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(Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. THE ADAGIO PRESS.
N.P. Adagio Press n.d. 4to unbound 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers
Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations of all type faces and ornaments.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109160

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AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT
London Saunders and Otley n.d. 12mo. original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover, edges gilt (vi), 67, (36) pages plus 2 fold-out plates
Fifth edition (Bigmore & Wyman I,24). Subtitle continues, "Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing, Preparation & Calculation of Manuscripts, Punctuation, Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c, with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks unused in the Correction of the Press." One fold-out displays specimens and names of the different sizes of type, the other shows a page properly annotated with corrections and the revised version. Section at the back listing works published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley. Covers blind stamped with border design. Front cover blind stamped with the words Mercantile Library Company with so much force that the indentation is visible through the cover and the endpapers. Library marks throughout. Spine missing, pages are loose, covers detached. Paper catalogue label on lower left corner of front cover. Mercantile Library Company stamp less forceful on the rear cover. Corners rubbed. Pages darkened. Front endpapers missing.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 79400

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(Bird & Bull Press) de Nova Villa, Henricus SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2007 small folio quarter morocco, slipcase (x), 117, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces ranging from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, exhibit Morris's finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisitely executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental material from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. "I've seen many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it." (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types printed on Frankfurt paper.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 93138

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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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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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(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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(Calligraphy) Valpey, F.B. THE ART OF LETTERING FOR THE USE OF ARCHITECTS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, DESIGNERS, ILLUMINATORS, MARBLE WORKERS AND THE DECORATIVE ARTIST.
Lynn, MA F.B. Valpey n.d., circa. 1890 oblong small 8vo. original quarter cloth, paper-covered boards Unpaginated
A collection of specimens including letters, numerals, scenery vignettes and punctuation. Designed for advertising and show-card work, as well as sign and decorative painters. Rear cover is stamped "Press of Thos. P. Nichols, Lynn, Mass." Includes one page of advertising before, and one page after, text. Printed recto only. OCLC lists three North American copies. A Fred B. Valpey is listed on the 1913 tax assessment list of Lynn, living in Ward Six at 15 Anoka Place, occupation designer. A March 14, 1893, account from the Worcester Daily Spy described the destruction of Valpey's office by fire. Boards soiled and worn at edges. Free endpapers detached. Hinges cracked. Facsimile of newspaper account cited above laid in.
Price: $ 295.00 other currencies Order nr. 109405

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Enschedé, Charles TYPEFOUNDRIES IN THE NETHERLANDS, FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Haarlem Stichting Museum Enschedé 1978 folio quarter leather, printed paper over boards. xxvii, 477 pages.
An English translation of the original edition of 1908 in Dutch with revisions and notes by Harry Carter with the assistance of Netty Hoeflake. Edited by Lotte Hellinga. Intended as a history of the Enschedé firm, it is also a wonderful contribution to typography in general. Not only is this book an extensive history of typefoundries in the Netherlands, but it also contains various alphabets from five centuries and hundreds of ornaments, type specimens and woodcuts. Also contains a bibliography of related items. Beautifully printed.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 34977

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Goudy, Frederic W. TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING
With Comments on the Invention of Typography, The First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing. Berkeley University of California Press 1940 small 4to. quarter leather over parchment covered boards, slipcase. xix, 170, (2) pages.
First edition, one of 300 numbered and autographed copies. A landmark in the history of typography, the book is designed by master American typographer Goudy (1865 -1947). Set in University of California Old Style type, also designed by Goudy and used for the first time in this volume. The typographer describes his methods of type design and production in chapters such as:"The First Types"; "What Type Is"; "The Design of Types"; "Details of Construction"; "Making the Patterns"; and others. Some of the chapters written originally as magazine articles and revised for this book. Black and white illustrations throughout. Produced with collaboration of Samuel T. Farquhar, manager of University of California Press. With small booklabel of former owner in corner of back pastedown. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 21601

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Goudy, Frederic W. TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING With Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing.
Berkeley University of California Press 1940 small 4to. quarter leather over parchment covered boards, slipcase. xix, 170, (2) pages.
First edition, one of the 300 numbered and autographed copies. A landmark book in the history of typography. With ink inscription on free endpaper. Rubbed along hinges and at top of spine.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 54290

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(Grabhorn Press) NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS.
San Francisco David Magee 1959 oblong small 4to. cloth- backed decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (x) pages followed by 18 leafs of type specimens.
First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press and signed by both Grabhorns (Grabhorn Bibliography 667). A commonplace book in which the Grabhorns have taken 18 fonts of 19th century type and displayed them in a variety of colors and accompanied them by various cuts, ornaments, alphabets, etc. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 17553

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(Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages. In original mailing envelope addressed to a customer in India.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104929

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(Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 105320

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Hupp, Otto EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457.
Munich Nationale Verlagsanstalt 1898 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in 30; 98; 142 pages
Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new interpretations. The third volume even includes extensive quotes from a number of other scholars. Text samples as well as entire pages of the Missale are reproduced in red, blue, and black-and-white. Though primarily known as a heraldist and ceramicist, this type of study fits naturally into Otto Hupp's concurrent interests as a typeface designer, engraver and artist. Memorial bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this copy came from the H.P. Kraus reference library and stock. Edges of cover rubbed.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 77014

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Janssen, Frans A. TECHNIQUE & DESIGN IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2004 7 x 9.75 inches hardcover, dust jacket 380 pages
Containing 26 selected and thoroughly rewritten essays and articles (all written by Janssen and published previously between 1976 and 2002 in yearbooks and periodicals) all dedicated to the history of printing and book production, this work draws systematically attention to the typographical design of the book. The articles are mainly divided into two fields of attention: the analytical bibliography of the printed book (book production, studies of the technical aspects of type-setting and printing, type founding, printing presses, paper etc.) and the typographical design of books (its functions and its influence on how texts are read). With illustrations. Cover design, typography, and lay-out by Bram de Does.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 220.00 other currencies Order nr. 103672

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Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and .. Johnson THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES.
New York Barnes & Noble (1970) 4to. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 420 pages.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Best edition to this excellent guide to the subject. Light jacket wear.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76761

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(Johnson, A.F.) Muir, Percy H. (editor) A.F. JOHNSON, SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
Amsterdam Van Gendt & Co. 1970 thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 489 pages.
First edition. Contains 40 articles on printing, type specimens and book illustration. Numerous facsimiles and two folding maps. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Few small tears in dust jacket, light sunning on spine. Book fine
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 11995

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Johnson, A.F. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING. EDITED BY PERCY H. MUIR.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1970 small folio cloth xi, 489 pages.
Forty extensive essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. Emphasis is on the sixteenth century. A very beautifully produced book: Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. With numerous plates and illustrations.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 340.00 other currencies Order nr. 103257

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(Juniper Press) Harmsen, Tyrus G. JOSEPH ARNOLD FOSTER, PRINTER
Pasadena, CA Juniper Press 1998 12mo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label vii, 13 pages with 23 pages of type specimens and miscellany, and (2) pages
Limited to 60 copies printed by the author on Barcham Green Georgian paper and 20 on Mohawk, this being one of the 20 on Mohawk. With an introduction and bibliography. Contains 25 type specimens, six pages of different borders, and five pages of miscellany (florets and mignonettes). Laid-in is a sheet by a book shop with a description of this book by the owner.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 101285

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Krieg, Wendell. HERITAGE OF BORDERS, THE TYPE COLLECTION OF WENDELL KRIEG.
Evanston, IL Borderland 1976 large 8vo. stiff paper folder. (viii), 416 loose leaves.
A collection of thousands of borders, ornaments, corners, embellishments, combination borders, frames, and grounds; some classically inspired, most delightfully rococo. Originally published with 400 pages and intended to add more plates from time to time. This copy has the first 400 pages still shrinkwrapped, plus pages 401-416 laid in along with fold-out preface, acknowledgements page, homage page and copyright page. All loosely enclosed in a stiff paper folding wrapper, with a preface describing and indexing the collection. Minor wear to outer wrapper.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 48246

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(Leaf Book) Wallis, Lawrence GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
(Nottingham/New York) Plough Press / Mark Batty (2004) 8vo. with 4to. portfolio half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase (vi), 128 pages
Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one leaf from Pearl, and one leaf from A Calendar for the Year 1923. Also, two copies of the dust jacket for this book are in the portfolio. This book provides the first extensive study of the life and work of George W. Jones and fills a gap in the literature of printing. (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With a printed label mounted on the front pastedown giving the information about this special edition. This label is hand-numbered and signed by the author.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 86854

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Legros, Lucien Alphonse and John Cameron Grant TYPOGRAPHICAL PRINTING-SURFACES THE TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF THEIR PRODUCTION.
New York Garland 1980 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 732, (5) pages.
Reprint of the 1916 edition. Berry & Poole in Annals of Printing have described this book as "the most important treatise on type designing, cutting, and casting since Fournier's manual of 1864, with valuable chapters on machine setting." Essential book.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 2527

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Macrakis, Michael S. (editor) GREEK LETTERS: FROM TABLETS TO PIXELS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1997 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxviii, 325 pages.
First edition. GREEK LETTERS follows the history and development of Greek types and printing: their role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts and the challenges faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. These challenges inspired the Greek Font Society, formed in 1992, to promote and design quality Greek fonts for printing and use on the computer screen. These issues also spurred the Society to gather some of the most respected professionals, designers and scholars at the first International Symposium on the Contributions of the Greek Alphabet. Noted figures, including Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker and John A. Lane, from the fields of typography, history, book history, art, economics, technology and policy in Greece, Europe and America came to the Symposium to present papers on these issues, now contained in GREEK LETTERS. This work, profusely illustrated, not only addresses the Hellenist scholar, but also the modern writer, typographer, historian, graphic designer, printer, publisher and computer specialist.
Price: $ 235.00 other currencies Order nr. 45576

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Macrakis, Michael S. (editor) GREEK LETTERS: FROM TABLETS TO PIXELS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 1997 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xxviii, 325 pages.
First edition. GREEK LETTERS follows the history and development of Greek types and printing: their role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts and the challenges faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. These challenges inspired the Greek Font Society, formed in 1992, to promote and design quality Greek fonts for printing and use on the computer screen. These issues also spurred the Society to gather some of the most respected professionals, designers and scholars at the first International Symposium on the Contributions of the Greek Alphabet. Noted figures, including Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker and John A. Lane, from the fields of typography, history, book history, art, economics, technology and policy in Greece, Europe and America came to the Symposium to present papers on these issues, now contained in GREEK LETTERS. This work, profusely illustrated, not only addresses the Hellenist scholar, but also the modern writer, typographer, historian, graphic designer, printer, publisher and computer specialist. Closed tear in front cover of jacket.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 117898

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