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Christianson, C. Paul A DIRECTORY OF LONDON STATIONERS AND BOOK ARTISANS 1300-1500.
New York The Bibliographical Society of America 1990 8vo. cloth. 254 pages.
The history of the book trade in Medieval London before the age of print has long remained a matter of speculation. Few records survive that name the book artisans and entrepreneurs involved with this early trade venture or that document directly their methods of producing books and creating markets for them. In this directory, C. Paul Christianson assembles an extensive body of alternative data drawn from archival documents that identifies 262 participants in the London trade during a period of 200 years. This group includes stationers, manuscript artisans (called limners), textwriters, bookbinders, parchment sellers, and other London citizens active in book production and sale. This book provides a summary of information about the independent book craftsman working in London during this period. Four appendices contain indexes, and two maps, one modern and one from the sixteenth century, illustrate the historical area of the craft community around St. Paul's. Manuscripts and books cited are also listed. Designed by Abe Lerner. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society of America.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 29985

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Cloud, Gerald W. JOHN RODKER'S OVID PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2010 7 x 10 inches hardcover, dust jacket 152 pages
This book is primarily a bibliographical study of all the known works printed and published by John Rodker (1894-1955) at the Ovid Press, London, 1919-1922, and the associated projects connected to his second imprint, the Casanova Society. The Ovid Press's output was not prolific - 17 known items were produced - but the nature of the works and the context in which they were created reveals a great deal about both Rodker and several central figures of modernist literature and art, including T.S. Eliot, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Edward Wadsworth.

The book's introduction includes a biographical account of Rodker's life, focusing especially on his early life and his printing activities at the Ovid Press, which he operated with some participation from his then wife, the British novelist Mary Butts (1890-1937). Relying heavily on correspondence and other archival sources, such as Rodker's personal and professional papers and his diary, the introduction documents the production of many of the Ovid Press titles and Rodker's interaction with his authors.

The descriptive bibliography, which follows the introductory matter, includes full collations, detailed, copy-specific notes on each item, institutional locations for Ovid Press publications, and attempts to reconcile the discrepancies between Rodker's colophon statements and the books he actually printed-based on careful analysis of extant copies of Ovid Press titles. The book accounts for a number of unrecorded bibliographical details in these works and clarifies Rodker's role in the production of Ezra Pound's "Bel Esprit" and the errata sheets for Joyce's Ulysses (Egoist Press/John Rodker, 1922).

Gerald W. Cloud is Curator for Literature in Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia where he teaches Bibliography and the History of the Book. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Delaware (2005) and has served as a lab instructor for "Introduction to the Principles of Bibliographical Description" at Rare Book School, University of Virginia since 2004.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104083

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Coakley, J.F. THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2006 7 x 10 inches hardcover 272 pages
Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use today. It is no wonder that this language has a long and rich printing history. The challenge of conveying the beautiful cursive Syriac script, in one or another of its three varieties, was taken up by many well-known type-designers in the letterpress era, from Robert Granjon in the sixteenth century to the Monotype and Linotype corporations in the twentieth, as well as by many lesser-known ones. This study records and abundantly illustrates no fewer than 129 different Syriac types, using archival documents, type-specimens, and the often scattered evidence of the print itself. The Typography of Syriac will be of interest not only to scholars of Middle Eastern languages and scripts but also to all historians of type and printing.
J. F. Coakley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and on the staff of Houghton Library, at Harvard University. His private press, the Jericho Press, occasionally makes use of Syriac and other exotic types.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 91843

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(Colines, Simon De) Renouard, Philippe BIBLIOGRAPHIE DES EDITIONS DE SIMON DE COLINES, 1520-1546.
(Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 1999) thick 8vo. cloth. vii, 516, (4) pages.
Reprint of the first edition (Besterman p.5102) published in Paris by Em. Paul, L. Huard et Guillemin in 1894 . Bibliography of the books printed by this early Paris printer who pioneered the use of italic type in France. He printed many Greek and Latin classics. Describes 1000 books published from 1520 to 1546 with full and comprehensive descriptions given.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 59021

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(Colines, Simon De) Schreiber, Fred SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546.
Provo Friends of the Brigham Young University Library 1995 small 4to. cloth, paper spine label. lxxxiv, 242, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 750 copies. The first true Renaissance printer, Colines worked with the finest French book decorators and type designers to transform the French book. By using the format pioneered by Aldus Manutius, his press (1520-1546) published reasonably priced "pocket" classics, making them affordable by students and popularizing italic and cursive types in France. De Colines holds the distinction of having prepared the first critical text of the Greek New Testament, and the first printed in France. He produced the earliest accented Greek type in France, fifteen years prior to the Grecs du Roi. In 1528, de Colines introduced an elegant cursive, derived from Arrighi, followed by a smaller italic based on the Aldine. The 230 books described in this work, one-third of de Colines's actual production, illustrate de Colines's types, ornamental initials, printer devices and title borders. A catalogue of the books published and facsimiles of two of Colines's publisher catalogues are also included. Designed by W. Thomas Taylor. Illustrated.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 42579

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(Colines, Simon De) Schreiber, Fred SIMON DE COLINES, AN ANNOTATED CATALOGUE OF 230 EXAMPLES OF HIS PRESS 1520-1546.
Provo Friends of the Brigham Young University Library 1995 small 4to. sewn unbound sheets. lxxxiv, 242, (4) pages.
First edition, limited to 750 copies. Unbound in sheets.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 45505

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(Connecticut) Johnson, Hazel A. CHECKLIST OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, IMPRINTS 1709-1800
New York The Bibliographical Society of America 1978 8vo. cloth xlviii, 492, (2)
According to the Introduction, this book attempts to record over 1,400 of the publications, almost all with exceptions noted, of New London printers from May 1, 1709 through the year 1800. The output of the several presses was surprisingly large because all the printing done between the spring of 1709 and the autumn of 1754 in the Colony of Connecticut was done in New London. Johnson also includes twenty-three British Royal coats-of-arms used on New London printings of colony laws from 1709 to 1775. The appendices include sections on the Rogerenes, newspapers published in New London in the 18th century, election sermons printed in New London, and New London printers and booksellers.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 44037

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(Dolet, Étienne) Christie, Richard Copley ÉTIENNE DOLET, THE MARTYR OF THE RENAISSANCE, 1508-1546. A BIOGRAPHY.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1964 22.5x16 cm cloth xxii, 570 pages.
Reprint of the 1889 first edition. The second appendix (pp. 517-553) contains a bibliography (84 entries). Biography and bibliography of this French printer and author.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 165.00 other currencies Order nr. 103579

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Dommer, A. von DIE ÄLTESTEN DRUCKE AUS MARBURG IN HESSEN, 1527-1566.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1961 8vo cloth x, (32), 182 pages.
Reprint of the 1892 first edition published in Marburg. Nachrichten von den Druckern, Beschreibung der Drucke Nr. 1-332(377), Beschreibungen der Ornamente und Verzeichnisse der Schriften und der Drucker und ihrer Drucke.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 103614

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Doyen, F.D. BIBLIOGRAPHIE NAMUROISE, INDIQUANT LES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS À NAMUR ... ANNÉES 1473-1799 (1880) NAMUR, 1884-1902 (SOCIÉTÉ ARCHÉOLOGIQUE).
3 parts in 2 volumes Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1973 8vo cloth (iv),810; (iv),360; (iv),458 pages.
Reprint of the 1884 edition published in Namur. The only topo-bibliography of Namur (Namen, Belgium). More than 2.650 entries.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 340.00 other currencies Order nr. 103397

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Dreyfus, John (compiler). THE HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS LECTURE SERIES: A COMPLETE LISTING.
New York The Typophiles 1994 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (4) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. A Typophile Monograph, New Series Number Eleven. A listing of the lectures, which ran in various series from 1965 to 1982, arranged by Dr. Robert L. (Doc) Leslie, the topics being typography, printing, paper, book design, calligraphy, and other aspects of the graphic arts. Illustrated by Lili Cassel Wronker. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 61090

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Dubiez, F.J. OP DE GRENS VAN HUMANISME EN HERVORMING. DE BETEKENIS VAN DE BOEKDRUKKUNST TE AMSTERDAM IN EEN BEWOGEN TIJD, 1506-1578. TEN GELEIDE DOOR H.F. WIJNMAN.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1962 8vo cloth xii, 255 pages.
A history of printing and publishing at Amsterdam from the beginnings (1506) up to the "Alteration" (1578). At the end of each chapter devoted to a printer, publisher or bookseller a short-title list of his production, with references to existing bibliographies and location of copies." Extensive summary in English. With 32 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 103381

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Duff, E.G., W.W. Greg, R.B. McKerrow, H.R. Plomer, A.W. Pollard, R. Proctor HAND-LISTS OF BOOKS PRINTED BY LONDON PRINTERS, 1501-1556.
4 parts in 1 volume. Mansfield Centre Martino Publishing 2009 large 8vo. paper covered boards. (vi), 214 pages.
Reprint of the 1913 first edition. Books described chronologically under each printer. Accompanied by reproductions of printer's marks and other illustrations. A useful bibliography of all known printers active in the London book trade from 1501-1556. Circa forty printers and hundreds of books described, including author, title, date and location. Martino Publishing has added a useful author index of printers. Printers include Tottel, Wyer, Wayland and Day.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 104103

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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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Earnest, Russell and Corinne P. FLYING LEAVES AND ONE-SHEETS: PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN BROADSIDES, FRAKTUR AND THEIR PRINTERS
New Castle Oak Knoll Press 2005 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages
First edition. With Edward L. Rosenberry. This work is a well-illustrated history of the Pennsylvania German printing traditions as represented by over 130 of their broadsides and fraktur specimens. Printing in both German fraktur (black letter) and English, these intrepid early printers produced thousands of flyers, posters, and instructional pieces in varieties so extensive as to defy categorization. Their legal documents, such as marriage, baptism, and birth certificates, with their colorfully primitive motifs and borders, are highly collected today. However, their other works are also explored and explained in this ground-breaking work. More than 130 color and black-and-white works are illustrated in detail with dates, printers and purpose.

Edward Rosenberry said in a review that "The first step in the recovery and understanding of a cultural heritage is to collect surviving evidence and arrange it in a systematic way for interpretation. Flying Leaves and One-Sheets starts that process. Readers of this book will gain insight into the folk-ways of the Pennsylvania German ethnic group and the impact it exercised upon American culture before 1876. This work introduces Pennsylvania German broadsides to the American public. It is a scholar's treat and a pleasure for all who look within."
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 78333

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Edelman, Hendrik DUTCH-AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY 1693-1794. A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOG OF DUTCH-LANGUAGE BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND ALMANACS PRINTED IN AMERICA.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1974 8vo cloth 125 pages.
100 entries, extensively described. The Introduction deals with Dutch-American history, language and religion; the printers; and bibliographical problems. With 13 facsimiles.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 103706

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(Elzevier) Willems, Alphonse ELZEVIER, HISTOIRE ET ANNALES TYPOGRAPHIQUES. With SUPPLEMENT A L'OUVRAGE SUR LES ELZEVIER DE M. ALPHONSE WILLEMS. Par G. Berghman. and Perghman's ETUDES SUR LA BIBLIOGRAPHIE ELZEVIERIENNE.
3 volumes in one. Mansfield Centre Martino Fine Books n.d. but 1999 thick 8vo. cloth. cclix,607; xvii,172,(2); (iv),76 pages and 9 spread page plates.
Reprints of the 1880 first edition and the later supplement of 1897 and including Berhman's work of 1885. Massive biography of the Elzevier family followed by a bibliography of 2186 books and pamphlets published and printed by the family.
Price: $ 110.00 other currencies Order nr. 55019

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Erdmann, Axel MY GRACIOUS SILENCE, WOMEN IN THE MIRROR OF 16TH CENTURY PRINTING.
Luzern GR (1999) small 4to. cloth. xv, (v), 319 pages.
First edition. Introduction by Merry Wiesner-Hanks. An incredible book covering all aspects of women in the book trade during the 16th century. The first part of the book is a history of books illustrated by women, women in the book trade in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and various indexes. The second part contains a well-annotated bibliography of women writers, books with music by women, books illustrated by women, and women in the book business. Corners slightly bumped.
Price: $ 90.00 other currencies Order nr. 58909

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(Estienne) Renouard, Ant. Aug. ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE DES ESTIENNE OU HISTOIRE DE LA FAMILLE DES ESTIENNE ET DE SES EDITIONS.
(Mansfield Centre Martino Fine Books 1999) 8vo. cloth. xix, 586 pages.
Reprint of the second and best edition of 1843 published in Paris by Jules Renouard et Cie. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 251). Descriptions of 1,400 books produced by each member of this distinguished family of printer - publishers. Also has tables organized by subject matter in chronological order. Written mostly French and Latin.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 55821

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Fahy, Conor PRINTING A BOOK AT VERONA IN 1622, THE ACCOUNT BOOK OF FRANCESCO CALZO LARI.
Edited with an Introduction by Conor Fahy. Paris Fondation Custodia 1993 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (8), 171, (25) pages.
This book is an account of the production details concerning the printing and distribution of the Musaeum Francisci Calceolarii, a large illustrated volume containing a Latin description by two Veronese doctors, Benedetto Ceruti and Andrea Chiocco, of some of the Calzolari family's natural history collection. The Musaeum was published in 1622 with 800 folio pages and 45 line engravings and is described as the most complex and ambitious piece of book production to emerge from the small Veronese printing industry in the first 30 years of the 17th century. This account book that describes the Calzolari collection is an important and fascinating document of the early Italian printing industry. It provides a unique general view, from the inside, of the preparation, printing and distribution of a substantial volume, produced in one of the many provincial centres of Italian printing. By the seventeenth century, Italy was no longer at the cutting edge of development in European printing, but its historic role as a centre of cultural and artistic pre-eminence had endowed it with a wealth of material which still permitted original initiatives, like the Musaeum. The Musaeum is a large folio volume with numerous line engravings. This account book has been transcribed by Conor Fahy, a leading authority on Italian printing, and is here published for the first time with a lengthy introduction. The volume also contains a photographic reproduction of the Musaeum, an Italian-English glossary, and extensive appendices and indices. This book was chosen by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the Fifty Books of 1993, has been printed and bound by the Stinehour Press of Lunenberg, Vermont, and contains 58 plates.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 44058

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(Fanfrolico Press) Arnold, John THE FANFROLICO PRESS: SATYRS, FAUNS AND FINE BOOKS.
Pinner, Middlesex Private Libraries Association 2009 7.25 x 10.75 in. hardcover 328 pages
The book consists of a detailed history of the Press and a full bibliography of its publications and ephemera, tracing the venture from its origins in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1920s, to success in London from 1926, and its final dissolution in 1930. The Press was notable for the literary input of its proprietor Jack Lindsay, working initially with John Kirtley, later with P. R. Stephensen, and finally alone. For the illustrations, it published work by Jack's father, Norman Lindsay, as well as by Edward Bawden, Hal Collins, Lionel Ellis, and others. Jack Lindsay was responsible for the typographical design (initially with Kirtley) that brought a distinctive style to the books of the Press.

This book has been designed by Paul W. Nash, printed by Henry Ling, and bound in blue cloth with a design inspired by a Fanfrolico publication. There are 96 illustrations, including reduced facsimiles of the title pages of the forty-six books published by the Press. Sales Rights: Worldwide except for the UK and Australia. Available in the UK from the Private Libraries Association and in Australia from Kay Craddock.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 101286

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Felcone, Joseph J. PRINTING IN NEW JERSEY 1754-1800: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY
Worcester, Massachusetts American Antiquarian Society 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 544 pages
The first permanent printing office in New Jersey was established in 1754 by James Parker. Laws, proceedings of the assembly, and proclamations of the royal governors all came from Parker's press, as did numerous works for the fledgling College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). Other printers soon saw opportunity in New Jersey, so that by 1800, forty-four individuals had been either proprietors or partners in printing offices spread across the state from Sussex County to Cumberland County. Printing in New Jersey contains full descriptions of all of the known products of every eighteenth-century New Jersey press.

As a descriptive bibliography of early American imprints, this book sets a new standard for comprehensiveness. Of the 1,265 books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and broadsides included, almost a quarter of them are recorded here for the first time. Every entry receives detailed bibliographical treatment: full collations are provided, paper and type are identified, contemporary bindings are described, and advertisements in newspapers are recorded. Every located copy has been collated, and full copy-specific data, including eighteenth-century provenance, is presented. Extensive notes identify anonymous authors, provide biographical and historical context, attribute unsigned printing, and establish press runs.

The second part of the text is devoted to items that may have been printed in New Jersey but for which insufficient documentation has been found to permit a clear attribution to a New Jersey press. A third part contains works incorrectly attributed to a New Jersey press by earlier bibliographers and now removed from the New Jersey printing canon. The rich back matter supports the bibliography. The first of three appendices lists the alphabetical, chronological, and geographical distribution of printing offices in eighteenth-century New Jersey. The second appendix is a register of the New Jersey book trade that records printers, publishers, booksellers, newspaper proprietors, bookbinders, papermakers, and others engaged in any aspect of the book trade or allied arts in New Jersey from 1754 through 1800. The third appendix contains six concordances. An extensive list of manuscript collections and printed resources essential to the study of eighteenth-century New Jersey printing documents the work. The volume concludes with three indexes: an index of printers and publishers, a provenance index, and a comprehensive general index.

Joseph J. Felcone has spent a lifetime collecting, studying, and writing about New Jersey books and the early New Jersey book trade. To compile this comprehensive work, he visited and fully surveyed 115 libraries, from the major repositories in the United States and England to county and local historical societies in New Jersey, and physically examined and recorded every eighteenth-century New Jersey imprint.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 108913

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Ferguson, W. Craig LOAN BOOK OF THE STATIONERS' COMPANY, WITH A LIST OF TRANSACTIONS 1592 - 1692.
London The Bibliographical Society 1989 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 42 pages.
Occasional Papers Number 4. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 60382

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Fiering, Norman and Susan L. Newbury. PRINTING & PUBLISHING IN THE COLONIAL ERA OF THE UNITED STATES, A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK IN THE AMERICAS (1988) WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE ITEMS IN THAT CATALOGUE.
Providence The John Carter Brown Library 1990 4to. stiff paper wrappers xvi, 37 pages
Describes 12 examples of printing in Colonial America, from the Bay Psalm Book of 1640 to Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British America. Illustrated.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 53776

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Fletcher, H. George (editor) PRINTING FOR KINGDOM, EMPIRE, AND REPUBLIC: TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE.
New York The Grolier Club 2011 8.5 x 11.5 inches hardcover 118 pages
This volume was produced to accompany an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 2011 to February 4, 2012, on the history of the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. Drawn from the ancient, vast, and comprehensive archives of the Imprimerie Nationale, Printing for Kingdom, Empire, & Republic documents the significant influence of the press, not only on printing and the book arts, but also on French - and therefore European - literary culture from the mid-sixteenth century to the present day. The exhibition was organized by The Grolier Club and the Groupe Imprimerie Nationale, S.A., with administrative and organizational support from the Institut Mémoires de l'Édition Contemporaine (IMEC), France's largest archive of authorial and publishing materials.

Edited by Grolier Club member H. George Fletcher (former Astor Curator of Printed Books and Bindings at the Morgan Library & Museum, and retired Brooke Russell Astor Director for Special Collections at The New York Public Library), the catalogue tells the story of the Imprimerie Nationale, from the royal printers established by François I in 1538, to the Imprimerie Royale created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1640, through many generations of development, marked often by artistic innovation and wide cultural influence, but sometimes by distress and neglect, to triumphant survival in the present day. It surveys a wealth of objects, all classified as French monuments historiques, and never before seen outside of France, and including artifacts of various printing processes, such as punches, matrices, and typefonts from the days of François I to the present, as well as engraved plates used to produce illustrations for such renowned works as Louis XIV's Medailles and the Description de l'Égypt commissioned by Napoleon. The catalogue also showcases the books produced at the Imprimerie Nationale, from the scholarly products of the Renaissance in France through the royal folios of the Sun King to the culture-changing works of the twentieth century, and thus to the work of postwar and present-day generations of French book artists. In many instances, original manuscripts, documents, and artwork follow the art, craft, and business of book-making from conception to realization.

Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic contains a foreword by Jack Lang, two separate prefaces by Dider Trutt and Eugene S. Flamm, and an Introduction by H. George Fletcher. It includes historical essays by Isabelle de Conihout, Annie Parent-Charon, and James Mosley and discusses topics such as humanism and typography, Pierre Moreau (Master Scribe and Printer), The Romain du Roi (a type made for the Royal Printing-House of Louis XIV) and more. An annotated checklist of the items on display at the exhibition is followed by the essays. Beautifully illustrated, the book contains five pages of color plates, four plates in collotypes, illustrations of typefaces, and more.

The book has been composed in Monotype Garamond for the text and hand-set Garamond, cast from the original matrices, for the display type, at the Imprimerie Nationale's Atalier du Livre d'Art et de l'Estampe, in Ivrey-sur-Seine, France, and printed there letterpress on Arches Expression texture white 120 g. It was designed by Jerry Kelly.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 108805

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