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Hopkins, Richard L. TOLBERT LANSTON AND THE MONOTYPE; THE ORIGIN OF DIGITAL TYPESETTING.
Tampa, FL University of Tampa Press 2012 small 4to cloth covered boards, dust jacket 232 pages
This special hardback edition is limited to 300 copies. It includes a 24-page Monotype letterpress keepsake booklet, Going with Goudy to Philadelphia, composed, printed in several colors, and signed by Richard Hopkins. Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype is printed in full color, with more than three hundred photos and illustrations, 232 pages, plus several appendices and index.

LEARN THE UNTOLD STORY OF DIGITAL TYPESETTING.

Tolbert Lanston, at the end of the nineteenth century, was a man obsessed with the idea of creating a machine which would provide automated typesetting yet preserve all the nuances of excellence in typography and fine printing. This also is the story of the man and the company that created and manufactured Monotypes for three-quarters of a century.

An American Civil War veteran, Lanston has remained a poorly documented hero of the typographic revolution. His Monotype System was the very first digital concept put into daily use in typesetting plants across the globe. The Monotype was a groundbreaking precursor to the computer revolution in the typesetting industry, though it was introduced over seventy years before computerized typesetting systems were developed.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 116377

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Howe, Ellic THE TYPECASTERS.
London The Monotype Recorder 1957 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 24 pages.
Volume XLI, No.1 of the Monotype Recorder. History of important type founders. Well illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 18733

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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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(Hunter, Dard) Tibbetts, Robert A. THE COMPLEAT BOOKMAN, A CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION OF THE WORK OF DARD HUNTER AS AUTHOR, PAPERMAKER, ARTIST, TYPEMAKER, PRINTER.
Columbus The Ohio State University Libraries 1983 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 31+(1) pages.
Limited to 1000 copies. Foreword by William J. Studer and introductory essay by Patricia Scott.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 38241

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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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Hutchings, R.S. A MANUAL OF SCRIPT TYPEFACES, A DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO SERIES IN CURRENT USE, SELECTED AND ARRANGED WITH AN INTRODUCTION, COMMENTARIES AND APPENDICES.
New York Hastings House Publishers (1965) small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 92 pages.
First U.S. edition. The third in a series of books written on type design by Hutchings. Jacket has small pieces missing at spine ends. Name in ink on front pastedown.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 62289

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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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(Incline Press) Moss, Graham. I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR.
England Incline Press 1999 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages.
An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 58721

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(Intertype) HOW TO SELECT TYPE FACES AND HOW TO MAKE BETTER USE OF MACHINE FACES.
Brooklyn Intertype Corporation n.d. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (48) pages.
Discussion of how to pick the right type face followed by specimen pages. Loosely inserted in the back are various pamphlets to be used for comparison of weights of text faces. Bumped at top which has wrinkled the pages.
Price: $ 16.00 other currencies Order nr. 114356

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(Intertype) HOW TO SELECT TYPE FACES ESPECIALLY INTERTYPE FACES.
Brooklyn Intertype Corporation (1929) tall 12mo. paper wrappers. 32 pages.
Revised edition. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 33093

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Isaac, Frank " ELIZABETHAN ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPES."
London Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1933 8vo. stiff paper wrappers; top edge cut, other edges uncut. pp. 212-228
An article in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2. With facsimiles of items cited by the author. Other articles focusing on printing and publishing in Tudor and Stuart England. Edges slightly worn and wrappers lightly tanned. Unopened.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 110065

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Jacobi, Charles T. SOME NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING; A GUIDE FOR AUTHORS AND OTHERS
London Chiswick Press 1892 8vo. original creme-colored cloth. viii, 54 pages followed by 38 plates of type specimens of the Chiswick Press and 13 paper samples, 6 of which are hand-made.
First edition. (Hart no.136). Actually an expanded version of his On the Making and Issuing of Books which was published in 1891. Jacobi was the managing partner of the Chiswick Press. Also has a section on bookbinding. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Mounted on the front pasteodwn is a two page A.L.s. from Jacobi on Chiswick Press stationery dated 9 Dec. 1898 asking the recipient to send him a book. Covers soiled and slightly spotted.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 4351

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Jacobi, Charles T. SOME NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING; A GUIDE FOR AUTHORS AND OTHERS
London Chiswick Press 1892 8vo. original creme-colored cloth. viii, 54 pages followed by 38 plates of type specimens of the Chiswick Press and 13 paper samples, 6 of which are hand-made.
First edition. (Hart no.136). Actually an expanded version of his On the Making and Issuing of Books which was published in 1891. Jacobi was the managing partner of the Chiswick Press. Covers soiled. Also has a section on bookbinding. Presentation on first blank page "The Right Hon. Viscount Mountmorres from the Author, Chas. T. Jacobi, 5.v.94." Large ink spot in corner of front cover. Endpapers and pastedowns foxed.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 20947

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Jacobi, Charles T. SOME NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING; A GUIDE FOR AUTHORS AND OTHERS
London Chiswick Press 1892 8vo. original creme-colored cloth. viii, 54 pages followed by 38 plates of type specimens of the Chiswick Press and 13 paper samples, 6 of which are hand-made.
First edition. (Hart no.136). Actually an expanded version of his On the Making and Issuing of Books which was published in 1891. Jacobi was the managing partner of the Chiswick Press. Covers soiled. Also has a section on bookbinding. Presentation on first blank page "Roger Watts, Esq from the author." Minor cover soiling.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 114327

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Jacobi, Charles T. SOME NOTES ON BOOKS AND PRINTING; A GUIDE FOR AUTHORS AND OTHERS
London Chiswick Press 1892 8vo. original creme-colored cloth. viii, 54 pages followed by 38 plates of type specimens of the Chiswick Press and 13 paper samples, 6 of which are hand-made.
First edition. (Hart no.136). Actually an expanded version of his On the Making and Issuing of Books which was published in 1891. Jacobi was the managing partner of the Chiswick Press. Covers soiled. Also has a section on bookbinding. Covers soiled with spotting. Free endpaper has small piece chipped out along top edge and the name and date of a former owner.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114328

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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 ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES (
London) Blandford Press (1993) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xi, 416 pages.
Reprint of the first paperback edition which was a reprint of the fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Still the best guide to the subject. Some wear at corners.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 32482

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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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(Jenson, Nicolas) LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON
Chicago American Institute of Graphic Arts 1929 4to. blind-stamped boards, heavy blue paper wrapper. 15 pages.
Limited edition, designed by Douglas McMurtrie. Jacket spotted.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 4359

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(Jenson, Nicolas) THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON.
Chicago Ludlow Typograph Co. 1928 4to. blind-stamped boards, blue cloth dust jacket. 15 pages.
Limited edition, designed by Douglas McMurtrie. Well preserved copy.
Price: $ 27.00 other currencies Order nr. 62098

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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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Johnson, Henry Lewis PRINTING TYPE SPECIMENS, STANDARD AND MODERN TYPES WITH NOTATIONS ON THEIR CHARACTERISTICS AND USES. A PRINTING GUIDE FOR PRINTERS, ADVERTISERS AND STUDENTS OF PRINTING.
Boston The Graphic Arts Co. 1924 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages.
First edition. Well printed. Jacket has a few small pieces missing.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 36779

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Johnson, Herbert H (editor) FESTINA LENTE, THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
New York The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection (1979) 8vo. paper wrappers 16 pages.
Sample Issue, June 1979.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 34493

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Johnston, Alastair ALPHABETS TO ORDER: LITERATURE OF 19TH-CENTURY TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2000 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 222 pages.
First edition. This work explores the literature of nineteenth century typefounders Catalogues. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Alastair Johnston presents and discusses hundreds of examples of texts that show British and North American founders' interests and preoccupations with letter forms. Co-published with The British Library. Illustrated with hundreds of type specimens.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 60132

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