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(Acorn Press) ONE LINE SPECIMEN BOOK.
Forest Park, IL Acorn Press (1962) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, front wrapper gilt-stamped (vi), 29, (3) pages
Limited to 350 copies. Type faces available at the Acorn Press. Foreword and explanation. Indexed. Wrappers faded.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114780

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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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(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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(Alembic Press) Bolton, Claire 14-LINE TUSCAN CONDENSED.
Marcham, England The Alembic Press 2001 miniature book (3 x 3 3/4 inches) paper-covered boards, paper cover label Two accordian folded strips fit together with slots
Limited to an edition of 40 numbered copies. The maker of the ornate wooden type used to create this small volume is unknown. The upper case letters were printed in blue and brown on separate strips of paper that were accordian folded and slotted together in a zig zag pattern. Designed, printed and bound by Claire Bolton.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 64595

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(American Type Founders) A.T.F. IDEA FILE. NUMBER THREE.
(Elizabeth, NJ) American Type Founders n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
"Ideas for Stickers, Ideas for Labels, Ideas for Envelopes." Text and demonstrations of the use of type for these mailing pieces. Printed in three colors.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109487

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(Anchor Acorn Press) A GOUDY SAMPLER.
Petaluma, CA Anchor Acorn Press 2000 broadside (22 x 7 inches)
Broadside printed for the Twelfth Biennial Conference of the American Typecasting Fellowing and the Twenty-fifth Biennial Joint Meeting of the Zamorano Club and the Roxburghe Club. Demonstration of 31 Goudy type printed in black and red.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 105848

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Annenberg, Maurice TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1994 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages.
Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll's edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City, has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe's personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 40614

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Annenberg, Maurice TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS
With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1994 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages.
Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll's edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City, has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe's personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman. Jacket wrinkled in a few places.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 104949

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(Appleton, Anthony) CHISWICK PRESS TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK (SAMPLE PAGES).
Buckland Dinham, England Old School Press 1984 narrow 8vo. stapled stiff paper wrappers (16 pages)
Printed in an edition limited to 100 numbered copies. Sample pages of initial letters, borders & ornaments, etc., extracted from the Chiswick Press type specimen book of 142 leaves and issued as a Christmas keepsake for friends, December, 1984. Most of these examples were designed by Mary Byfield, or Charlotte and Elizabeth Whittingham. A presentation copy from the bookseller,Tony Appleton, who compiled A Handlist of The Writings of Stanley Morison, and also wrote the introductory copy to this booklet "for Bill & Nina Matheson from Tony & Patsy Appleton, Christmas '84."
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 63898

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ATF NEWSLETTER.
Terre Alta American Typecasting Fellowship 1980-1996 8vo. stiff paper wrappers
Produced under the supervision of Richard Hopkins. Includes the following numbers:
Number 4 (1980), 6 (1981), 8 (1983), 10 (1984), 11 1984, 11 (sic) (1986) SOLD, 12 (1988), 13 (1990), 14 (1990), 15 (1991), 16 (1992), 17 (1993), 18 (1994), 19 (1996), 20 (1996), 21 (1997), 26 (2000) SOLD, 27 (2002) SOLD, 28 (2003 SOLD 30 (2005), 34 (2010)
Filled with interesting articles. Price is per issue.
Price: $ 5.00 other currencies Order nr. 79386

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(ATF) PHOTOGRAPHIC VIEWS OF CENTRAL PLANT AMERICAN TYPE FOUNDERS COMPANY
Largest Type Foundry in the World N.P. n.p. 2002 oblong 4to stiff paper wrappers not paginated
This is a facsimile edition prepared as a Keepsake for the 2002 American Typecasting Fellowship Conference in Provo Utah and for the Typophiles for their September 2002 meeting. There is no date for the original, but it was likely published around 1912 because the pictures are very similar to those found in the introductory pages of the 1912 ATF Specimen Book. Theo Rehak, proprietor of the Dale Guild Type Foundry, discovered the original copy of the extremely rare booklet, carelessly discarded, while he was working as an employee of the foundry.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 91098

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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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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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Axel-Nilsson, Christian TYPE STUDIES, THE NORSTEDT COLLECTION OF MATRICES IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY OF THE ROYAL PRINTING OFFICE. A HISTORY AND A CATALOGUE.
Stockholm Norstedt Tryckeri 1983 4to. cloth. 199 pages.
Limited to 1800 copies. Norstedts, the Swedish Royal Printing Office, has a collection of about 20,000 matrices made between 1500 and 1850 by such famous founders as Francois Guyot, Robert Granjon and P.S. Fournier le jeune. In addition to the history of the firm, Axel-Nilsson has reproduced hundreds of specimens by casting new type from the original matrices. An important history of typefounding. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Covers rubbed around edges.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 170

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Barnett, Michael P. COMPUTER TYPESETTING, EXPERIMENTS AND PROSPECTS.
Cambridge M.I.T. Press (1965) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 245 pages.
First edition. An early look at this rapidly evolving field. Jacket rubbed.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 28076

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Bartram, Alan TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 9.5 x 10 inches cloth, dust jacket 128 pages
First edition. This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because current design methods do not require the drawing and tracing of letterforms in order to produce layouts, we have lost our close connection with them. Few understand their history, their appearance, and how and why they have developed as they have. Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, just as they were in the Atlas of Typeforms. But an entirely new feature is the author's attempt to place the types in their historical context. By including photographs of contemporary inscriptions on buildings and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their parallel course from the Renaissance until Victorian times. The opportunities offered for graphic and type designers in the digital age are greater than ever before. But without an understanding of the visual make-up of letterforms and some knowledge of their fascinating history, designers cannot fully exploit the potential of type. In this book, Alan Bartram educates us in these critical areas. Co-published with The British Library.
Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 95866

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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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Berg, N. Edward ELECTRONIC COMPOSITION: A GUIDE TO THE REVOLUTION IN TYPESETTING
Pittsburgh, PA Graphic Arts Technical Foundation (1975) 4to fabroid covers variouisly paginated
Guide to electronic type setting, a new technology in 1975. LIst of figures and tables included. Glossary, bibliography and index. Remnants of label on spine and remnants of label on back board.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 107060

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Berry, W. Turner, A.F. Johnson, W.P. Jaspert ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES
London Blandford Press (1962) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 420 pages.
Third edition. Jacket chipped.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 30476

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(Berthold A.-G., H.) BERTHOLD AUF DER INTERNATIONALEN AUSSTELLUNG FÜR BUCHGEWERBE UND GRAPHIK
Leipzig (H. Berthold A.-G. 1914 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Written in German. With an introduction and advertisements. An exhibition catalogue which contains a translation of hieroglyphs, and a second section entitled "Neue Berthold-Erzeugnisse auf der Buchgewerbe-Ausstellung." Essentially a type specimen booklet issued by this firm.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 101522

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Biegeleisen, J.I. ART DIRECTORS' WORKBOOK OF TYPE FACES, FOR ARTISTS, TYPOGRAPHERS, LETTERERS, TEACHERS & STUDENTS.
New York Arco Publishing Co. (1963) 4to. sprial bound boards. viii, 212 pages.
First edition. The author presents in systematic fashion a library of typefaces. Contains over 800 typefaces with 75 featured for analysis. Each featured typeface is shown from A to Z in jumbo size. Introduction by Robert Leslie. Covers faded and soiled. Soiling along edges of preliminary pages.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 109574

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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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Birkett, William H. IN-HOUSE TYPESETTING. . .WEIGH THE FACTS.
(Arlington, VA) National Composition Association 1980 4to. stiff paper wrappers 22 pages
The pros and cons of in-house typesetting, mainly an economic analysis. Biographical sketch of the author, table of contents, endnotes. Brochures, a newspaper clipping and correspondence laid in.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 109757

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Black, Alison TYPEFACES FOR DESKTOP PUBLISHING, A USERS GUIDE.
London Architecture Design and Technology Press 1990 4to. stiff paper wrappers. ix, 106 pages.
First edition. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 98827

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