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Loney, Alan EACH NEW BOOK.
Number three of the CODE(X) Monograph Series Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2008 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 24 pages
Number three of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Loney's essay discusses his thoughts on both the physical value as well as the textual value of books and libraries.

This book was designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies on a Heidelberg cylinder press by Peter Koch assisted by Jonathan Gerken and Shanna Mahan for the CODEX Foundation. The cover was printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection.

Alan Loney is a poet/printer living in Melbourne, Australia, where he runs Electio Editions.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 102903

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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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Maret, Russell VISIONARIES & FANATICS: TYPE DESIGN & THE PRIVATE PRESS
Number five of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2010 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 24 pages
Number five of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Russell Maret explores the future of the private press and the division between the private press and the fine press. The fine printer, often a commercial outfit, leaves proportion, legibility, and craftsmanship as secondary principles, where as the private press printer is possessed with an irrepressible need to make books, containing characteristics of iconoclasm and reverence.

Richly illustrated with color images, the book was designed by Russell Maret and printed in an edition of 500 copies at Peter Koch Printers. The cover was printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107488

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Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso PAROLE IN LIBERTA.
Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2012 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 24 pages
Number two of the CODE(X)+2 Monograph Series. This book is a photographic reproduction of the metal book Parole in Liberta Olfattive Tattili-Termiche, a collection of futurist Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's poetry, made by Tullio d'Albisola and Vincenzo Nosenzo in 1932. It contains photos of every page, the covers, and the slipcase.

The photographed copy is held by The Beinecke Rare Book and Manusrcipt Library, Yale University.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 115572

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Mitchell, Michael and Susan Wightman BOOK TYPOGRAPHY: A DESIGNER'S MANUAL
Marlborough, Wiltshire Libanus Press 2005 7.25 x 9.25 inches paperback 434 pages
Book Typography: A Designer's Manual is a comprehensive guide to typography and typesetting. Books depend on good design to communicate. Every type of book, from a poetry collection to an encyclopedia, has its own style of communication. This manual describes the principles of good design, why they exist, and how to put them to practice.
Book Typography leads the reader from an understanding of what is a readable text, through the construction of books through all their different forms - novels, illustrated books and complex reference works. The organization of text and the handling of images are explained in detail. Advice is also given on work progression and print management.
Designing books is a visual task and is best demonstrated with visual examples. Book Typography contains over a thousand examples and illustrations showing typographic principles put into practice - from the smallest detail of punctuation to flat plans of entire books. All the samples come from published works and each is labeled with the font used, its size and leading. Additional information and comment is provided in the side notes.
Book Typography defines the industry's technical terminology in the chapter, "The Basic Terms of the Trade". An extensive glossary is also included. It is an essential guide for students and recent graduates hoping to work in book design and publishing.
Book Typography covers every aspect of the book designer's task, providing an invaluable reference to editors, copy-editors, proofreaders, production managers and publishers.
Distributed for Libanus Press. Sales Rights: Worldwide except Europe and the UK; available in Europe and the UK from Libanus Press.
Price: $ 69.95 other currencies Order nr. 92771

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Mutel, Didier ACIDE BRUT MANIFESTO
Number six of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Translated from the French by Jonathan von Zelowitz, with an Introduction by Timothy Young. Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2011 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 24 pages
Number six of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Didier Mutel is a synaesthetic printer focused on the bite of acid on metal, of the metal plate on paper, and of the printed words on the mind. This book discuses the acide brut manifesto and the definition of acide brut, and how acide brut has affected communication, art, war, and love and tenderness.

This book was printed in an edition of 777 copies on the Heidelberg cylinder press at Peter Koch, Printers for the CODEX Foundation.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107489

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors) PUBLISHING THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS 1500-2000
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 224 pages
Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. Leading specialists explore the role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion, and practice. Other essays trace the impact of aesthetic trends and advances in the techniques of binding, color printing, and illustration on the appearance of books themselves. Among the topics discussed are the printed sources for decorative motifs in sixteenth-century churches, the publication history of the works of Andrea Palladio, and the evolution of drawing manuals in seventeenth-century England. Other subjects include the library formed by the architect Sir John Soane, developments in nineteenth-century art publishing, and the role of printed catalogues in documenting the acquisitions made by English collectors of paintings, sculpture, and antiquities. Essays are from Mirjam Foot, Malcolm Jones, Charles Hind, Meghan Doherty, Susan Palmer, Abraham Thomas, Rowan Watson, and Charles Sebag-Montefiore. The book is illustrated in color and black-and-white.

Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104084

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Myers, Robin STATIONERS' COMPANY ARCHIVE, AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECORDS 1554-1984.
Winchester St. Paul's Bibliographies (1990) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxxvii, 376 pages.
First edition. Contains an introductory essay on the history of the archives and the use scholars have made of it, plus the first complete listing of the 550 volumes in the muniment room and two registers of supplementary documents. This archive contains the longest unbroken run of booktrade records in existence.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 31141

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Winner of the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Award in Writing/Publishing

Oppen, Monica and Peter Lyssiotis (editors) THE SILENT SCREAM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN BOOKS BY ARTISTS.
Petersham Ant Press 2011 8 x 9.5 inches paperback 190 pages
The Silent Scream: Political and Social Comment in Books by Artists presents not only a companion catalogue to an exhibition held at the Monash University Rare Books Library, but also a journey through some of humanity's most inhumane and hypocritical moments. The catalogue provides insights into 77 influential books and works presented in book form in the past 90 years. Monica Oppen and Peter Lyssiotis, both practicing artists, lend their unique perspective in the social content and the techniques behind the production of these books.

The book begins with a short preface by Sarah Bodman about the messages that can be portrayed with written word. Throughout history, many texts and books have been banned, censored, and even burned in an effort to prevent their contents from spreading. This exhibition brings to light some of the bold texts that have survived time such as those that have endured wars and revolutions, sharing earnest petitions from poets, writers, and artists.

The catalogue presents phases of books by artists in three sections with an additional category for those works that stand on the periphery of the blurred line defining "artists' books." The sections are organized chronologically beginning in 1918 and extending to today. Sections include "Across Two World Wars 1918-1950," "Cold War in a Nuclear Era: Alienation and Engagement 1960-1990," Imperialism, Fundamentalism, Democracy, Oil, and its Shadow," and "Along the Tangent: Books on the Edge." Beginning with essays by Walter Struve, Scott McQuire, Humphrey McQueen and Des Cowley, the sections serve to analyze each period's distinctive characteristics.

In a field where few books cover such a wide range of work, The Silent Scream both educates and entertains through informed commentary. It focuses on a particular field of ideas: social and political, and on a particular area of book production: books made by artists. With over 200 color illustrations, this book is beautiful and formatted in an original style.

Sales rights: Worldwide except Australia.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 108927

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(Ricketts, Charles) Barclay, Michael Richard CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF CHARLES RICKETTS R.A. FROM THE COLLECTION OF GORDON BOTTOMLEY.
Stroud Catalpa Press 1985 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. v, 69 pages.
First edition. A well produced list of the work of this illustrator, book designer, sculptor, publisher, and author. Charles Ricketts was one of the most prolific designers of the twentieth century.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 25734

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(Rogers, Bruce) Mansbridge, Georgia. BRUCE ROGERS: AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHER.
New York The Typophiles 1997 small 8vo. cloth. xiii, 95, (3) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Chap Book, New Series, Number One. Short biography of Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), a reprint of the 1965 Master's Thesis by Mansbridge, who was acquainted with Mr. Rogers during the last decade or so of his life. (Facing the title page is a photo of the author and Mr. Rogers.) There is no discussion of books designed by Mr. Rogers, but a concluding chapter quotes various comments, positive and negative, by others on the work of Rogers. Concludes with notes, primary and secondary bibliographies (not updated since the original publication). Printed at the Stinehour Press. Bruce Rogers' colophon device is gilt-stamped on the front cover. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 61160

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Rosendorf, Theodore THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE.
(TDR)
With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 5.5 x 8.5 inches Hardcover 152 pages
First edition. The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is comprised of a thousand facts on the form of Latin-based writing systems. The book includes the following four main sections: Terms - Definitions of format, measurements, practice, standards, tools, and industry lingo; Glyphs -The list of standard ISO and extended Latin characters, symbols, diacritics, marks, and various forms of typographic furniture; Anatomy & Form - Letter stroke parts and the variations of impression and space used in Latin-based writing systems; and Classification & Specimens - An historical line with examples of form from blackletter to contemporary sans serif types. Designed for quick consultation, entries are concise and factual, making it handy for the desk. Its foreword is written by Ellen Lupton.

Theodore Rosendorf began a career in graphic design with a set of pencils and a drawing pad. His first project was the identity for the Downwind restaurant at Atlanta's PDK Airport. Leaving the airport, Theodore's career has taken him to clients in the US and abroad for some of the world's most well known brands. He lives and works in Decatur, GA.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 96672

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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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(Spiral Press) Cronenwett, Philip N. (compiler) THE SPIRAL PRESS (1926-1971), A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL CHECKLIST.
New York American Printing History Association 2002 8vo. cloth 196 pages
While preparing an exhibition to accompany the 1997 Dartmouth Book Arts Summer Workshop, "Joseph Blumenthal and the Spiral Press," Mr. Cronenwett discovered that there was no standard bibliography of The Spiral Press. Since that time, Mr. Cronenwett has exhaustively researched and examined the holdings of many collections to compile this checklist of more than 600 items. The bibliography lists the press's monographs, pamphlets, exhibition catalogs and all publications relating to printing arts. This APHA publication will be an important research tool to literary and printing history scholars and collectors.

The significance of The Spiral Press to American letters and cultural history is underscored by the items listed in the bibliography. Joseph Blumenthal designed and printed for Robert Frost, W. H. Auden, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, Robinson Jeffers and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Institutions counted among the press's clients were The Metropolitan Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, The Morgan Library, The Grolier Club and The American Academy of Arts and Letters.

The press is also extremely significant to printing history in America. As a printer, Joseph Blumenthal set standards that are unequalled for dedication to the details of fine printing and design. His proprietary typeface, Spiral, was admired by the Monotype Corporation and adapted as "Emerson" for commercial book composition. In his later years, Blumenthal prepared a series of exhibitions on fine printing in America and Europe. He wrote and taught, sharing his passion for the book. To him the book was "a prime cultural heritage. Poetry, knowledge and the aspirations of mankind have been spread by the book to the whole of society."

The book has 196 pages containing more than two dozen reproductions of Spiral Press pages. These are offset-printed, in additional colors where appropriate, at the Studley Press. The book is casebound in a fine imported cloth over boards and issued in an edition of 500 copies.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 97455

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Stoltz, Ulrike and Uta Schneider <USUS>, TYPOGRAPHY, AND ARTISTS' BOOKS
Number four of the CODE(X) Monograph Series Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2010 16 pages paperback pamphlet 5.5 x 7.75 inches
Number four of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. This book discusses typography in relation to the fields of graphic design, applied art, and book design. With contents and text already in a book, the book designer has to choose the correct typography and a medium that provides the reader with easy access to the subject matter. This book discusses type face, type style, type weight, type size, kerning, tracking, spacing, leading, and line length.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 107486

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Suriano, Gregory R. THE BRITISH PRE-RAPHAELITE ILLUSTRATORS.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages.
In the second half of the 19th century, a group of artists burst onto the British art scene and created a graphic revolution. Collectively known as the Pre-Raphaelites, their influence on the Victorian Age was incalculable. In this unique work, Gregory Suriano, a Pre-Raphaelite collector with a Master's Degree in Art History from Rutgers University, has rewritten and expanded this second edition with 75 rare, additional engravings not in the 2000 first edition.
The work is divided into three parts. Part One features a short, intriguing biography and works of each of the major Pre-Raphaelites. Part Two features biographies and works of their Associates. Part Three includes artists who were greatly influenced by the Pre-Raphaelites. All artists are critically discussed. The appendix has an extensive catalogue of their works and a selected bibliography and references plus index.
This work makes an excellent reference volume and introduction into the unique world of the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Illustrated with over 525 black-and-white images. Co-published with The British Library. Sales Rights: Worldwide except the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 79492

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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) Rogers, Bruce. A BR QUARTET, LETTERS FROM BRUCE ROGERS TO THOMAS BIRD MOSHER AT THE HOUGHTON LIBRARY.
New York The Typophiles 2001 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 19, (3) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series, Number 17. Set in Linotype Caslon Old Face and printed by the Ascensius Press in Portland, Maine. Historical introduction by Philip R. Bishop, followed by transcripts of the letters.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 64743

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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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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES: A CONSPECTUS
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society, and The Printing Historical Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 inches Hardcover 472 pages
A majority of today's Western text types, whether Roman, Italic, Greek, or Hebrew, derive from type designs conceived or perfected in sixteenth-century France. They became available all over Europe from the 1540s onwards. Their design, often going by the name of Garamont, remained unchanged for two centuries. Their pleasant serenity and excellent readability triggered a revival from the 1850s onwards.

This conspectus aims at surveying exhaustively and regardless of aesthetics, all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence.

The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use.

Author Henrik D.L. Vervliet was previously Librarian at the University of Antwerp and a professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history.

Available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103920

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