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See More... Howard-Hill, T.H. THE BRITISH BOOK TRADE, 1475-1890: A BIBLIOGRAPHY.
New Castle, Delaware, and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2009 7.5 x 9.75 inches Hardcover, 2 volumes 1,876 pages in 2 volumes, plus index on CD-ROM
This superbly comprehensive and detailed bibliography of the British book trade, the product of research in over three hundred libraries in the UK and USA, supersedes all bibliographies on British authors and authorship, bibliography itself, book collecting, bookbinding, book illustration, bookselling, censorship, copyright, libraries, literacy, papermaking, printing, publishing, textual criticism, and typography until 1890. More than 24,000 items (notably articles in trade journals) are lightly annotated and arranged in classified chronological order to illustrate the social and technological development of British book crafts and industries. Items are minutely indexed on the accompanying CD-ROM. Large areas of the history and practices of the British book trades are opened to scholarly study for the first time. British Book Trade, 1475-1890 belongs in every research library: no-one who works in the fields of British literature, bibliography, or book trade history should neglect this work.

Trevor Howard-Hill is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC. Besides his many publications on Shakespearean texts, Renaissance dramatic manuscripts, and textual scholarship are eight volumes of the Index of British Literary Bibliography (Oxford 1969-99).

Published by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, in association with The Bibliographical Society and The Bibliographical Society of America.

Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 96665

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See More... Hudson, Graham THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 160 pages
First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic. American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain, yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all with an interest in the visual arts. Graham Hudson is secretary and a founding member of the Ephemera Society and a member of the Ephemera Society of America. His published articles on aspects of ephemeral printing include contributions to the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Art Libraries Journal, the Journal of the Writing Equipment Society, Industrial Archaeology and numerous articles in The Ephemerist..

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See More... Huisstede, P. van, J.P.J. Brandhorst DUTCH PRINTER`S DEVICES 15TH - 17TH CENTURY. A CATALOGUE. WITH CD-ROM.
3 volumes + CD-Rom Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1999 8.5 x 10.75 inches hardcover viii, 1639 pages.
An indispensable source of information for bibliographers and historians of mentality and visual culture. Contains inter alia a massive index of iconography, systematically arranged according to ICONCLASS classification schedules, offering some 20,000 references. With c. 2000 different devices by some 1,400 printers and publishers.

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See More... Hungaria, Georgius de ARITHMETICAE SUMMA TRIPARTITA. FACSIMILE OF THE FIRST ARITHMETIC PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY A.J.E.M. SMEUR.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1965 5.5 x 7.75 inches Imitation vellum boards 42 pages (introduction), 20 page (facsimile)
A census of fifteenth-century books printed in the area of present-day Netherlands and Belgium, this text lists 2,229 editions in more than 14,300 copies preserved in hundreds of libraries, museums, and archives all over the world. Derived from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue, the database compiled at the British Library, this work brings together new additions not listed before.

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See More... Huss, Richard E DR. CHURCH'S "HOAX"
An Assessment of Dr. William Church Lancaster Graphic Crafts 1976 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 76 pages.
First edition. This book is about an original invention and an American mechanical genius, who is almost completely unknown on the American side of the Atlantic Ocean. This work brings this inventor out of obscurity and gives him long overdue credit for his important inventions. Among Church's creations were the first typesetting machine in history, a new style of typecasting machine, and a new form of printing press. The influence of these inventions on printing practices is emphasized, and their techniques are described in a clear, comprehensible manner. Church also invented many other devices and methods of manufacture, ranging from buttons to locomotives. With an introduction by Marcus McCorison from the American Antiquarian Society. Illustrated with patent drawings and fifty-two of his inventions and includes an index and extensive bibliography. Typeset and printed by The Stinehour Press at Lunenburg, Vermont.
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See More... Hutner, Martin A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999.
New York The Grolier Club 1999 9 x 12 inches paperback 144 pages
This catalogue contains 100 of the most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the twentieth century. To choose just 100 out of an immense number of books, the selection was limited to books printed in England and America containing the Roman alphabet. Books as objects and more sculptural books are not included in the publication. The introduction is divided into two parts including: The Resurgence of Fine Printing: Tradition and Change, 1900-1949, and The Advance of Technology and the Continuity of Tradition: Fine Printing 1949-1999. The book contains 100 full-page examples of title-pages, facsimiles, and illustrations, as well as a list of illustrations, authors and titles, designers and presses, and a bibliography.
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See More... Hutner, Martin THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS: AN EXHIBITION ON THE OCCASION OF THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE PRESS.
New York The Grolier Club 1993 9 x 12 inches paperback 78 pages
In 1893, Daniel Updike founded the Merrymount Press and became a member of the Grolier Club. He printed many of the Club's most attractive publications, and in 1926, he was awarded honorary membership. In 1911, Philip Hofer, founder of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard, invited Updike to deliver a series of speeches on the techniques of printing to the Graduate School of Business Administration. These lectures formed the basis for his monumental work on typography, Printing Types, published by Harvard University Press and later by Oak Knoll Press. In 1993, an exhibition was held at the Houghton Library and the Grolier Club showcasing 130 works spanning Updike's career and the life of the Press from 1891 to 1949.

This new publication represents Updike's enduring accomplishments and celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of his press. With 136 works, the catalogue displays the beauty, breadth, and standard set by the Press and its work. It is beautifully illustrated with over forty illustrations and contains a chronology, a list of types used at the Merrymount Press, and a list of commercial publishing houses associated with the Press. The book was designed by Jerry Kelly and printed by the Stinehour Press.

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See More... (INSEL-VERLAG) Brinks, John Dieter VOM ORNAMENT ZUR LINIE, DER FRÜHE INSEL-VERLAG 1899 BIS 1924.
2 volumes. Berlin Triton 2000 4to. linen-covered boards, both volumes enclosed in a linen slipcase. 391,(3) pages; 20 inserts in portfolio.
Printed in an edition of 2000 copies. Volume I of a series of three installments, not yet completed. Praised as "a masterpiece of book production" and "a product of enthusiasts" by critic Wilfried F. Schoeller, the book traces the early 20th-century history of the Insel publishing house. Insel earned its renown by turning book production into an art form as it printed the works of classic authors and gave a new generation of writers, such as Rainer Maria Rilke, their start. The editor, Brinks, reveals Insel's high aesthetic standards through sumptuous illustrations of its work. In all, there are 240 illustrations, seven of which are foldouts, many polychrome with three and four colors, and many with stunning gold print. One splendid example of the high-quality illustrations is the foldout of a series of classics, The Thousand and One Nights and the Decameron, the bindings designed by Marcus Behmer. The colors are so rich and the detail so striking that the reader almost feels he can touch and leaf through the deckled pages of the books shown. Another example depicted is that of Henry van de Velde's designs for the covers of Nietzsche's Also Sprach Zarathustra, as well as sample pages from the edition, both finely detailed with gold print. Text edited by Brinks with seventeen essays contributed by him and twelve other specialists such as Juergen Suess, Marcus Haucke, and Suzanne Buchinger. Essays beautifully printed with wide margins and double-spaced on Gardapat paper in cursive Borgis White Antiqua. Outstanding documentation for the essays at the back of the book, as well as detailed indices for artwork and literary sources. Accompanying the book is a slim briefcase volume containing twelve facsimile resolution papers and eight folder reproductions in their original format. Distributed for Triton in North America by Oak Knoll Press. In German.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 63454

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See More... Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors). THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2000 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 218 pages.
This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberystwyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays reminds us how authorities have tried for centuries to control the printed matter coming off the mighty engine, as well as the distribution of the material. Eighteen essays written from such authorities as: John Turner, Barry McKay, John Hinks, John R. Turner, David J. Shaw, Sarah Gray, David Stoker, Stacey Gee, Iain Beavan, Audrey Cooper, Diana Dixon, Margaret Cooper, Brenda Scragg, Philip Henry Jones, Richard Suggett, Chris Baggs and Rheinallt Llwyd. Illustrated. Co-Published with St. Pauls Bibliographies.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 59394

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See More... Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors). THE REACH OF PRINT, MAKING, SELLING AND USING BOOKS.
New Castle, Delaware & Winchester, England Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul's Bibliographies 1998 small 8vo. Hardback printed covers. 230 pages.
First edition. Second volume of the series PRINT NETWORKS. More than a century has passed since W. H. Allnut's paper on provincial printing was presented at the meeting of the Library Association in 1878. This topic has now moved to the forefront of investigating the history of the book. The annual Seminar on the British Book Trade has been steadily developing the depth and breadth of its interests, encompassing the contemporary social, economic, educational, and cultural climates in which booksellers, printers, and their fellows operated.
Even today, few booksellers can support themselves solely by
the sale of books. In the earlier days, this was even more true, and so they engaged in a wide range of trades, including selling stationery, printing, and the sale of nostrums. Newspapers were also important sources of income, since their distribution networks were essential to the proprietors' survival. For much of the population, street literature was particularly significant. Two aspects of these ephemera - their contribution to the "oral tradition," and their crude illustrations - are explored here. The last three papers deal with the fact that we have so much printed matter to study is partly due to predecessors who formed libraries for their own use or for a wider readership. All these themes and more are included and explored in this work.

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See More... Janssen, Frans A. TECHNIQUE & DESIGN IN THE HISTORY OF PRINTING.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2004 7 x 9.75 inches hardcover, dust jacket 380 pages
Containing 26 selected and thoroughly rewritten essays and articles (all written by Janssen and published previously between 1976 and 2002 in yearbooks and periodicals) all dedicated to the history of printing and book production, this work draws systematically attention to the typographical design of the book. The articles are mainly divided into two fields of attention: the analytical bibliography of the printed book (book production, studies of the technical aspects of type-setting and printing, type founding, printing presses, paper etc.) and the typographical design of books (its functions and its influence on how texts are read). With illustrations. Cover design, typography, and lay-out by Bram de Does.

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Price: $ 220.00 other currencies Order nr. 103672

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See More... Johnson, A.F. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING. EDITED BY PERCY H. MUIR.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1970 small folio cloth xi, 489 pages.
Forty extensive essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. Emphasis is on the sixteenth century. A very beautifully produced book: Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona. With numerous plates and illustrations.

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Price: $ 340.00 other currencies Order nr. 103257

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

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See More... Jones, Howard PRINTING THE CLASSICAL TEXT
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2004 6.25 x 9.75 inches hardcover 238 pages
Printing the Classical Text presents a comprehensive survey of the period in which the first Classical text was printed in 1465 through the end of 1500. The opening chapter of the book locates Classical printing within the wider context by reviewing some of the cultural, intellectual, and commercial factors which affected the printing industry as a whole during the first fifty years of its development. The two central chapters are devoted to the Latin and Greek editions.
Latin editions, representing more than ninety percent of the whole, include comprehensive chronological listings that detail the printing history of each of the more than seventy authors represented, a synoptic chart, and running commentary in which the author identifies observable patterns and highlights the text's most distinctive features. An account of the introduction of Greek studies into Italy, where all fifteenth-century editions of Greek authors were printed, and a review of the typographical challenges that the earliest printers of Greek texts faced is followed by an examination of each of the Greek editions in the context of its printer's instinctive publishing program. In the concluding chapter, the author examines what the process of editing involved and attempts to assign to the earliest printed Classical editions their appropriate place in the evolution of the authoritative text in light of both the claims which the earliest editors themselves made and the less enthusiastic judgment rendered by modern critics. Illustrated in black-and-white.
Howard Jones is Professor of Classics at McMaster University in Canada, and is the author of books on Cicero, Gassendi, and the Epicurean tradition.

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See More... Joyce, William L., David D. Hall, and Richard D. Brown PRINTING AND SOCIETY IN EARLY AMERICA
Worcester American Antiquarian Society 1983 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 322 pages.
First edition. These essays have been written by leading scholars on early bookselling, reading habits and the impact of printing in early America. Printing history in its broadest context may be viewed as a distinct form of cultural history, a synthesis combining the attention to ideas that is central to intellectual history with the emphasis on patterns of behavior and organization characteristic of social history. This work encourages new approaches to the study of early printing, including the fusion of bibliographical analysis and the broadly cultural approach of the French historians of books and society. Together, the essays demonstrate how the world of print changed between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries - both shaping and reflecting the larger American culture. Titles of the papers presented here include "The Uses of Literacy in New England, 1600-1850," "The Anglo-American Book Trade before 1776," "The Wages of Piety: The Boston Book Trade of Jeremy Condy," "The Colonial Retail Book Trade: Availability and Affordability of Reading Material in Mid-Eighteenth Century Virginia," "Bibliography and the Cultural Historian: Notes on the Eighteenth-Century Novel," "Early Music Printing and Publishing," Books and the Social Authority of Learning: The Case of Mid-Eighteenth-Century Virginia," "Elias Smith and the Rise of Religious Journalism in the Early Republic" and "Print and the Public Lecture System, 1840-1860." Most of the essays were originally prepared for an October 1980 conference of the same title sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 37.50 other currencies Order nr. 14220

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See More... Keller, Kate Van Winkle. PRINTERS OF BALLADS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND CHECKLISTS FOR NATHANIEL COVERLY, SR., NATHANIEL COVERLY, JR., AND JOSEPH WHITE.
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117 Worcester American Antiquarian Society 2008 6 x 9 inches paperback 162 pages
The topic of this new book from the American Antiquarian Society is printing in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. More specifically, the author focuses on three printers who were active during that period: Nathaniel Coverly, Sr.; Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; and Joseph White. Through a close examination of the bibliographical evidence, she demonstrates the extent of the production by the two Coverlys and White to the reading material available to adults and children in New England over more than fifty years.
The introduction provides a brief historical summary and an outline of the text that follows. Biographical descriptions of the Coverlys and Joseph White, as well as checklists of their works are included. There are approximately twenty grayscale images throughout the text. An index makes quick referencing possible. Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.

Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 100615

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See More... Kelly, Jerry GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
With an Introduction by Hermann Zapf New York The Typophiles 2006 6 x 9 inches paperback 48 pages
Born in 1907, Gotthard de Beauclair spent most of his life learning about calligraphy, printing, typography, and book design. With his expertise and skillful technique, he produced some of the finest examples of limited edition books. Even now, his work stands as a model for superior bookmaking.

This catalogue includes an Introduction by Hermann Zapf and a brief history of de Beauclair's work as a student, typographer, designer, and bookmaker. It lists his endeavors at the Insel Verlag, the Stempel Typefoundry, various publishers, the Trajanus Presse, and others. A section of illustrations is also included. The book was set in Aldus, a typeface designed by Hermann Zapf (Gotthard de Beauclair was also instrumental in the font's conception).

While the leading book designer in Gernmany, Beauclair is not as well known in the United States. Many presses in Germany and around the world have given up the tradition of printing from metal type by letterpress. Run now as industrial companies, publishing companies are often merged focusing on mass production over quality. This book brings to light the typographic work used in Beauclair's exceptional publications in hopes of demonstrating that fine editions can still be produced today in exquisite detail, even despite the ever-growing technologies.

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See More... (Kelmscott Press) Peterson, William S. and Sylvia Holton Peterson THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER: A CENSUS.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 280 pages
When William Morris founded the Kelmscott Press, his celebrated private press, in 1891, one of the books he intended to print was an edition of the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer. Because of its size and complexity, The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer did not emerge from the press until June 1896, shortly before Morris's death. Even at the time of publication, there was almost universal recognition that it was the most ambitious and remarkable book produced in the nineteenth century. Morris himself designed the type, initials, and borders. His old friend Sir Edward Burne-Jones created the eighty-seven wood-engraved illustrations, and the book was printed on a hand-press with ink, paper, and vellum made to Morris' exact specifications.

According to Sydney Cockerell, the second Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, Morris printed 425 copies of the Chaucer book on paper and thirteen on vellum. This Census locates and describes as many of those books (which are now scattered all over the world) as possible and reconstructs their complicated history of ownership, supplying a narrative of the fortunes of each known copy that came off the press in 1896. New information about unlocated copies, copies that have been sold by book dealers and auction houses, and the binders who have subsequently rebound many of the copies is also included. Three substantial appendices record the copies sold by Bernard Quaritch (the London bookseller most closely associated with the production of the Chaucer), the mailing list of the Kelmscott Press, and other unpublished contemporary documents.

William S. Peterson (Professor of English Emeritus, University of Maryland) has written extensively about the Kelmscott Press and other aspects of fine printing in Britain and America. He is currently the editor of Printing History, the journal of the American Printing History Association. Sylvia Holton Peterson (Professor of English Emerita, University of the District of Columbia) is a medievalist and the co-author (with Jackson Campbell Boswell) of Chaucer's Fame in England: STC Chauceriana, 1475-1540 (2004).

Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 103887

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Kerssemakers, Agnes M.L. SOCIAL LIBERATION: FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO THE MIDDLE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 835 pages
This extensive catalogue describes around 9,000 printed books, pamphlets, papers, periodicals, almanacs, broadsides, posters, prints, caricatures, photographs, manuscripts, and memorabilia that were collected by author Agnes M.L. Kerssemakers over the course of many years.

It is a collection of mainly propaganda and enlightenment publications, but also entertainment pieces like songs and literature, including almost every edition of the Malik-Verlag. The book is complemented with pictorial surveys of social bodies or activities, as well as the great works of the social Fathers, like Babeuf, Morelly, Rousseau, Moses Hess, Flora Tristan, Marx and Lenin.

The catalogue has been enriched with 161 full color illustrations.

Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF.

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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.

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See More... Kooker, H.W. de, B. van Selm BOEKCULTUUR IN DE LAGE LANDEN 1500-1800. BIBLIOGRAFIE VAN PUBLIKATIES OVER PARTICULIER BOEKENBEZIT IN NOORD- EN ZUID-NEDERLAND, VERSCHENEN VOOR 1991.
Utrecht HES & DE GRAAF 1993 8vo cloth xviii, 210 pages.
Study of the book culture of this area. Illustrated.

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See More... Krummel, D.W. ENGLISH MUSIC PRINTING, 1553-1700
London The Bibliographical Society 1975 4to. cloth. xii, 188 pages.
First edition. This study examines the printing of music in Britain from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, with chapters on music patents, Psalm books, part books, song books, and broadsides. It includes many black-and-white illustrations, a chronological synopsis, a bibliography, and an index. Distributed for the Bibliographial Society, London.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 60367

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Lane, John A. THE DIASPORA OF ARMENIAN PRINTING, 1512-2012.
Translated by Anna Maria Martirosjan-Mattaar Amsterdam Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam 2012 6.75 x 9.5 inches hardcover 224 pages
In 1512, in the city of Venice, Hakob Meghapart printed the first book in Armenian type. He inaugurated a tradition celebrated in 2012 as 'Five Centuries of Armenian Printing'. The Diaspora of Armenian Printing 1512-2012, published by the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam, commemorates the printers, their books and their printing types. This is the first international publication in English and Armenian on the history of Armenian printing.

For technical and political reasons, all Armenian books were printed outside Armenia until 1771. The art of Armenian printing developed in major centres like Venice, Constantinople and Amsterdam, but also in many others around the world. Its history moves along highways and byways reflecting the ups and downs of the Armenian people. The book describes the diaspora of Armenian printing, highlighting the role of Amsterdam. It takes the reader on a typographic odyssey through time and space.

John A. Lane (1955) is a historian of printing and printing types. He was born and raised in the United States and has lived in Leiden (Holland) since 1990. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for his typographic research in 2006 and has published many books and articles.

Available in Europe from the Special Collections of the University of Amsterdam.

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See More... Lathem, Edward Connery and Elizabeth French Lathem (Editors) D.B.U. AND R.R.: SELECTED EXTRACTS FROM CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE AND RUDOLPH RUZICKA, 1908-1941
New York American Printing History Association 1997 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. vi, 181+(1) pages.
D.B.U and R.R. prints for the first time extracts from the important correspondence between these major figures of American graphic arts, revealing a little-known closeness between the Merrymount Press fine printer Updike and the artist Ruzicka. The two men collaborated on a number of important books, including Newark and the Grolier Club's Irving, as well the exquisite series of Merrymount annual keepsakes. Ruzicka also played a substantial advisory role in the writing of Updike's monumental Printing Types. This touching and candid thirty-three year correspondence is put in context by the Lathems' elucidating commentary. This work includes an index and two tipped-in facsimiles, as well as illustrations reproduced in the original colors. Printed by the Stinehour Press, in an edition of 500 copies.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 97458

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See More... Laurentius, F. CLEMENT DE JONGHE (CA. 1624-1677): KUNSTVERKOPER IN DE GOUDEN EEUW
Houten HES & DE GRAAF 2010 6 x 9.5 inches Hardcover 190 pages
Frans Laurentius describes Dutch prints and the life and business of art vendor and publisher, Clement de Jonghe . It is known that Jonghe was in possession of a group of Rembrandt etched copper plates. Despite his relative fame in this area, Clement de Jonghe has never fully explained in literature. Contains 44 illustrations. Written in Dutch with English summary.

Volume XL in the series of Bibliotheca Neerlandica.

Price: $ 140.00 other currencies Order nr. 105568

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