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(Bookbinding) Greenfield, Jane ABC OF BOOKBINDING, A UNIQUE GLOSSARY WITH OVER 700 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR COLLECTORS AND LIBRARIANS
New Castle, Delaware and Nottingham, England Oak Knoll Press and the Plough Press 2002 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 180 pages
Reprint of the first edition of 1997. For the first time, Jane Greenfield has provided a unique glossary of terms, styles, structures, and names related to conservation and bookbinding through the ages illustrated with over 700 line drawings. Locating accurate descriptions of bookbindings from various periods has previously been frustrating for those who work with rare and antiquarian books, especially conservators, librarians, book collectors and antiquarian book specialists. However, this frustration will abate as Greenfield's work takes place alongside John Carter's ABC For Book Collectors as well as Don Etherington's and Matt T. Roberts' Bookbinding and Conservation of Books. Ms. Greenfield, a master in the field of bookbinding and conservation, examines the book's development from the earliest periods and in different places. She has provided names and drawings for almost every conceivable part of the book as well as a multitude of styles, bindings, and decorations. She literally takes apart the structure of the book and illustrates the many and varied facets and definitions that clearly outline the historical development of the book's structures and styles.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 49915

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(Bradley, Will H.) Bambace, Tony WILL H. BRADLEY: HIS WORK, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE.
Accompanied by an original copy of BRADLEY HIS BOOK. New Castle, Delaware and Boston, Massachusetts Oak Knoll Press and Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 1995 8vo. quarter leather with paste paper over boards, leather spine label. Booklet is stiff paper wrappers held in porfolio. Both inserted in a cloth-covered clamshell box. xxiii, 216 pages.
First edition. One of 44 special signed and numbered copies. Will H. Bradley (1868-1962) is widely regarded as one of the masters of design during the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts periods. His typographic and illustrative work pushed the boundaries of these fields into new directions. In addition, his re-introduction and use of Caslon type brought it back into popularity. The guide includes 261 illustrations, including his designer's marks to help identify his pieces. The guide includes a Book Work section containing three parts: one of 81 definite books of Bradley's own execution, one listing those exhibiting the Bradley stamp but with no confirming documentation, and one listing those using his designs but were probably not produced by him. The remaining sections document magazine covers, advertisements, illustrations, posters, and other works.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 41679

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(Center for Book Arts) THE ALTERED PAGE, SELECTIONS FROM THE RUTH AND MARVIN SACKNER ARCHIVE OF CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY.
New York Center for Book Arts 1988 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, flaps on cover open to reveal title, (32) pages.
An exhibition of selections from the Ruth and Marvin Sackler Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry was held at the Book Arts Gallery from February 6 to March 26, 1988. The artwork represented in this show breaks the barrier of traditional books, artists books and even the two dimensional page. The works of these artists and poets were grouped into the following seven categories of visual/verbal alterations: Hidden Meanings; Canceled; Cut, Torn, Crumpled, Perforated; Fragmented; Layered; Sculpted; Sewn and Woven. Illustrations are in black and white and in color. The introduction by Marvin Sackler describes the collection from which the works were selected and provides the background of several of the projects.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 103185

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(Center for Book Arts) THE FIRST DECADE, CENTER FOR BOOK ARTS, AN EXHIBITION AT THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY SEPTEMBER 7 - NOVEMBER 29, 1984.
New York Center for Book Arts 1984 4to. stiff paper wrappers with illustration on front cover 56 pages
An exhibition held at the New York Public Library from September 7 to November 29, 1994 celebrated the first ten years of the Center's existence. Including 132 works by 112 artists, it was not intended as a retrospective, but rather as an overview of traditional book forms, paper arts, bookbinding and art works based on, or alluding to, book forms. Introduction by Frances O. Mattson, curator of Rare Books at The New York Public Library. Each entry is accompanied by a black and white photograph.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 103186

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Clouse, Doug MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages
First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796. Extensive business records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J's patented typefaces is extremely helpful.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 96669

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Duncan, Harry DOORS OF PERCEPTION, ESSAYS IN BOOK TYPOGRAPHY
Austin, TX W. Thomas Taylor 1987 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 99, (3) pages.
Second printing, reprinted from the first edition which was limited to only 325 copies. Five provocative essays describe Duncan's ideal in his own life and explores its implications for today's hand-printer and for future generations interested in typography and printing. This popular book contains essays on the Cummington Press, The Technology of Hand Printing, The Art of the Printed Book, My Master Victor Hammer and The Permanence of Books.
Price: $ 16.50 other currencies Order nr. 19647

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(Hunter, Dard) Preissig, Vojtech DEAR MR. HUNTER, THE LETTERS OF VOJTECH PREISSIG TO DARD HUNTER 1920 -1925.
Buffalo P22 Editions 2000 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, (ii), 63, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 1000 copies. A collection of letters from Vojtech Preissig, an accomplished Czech typographer, book designer, and artist who in the 1890s became involved in the book arts and especially in the "book beautiful" movement. Preissig began writing to Hunter in 1920 and 46 of these letters are included here. Illustrated.
Price: $ 14.95 other currencies Order nr. 60775

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Kelly, Jerry. THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE RIVERSIDE PRESS EDITIONS.
Boston Thomas G. Boss Fine Books 2008 5.75 x 8.75 inches cloth-backed paper covered boards, stamped in gilt with the Riverside Press logo. 95 pages
As Daniel Berkley Updike's successor, from 1896-1912, Bruce Rogers worked at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. This history of Bruce Rogers' work while at the Riverside Press was taken directly from the archives of his letters. Included in this book is how Rogers came to produce the series called Riverside Press Editions, as well as other special and limited editions. These books were made with handmade paper and the finest ink available. This work includes a checklist of 102 books and broadsides Rogers designed for Houghton Mifflin and other publishers, including publication date and publication price, typeface, and edition size. Thirty-six color plates are printed in the final part of the book. Beautifully designed by Kelly and printed in a digital version of the Brimmer typeface. Edition of 500 of which 323 copies with this imprint were produced.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 100315

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Lathem, Edward Connery and Elizabeth French Lathem (Editors) D.B.U. AND R.R.: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE AND RUDOLPH RUZICKA, 1908-1941
New York American Printing History Association 1997 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 181+(1) pages.
D.B.U and R.R. prints for the first time extracts from the important correspondence between these major figures of American graphic arts, revealing a little-known closeness between the Merrymount Press fine printer Updike and the artist Ruzicka. The two men collaborated on a number of important books, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well the exquisite series of Merrymount annual keepsakes. Ruzicka also played a substantial advisory role in the writing of Updike's monumental Printing Types. This touching and candid thirty-three year correspondence is put in context by the Lathems' elucidating commentary. This work includes an index and two tipped-in facsimiles, as well as illustrations reproduced in the original colors. Printed by the Stinehour Press, in an edition of 500 copies.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 97458

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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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Rossen, Susan F. (editor) INLAND PRINTERS: THE FINE-PRESS MOVEMENT IN CHICAGO, 1920-1945.
Chicago The Caxton Club 2003 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, smythsewn: drawn-on, hinge-scored cover; trimmed flush 40 pages.
Full color catalogue written for the Caxton Club exhibition Inland Printers: The Fine-Press Movement in Chicago, 1920-45, held at Columbia College in Chicago, January 15, 2003. Features writings of 12 Caxtonians including: John P. Chalmers, Robert A. Cotner, Kim Coventry, Celia Hilliard, Thomas J. Joyce, Arthur H. Miller, Frank J. Piehl, Susan F. Rossen, Michael Thompson, and James M. Wells. An Introductory essay written by Paul F. Gehl. Over 40 Illustrations detailing the history of the private fine-press movement in Chicago. Includes information on the Private Press of Will Ransom, the Trovillion Private Press, and the Pony Barn Press.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 72548

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Thompson, Susan Otis AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 1996 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations.
Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography and book design, including Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Bradley, Cleland, Dwiggins, Ransom, Nash and Collins.
This landmark study documents the true extent of Morris's influence on American bookmaking. Now republished by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, this edition comes with a new Foreword by Jean-François Vilain and contains 111 illustrations of bindings, title pages, type and decorations reproduced from the originals, as well as an extensive bibliography. This book is a vital contribution to the history of American design, intellectualism and culture, appealing not only to those interested in the history of book design, art, graphic art and typography, but also to librarians, book collectors and those studying the literature of the period. Sales Rights: Available worldwide outside the UK from Oak Knoll Books. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 34.95 other currencies Order nr. 44931

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(Typophiles) Rathe, John F. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE TYPOPHILE CHAP BOOKS, 1935-1992.
New York The Typophiles 1992 4.5 x 7 inches cloth. 94+(1) pages.
Chap Book 60. Describes over fifty books in "a list and brief history of small, well-made books which were created mostly out of love." Includes the handful of books issued before the chap book series. Various indices are of great help to the reader. Distributed for The Typophiles.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 62004

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(Typophiles) THE TYPOPHILES PUBLISHING PROGRAM.
New York The Typophiles 1999 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 17, (5) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series - Number 15. Printed at the Woodside Press in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Preface by Theo Rehak giving a history of the publishing program, followed by a tribute to Morris Gelfand. With a wood engraving by John DePol on the title page. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 61926

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