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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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Maslen, K.I.D. VICTORIAN TYPEFACES IN DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND.
Melbourne The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand 1981 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (ii), 25+(1), and 32 pages of printing materials
The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Occasional Publication No.2. The list of printing materials reproduced in these pages shows the range of typefaces held by the printer Matthews, Baxter & Co. of Dowling Street, Dunedin, sometime in the mid-1880s. This study characterizes that stock and traces the process of its formation. Illustrated with typefaces, ornaments, and borders.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 64848

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(Massachusetts Historical Society) Riley, Stephen T. THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Boston Massachusetts Historical Society 1959 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 62 pages
An illustrated history of the society, featuring some of its more noteworthy collections. Black and white illustrations throughout. Matrices once in the possession of Benjamin Franklin illustrated on the wrappers.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114549

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Masson, Irvine A VIEW OF EARLY TYPOGRAPHY.
N.P. n.p. 1938 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 343-347
An offprint from The Durham University JournalMarch, 1938.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 70979

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(Matisse, Henri) MATISSE: EN RETROSPEKTIV UDSTILLING.
København Ministeriet for Kulterelle Anliggender 1970 8vo. stiff paper wrappers unpaginated
Text in Danish with forewords translated into French. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Forewords by K. Helveg Petersen, Minister of Cultural Affairs and Hanne Finsen of the Museum. Essays by Denys Sutton and Pierre Soulages. Chronology of Matisse's life. 120 plates, mostly black and white. Descriptive text of paintings sculptures and drawings. Wrappers lightly foxed. Signed complimentary card laid in.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 115104

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McGrew, Mac AMERICAN METAL TYPEFACES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1993 9 x 12 inches paperback 398 pages
Reprint of the second, revised edition. Discover 1,600 classical as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive tributes to the history of printing and metal types. This edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century contains 300 more typefaces in a clean, attractive format. This well-organized work captures the rapidly disappearing traditions and legacy that metal-type printing has left behind. Much of this information has been lost by the passage of time, and its preservation in this book is essential for anyone studying typefaces, typography, and its history.

Structured by alphabetically-listed type families, these typefaces and their variant forms are shown in full alphabets - upper and lower case with numerals and punctuation. The specimens themselves are cleanly reproduced from metal types for maximum clarity. The text is detailed and informative, not only identifying the designer, foundry, and date of issue but also the range of sizes and closely similar designs by other founders. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along with production problems encountered and individual characteristics. Additional information includes extensive appendices listing common pseudonyms, popular imports, and antique faces, plus American Typefounders, Monotype, and Ludlow series numbers. The indexes provide easy access to typeface names as well as names of designers, punch cutters, matrix engravers, and other tradesman.

The history of metal types and printing, now forever preserved, has long affected the spread of human civilization. Oak Knoll Press is proud to offer this work to generations of graphic designers, typographers, printing and graphic arts enthusiasts all over the world.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 34980

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McGrew, Mac AMERICAN METAL TYPEFACES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 1993 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 398 pages
Second, revised edition. Discover 1,600 classical as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive tributes to the history of printing and metal types. This edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century contains 300 more typefaces in a clean, attractive format. This well-organized work captures the rapidly disappearing traditions and legacy that metal-type printing has left behind. Much of this information has been lost by the passage of time, and its preservation in this book is essential for anyone studying typefaces, typography, and its history.

Structured by alphabetically-listed type families, these typefaces and their variant forms are shown in full alphabets - upper and lower case with numerals and punctuation. The specimens themselves are cleanly reproduced from metal types for maximum clarity. The text is detailed and informative, not only identifying the designer, foundry, and date of issue but also the range of sizes and closely similar designs by other founders. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along with production problems encountered and individual characteristics. Additional information includes extensive appendices listing common pseudonyms, popular imports, and antique faces, plus American Typefounders, Monotype, and Ludlow series numbers. The indexes provide easy access to typeface names as well as names of designers, punch cutters, matrix engravers, and other tradesman.

The history of metal types and printing, now forever preserved, has long affected the spread of human civilization. Oak Knoll Press is proud to offer this work to generations of graphic designers, typographers, printing and graphic arts enthusiasts all over the world.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 108358

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McGuinne, Dermot. IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER.
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet Dublin National Print Museum 2010 7.5 x 9.5 inches hardcover, dust jacket 236 pages
Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as scholars such as John O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, George Petri and John Henry Newman. More recently, internationally renowned designers Stanley Morison, Victor Hammer, and Eric Gill have made significant contributions to Irish type design.

Irish typography came after the demise of the late Graceo-Roman uncials and semi-uncials, preceded by late Gothic, Roman, Italic, and Greek types. It was considered a 'sacred' script for the purpose of studying Scripture.

Dermot McGuinne's book is the most comprehensive published on this subject and has become a standard work of reference. It contains more than 150 illustrations of Irish types spanning over four centuries. McGuinne covers Irish types including Queen Elizabeth's Irish type, the Rome Irish type, the Paris and Parker types, and others. Throughout eleven chapters, McGuinne provides a comprehensive account of every Irish font in its cultural, religious, and political context. This expanded second edition also includes a new foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet and a new chapter on Louvain Irish type.

Dermot McGuinne gained his primary degree and early experience as a graphic designer in the United States where he later held the position of Art Director at the University of Iowa Press before returning to Ireland. He was awarded his doctorate from Trinity College Dublin for work completed on the subject of the "Irish Character in Print" and is the author of various articles on the topic. He has been the head of the departments of Visual Communication and of Fine Arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Available outside North and South America from the National Print Museum, Dublin.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104562

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McGuinne, Dermot. IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER.
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet Dublin National Print Museum 2010 7.5 x 9.5 inches paperback 236 pages
Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as scholars such as John O'Donovan, Eugene Curry, George Petri and John Henry Newman. More recently, internationally renowned designers Stanley Morison, Victor Hammer, and Eric Gill have made significant contributions to Irish type design.

Irish typography came after the demise of the late Graceo-Roman uncials and semi-uncials, preceded by late Gothic, Roman, Italic, and Greek types. It was considered a 'sacred' script for the purpose of studying Scripture.

Dermot McGuinne's book is the most comprehensive published on this subject and has become a standard work of reference. It contains more than 150 illustrations of Irish types spanning over four centuries. McGuinne covers Irish types including Queen Elizabeth's Irish type, the Rome Irish type, the Paris and Parker types, and others. Throughout eleven chapters, McGuinne provides a comprehensive account of every Irish font in its cultural, religious, and political context. This expanded second edition also includes a new foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet and a new chapter on Louvain Irish type.

Dermot McGuinne gained his primary degree and early experience as a graphic designer in the United States where he later held the position of Art Director at the University of Iowa Press before returning to Ireland. He was awarded his doctorate from Trinity College Dublin for work completed on the subject of the "Irish Character in Print" and is the author of various articles on the topic. He has been the head of the departments of Visual Communication and of Fine Arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Available outside North and South America from the National Print Museum, Dublin.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 104563

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McMurtie, Douglas C. MODERN DESIGN FOR MODERN NEWSPAPERS.
Washington n.p. 1940 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. 10 pages.
First separate edition, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Convention, American Society of Newspaper Editors. Reproduced from typescript.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 96095

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McMurtie, Douglas C. PRESENT AND FUTURE, TRENDS IN TYPEFACES AND LAYOUTS.
Chicago Privately printed 1939 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages.
First separate edition, reprinted from the 1939 Year Book of the Chicago Typographical Union.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 96093

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(Menhart, Oldrich) MENHARTOVA ROMANA VE VYDANI LANSTON MONOTYPE CO. LONDON.
Prague Soukromy Tisk 1934 12mo stiff paper wrappers 18, (4) pages
Limited to 350 copies. Text in Czech. (Arno Sanka IV, 4133). Discusses typeface designed by Czech type designer Oldrich Menhart (1897-1962). Preface by Menhart.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107560

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(MERGENTHALER, OTTMAR) NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Books 1988 17.5 x 23.5 inches. folded broadsheet Printed in black on one side only.
A facsimile of the first newspaper page composed on a commercial Linotype. Although printed by offset lithography, the parts composed by the Linotype can still be visibly distinguished from the hand-set type because of a single wrong-font bold face apostrophe. This appears in only three of the stories (see Schlesinger: Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype, pp. 113-116).
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 24085

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Merriman, Frank A.T.A. TYPE COMPARISON BOOK
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America (1965) tall 8vo. cloth. xv, 134, index.
Over 1000 display faces are presented. An excellent guide for someone interested in the styles of types that have been developed.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 9649

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Merriman, Frank A.T.A. TYPE COMPARISON BOOK
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America (1965) tall 8vo. cloth. xv, 134, index.
Over 1000 display faces are presented. An excellent guide for someone interested in the styles of types that have been developed. Bookplate on front pastedown and title page.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 44306

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Miller, W.R. GRAPHIC ARTS.
Bloomington Mcknight Publishing Company 1978 square 4to. paper-covered boards. iv, 92 pages.
First edition. A textbook for graphic arts, and basic industrial arts. Illustrated and indexed. Ex-library copy with markings.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 59348

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Moegreen, Charles and Henry Thejls SKRIFT SKRIFTENS HISTORIE I TEKST OG BILLEDER.
Copenhagen Arnold Busck 1944 4to. cloth 84 pages
Text in Danish. Table of contents. Historical background of printing beginning with prehisoric times, Egypt, Greece, Rome, the Arabian world to the time of Gutenberg. Black and white illustrations throughout. Samples of modern type faces. Schematic overview of the development of modern printing. Specimens of modern widely-used type faces. Spine torn at very top. Boards lightly soiled.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 109807

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(Monotype) PAGES FROM BOOKS SET ON THE "MONOTYPE" COMPOSING MACHINE AND PUBLISHED MAINLY IN LONDON, 1928-1931.
London Monotype Corp. 1931 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 97, (3) pages.
Another volume of the same title was issued in 1928. Examples of the best typography of the period presented by reprinting pages from books. Shows "35 typefaces revived by Morison (Appleton 288). Jacket shows minor wear around edges.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 37902

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Moran, Bill, Robert Style, Dennis Ichiyama, and Richard Zauft HAMILTON WOOD TYPE: A HISTORY IN HEADLINES
St Paul, MS Blinc Publishing 2004 8.5 x 8.5 stiff paper wrappers 65 pages
Hamilton began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In honor of the Museum's fifth anniversary, Blinc Publishing was commissioned to produce a 65 page book outlining the history of the Hamilton Wood Type Company, the importance of wood type to the growth of printing world-wide, and the role the Museum plays in the education of today's design professionals. The book includes a foreword by Jim Sherraden and five chapters on the history of Hamilton as a company and a museum. Well illustrated in full color. Cover is letterpress printed. Distributed for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 99663

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(Morison, Stanley) Bridges, Robert. THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIENCE. CONSIDERATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS.
New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1926 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, slipcase 23 pages.
With the following as part of the title page "One hundred copies printed for Stanley Morison at the press of Doubleday, Page & Co." "Morison spent a month and a half in America. He got the 'The Influence of the Audience' printed, a neat plain little book set in Caslon, with capitals two sizes smaller than the lower-case letters" - (Barker, Morison, p. 201). A scarce Morison title. Booklabel of the Borough of Maidstone Reference Library with accession number on verso of title, slipcase a little damaged, else a very good copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 80064

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Morison, Stanley L' INVENTAIRE DE LA FONDERIE LE BE, SELON LA TRANSCRIPTION DE JEAN PIERRE FOURNIER.
Paris Andre Jammes 1957 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages.
First edition, printed in "a small number." (Appleton 206). Documents Typographiques Francais - I. Text is in English. Reproduction for the first time of the inventory of the Le Be foundry as recorded in an 18th century manuscript. With historical comment.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 18303

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Morison, Stanley LETTER FORMS, TYPOGRAPHIC AND SCRIPTORIAL, TWO ESSAYS ON THEIR CLASSIFICATION, HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY.
London Nattall & Maurice (1968) small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. xii, 167 pages.
First combined edition, English imprint. Reprints of essays that appeared in 1963 and 1962 with a new introduction by John Dreyfus and a reprint of Beatrice Warde's recollections which appeared in the Sunday Times.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 22430

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Morison, Stanley. TACT IN TYPOGRAPHICAL DESIGN. A TYPE SPECIMEN.
(London Rampant Lions Press for Monotype Corporation 1962) small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 6 pages.
Limited to 600 copies and printed to be the first use of the new type face designed by Will Carter and David Kindersley (called Octavian). Ink acquisition note by previous owner in corner of free endpaper.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 84695

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