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(ad lib Press) Hopkinson, Francis PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ART OF PAPER WAR
Richmond, VA ad lib Press 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Reprint of the 1787 printing that occured in the American Musuem. Limited to 155 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. An article discussing American type faces and American type. Silver, in his THE AMERICAN PRINTER, p.146, says "In an essay printed in 1787 ... (Hopkinson) proposed an improvement in the art of printing, so as to make it expressive not only of the author's narrative, opinions, or arguments, but also of the peculiarities of his temper, the vivacity of his feelings .... Carey printed the essay with each type size displayed when Hopkinson referred to it; a description of a newspaper quarrel begins in long primer, the reply to follow in pica, the next artument in great primer, the retort in double pica, and so on, concluding with five-line pica, which indeed is as far as the art of printing, or a modern quarrel can well go."
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 105321

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(Baskerville, John) Pardoe, F.E. JOHN BASKERVILLE OF BIRMINGHAM LETTER-FOUNDER & PRINTER.
London Frederick Muller 1975 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 181 pages.
First edition. A biography of the printer; color frontispiece. Part of the Ars Typographica series.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 363

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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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Blumenthal, Joseph THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Boston David R. Godine (1977) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages.
First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Presentation on half-title "Inscribed for Mike McCurdy, Joe Blumenthal."
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 114825

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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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Bruce, David THE HISTORY OF TYPEFOUNDING IN THE UNITED STATES EDITED AND ANNOTATED FROM THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY JAMES ECKMAN.
New York The Typophiles 1981 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 66 pages.
Limited to 1500 copies. Typophiles Chap Book 55.The first accurate printing of this 19th century manuscript. Much of biographical interest. Author and title in ink on spine.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 4069

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(Caslon, William) PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON
N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society 1966 folio stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items
Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon lacking the specimen, and a Students' Exercise by the College of Art Press, Canterbury. Portfolio has a hint of edgewear.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 94532

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(Caslon, William) WILLIAM CASLON, 1692-1766
London The Wynkyn de Worde Society 1967 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages.
Printed in the US by Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, for the Wynkyn de Worde Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 17926

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Finsterer-Suber, Gerda. GEISTIGE VATER DES ABENDLANDES, EINE SAMMLUNG VON HUNDERT BUCHTITELN
Stuttgart Chr. Belser Verlag 1960 large 4to. two-toned paper-covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase. xxvii, not paginated.
First edition. Published on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the publisher "Chr. Belser Verlag." A limited amount of copies were made available on the market. Under the rubric of "Spiritual Fathers of the Occident," this volume presents 100 title pages accompanied by short essay descriptions. In addition to general information on particular title pages, these descriptions contain information on typography, design, history of the book, and in some instances, the publisher. Title pages were chosen from books published throughout Europe from the time of Gutenberg to mid-20th century.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 55706

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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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(Ged, William) Carter, John " WILLIAM GED AND THE INVENTION OF THE STEREOTYPE."
(Oxford Oxford University Press) 1960 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pg. 161-178
An article from "The Library", Fifth series, Vol. XV, No.3, September 1960. Wrappers slightly curling. Minor wear at extremities, slightly soiled.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 102826

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(Haas, Robert) Fraser, James H (editor) ROBERT HAAS, PRINTING, CALLIGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY. AN EXHIBITION MAY 13-SEPTEMBER 1, 1984.
With an introduction by Herman Zapf, Appreciation by Paul Standard, and Catalogue by Renee Weber. Madison, NJ Fairleigh Dickinson University (1984) small 4to. printed paper wrappers. 64 pages.
First edition. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including many illustrations in color.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 27862

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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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(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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(Massachusetts Historical Society) Riley, Stephen T. THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Boston Massachusetts Historical Society 1959 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 62 pages
An illustrated history of the society, featuring some of its more noteworthy collections. Black and white illustrations throughout. Matrices once in the possession of Benjamin Franklin illustrated on the wrappers.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114549

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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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(Miniature Books) Pardoe, F.E. IN PRAISE OF JOHN BASKERVILLE, A TRIBUTE.
Wakefield The Fleece Press (1994) miniature book (5.2 x 7.4 cm.) patterned paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (64) pages.
Limited to 260 copies. Printed by hand by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press and illustrated by Anthony Christmas.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 40913

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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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Muir, Percy. THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY.
London The Collector Ltd. 1978 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 559-570.
An offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1978. Muir's review of the book "Buchkunst und Literatur in Deutschland" by Ernst L. Hauswedell and Christian Voigt.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 59715

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Musson, A.E. "THE LONDON SOCIETY OF MASTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, 1793-1820."
N.P. (Oxford University Press) 1955 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 86-102
An article in "The Library", Fifth Series, Vol. X, No. 2, June 1955. Minor wear and fading on spine, some binding flaws.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101790

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Nordlunde, C. Volmer BOGSKRIFTER OG BOGTRYKKERE
Kjøbenhavn Nyt Nordisk Forlag 1945 large 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 233, (7) pages.
First edition. Nordlunde provides a history of printing and typography. He begins with Gothic and Medieval scripts, discusses typographical innovations by Baskerville and Bodoni, and then looks into the influence of William Morris. Illustrated in black-and-white. Indexed. Dust jacket torn at edges with pieces missing.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 60163

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(Novák, Arthur) Bodoni, Giambattista MANUÁL TYPOGRAFICKÝ
S Prílohami; Knihy O Knihách Svazek Pátý Praha (Arthur Novák) 1928 12mo. quarter vellum, matching paper-covered slipcase, top edge gilt (viii), xx, 41, (17) pages
Edition limited to 560 copies, of which 60 on Holland rag paper are hand-numbered. (Sánka-Bubla 1277) This is one of the 500 regular copies. Issued to mark the centennial of the original publication of Bodoni's manual, this is volume 5 in the "Books about Books" Library directed and published by Arthur Novák in Prague. Translated into Czech by Miloslav Novotný and printed by Müller and Co. in Turnov. The slipcase of this copy shows minor wear and soiling. A bookplate is attached to a blank page at the front, and the original stiff-paper front wrapper is bound in. There is minor spotting of 2 leaves.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 91378

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(Officina Bodoni) PASTONCHI, A SPECIMEN OF A NEW LETTER FOR USE ON THE "MONOTYPE."
London The Lanston Monotype Corporation (1928) small 4to. half vellum with marbled paper-covered boards, remnants of slipcase. 65, (5) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies on special Fabriono paper by Mardersteig at his Officina Bodoni. (Officina Bodoni 25). A trade edition was also issued but was not bound in quarter vellum and printed on special paper. An English specimen of a new type-face is designed by Eduardo Cotti under the direction of Francesco Pastonchi. Various specimen booklets of various sizes bound in. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig. Light foxing (as typical).
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 57642

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(Paas, C. & A.) A SPECIMEN OF BRASS CARD BORDERS, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, BY C. & A. PAAS, ENGRAVERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES.
(London Printing Historical Society 1965) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 22 pages.
Limited to 175 copies. A facsimile of the 1788 catalogue printed by T. Rickaby of London showing 52 of Cornelius and John Paas's beautiful brass ornaments for card borders. Includes historical note.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 56448

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