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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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(Kat Ran Press) Hidy, Lance. LANCE HIDY: DESIGNING THE MENTORING STAMP
An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light , and the typeface Penumbra (Florence MA) Kat Ran Press 2007 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 60 pages
Part of the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics. First edition. Hidy describes the entire process and evolution of the stamp. This stamp is believed to be, by the post office, the only U.S. stamp with the artwork and typeface designed by the same individual. Many color illustrations, mostly Hidy's work but some of earlier stamps. A very interesting book for those interested in stamp collecting or in graphic design in general.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 99451

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Kliemann, Horst STUNDENBUCH FÜR LETTERNFREUNDE, BESINNLICHES UND SPITZIGES ÜBER SCHREIBER UND SCHRIFT LESER UND BUCH.
Berlin Linotype GmbH 1954 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 186, (12) pages.
First edition. Well printed selection of quotes on the book and bookmaking from famous authorities. With an introduction by Ernst Penzoldt. Tear in jacket along spine; jacket age darkened.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 26063

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Knight, Stan HISTORICAL TYPES FROM GUTENBERG TO ASHENDENE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 9 x 12 inches hardcover with dust jacket 104 pages
Historical Types begins in 1454 with Gutenberg's experiments with moveable type and reaches as far as the Fine Press movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. Every historical example shown in the survey is the result of hand-engraved punches, hand-set type, and pages hand-printed sheet by sheet. The book explores every major development in the design of type and includes some (previously) lesser-known designers whose type designs made significant contributions to the craft. The material is divided into sections by historical period and assigned category numbers for easy reference.

The text of the book provides an excellent historical background to the study of type history, but the primary value of this book is its illustrations. Each entry consists of a double-page spread showing three-fold photographic reproductions of the relevant types - a whole page of the book to show context, an actual-size sample to show scale, and a detailed enlargement to show a closer view of the type. All of the digital photographs for Historical Types have been specially commissioned (with special lighting) to show the type samples in a totally new way, with a size, detail, and clarity not seen before. Each set of illustrations is accompanied by a detailed but concise written commentary. The book also includes an extended introduction describing the book and dealing with significant material outside the scope of the commentaries.

Historical Types stands a step above other books on the history of type because of the size and quality of its reproductions and its straightforward and clear exposition. For these reasons, it should soon become a favorite text for teachers and students of type design, as well as anyone interested in the history of the book.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 105522

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Knuttel, Gerard THE LETTER AS A WORK OF ART, OBSERVATIONS AND CONFRONTATIONS WITH CONTEMPORANEOUS EXPRESSIONS OF ART FROM ROMAN TIMES TO THE PRESENT DAY.
Amsterdam N.V. Lettergieterij N. Tetterode 1951 small folio cloth. viii, 264 pages.
First edition in English. Issued on the 100th Anniversary of this typefounder. Many full-page plates. Minor rubbing.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 16501

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Koch, Herbert DIE JENAER SCHRIFTGIESSER SEIT DEM JAHRE 1557.
Mainz Gutenberg-Gesellschaft 1956 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54, (2) pages.
Study of these early type founders with illustrations. Kleiner Druck no.62.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 30788

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Koziubov, G. I. and V.V. Efimov (editors) FOTO-NABORNYE SHRIFTY (PHOTO-TYPESET FONTS).
Razrabtan'i Okdelom Naborn'ikh Shriftob Bnii Poligraficheskogo Mashinostroenii Moscow "Kniga" 1983 4to cloth 175+(1) pages
Text in Russian. Guidebook to Cyrillic alphabet type fonts. Comments by the editors. Illustrated throughout. Some samples from the Latin alphabet.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108114

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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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Lane, John EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM, ANNOTATED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIMENS TO CA. 1850 (MOSTLY FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES AND FRANCE) WITH PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE TYPEFOUNDRIES AND PRINTING OFFICES.
With a preface by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2004 8.5"x 11" Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages.
First edition. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gillé, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the type specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's extraordinary archives help to document the origins of many specimens.
This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown.
Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiasts and printing historians. Contains fifteen illustrations and four rare facsimile specimen sheets inserted in the inside back cover. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 117058

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Lawson, Alexander PRINTING TYPES, AN INTRODUCTION.
Boston Beacon Press (1990) 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 132 pages.
Revised and expanded edition. A guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type.
Price: $ 12.00 other currencies Order nr. 32552

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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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Ledoux, Louis V. THE ART OF JAPAN.
New York Japan Society 1927 8vo quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 84, (2) pages
Overview of the fine and performing arts in Japan. Tipped-in frontispiece. Bibliography organized by subject. Front board decorated with Buddhist motif. Pencilled inscriptions on back pastedown. Slight tanning throughout text.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 108830

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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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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
Second edition of his Types of Typefaceswhich was originally published in 1968. Jacket missing a corner of back cover.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3069

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages.
Second edition of his TYPES OF TYPEFACES which was originally published in 1968. Covers soiled.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 23747

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
This is the second edition of a good introductory, practical, and comprehensive book for beginners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chapters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become familiar with type. This work is a great place to begin when one wants to start studying the printed word and working with printing and type.
Lieberman also includes informative and interesting historical
information covering the more specific aspects of the printed word in "The 15 Great Inventions Behind Our Typefaces," which describe the inventions of the book, small letters, silent reading, printing, typefaces, roman type, true type design, numbers, mechanized type production, the type family, evocative printing, the Typorama, cold type, and the possible reinvention of the alphabet. Distributed by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 47017

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Lieberman, J Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages.
Paperback edition. Some rubbing to covers.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 47018

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages.
Second edition of his Types of Typefaces which was originally published in 1968. Well Preserved copy.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 73491

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Lieberman, J Ben TYPE AND TYPEFACES
New Rochelle The Myriade Press (1978) 4to. later quarter black cloth with simulated red leather and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in.. 142 pages.
Second edition. In later binding.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 118144

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Lieberman, J. Ben TYPES OF TYPEFACES AND HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEM
New York Sterling Publishing Co. (1968) 4to. cloth. 132 pages.
Reprint of the 1967 first edition.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 21978

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Lindegren, Erik VARA BOKSTAVER, TECKNADE OCH TEXTADE ALFABET, BOKTRYCKTYPER, REKLAM-OCCIDENSTRYCKTYPER.
Goteborg Slojdforeningens skola Skolan for bokindustri 1959-60 oblong 8vo. cloth. xv,318, (6) pages.
First edition. Filled with examples of typography, type specimens, illustrations in different colors, etc. Loosely inserted is an English translation of the introduction. Spine faded.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 26917

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LINOTYPE-POST.
Berlin Linotype GmbH 1959 4to. self paper wrappers 21, (3) pages
Issue 44 of the Linotype-Post, September 1959. Features the Optima-Antiqua type face, developed for Stempel and Linotype in 1958 by Hermann Zapf. Black and white illustrations.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 109832

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Louda, Zdenek O PÍSMU ÚVOD K POZNÁNÍ, VYTVARNÉ KRASY PÍSMA.
Prague Naseho Smeru 1924 8vo stiff paper wrappers 33, (11) pages
Text in Czech. Introduction to the Artistic Beauty of Font. Illustrations of print fonts. Louda was editor of Ceskoslovensky Kreslir in the 1930s. Illustrated, with five color plates. Two samples tipped in. Wrappers lightly tanned. Slight tear to back wrapper at top edge.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 107598

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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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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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