oeil Typographique with Cirier's writing and signature, and a chronology of Cirier's life laid-in.
Price: $ 22.00 other currencies Order nr. 94603

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Crombie, John. BIBLIOGRAFFITI.
(Paris Les Presses de Kickshaws 1986 12mo. self paper wrappers, edges uncut unpaginated
Text in French. Limited to 130 numbered copies. Reproduces the text of Biobibliographique, published by Kickshaw's containing etchings by illustrator Dan Sabatay. Kickshaws is noted for "play[ing] with type in a creative and entertaining way," as noted by Margaret Dent, former Rare Books Librarian and Exhibitions Curator at the National Library of Australia (laid in). Black and white illustrations throughout. Wrappers lightly soiled.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 108452

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Crombie, John. TRUE TO TYPE.
(Paris) Kickshaws (1989) 12mo. self paper wrappers unpaginated
Limited to 145 numbered copies. Hand set and printed in seven type fonts. Kickshaws was known for its "play[ing] with type in a creative and entertaining way" according to Margaret Dent, former Rare Books Librarian and Exhibition Curator at the National Library of Austraila. Wrappers lightly soiled. Listing of errata.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108454

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Fletcher, H. George (editor) PRINTING FOR KINGDOM, EMPIRE, AND REPUBLIC: TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE.
New York The Grolier Club 2011 8.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover 118 pages
This volume was produced to accompany an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 2011 to February 4, 2012, on the history of the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. Drawn from the ancient, vast, and comprehensive archives of the Imprimerie Nationale, Printing for Kingdom, Empire, & Republic documents the significant influence of the press, not only on printing and the book arts, but also on French - and therefore European - literary culture from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. The exhibition was organized by The Grolier Club and the Groupe Imprimerie Nationale, S.A., with administrative and organizational support from the Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine (IMEC), France's largest archive of authorial and publishing materials.

Edited by Grolier Club member H. George Fletcher (former Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum, and retired Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections at The New York Public Library), the catalogue tells the story of the Imprimerie Nationale, from the royal printers established by François I in 1538, to the Imprimerie Royale created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1640, through many generations of development, marked often by artistic innovation and wide cultural influence, but sometimes by distress and neglect, to triumphant survival in the present day. It surveys a wealth of objects, all classified as French monuments historiques, and never before seen outside of France, and including artifacts of various printing processes, such as punches, matrices, and typefonts from the days of François I to the present, as well as engraved plates used to produce illustrations for such renowned works as Louis XIV's Medailles and the Description de l'Égypt commissioned by Napoleon. The catalogue also showcases the books produced at the Imprimerie Nationale, from the scholarly products of the Renaissance in France through the royal folios of the Sun King to the culture-changing works of the twentieth century, and thus to the work of postwar and present-day generations of French book artists. In many instances, original manuscripts, documents, and artwork follow the art, craft, and business of book-making from conception to realization.

Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic contains a foreword by Jack Lang, two separate prefaces by Dider Trutt and Eugene S. Flamm, and an Introduction by H. George Fletcher. It includes historical essays by Isabelle de Conihout, Annie Parent-Charon, and James Mosley and discusses topics such as humanism and typography, Pierre Moreau (Master Scribe and Printer), The Romain du Roi (a type made for the Royal Printing-House of Louis XIV) and more. An annotated checklist of the items on display at the exhibition is followed by the essays. Beautifully illustrated, the book contains five pages of color plates, four plates in collotypes, illustrations of typefaces, and more.

The book has been composed in Monotype Garamond for the text and hand-set Garamond, cast from the original matrices, for the display type, at the Imprimerie Nationale's Atalier du Livre d'Art et de l'Estampe, in Ivrey-sur-Seine, France, and printed there letterpress on Arches Expression texture white 120 g. It was designed by Jerry Kelly.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 108805

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(Fournier, Pierre Simon) Hutt, Allen FOURNIER, THE COMPLETE TYPOGRAPHER
London Frederick Muller Ltd. 1972 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 89 pages.
First edition. A biography of Pierre Simon Fournier. Reprints his CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE (1742) in facsimile of the original edition.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 42365

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Girard, Henri and Henri Moncel LES BEAUX LIVRES D'AUTREFOIS. LE XIXEME SIECLE.
Paris Henry Babou (1930) large 8vo. loosely gathered signatures in a paper-covered portfolio, cloth tie. 31, xl leaves of illustration, (3) pages.
Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. The authors describe the 19th century book. Chapters are devoted to typography and book illustration. Included are 40 plates of illustration. This is the fifth volume in "Les Beaux Livres D'Autrefois" series. Covers lightly rubbed.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 60323

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Grafton, Carol Belanger (editor) VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETS AND ORNAMENTS FROM PORRET'S TYPE CATALOG.
New York Dover Publications, Inc. (1982) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 91 pages.
Taken from Porret's Illustrations Typographiques published in Paris between 1838 and 1842.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 106280

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Grinevald, Paul-Marie (editor) LES PRESSES À PÉDALE.
(Paris) Éditions des Cendres (1997) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 138, (4) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 350. Contains an essay by Charles Verneuil entitled "Les Machines à Pédale" and another entitled "La Presse à Platine Dans l'Imprimerie" by Jules Soufflet. Illustrated throughout, with 17 illustrated advertisements for pedal presses in the appendix. Printed on Vergé Légende by Plein Chant.
Price: $ 32.00 other currencies Order nr. 94587

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Hornschuch, Jérôme ORTHOTYPOGRAPHIA
Instruction Utile et Nécessaire Pour Ceux Qui Vont Corriger des Livres Imprimés & Conseils À Ceux Qui Vont les Publier. 1608 (Paris) Éditions des Cendres 1997 large 12mo. stiff paper wrappers 125+(1) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 489 printed on Vergé Légende Ivoire. A look at seventeenth-century methods of editing, printing, and publishing. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Translated from the Latin into French by Susan Baddeley. Introduction and notes by Jean-François Gilmont.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 94609

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(Imprimerie Nationale) L' ART DU LIVRE À L'IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE, DES ORIGINES À NOS JOURS.
Paris Bibliothèque Nationale 1951 small 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. iv, 59, 157, (3), pages, with 32 additional pages of plates.
Catalogue of an exhibition (Besterman 3024), sponsored by the Bibliothèque Nationale, of books and prints produced by the Imprimerie Nationale and its predecessors (Impr. Imperiale, Royale, etc.) from the 15th to the 20th centuries, and of some associated objets d'art. Listings are divided into chronological units with brief introductions and sometimes with topical subdivisions, from early printing in Paris to 20th-century "impressions orientales." 404 entries, usually annotated, frequently with references, followed by 30 samples of printing by the Imprimerie in "caractères étrangers" (hieroglyphics, cuneiform, Slavonian, runic, etc.) and 32 full-page black-and-white photographic plates. With a list of contributors to the exhibition and of abbreviations for cited references. A lengthy introduction (59 p.) discusses the history of the Imprimerie. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 50167

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Lane, John EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM, ANNOTATED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIMENS TO CA. 1850 (MOSTLY FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES AND FRANCE) WITH PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE TYPEFOUNDRIES AND PRINTING OFFICES.
With a preface by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2004 8.5"x 11" Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages.
First edition. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gillé, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the type specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's extraordinary archives help to document the origins of many specimens.
This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown.
Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiasts and printing historians. Contains fifteen illustrations and four rare facsimile specimen sheets inserted in the inside back cover. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 117058

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Meynell, F. and Morison, S. CAUSERIE NUMERO NEUF OU L'ON PARLE DU FLEURON EN TYPOGRAPHIE.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, edges uncut 31+(1); 13+(1) pages
Text in French. The first essay discusses the Fleuron in typography pointing to its origins in the Cairo mosque in the 10th century, tracing it through Islamic Spain into European graphic arts in the late medieval, Renaissance era. The second essay focuses on its use in European printing in the 16th through the 18th centuries. Black and white illustrations of page samples and designs. Wrappers tanned and lightly soiled. Text separating from wrappers. Small tearing at edges of text.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 114773

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Morison, Stanley L' INVENTAIRE DE LA FONDERIE LE BE, SELON LA TRANSCRIPTION DE JEAN PIERRE FOURNIER.
Paris Andre Jammes 1957 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages.
First edition, printed in "a small number." (Appleton 206). Documents Typographiques Francais - I. Text is in English. Reproduction for the first time of the inventory of the Le Be foundry as recorded in an 18th century manuscript. With historical comment.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 18303

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Nodier, Charles CRITIQUES DE L'IMPRIMERIE
Par Le Docteur Néophobus (Paris) Éditions des Cendres (1989) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 148, (8) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 1210. A collection of ten essays written between 1798 and 1840 with topics ranging from a critique of typographical products shown at the 1823 Exposition to a discussion of the impact of printing on civilization. Illustrated in black-and-white throughout. Text chosen and edited by Didier Barrière.
Price: $ 24.00 other currencies Order nr. 94610

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(Perrin, Louis) Monfalcon, Jean-Baptiste ÉTUDE SUR LOUIS PERRIN, IMPRIMEUR LYONNAIS
Paris Éditions des Cendres 1994 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 118, (40) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 850 printed on satin laid paper by Lana. A look at Perrin by a friend and contemporary. Includes 34 pages of illustrations of Perrin's typography and printing. Introduction and notes by Laurent Guillo. Afterword by René Ponot.
Price: $ 38.00 other currencies Order nr. 94607

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Ponot, René LOUIS PERRIN & L'ÉNIGME DES AUGUSTAUX
Paris Éditions des Cendres 1998 4to. stiff paper wrappers 113, (5) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 380 numbered copies on Vergé Légende Ivoire. A history of Perrin as a printer and typographer, with special attention to Perrin's Augustaux type. Contains two fold-out Augustaux type specimens and several examples of Perrin's printing in black-and-white. Preface by Fernand Baudin. Printed in Perrin type redesigned by L'Atelier National de Création Typographique in 1986.
Price: $ 52.00 other currencies Order nr. 94595

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(Printing) PRINTING TYPES FOUNDRY, PRECEDED BY THE ENGRAVING OF PUNCHES, THE TWO ARTS INCLUDE EIGHT PLATES.
N.P. n.p. n.d. small 4to. loose leaves printed on heavy paper and enclosed in mailing envelope addressed to Arvind Patel. 4 pages of text and 8 plates.
A reprint of this section of Diderot's The Encyclopedia of Trades, Paris, 18th century, with an English translation. Handwritten information on outside of envelope attributes this work to David Peat.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107500

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