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Pearson, David BOOKS AS HISTORY: THE IMPORTANCE OF BOOKS BEYOND THEIR TEXTS.
New Castle, Delaware and London, England Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2012 7.25 x 10 inches paperback 208 pages
This revised third edition of David Pearson's Books as History includes a new foreword, an updated list of further reading, and various other additions and updates. Updated in light of the recent development of the e-book, this version will offer new pictures, new ideas on the life of the book, and further thoughts on how the book will survive.

Books have been hugely important in human civilization as instruments for communicating information and ideas. The digital age has caused the landscape of books to change, with more and more of the traditional functions of books being performed electronically. People usually think of books in terms of their contents or their texts, but in fact, books may possess all kinds of potentially interesting qualities beyond their texts, as designed or artistic objects, or because they have unique properties deriving from the ways they have been printed, bound, annotated, beautified or defaced.

David Pearson explores these themes and uses many examples of books from the Middle Ages to the present day to show why books may be interesting beyond their texts. As the format of the book becomes history - as texts are increasingly communicated electronically - we can recognize that books are also history in another significant way. Books can develop their own individual histories, which provide important evidence about the way they were used and regarded in the past, which make them an indispensable part of the fabric of our cultural heritage. This book will raise awareness of an important aspect of the life of books in the context of the ongoing debate about their future. Extensively illustrated with a wide range of images, it will not only be approachable but also thought-provoking.

David Pearson has extensive experience in managing and working in major research collections. He is also a respected scholar in the field of book history, whose articles and books, including Provenance Research in Book History (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 1994) and English Bookbinding Styles, 1450-1800: a Handbook (Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005), have focused on various aspects of the ownership and binding of books.

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 29.95 other currencies Order nr. 109790

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Pettas, William A. THE GIUNTI OF FLORENCE: A RENAISSANCE PRINTING AND PUBLISHING FAMILY.
A History of the Florentine Firm and a Catalogue of the Editions New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover 1096 pages
This ambitious project explores in detail the history and output of the Giunti Press in Florence, covering the firm from its beginnings in 1497 to its end in 1625, and providing descriptions of each Giunti book published with extensive indication of the libraries holding copies of each edition. In doing so, it addresses issues of censorship, the development of the Italian language from Florentine dialect, and the larger literature and history of Florence in the late Renaissance.

Printer and publisher Aldus Manutius, founder of Aldine Press, is well known among students of Renaissance Italian literature and history. Less has been published on the Guinti, however, a family whose members established operations over much larger territory than the Aldine press, collectively achieving much greater financial resources and surviving for a longer period of time. Their role in the history of Italian literature was significant and deserves an extensive review. The aim, then, of the present history is to tell the story of this late Renaissance Florentine printer-publisher.

Part I of the book covers all aspects of the Giunti family and the press, the nature of its output, its relationship to the governments of Florence and Tuscany, to social conditions, to the economy, to members of their own family, to their editors, and to the strictures of censorship. Names of Greek authors and editors in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries have been cited in a transliteration of the Greek rather than the usual Western form, and libraries holding Florentine Giunti editions have been listed by country. The catalogue in Part II provides a basic description of all known editions, as well as some unsigned editions that others have attributed to the Giunti, seeking to identify as many surviving exemplars as possible. In addition, the book provides Giunti images, genealogical tables, a chronological list of editions by language, and a list of works cited.

Dr. William Pettas is a native of Buffalo, NY, and has had a long career in public and academic library administration. His research has focused on the Giunti family of Florence, and he has published extensively on their firms in Florence, Rome, Venice, Lyon, Burgos, Salamanca, and Madrid. In researching this book, he has traveled extensively to libraries with rare book collections in the US, England, Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, and Greece.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 105520

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Pettas, William A HISTORY & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GIUNTI (JUNTA) PRINTING FAMILY IN SPAIN 1526 - 1628, COVERING THE JUNTA (GIUNTI) PRESS AND THE IMPRENTA REAL IN BURGOS, SALAMANCA & MADRID WITH A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SEVERAL GIUNTI PRESSES IN VENICE, FLORENCE AND LYON AND A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRESS OF JUAN BAUTISTA VARESIO IN BURGOS, VALLADOLID & LERMA
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 8.5" x 11" cloth, hardcover. 1086 pages.
The first edition of this monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that covers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church's printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they became printers to the most powerful King in the world and established "The Imprenta Real," changing their name to "Junta." The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 wood cuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology.

The author, William Pettas, has researched this early printing family for over twenty years, and this is his second work on this important clan. A very readable and valuable contribution to the history of the book and an important bibliography and reference work.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 77561

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Piel, Albert GESCHICHTE DES ÄLTESTEN BONNER BUCHDRUCKS. ZUGLEICH EIN BEITRAG ZUR RHEINISCHEN REFORMATIONS-GESCHICHTE UND - BIBLIOGRAPHIE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1965 8vo stiff paper wrappers. xi, 111 pages.
Reprint of the 1924 first edition printed in Bonn-Leipzig. Essentially a bio-bibliography of the Bonn prototypographer Laurenz van der Mülen. With bibliography 1541-1553. With 15 facsimiles on plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 103561

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(Plantin, Christophe) Plantin, Christopher AN UNKNOWN HOLOGRAPH LETTER BY CHRISTOPHE PLANTIN, RECENTLY DISCOVERED. FACSIMILE WITH INTRODUCTION, TRANSCRIPTION AND TRANSLATION BY R. BREUGELMANS.
`t Goy-Houten HES & DE GRAAF 1996 8vo. paper wrappers. 6 pages.
With portrait.

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Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 103515

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Pon, Lisa and Craig Kallendorf (editors) THE BOOKS OF VENICE (IL LIBRO VENEZIANO).
New Castle, Delaware, and Venice, Italy Oak Knoll Press, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, and La Musa Talìa 2009 6.75 x 9.5 inches paperback, dust jacket 632 pages
The Books of Venice (Il libro veneziano) contains a series of essays (in English and Italian) exploring Venetian book history from the Quattrocento through current production, books printed "in the shadow of Aldus Manutius." Venice's books, like her art and architecture, have long been considered one of her greatest glories. Some of the earliest printers in Italy were Venetian, and Venice remained one of the world's premier book producers through the sixteenth century. Great printers like the Remondini and Ongania continued to work there in later centuries, and as this volume shows, Venice continues to support an active printing tradition, both commercially and privately.

The volume takes its title from the name of an international conference that was held in Venice on this subject in March 2007. Most of the papers from this conference are included here, in suitably expanded form, providing a survey of the high points of Venetian printing from the fifteenth century through the twenty-first. Case studies focus on outstanding individuals like Aldus Manutius, Erhard Ratdolt, Peter Ugelheimer, Antonio Moretto, Francesco Sansovino, Claudio Merulo, and Apostolo Zeno. Other essays discuss the role of anonymous buyers, readers, and performers, and analyses of archival documents and marks in the books themselves are complemented by studies of how Venetian books arrived in collections throughout Europe. An essay on Venetian libraries by Marino Zorzi serves as an introduction to the volume, and a consideration of the shadowy lacunae in Venetian publishing by Neil Harris concludes the main section.

In the fall of 2006, Venice was host to the American master printer Peter Koch, who set to work on a deluxe edition of Joseph Brodsky's poetic ruminations on Venice, "Watermark." At the conclusion of the conference, Koch's book was formally presented at Venice's Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti, where Brodsky's book had first been presented eighteen years before. The Books of Venice contains an essay on "Watermark" by Koch from this presentation, along with other essays that set Koch's book into the tradition of fine press printing in Italy.

Lisa Pon is Assistant Professor of Art History at Southern Methodist University and exhibition reviews editor of SHARP News. She has published essays in Word & Image, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, Print Quarterly, and Art History, and is author of Raphael, Dürer and Marcantonio Raimondi: Copying and the Italian Renaissance Print (Yale University Press, 2004). Her next book concerns an early-fifteenth-century woodcut that becomes a miraculous icon in the Northern Italian city of Forlì.

Craig Kallendorf is Professor of English and Classics and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. He is the author of several books in book history, including two with a specifically Venetian focus: A Bibliography of Venetian Editions of Virgil, 1470-1599 (Olschki, 1991) and Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in the Italian Renaissance (Oxford, 1999). His catalogue of the Junius Spencer Morgan Virgil collection at Princeton University will be published later this year by Oak Knoll Press

Co-published with Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana and La Musa Talia; available in Italy from La Musa Talia (www.lamusatalia.it).
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 100392

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(Printing) Clair, Colin (editor) THE SPREAD OF PRINTING: A HISTORY OF PRINTING OUTSIDE EUROPE IN MONOGRAPHS.
11 volumes Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1969 4to stiff paper wrappers. Different paginations.
After printing with movable type was invented in Central Europe about the middle of the Fifteenth century, the craft began to spread over the world almost at once, though it arrived in some areas much earlier than in others. This series of eleven booklets aims to give a concise history of early printing in all parts of the world outside Continental Europe and Great Britain. Each monograph is written by a specialist on the subject, covers one specific area, and is fully illustrated.

Authors and topics are as follows: B.S. BENEDIKZ, Iceland; A. TOUSSAINT, Early Printing in Mauritius, Réunion, Madagascar and the Seychelles; F. MACMILLAN, New Zealand; D.E. RHODES, India, Burma and Ceylon; K. OLDENDOW, Greenland; D.H. BORCHARDT, Australia; C. CLAIR, Malta; H.J. de GRAAF, Indonesia; B.F. SWAN, The Caribbean Area; A.H. SMITH, South Africa; and H. PEARSON GUNDY, Canada.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 103704

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Ritchie, Ward OF BOOKMEN & PRINTERS, A GATHERING OF MEMORIES. With a foreword by Lawrence Clark Powell.
Los Angeles Dawson's Book Shop (1989) 8vo. cloth backed boards. 189 pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Designed and written by the great printer, Ward Ritchie, this work contains many reminiscences of book collectors, book artists, bookmen and printers many of which are notable and recognizable figures in the world of fine books.
These stories include the Los Angeles booksellers of the Great
Depression and the formation of the Zamorano Club, bookseller Jake Zeitlin, artist and wood engraver Paul Landacre, eccentric book designer Merle Armitage, poet Robinson Jeffers, Jane Grabhorn's irreverent wit and whimsical creations which colored her days at the Grabhorn Press; Ward's apprenticeship with Francois-Louis Schmied, the preeminent Parisian book printer and artist of the 1920s and 30's; music composer John Cage, C.H. St. John Hornby of the Ashendene Press, Ritchie's boyhood friend and former librarian and dean of the Library School at UCLA, Lawrence Clark Powell; and last of all, but not least, the indviduals and colorful history of once wealthy and sophisticated Virginia City. Distributed for Dawson's Book Shop by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 47016

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Rostenberg, Leona & Madeleine B. Stern. FROM REVOLUTION TO REVOLUTION: PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLISHING & BOOKSELLING.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2002 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 192 pages.
First edition. This series of historical essays survey the past five centuries of printing and publishing and their technical achivements. Beginning with Gutenberg's 15th-century printing revolution to today's high-tech e-books, the authors present a calvacade of new insights into publishing history. This work follows a humble trade that grew into a profession that today faces its second great revolution.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 69266

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Rostenberg, Leona THE MINORITY PRESS & THE ENGLISH CROWN, A STUDY IN REPRESSION, 1558-1625.
Nieuwkoop B. De Graaf 1971 8vo. cloth. xii, 263 pages.
First edition. A richly documented book, portraying the clandestine activity of the under-ground Catholic and Puritan presses in England and on the Continent during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I. With full details of government censorship. "... this erudite study will provide interest and enlightenment... It is fascinating and surprising to see how detailed an account of these essentially secret operations Leona Rostenberg's researched have enabled her to give" (Times Literary Supplement, March 10, 1972).

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103765

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Roth, F.W.E. GESCHICHTE UND BIBLIOGRAPHIE DER BUCHDRUCKEREIEN ZU SPEIER IM XV. UND XVI. JAHRHUNDERT.
3 parts in 1. Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1966 8vo cloth (ii),80; 112; (10) pages.
Reprint of the 1894 edition published in Speier. History and bibliography of early printing in this town of the Palatinate. Deals with famous printers like Peter Drach I, II, and III, Johann and Conrad Hist, a.o. 400 Besterman entries.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 103674

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Rousselle, Hippolyte BIBLIOGRAPHIE MONTOISE. ANNALES DE L'IMPRIMERIE À MONS DEPUIS 1580 JUSQU'À NOS JOURS MONS, 1858.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1971 8vo cloth viii, 771 pages.
Reprint of the 1858 edition published in Mons. With some facsimiles.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 230.00 other currencies Order nr. 103524

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Rouzet, Anne DICTIONNAIRE DES IMPRIMEURS, LIBRAIRES ET ÉDITEURS DES XVE ET XVIE SIÈCLES DANS LES LIMITES GÉOGRAPHIQUES DE LA BELGIQUE ACTUELLE. AVEC LA COLLABORATION DE M. COLIN-BOON, P. DEPREZ, M. LEFÈVRE, R. ROBBRECHT ET L. VAN DEN BRANDEN.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1975 4to Cloth (VI), 287 pp. in double col
Full biographies of some 800 Belgian printers and publishers of the 15th and 16th century, with a complete survey of the existing literature on each.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 265.00 other currencies Order nr. 103534

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Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND THE IRON HANDPRESS
2 volumes. New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2004 small 4to. unbound sheets 1152 pages
First edition. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900 - Gabriel Rummonds has distilled over two hundred years of printers' wisdom into this very readable and important work on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century.
This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is a worthy companion to Rummonds' 1998 classic, Printing on the Iron Handpress. Co-published with The British Library.

Set of unbound sheets suitable for binding (sewn and glued signatures without a case).
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 76433

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Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel PRINTING ON THE IRON HANDPRESS
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press & The British Library 1998 tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket 496 pages.
First edition. This is the definitive printing manual for printing students, contemporary printers and printing historians. A master printer, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds has written a work destined to become a standard text on the art of fine printing. Students, printers, and printing historians will find this new book gratifying, enlightening and extremely instructive. Filling the need for a systematic, step-by-step manual for using this time-honored piece of equipment, this award winning printer and author presents how to print on the iron handpress in comprehensive and thorough detail.
Rummonds' instruction has been gained from over 30 years of experience working with such presses. Drawing his inspiration from historical practices and modifying them for the needs of contemporary printers, he treats this device as if it needs only the proper operation in order to realize its optimum potential.
Rummonds lays out this manual by covering all the materials involved and step-by-step, the various different ways to achieve the same result - to make a distinct, substantial and evenly-inked impression on damp paper. Realizing that there is more than one way to print, the author concentrates on methods that can be repeated with a reasonable amount of success and dependability as well as serving as a point of departure for experimentation. With a Foreword by Harry Duncan, over 400 illustrations and technical drawings by George Laws, and 35 photographs of famous, well-known, historical and contemporary fine printers at their presses. End materials include an extensive glossary, bibliography, and a list of suppliers. Sales Rights: Available outside the UK from Oak Knoll Books. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 48848

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Ryder, John PRINTING FOR PLEASURE, A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR AMATEURS
With a foreword by Vivian Ridler. London The Bodley Head (1976) 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 130, (14) pages.
Revised edition. Printing can be one of the most enjoyable and creative hobbies and since its first publication, this book has brought this fascinating art to hundreds of people. Ryder's book is a primer on printing for the amateur, covering the choice and purchase of press, type, paper and ink plus the planning, designing and production of the printed material itself. Ryder includes a chapter on private press work on both sides of the Atlantic and a full glossary of the printers' terms essential to anyone becoming involved in the world of books and printing. With the price clipped off the jacket and new pricing information from Bodley Head, the original publisher, on a small label affixed to flap of jacket.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 5214

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Schenck, David H. DIRECTORY OF THE LITHOGRAPHIC PRINTERS OF SCOTLAND 1820-1870.
Edinburgh Oak Knoll Press/Edinburgh Biblio. Soc. 1999 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages.
First edition. A comprehensive directory of Scotland's lithographic printers from 1820-1870. This scholarly reference work lists their locations and periods of activity. This work is also a valuable guide towards Scotland's contribution to this artistic period.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 56710

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Schottenloher, Karl DIE LANDSHUTER BUCHDRUCKER DES 16. JAHRHUNDERTS. MIT EINEM ANHANG: DIE APIANUSDRUCKEREI IN INGOLSTADT.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1967 4to stiff paper wrappers. (ix), 93 pages.
Reprint of the 1930 edition published in Mainz. More than 235 entries, the great majority of which are imprints by Johann Weyssenburger. With 20 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 103697

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Schottenloher, Karl DER MÜNCHNER BUCHDRUCKER HANS SCHOBSER, 1500-1530. MIT EINEM ANHANG: WER IST JOHANN LOCHER VON MÜNCHEN?
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1967 4to stiff paper wrappers. xii, 158 pages.
Reprint of the 1925 edition published in München. More than 235 entries. With 35 illustrations on 31 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 80.00 other currencies Order nr. 103696

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Selch, Frederick R. and H. Reynolds Butler. THE LEGACY OF SEBASTIAN VIRDUNG: AN ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE OF RARE BOOKS FROM THE FREDERICK R. SELCH COLLECTION PERTAINING TO THE HISTORY OF MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
New York The Grolier Club 2005 8.5 x 11 inches paperback 240 pages
This book examines works from the Frederick S. Selch Collection pertaining to the history of musical instruments. Selch was well-known for collecting books about history, design, and the use of musical instruments. His books on this field of study will continue to be a resource for research as they present the developing history of the field of organology. The books also reveal plenty about the history of printing and book illustration, and with 100 items showcased, this exhibition represents the diversity and quality of Selch's collection.

Produced after the exhibition held at the Grolier Club from January 26 to March 11, 2005, the book contains much of the commentary included in the labels displayed at the exhibition. Laurence Libdin, Curator of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and H. Reynolds Butler provide additional commentary. Entries are arranged chronologically under author, compiler, or publisher. Each description includes full title transcriptions with original spellings, ligatures, and punctuation, commentary, format, register of signatures, number of leaves, pagination, and page size. The publication also includes a summary of each book's printing history and references. In addition to the catalogue, appendixes, notes, and an index are presented. The book, designed by Jerry Kelly and printed by the Studley Press, is beautifully illustrated in black-and-white.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 106662

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Shields, David S., Caroline Sloat, et al. LIBERTY! ÉGALITÉ! INDEPENDENCIA! : PRINT CULTURE, ENLIGHTENMENT AND REVOLUTION IN THE AMERICAS, 1776-1838.
Papers from a Conference at the American Antiquarian Society in June 2006 and the James Russell Wiggins Lecture 'We declare you independent whether you wish it or not': The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism. Worcester, MA American Antiquarian Society 2007 6 x 9.25 inches paperback 216 pages
This new book begins with the 2006 James Russell Wiggins Lecture, an annual activity of the American Antiquarian Society through its Program in the History of the Book in American Culture. The lectureship honors the memory of James Russell Wiggins, the president of the American Antiquarian Society from 1970 to 1977. This year, the lecture was given by David Shields on the topic "'We declare you independent whether you wish it or not': The Print Culture of Early Filibusterism."
The conference papers explore the circulation, translation, revision, cross-cultural interpretation and influence of key texts inciting revolt against colonial domination and establishing independent states in the western hemisphere during the first age of Revolution. Matters treated include the effect of European Enlightenment books and pamphlets on independence movements throughout the Americas; the representation of Revolutions in North America, France, Haiti, Central and South America in the press; the publication of public documents, charters and political declarations and their international influence; print and the reaction against the Revolution; and the literature of Revolution and the creation of the "vox populi" in new American nation states.
Distributed for the American Antiquarian Society.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 95793

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(Society of Printers) Kosofsky, Scott-Martin (editor) THE SP CENTURY: BOSTON'S SOCIETY OF PRINTERS THROUGH ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF CHANGE.
Charlestown and Boston, MA and New Castle,DE Society of Printers, Boston Public Library, Oak Knoll Press 2006 6 x 9 inches cloth, leather inset label with SP logo 268 pages
This beautifully produced volume celebrates the centennial of Boston's Society of Printers, the oldest honorary society of its kind in America. Founded in 1905 by such luminaries as Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, Henry Lewis Johnson, Carl Purington Rollins, and William Dana Orcutt, the Society's dedicated membership over the years has included the likes of William A. Dwiggins (who in 1922 actually coined the term "graphic design"), Rudolph Ruzicka, John Howard Benson, Ray Nash, Roderick Stinehour, Dorothy Abbe, Hermann Zapf, Philip Hofer, Leonard Baskin, and Matthew Carter.
The book's ten original essays cover unusually broad ground for such a publication, not only delving into the Society's history and Boston's, but also into more philosophical terrain, examining questions such as the definition of printing itself, the political and sociological worlds of some prominent members, and the grand-scale game of "musical chairs" played by those who have called themselves "printers" over the past hundred years. An essay on type and lettering design among the SP membership and its circle is especially rich, comprising interviews with leading practitioners and including information on these crafts that cannot be found elsewhere. A review of a century of meeting announcements is a microcosmic history of American graphic design and printing techniques in the 20th century. Also examined are the habits of the great book collectors among the Society's members, and the distinguished group who have continued in the realm of handmade books and fine letterpress printing.
The authors are all noted scholars and practitioners: Lance Hidy, Jean Evans, Eleanor M. Garvey, James E. Mooney, Barry Moser, Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Darrell Hyder, Al Gowan, Victor Curran, and Scott-Martin Kosofsky. The designer of the book is the renowned Roderick Stinehour, who contributed a colophon that is a fine essay in its own right. Scott-Martin Kosofsky, well-known designer and author of Judaic works, edited the volume. As one might expect from a book produced by and for The Society of Printers, the Design and Execution are exceptional. The illustrations have been rendered in stunning four-color tone, making everything from the black-and-white images to the full color illustrations crisp and eye-catching. Co-published with The Society of Printers and The Boston Public Library.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 92255

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Southall, Richard PRINTER'S TYPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: MANUFACTURING AND DESIGN METHODS.
New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2005 7 x 10 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 256 pages.
First edition. The last years of the nineteenth century saw the final stages in the transition of type manufacture from a craft to an industrial process, and the first appearance of complex mechanical systems for the composition of text. A hundred years later, text composition used only the simple mechanisms inside laser printers and image-setters, and type manufacture was well on the way to becoming a craft process once again; though now with computer displays and software replacing steel punches and copper matrices.

Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution. The book takes a theoretical view of its topic, rather than a simple narrative approach. It is intended for readers interested in recent typographic history, and the relationships between design methods and production technologies in type manufacture.

Richard Southall has been involved with type and typography since the early 1960s; in publishing, composing-machine manufacture and development, teaching, research and consultancy. All enthusiasts of typography and its fascinating history will enjoy this important work. Contains 150 illustrations. Co-published with The British Library. Sales Rights: North & South America only; available elsewhere from The British Library.
Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 79701

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Spevack, Marvin (Editor). ISAAC D'ISRAELI ON BOOKS: PRE-VICTORIAN ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF LITERATURE
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2004 6.75 x 9.5 inches cloth, dust jacket xxxvii, 266 pages
First edition. Benjamin D'Israeli was of the opinion that he was born in a library. The library was reputed to have held about 25,000 volumes and belonged to his father, Isaac D'Israeli, a prolific and popular author of fiction, poems and historical subjects. Over his lifetime, D'Israeli had much to say about books, and the essays in this volume demonstrate his "honest desire of giving useful pleasure," as well as his conviction that books form the character of civilization. This is a fascinating read on a topic which is absorbing and thought-provoking for any bibliophile. Includes major sections on 1. Writing and Reading, 2. Printing and Publishing, 3. Books, 4. Authors & Co., 5. Preservation and Destruction, 6. Property and Politics, 7. Libraries. Includes a biography of D'Israeli by the editor at the beginning. Co-published with the British Library. Sales rights North and South America.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 75715

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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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