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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Hugo, Victor TOILERS OF THE SEA.
In the Translation by Isabel F. Hapgood and with an Introduction by Matthew Josephson. Illustrated with Wood-Engravings by Tranquillo Marangoni. New York The Limited Editions Club 1960 thick small 4to. cloth-backed boards, slipcase xix, (iii), 378, (4) pages.
Limited to 1500 numbered copies signed by the illustrator. Printed at the Officina Bodoni by Giovanni Mardersteig. The plain paper dust jacket is not present. Spine faded.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 97163

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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Meredith, George THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT.
With a Preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins. New York The Limited Editions Club 1955 8vo. quarter leather over marbled boards, slipcase. xiv, 314, (2) pages.
Limited to 1500 copies signed by Guilbeau.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 2284

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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Meredith, George THE SHAVING OF SHAGPAT
With a Preface by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and Illustrations by Honore Guilbeau. Designed and Decorated by W.A. Dwiggins. New York The Limited Editions Club 1955 8vo. quarter leather over marbled boards, slipcase XIV, 314, (2) pages.
Limited to 1500 copies signed by Guilbeau. Minor wear along edge of slipcase. Bookplate on front pastedown.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 53888

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See More... (Limited Editions Club) Tegner,Esaias FRITHIOF'S SAGA
Translated into English Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ... and the general Introduction by Bayard Taylor. Illustrated with drawings by Eric Palmquist. New York The Limited Editions Club 1953 small 4to. cloth-backed boards, slipcase. 248, (4) pages.
Limited to 1500 copies signed by Palmquist. Printed in Stockholm by the Royal Printing House. Slipcase cracked along bottom edge.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 118179

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See More... 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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See More... (Malik-Verlag) Fraser, James and Steven Heller THE MALIK-VERLAG 1916-1947, BERLIN, PRAGUE, NEW YORK.
New York Goethe House (1984) tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 88 pages.
First edition. A fascinating exhibition catalogue which examines the history of this German publishing firm and shows examples of some of the work it produced. Well illustrated.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 28251

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See More... McLean, Ruari VICTORIAN BOOK DESIGN & COLOUR PRINTING
N.P. University of California Press (1972) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 241 pages.
Second edition, U.S. printing. (S-K 5539 for binding reference). Enlarged and with 16 new color plates and other illustrations. First historically precise description of the process of color printing.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 19269

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See More... (Merrymount Press) CENTURY MEMORIALS, 1943.
New York (Century Club) 1944 small 8vo. cloth 93+(1) pages
Printed for the Century Club by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston (Smith 957). Brief eulogies of club members who died in 1943, including Steven Vincent Benet, Pierpont Morgan, and Lt. Tom La Farge, whose cutter foundered in an ice storm off the coast of Newfoundland while returning from a "difficult and very valuable work in the North Atlantic area."
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 63627

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Chace, Arnold Buffum (introduction) AN APPRECIATION, ELIZA GREENE CHACE, MARCH 2, 1851 - DECEMBER 9, 1924
Providence n.p. 1929 8vo. cloth, top edge gilt. (x), 32, (4) pages
Limited to 100 copies, printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 702). A large portion of the recollection is written by Arnold Buffum Chace, Eliza's husband and widower, who also wrote the introduction. The last section is written by Margaret L. C. Rowland, Arnold and Eliza's daughter. Minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 101252

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Eliot, Charles W. GREAT RICHES
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1906) 12mo. red cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (v), 38 pages
A collection of the wisdom of the former President of Harvard University. Composition and plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 240). Wear at extremities. Front endpaper signed by previous owners.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 101122

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Gardner, Edmund G. (editor) PLATONICK DISCOURSE UPON LOVE BY PICO DELLA
London Grant Richards Ltd. (1914) 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, leather spine label. xxviii, 83, (3) pages
Designed by D. B. Updike at the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 399). Part VII from "The Humanist's Library," edited by Lewis Einstein. With an introduction, notes to the introduction, and a bibliographical note. Most of leather spine label chipped away.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 101251

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Grant, Robert OCCASIONAL VERSES 1873-1923
New York Charles Scribner's Sons 1927 12mo. cloth (ii), xiii, 165 pages
An anthology printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 662). With a foreword. Former library copy. Minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101116

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  (Merrymount Press) Haraszti, Zoltan " MR. UPDIKE AND THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS ."
In More Books, the Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, Vol. X, No.5, May, 1935, small 4to., self paper wrappers. pp.157-173.
Illustrated. Small library stamp on front cover.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 18349

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Higginson, Henry Lee ADDRESSES BY HENRY LEE HIGGINSON ON THE OCCASION OF PRESENTING THE SOL DIERS' FIELD AND THE HARVARD UNION TO HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Boston Merrymount Press 1902 12mo. cloth. (iv), 50 pages.
First edition. (Smith no.116). Two portraits. Name in ink in upper corner of free endpaper.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 26047

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Hodges, George THE HAPPY FAMILY.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1906) 12mo. green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt. (v), 40, (2) pages
Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (not in Smith). With sections of "The Business of being a Wife," "The Business of being a Mother," and "The Business of being a Father." An essay/speech. Minor rubbing at spine ends.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101244

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Huckel, Oliver PARISFAL
A Mystical Drama by Richard Wagner Retold in the Spirt of the Bayreuth Interpretation. New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1903 12mo. red cloth stamped in blind and in gilt, top edge gilt. (ii), xviii, 70+(1) pages
Printed by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press (Smith 166). With a foreword, and five black-and-white illustrations. Spine faded, minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101115

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Jefferson, Charles Edward THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1907) 12mo. cloth, gilt stamped, top edge gilt, clear plastic dust jacket (ii), 60, (2) pages
Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 289). The Old Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Forgetting," while the New Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Reaching." An essay/speech. Spine and some edges lightly faded.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 101245

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Jefferson, Charles Edward THE OLD YEAR AND THE NEW.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1907) 12mo. green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt (ii), 60, (2) pages
Composition and electrotype plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Smith 289). The Old Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Forgetting," while the New Year section has the subtitle "The Art of Reaching." An essay/speech. Spine and edges faded, especially on back cover. With the ex libris bookplate and stamp of a former owner.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 101246

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Matthews, Brander AMERICAN CHARACTER
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. (1906) 12mo. green cloth stamped in gilt, top edge gilt (vii), 33+(1) pages
Designed by D. B. Updike (Not in Smith). A speech "delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa of Columbia University in June, 1905; and repeated at Rutgers College on Charter Day in November, 1905." Spine and edges faded, minor wear.
Price: $ 77.00 other currencies Order nr. 101243

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Phelps, William Lyon THE PURE GOLD OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell (1907) 12mo. green cloth stamped in gilt. (x), 36, (2) pages.
Designed by Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press (Smith no.287).
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 5092

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Phelps, William Lyon THE PURE GOLD OF NINETEENTH CENTURY LITERATURE.
New York Thomas Y. Crowell (1907) 12mo. creme colored cloth spine with brown paper covers stamped in gilt (x), 36, (2) pages.
Designed by Updike and printed at the Merrymount Press (Smith no.287). A variant binding not noted by Smith. Rubbed along edges and chipped at head of spine.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 100868

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Sedgwick, Henry Dwight PRO VITA MONASTICA, AN ESSAY IN DEFENCE OF THE CONTEMPLATIVE VIRTUES.
Boston Atlantic Monthly Press 1923 small 8vo. cloth stamped in blind. xviii, 164 pages
First edition, printed by D.B. Updike at the Merrymount Press, Boston, set in Caslon type (Smith, 583). The author had previously written a Life of Marcus Aurelius and Italy in the Thirteenth Century. "My thesis then is, that the fate of Christianity lies in its power to recover, and make use of, those resources of the spirit from which in earlier times it drew innocence, peace, serenity, and joy (chapter 1)."
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 63562

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See More... (Merrymount Press) Van Dyke, Henry COUNSELS BY THE WAY
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. 1908 12mo. cloth, gilt stamped, top edge gilt. (vii), 159+(1) pages
Third edition. Composition and Electrotype Plates by D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press in Boston (Not in Smith). A collection of essays originally published separately, including "Ships and Havens," "The Poetry of the Psalm,s, "Joy and Powe,r" "The Battle of Life," and "The Good Old Way." Tipped-in to the front paste-down is a typewritten poem about presenting this book to someone. Minor wear at extremities.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 101257

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See More... (Middleton, Robert Hunter) RHM, ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON, THE MAN AND HIS LETTERS EIGHT ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE AND CAREER.
Chicago The Caxton Club 1985 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine and cover labels, dust jacket. x, 101 pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Contributions by James Wells, Carolyn Hammer, R. Russell Maylone and others. Also includes a list of the type faces that he designed.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 46909

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See More... (Middleton, Robert Hunter) RHM, ROBERT HUNTER MIDDLETON, THE MAN AND HIS LETTERS EIGHT ESSAYS ON HIS LIFE AND CAREER.
Chicago The Caxton Club 1985 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine and cover labels, dust jacket. x, 101 pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Contributions by James Wells, Carolyn Hammer, R. Russell Maylone and others. Also includes a list of the type faces that he designed. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Spot on spine of jacket.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 114340

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