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Staikos, K. & Sklavenitis, T. (editors). THE PRINTED GREEK BOOK 15TH - 19TH CENTURY.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press and Kotinos Publications 2004 6.5" x 9.5" Half faux leather/printed paper-covered boards, 710 pages
Printed letterpress in an edition limited to 1000 copies. In May of 2001, an International Congress on the History of Greek Printing was held in Delphi, Greece where leading scholars presented over 40 papers pertaining to dissemination of the Greek language via manuscripts, books and documents. The collection of essays compiled in this book is the publication of these learned papers.
A sample of essays within the text includes the following: "The First Use of Greek Type in Spain, France, the Low Countries and England" by Dennis E. Rhodes; "Andreas Kounadis and the Nicolini da Sabbio" by Evro Layton; "Libri Greci Impressi da Melchiorre Sessa Solo e in Societa con Pietro di Ravini (1521-1555)" by Silvia Curi Nicolardi; "Greek Books in Venice" by Marino Zorzi; "Controversial Problems Regarding the Printing Press of Moschopolis" by Max Demeter Peyfuss; "Echi e Riflessi dell'Illuminismo Veneto nella Letteratura Scientifica del Tardo Settecento Eptanesio" by Maria Laura Soppelsa; and "British Collections of Seventeenth-Century Greek Liturgical Books" by Michael Jeffreys.
This illustrated and handsomely bound volume is one of the best scholarly works on the diaspora of the Greek written word. The essays appear in a broad variety of languages, and many are printed in Greek. There is a useful appendix that contains abstracts in English for all 30 of the essays in Greek. It should be on the book shelf of all scholars of Greek culture and anyone interested in early books in the West. Co-published with Kotinos Publications, Athens Greece.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 76423

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. GREEK LIBRARY: THE KONSTANTINOS SP. STAIKOS BOOK COLLECTION HENCEFORTH THE ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION LIBRARY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2011 9 x 12.25 inches hardcover 550 pages
Greek Library is a bibliography of the collection of Konstantinos Sp. Staikos acquired by the Library of the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation. This collection represents the entire spectrum of the intellectual pursuits of the Greeks of the Diaspora, extending over a period from the Early Renaissance until the late years of Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. The books in this collection not only exemplify Greek printing and publishing activities, but they demonstrate the participation of Greeks in international politics and religious matters in the courts of empires such as Russia and Austria.

The collection includes more than 1,200 titles divided into five sections. The first section, Renaissance-Humanism, discusses first editions of Greek literature, grammaires, and Lexikons. The other sections examine Neo-Hellenic literature, liturgies, theology, and the Neo-Hellenic Enlightenment. Among these sections, poetry, novels, mythistories, gospels, psalters, the Old and New Testament, Works of the Greek Fathers, Dogmatic works, translations of European literature, and specimens of Greek typography in many places are examined.

For each listed book, full bibliographical notes, references in standard bibliographies, provenance, comments, notes, and descriptions by the writer are provided. There are over 700 printers' marks listed, as well as many title pages and portraits of writers, publishers, and editors. A general introduction, introductions for each section, a general index, and an index of printers are also included.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 104816

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. GREEK PHILOSOPHICAL EDITIONS IN THE FIRST CENTURY OF PRINTING.
New Castle, DE Oak Knoll Press 2001 large 8vo. paper-covered boards. 224 pages
This beautifully-printed and illustrated exhibition catalogue is a literary feast for the eye as well as for the mind. The reader is treated to a majestic array of rare, early Greek editions illustrated by their title pages and often with portraits of their authors. The exhibition was displayed at the International Conference on Greek Books held at the European Cultural Center of Delphi, Greece in May, 2001. Mr. Staikos' extensive research into the books of the Greek Diaspora, his passion for the subject and the many editions from his personal collection make up this unique labor of love. The text is in English and Greek, printed in color. Distributed for Kotinos Editions.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 64075

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Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. PRINTERS' & PUBLISHERS' MARKS IN BOOKS FOR THE GREEK WORLD (1494-1821).
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF 2009 8.75 x 12.25 inches hardcover, dust jacket 254 pages
This book contains reproductions of the printers and publishers marks of all those - both Greeks and non-Greeks - who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typography until just before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Their aim was to preserve the historical memory of the modern Greeks, to foster the use of the Greek language, and to uphold the Orthodox faith. Also reproduced here are the crests and coats of arms of the rulers of the Danubian principalities who actively supported the publication and dissemination of Greek books in the East. Some of the devices are the marks of well-known printing houses, where Greek scholars and calligraphers were largely responsible for the accuracy of the texts and the visual appearance of the book, such as the firms of Aldus Manutius in Venice and Robert Estienne in Paris. All this printing and publishing activity, even if limited to only books containing printers or publishers marks, covered a vast area of the Western and Eastern worlds. The list of places where these books were produced includes Alcalá, Bucharest, Constantinople, Florence, Geneva, Jassy, Kefallonia, London, Milan, Moschopolis, Mount Athos, Paris, Rome, Venice, and Vienna.

The marks are illustrated and described in all their variant forms, complete with bibliographical references, identifications, a general index, and an index of printers and printing houses. They are shown at actual size and presented chronologically. Includes a brief message to the reader by the author, as well as an extensive and detailed introduction.

Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 125.00 other currencies Order nr. 102238

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Steiff, Karl DER ERSTE BUCHDRUCK IN TÜBINGEN (1498-1534). EIN BEITRAG ZUR GESCHICHTE DER UNIVERSITÄT.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1963 6.25 x 9 inches cloth. 302 pages
Reprint of the 1881 edition published in Tübingen, supplemented by additions published in the Zentralblatt für Bibliothekswesen 1887, 1889, 1896. Describes 161 genuine Tübingen imprints, 18 dubious- and 57 apocryph imprints as well as 54 books printed outside of Tübingen. With some facsimiles.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103699

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Steinberg, S.H. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRINTING.
New edition, revised by John Trevitt. London & New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press & The British Library (2001) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages.
New edition, entirely re-set and containing over one hundred new illustrations. Five Hundred Years of Printing describes the pivotal role that printing has played in the development of human civilization. This work covers the history of printing with movable types through several periods. Steinberg begins with the creative century (1450-1550), which witnessed the invention and beginnings of practically every single feature that characterizes the modern printing piece. An era of consolidation (1550-1800) then followed and refined achievements of the preceding period. The 19th century experienced an era of mechanization, beginning with the invention of lithography and ending with Morris's rediscovery of the Middle Ages and the heyday of the private presses. This and the inception of paperbacks preceded the post-war world, which saw the fields of typesetting, printing and publishing turned upside down.
Five Hundred Years also traces the close relationship between printing and culture over many years and also discusses topics like censorship, bestsellers, popular series, and the connection between printing and education, language and literature. Now available again in a larger, finely-illustrated format, Oak Knoll Press's edition, revised and updated by John Trevitt, draws on the collections and curatorial expertise of the British Library. This new edition takes into account the huge technological changes that the printing industry has experienced in the last two decades.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 43776

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Sterne, Harold E. A CATALOGUE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY PRINTING PRESSES.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2001 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages.
From presses similar to Gutenberg's wine press to the mechanical marvels of the 1890s, this visually remarkable work contains the largest collection of printing equipment illustrations and advertisements to date. A careful study of the more than 480 rare woodcuts and engravings of Hand, Cylinder, Platen, Lever, Lithographic, and Rotary presses will reveal the subtle and major changes each manufacturer made to enhance his machine's productivity and printing quality. Never before has the printing or publishing historian had such a comprehensive resource at his disposal. This work truly captures the engineering technology of a bygone age. The author has spent 30 years gathering and compiling this information, a true labor of love. This second, expanded edition has over 150 new illustrations.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 61915

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Stillwell, Margaret Bingham THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD OF BOOKS, 1450 TO 1470: A CHRONOLOGICAL SURVEY OF THE TEXTS CHOSEN FOR PRINTING DURING THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE PRINTING ART.
WITH SYNOPSIS OF THE GUTENBERG DOCUMENTS New York The Bibliographical Society of America 1972 7 x 9.5 inches hardcover 140 pages
According to the Preface, for a hundred years or more, the bibliographical scholars of the world have sought to identify the man of genius who, in the mid-fifteenth century, changed the course of civilization by introducing the art of printing into the Western World. Our knowledge of Gutenberg and his claim rests upon two factors: a series of documents in manuscript that range from 1420 to the settling of his estate in 1468. These, however, fail to give conclusive support to his claim as the inventor of printing, although presenting, in the early records, an occasional and vague reference to printing, paper, ink, a press, and "four pieces" which Theodore Low DeVinne, Dr. Otto W. Fuhrmann and others have identified as the parts of a type-casting mould. The second factor consists of tributes to Gutenberg by his contemporaries and their successors, which specifically name him as the inventor of printing in statements which appeared in printed books issued during the years 1470-1499. Stillwell's work contains a bibliography of 215 of the first printed documents described as "Books and Broadsides 1450-1470," along with supplementary sections and notes on the Gutenberg documents.
Price: $ 17.50 other currencies Order nr. 34594

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Tanselle, G. Thomas LITERATURE AND ARTIFACTS.
Charlottesville Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia (1998) 8vo. cloth. xvii, 355 pages.
First edition. Fifteen essays exploring the interconnections between verbal works and the physical objects (primarily manuscripts and printed books) that transmit them. Divided into five groups with such chapters as "Libraries, Museums, and Reading," "The Latest Forms of Book-Burning," "A Description of Descriptive Bibliography," "Books, Canons, and the Nature of Dispute," and "Printing History and Other History."
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 53838

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Thompson, Susan Otis AMERICAN BOOK DESIGN AND WILLIAM MORRIS With a new Foreword by Jean-Francois Vilain.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 1996 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 318 pages with 113 illustrations.
Paperback edition. Reprint of the first edition with additional illustrations and new introduction. With his Kelmscott Press and associations with the Arts & Crafts Movement, William Morris helped raise the public's awareness of fine books to new heights. Morris inspired and influenced a generation of other designers and those working in American typography and book design, including Updike, Rogers, Goudy, Bradley, Cleland, Dwiggins, Ransom, Nash and Collins.
This landmark study documents the true extent of Morris's influence on American bookmaking. Now republished by Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, this edition comes with a new Foreword by Jean-François Vilain and contains 111 illustrations of bindings, title pages, type and decorations reproduced from the originals, as well as an extensive bibliography. This book is a vital contribution to the history of American design, intellectualism and culture, appealing not only to those interested in the history of book design, art, graphic art and typography, but also to librarians, book collectors and those studying the literature of the period. Sales Rights: Available worldwide outside the UK from Oak Knoll Books. Available in the UK from The British Library.
Price: $ 34.95 other currencies Order nr. 44931

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Twyman, Michael EARLY LITHOGRAPHED BOOKS, A STUDY OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION OF IMPROPER BOOKS IN THE AGE OF THE HAND PRESS, WITH A CATALOGUE.
London Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association (1990) small 4to. cloth. 374 pages.
First edition. Includes chapters on Lithographic incunables, Military manuals, The Lithographic Publications of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Books on Accounting, and Books with pictures. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 31987

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Twyman, Michael A HISTORY OF CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY.
Printed Colour For All New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2013 9 x 12 inches hardcover, dust jacket 728 pages
The book is the first since the process was in its heyday to offer a detailed account of how chromolithographs were made, tracing the evolution of this hand-drawn color-printing process from its tentative beginnings in Germany in the early nineteenth century to its spread from Europe to the United States and beyond. Drawing on a variety of sources - manuals, journals, correspondence, preparatory drawings, proofs, interviews with people in the trade, as well as the products themselves - the author provides fascinating insights into the methods and skills of the chromolithographer.

This is also the first book to consider chromolithography from a global standpoint. It gives particular attention to the movement of artists, printers, equipment, materials, products, and ideas across national boundaries, and contextualizes all this with respect to the development of the lithographic trade and its organization.

At one end of the market chromolithography met a voracious demand for color printing in everyday life; at the other, it was applied to work of real quality: illustrations (for science, art, architecture, and design), reproductions of famous and popular paintings, maps and atlases, facsimiles of manuscripts, book covers, posters, and high-end product catalogues. All are discussed in the context of other color processes and illustrated with examples drawn from a dozen or so countries.

With 850 color illustrations and an extensive index, this book is an essential resource for those interested in chromolithography.

Michael Twyman is Emeritus Professor of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, and has played an active role in several societies concerned with printing, particularly the Printing Historical Society and the Ephemera Society. His publications include many articles and book chapters, in addition to over a dozen books, among them: Printing 1770-1970 (1970; 1998), Lithography 1800-1850 (1970), Early lithographed books (1990), Early lithographed music (1996), The British Library guide to printing (1998), Breaking the mould: the first hundred years of lithography (2001), and Images en couleur (2007).

Available outside North and South America from the British Library.
Price: $ 130.00 other currencies Order nr. 118671

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(Typophiles) THE TYPOPHILES PUBLISHING PROGRAM.
New York The Typophiles 1999 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (ii), 17, (5) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Typophile Monograph, New Series - Number 15. Printed at the Woodside Press in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Preface by Theo Rehak giving a history of the publishing program, followed by a tribute to Morris Gelfand. With a wood engraving by John DePol on the title page. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 61926

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(Ulhart, Philipp) Schottenloher, Karl PHILIPP ULHART, EIN AUGSBURGER WINKELDRUCKER UND HELFERSHELFER DER "SCHWÄRMER" UND "WIEDERTÄUFER" (1523-1529).
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1967 8vo stiff paper wrappers. 160 pages.
Reprint of the 1921 edition published in München. More than 220 entries. With 6 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 103698

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE
2 volumes in one. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2001 6.5 x 9 inches hardcover, dust jacket 1,088 pages
Third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. This extraordinary work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons they contain for today's designers. The original two-volume set has been combined into one book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. Updike's well-written text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these illustrations, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England, as well as German, Italian and French types of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. The closing chapters on choice of type and the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to problems printers face are very informative. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 63429

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van de Weghe, Frank, Bart op de Beeck DRUKKERSMERKEN UIT DE 15DE EN DE 16DE EEUW BINNEN DE GRENZEN VAN HET HUIDIGE BELGIË. MARQUES TYPOGRAPHIQUES EMPLOYÉES AU XVE ET XVIE SIÈCLES DANS LES LIMITES GÉOGRAPHIQUES DE LA BELGIQUE ACTUELLE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1993 9 x 11 in hardcover 338 pages.
Printers are arranged alphabetically, and each printer has a chronological list of numbered devices. Each mark has at least one bibliographical reference (imprint), accompanied by a location (library) and the size of the device in millimeters. The catalogue had been provided with seven indices, for example, an index of monograms of woodcutters and engravers, and a subject index in Dutch and French. With c. 600 reproductions of printer's and publisher's devices.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 340.00 other currencies Order nr. 103563

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. VINE LEAF ORNAMENTS IN RENAISSANCE TYPOGRAPHY: A SURVEY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers 2012 5 x 7 inches hardcover 416 pages
This new study from respected typographical scholar Hendrik Vervliet is the first published history of the sixteenth-century vine leaf as a typographical ornament. Not only is it an important contribution to typographical history, but it also provides a useful tool for identifying and dating books without an imprint.

In the course of the early sixteenth century, decoration of the printed book underwent a double metamorphosis. Previous medieval floral embellishments, commonly copied from Islamic and Byzantine sources, were replaced by new motifs including strapwork, interlacing, scrolls, and denaturalized leaves and stems. At the same time, there was a gradual inclusion of cast ornaments into the printers bills-of-fount, replacing the prestigious and time-consuming hand-painted illumination and decoration, and the sometimes crude woodcut techniques.

This new survey deals with the birth and early history of the typographical ornament commonly known as a vine leaf or Aldine leaf. Starting in 1505, the introduction sketches the fleurons beginnings in handwritten form onwards to printed epigraphical handbooks. These small ornaments originated as type-cast sorts in the first decade of the sixteenth century in Augsburg and Basle at presses that attended to the interests of a humanist reading public. From the 1520s onwards, the design evolved into an all-purpose decorative motif fitting for any publication. Venice and Paris designers, such as Garamont and Granjon, cut new designs that can still be found in most digital fonts today.

The main part of this book is a comprehensive catalogue of all sixteenth-century type-cast vine leaf designs. It provides a descriptive notice of each fleuron, irrespective of its aesthetic merit or country of origin. Illustrated with leaves throughout, the book details punchcutter, size, first and early appearances, and notes. A list of leaves in order of ascending width and a list by punchcutter or eponym are also included. These concluding lists are intended to assist in bibliographical research and provide inspiration for designers. In addition, through the examination of these typographic ornaments, this book provides a methodology for dating and locating books without an imprint.

Hendrik D.L. Vervliet has published books on humanism, bibliography, and book history. In 2011, the American Printing Historical Society presented him with its Annual Award for a distinguished contribution to the study of printing history.

Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 108912

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(Virgil) Kallendorf, Craig A CATALOGUE OF THE JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN COLLECTION OF VIRGIL IN THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY LIBRARY.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2009 8.5 x 11 inches hardcover, dust jacket 544 pages
The Junius Spencer Morgan collection at Princeton University consists of over 700 titles (totaling around 900 volumes) of editions of the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC), in Latin and in various vernacular languages. Technically the collection includes items ranging from the first printed edition (Rome, 1469) to the present, but the focus is strongly on material published in the early modern period.

This collection was formed by Junius Spencer Morgan, the nephew of the financier J. P. Morgan. Morgan's interest in Virgil was undoubtedly encouraged during his student days at Princeton and reflects his efforts to obtain the best copies he could find of items noteworthy for their scholarship, their illustrations, or their place in publishing history. The result is one of the largest collections of early printed editions of Virgil in the world, a collection whose balance and integrity make it the proper beginning place for research in this field. Given Virgil's central place in western education during the early centuries of printing, the catalogue of the Morgan collection should be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and historians of education as well as classicists and specialists in printing history and the history of the book. This handsomely-produced volume includes close to fifty full-page color illustrations from the collection.

Craig Kallendorf received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, and is Professor of Classics and English and Cornerstone Faculty Fellow at Texas A&M University. His recent books include two Oxford monographs on Virgil: Virgil and the Myth of Venice: Books and Readers in Renaissance Italy (1999) and The Other Virgil: Subversive Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (2007), along with bibliographies of early Italian printed editions of Virgil and of the Aldine collection at the University of Texas. For Oak Knoll Press, he has co-edited The Books of Venice / Il libro veneziano (2009) and is working on a complete bibliography of the pre-1850 printed editions of Virgil.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 100481

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Webster, Edward PRINT UNCHAINED: FIFTY YEARS OF DIGITAL PRINTING, 1950-2000 AND BEYOND - A SAGA OF INVENTION AND ENTERPRISE.
West Dover, VT Dra of Vermont, Inc. (2000) oblong 4to. cloth, dust jacket xv, (iii), 253+(1) pages
First edition. Written to fill a perceived gap in technology history, the author seeks not only to document but also to celebrate the role digital printing has taken in the dissemination of ideas and images. Containing background and instructional material, Part One first examines the roots of digital printing and then the various technologies, applications and broad changes in both the products and the industry over the fifty years from 1950 to 2000. In Part Two, each decade is closely examined by focusing on one or two industry-changing companies, following their contributions from their inception to the present day. From Adobe to Xerox, from IBM and GE to Dataproducts and Printronix, the stories of these entrepreneurs and managers who helped make this revolution happen unfold, many times in their own words. A review of the patterns and lesson learned and a look into the future of digital printing comprise Part Three, followed by a glossary, a bibliography and an index. There are, of course, numerous black-and-white and color illustrations.
Price: $ 49.95 other currencies Order nr. 76200

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Wittop Koning, D.A. HARDERWIJKER BOEKDRUKKERS.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1985 8vo cloth 181 pages.
Contains a.o. a list of 289 Harderwijk imprints 1611-1816. With frontispiece in color and 67 facsimile plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 103589

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Wolfe, Richard J. JACOB BIGELOW'S AMERICAN MEDICAL BOTANY, 1817-1821.
An Examination of the Origin, Printing, Binding and Distribution of America's First Color Plate Book, With Special Emphasis on the Manner of Making and Printing Its Colored Plates. New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press 2012 6 x 9 inches hardcover 128 pages
Second edition, limited to 260 copies.

Jacob Bigelow's American Medical Botany, published in three volumes between 1817 and 1821 and containing sixty colored plates, occupies a unique place in American book printing and book illustration. Of all the books published in the United States before the mid-nineteenth century introduction of chromolithography, it was the only one to have its plates mechanically printed in color, not colored by hand in the usual manner of the day.

Richard J. Wolfe's classic study of this seminal work, issued initially in 1979 and now reissued in a revised and augmented edition, has made use of Dr. Bigelow's previously unavailable manuscript papers and other previously unknown or little known records to come up with some startling conclusions. His investigations show that Dr. Bigelow's original plan was to have his plates colored by hand by artists. But this plan proved overly ambitious and the project faced failure. So, he and those working with him invented a method of printing the book's plates on stone in a simple manner that prefigured and predated chromolithography by about two decades, thus enabling him to bring his projected work to a successful conclusion. Wolfe's investigation of the origin, printing, binding, and distribution through subscription of this signal work also constitutes an important case study of the production, from conception to completion, of a significant book of that early period.

The 1979 edition of Wolfe's work went out of print quickly. As in that edition, this second edition contains, tipped in, two of Bigelow's original plates, one left uncolored and one colored by hand. These plates were rendered obsolete when the doctor and his cohorts discovered a novel way of printing them in color.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 108936

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Woodfield, Denis B. SURREPTITIOUS PRINTING IN ENGLAND, 1550-1640.
New York Bibliographical Society of America 1973 4to. cloth. ix, 203 pages.
This book deals with those books, pamphlets and broadsides in contemporary foreign languages, including French, Italian, Spanish and Dutch, that were surreptitiously printed in England before 1640. Each of the 65 works is discussed in one of the six chapters. Printers and printing historians will also enjoy the reproductions of the titles pages and all 305 printer's ornaments and initials used in every work except for one.
The introduction of this book attempts to present the story of the origins and development of surreptitious printing in foreign vernaculars in chronological form. Woodfield distinguishes between the word "surreptitiously printed" and "secretly printed" to describe these books as not illegal, but having meant to mislead the average reader, English or foreign, into believing that the work had been published in the country in whose language it was printed. A book in a foreign vernacular which was printed for the private order of a customer would also be considered to have been "surreptitiously printed" if it lacks an imprint. Some books may also have been printed because the author or patron decided to subsidize a possibly uneconomic edition. Included is a section on typography as well as a bibliography.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 19752

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(Worde, Wynkyn de) Moran, James WYNKYN DE WORDE, FATHER OF FLEET STREET.
New Castle DE Oak Knoll Press 2003 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket 76 pages
Wynkyn de Worde was William Caxton's assistant, and, in about 1500, he was the first printer to set up his shop in London's Fleet Street, which was for centuries perhaps the world's most famous center of printing. He was not just a craftsman; his place in history is that of the first publisher to popularize the products of the printing press. His output was huge - more than 700 works over a period of forty years. He produced a great variety of books: children's books, short histories, poetry, romances, instructions for pilgrims, and works on good manners, marriage, household practice, medicines for horses, and husbandry. Wynkyn de Worde laid the foundations of commercial publishing in Britain.
For this revised third edition of James Moran's book, Lotte Hellinga and Mary Erier have provided a new introduction, which takes account of recent research, and also a detailed chronological bibliography of works on Wynkyn de Worde.
1 map, 9 black-and-white illustrations. Sales Rights: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library.
Price: $ 22.95 other currencies Order nr. 73568

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(Wynkyn De Worde Society) Chave, Leonard FORTY YEARS ON: THE WYNKYN DE WORDE SOCIETY 1957-1997.
Hertfordshire, England The Wynkyn de Worde Society 1997 8vo. cloth 55 pages
First edition. This work celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Society, one that is concerned with the development of the graphic arts industry. The existence of the Society coincides with immense technological and human changes that have affected the industry, and this record of the Society's activities mirrors these profound changes year by year. The Society's archivist and compiler of this work has industriously assembled an archive documenting the Society's activities since 1957. From this archive, he has created this printed account with details of some 200 speakers, principal outings, and events, drawing on Minute Books, printed table offerings and keepsakes, and more substantial publications of the Society. Well-illustrated.
Price: $ 40.00 other currencies Order nr. 50260

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Yamada, Akihiro PETER SHORT: AN ELIZABETHAN PRINTER
Mie Mie University Press 2002 large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 265+(1) pages.
First edition. Peter Short's printing house produced, among other notable works, the first two quartos of Shakespeare's Henry VI Part One (1598), and editions of The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis. Also from his house came the first editions of Thomas Morley's Canzonets or Little Short Songs to Four Voices (1597) and the first three editions of John Dowland's The First Book of Songs or Airs of Four Parts (1597). This book aims to examine all the books he printed, to make an accurate assessment of his house's productivity and to give the master printer his due place in the history of printing. A brief but fully documented biography of Short is followed by a list of all the books he printed, including several new ascriptions. For each book, the STC number is given, together with date and collation, and the location of all copies consulted in the preparation of the study. On the basis of this list, Short's productivity is discussed, including shared printing, and his extensive stock of decorative blocks and types is catalogued. Nearly half the book is occupied by reproductions of all his title-page borders, decorative initials and factotums, with most of his flowers, woodcuts and other ornamental blocks. These reproductions provide a useful reference tool for studies in the printing business and book trade in contemporary London. Distributed for Akihiro Yamada.
Price: $ 50.00 other currencies Order nr. 75325

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