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(Maret, Russell) Maret, Russell ÆTHELWOLD ETC
New York, NY Editions Schlechter 2013 folio stiff paper wrappers 128 pages
Deluxe edition, accompanied by an original lettered specimen. Out of print since 2010, Æthelwold Etc is now available in meticulous facsimile from Editions Schlechter, comprising the complete standard edition of the original as well as the diary of ink colors that accompanied the deluxe edition. Photographed at an insanely high resolution by 42-Line in Oakland, California, every line, impression, and paper fiber of the original edition is reproduced with remarkable clarity. 750 copies have been printed, of which 55 are signed, numbered, and accompanied by an original letter from the edition.

The twenty-six letters of Æthelwold Etc were designed to explore the relationships between alphabetical form and literary content, the limits of a letter forms individuality within the context of the alphabetical community, and the tensions between typographic assumptions, personal history, and creative desire. Theses various themes are further explored in the second half of the book, a section of notes in which any poetry related to a letters design is also included. The printing of the letters was conceived in the spirit of chromatic maximalism, requiring as many as nine colors to realize a single letter form and 105 different ink colors for all twenty-six. In his review of the book, Paul F. Gehl, the Keeper of the Newberry Librarys Wing Foundation on the History of Printing, said, Russell Marets ambitious new book is several things: an alphabet book, a commonplace book, an artists book, and a tour-de-force of color letterpress printing…. In a world where anyone can draw a new face and dozens appear every year, remarkably few of them really show anything fresh or even thoughtful. Fewer still challenge our comfortable assumptions about size, fit, and spacing. If you are up for an elegant, delicate violation of your typographic expectations, have a serious look at Æthelwold Etc. Winner of a Judges Choice Award at the 2009 UK Fine Press Book Fair.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 118740

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(Miniature Books) BRILLIANTS: A SETTING OF HUMOROUS POETRY IN BRILLIANT TYPES.
New York De Vinne Press 1888 miniature book (5.8 x 4.3 cm) original leather, decorative gilt stamping on spine and boards, all edges gilt xv, 96 pages
(Bradbury, De Vinne Press 1). Called by Bradbury "an example of typographic excellence," using a 4-point "brilliant" type. Table of contents. A collection of humorous late 19th century poetry, but published mainly to demonstrate the type face. Preface by Theodore L. De Vinne. Front inside hinge cracked. Scuffed at edges of spine. Previous owners' bookplates on front pastedown and free endpaper.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 117115

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(Miniature Books) Ege, Otto F. THE STORY OF THE ALPHABET ITS EVOLUTION AND DEVELOPMENT. EMBELLISHED TYPOGRAPHICALLY WITH PRINTERS FLOWERS ARRANGED BY RICHARD J. HOFFMAN.
Van Nuys, CA Richard J. Hoffman 1988 miniature book (7 x 7.3 cm) decorated cloth. 78, (4) pages.
Limited to 250 copies (Bradbury, Hoffman 7). A beautiful reproduction of an interesting essay on the history of each letter of the Roman alphabet. Each letter of the alphabet has been printed with Goudy Ornate type surrounded by a colorful arrangement of various printer's fleurons.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 26080

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(Miniature Books) Sherman, E. Helene BEAU-BEAU'S 1 2 3.
(Sudbury, MA Kurbel Books 1984) miniature book (6 x 6 cm) embroidered cloth covers with small metal dog attached to a ribbon as a bookmarker Printed accordian style with 21 leaves.
Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury, Kurbel 4). Art by E. Helene Sherman, Layout by Robert E. Massmann and frontispiece portrait by Fred G. Moynlhan, Jr. Ten stages in this dog's life as told in illustrated pictures with hand-colored numbers. This special edition of this book has a needlework binding hand-made by Gayle Roberts-Cullen and is signed by her, the author and Joseph L. Curran who operated Kurbel Books. This special version has additional pages of illustrations, all illustrations colored by hand, and four extra pages of pasted on 20-cent stamps of dogs.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117169

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(Morison, Stanley) Bridges, Robert. THE INFLUENCE OF THE AUDIENCE. CONSIDERATIONS PRELIMINARY TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE'S CHARACTERS.
New York Doubleday, Page & Co. 1926 8vo. printed paper-covered boards, slipcase 23 pages.
With the following as part of the title page "One hundred copies printed for Stanley Morison at the press of Doubleday, Page & Co." "Morison spent a month and a half in America. He got the 'The Influence of the Audience' printed, a neat plain little book set in Caslon, with capitals two sizes smaller than the lower-case letters" - (Barker, Morison, p. 201). A scarce Morison title. Booklabel of the Borough of Maidstone Reference Library with accession number on verso of title, slipcase a little damaged, else a very good copy.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 80064

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Jackson Burke's Copy

Moxon, Joseph REGULAE TRIUM ORDINUM LITERARUM TYPOGRAPHICORUM OR THE RULES OF THE THREE ORDERS OF THE PRINT LETTERS: VIZ. {THE ROMAN ITALICK, ENGLISH} CAPITALS AND SMALL.
London for James Moxon 1693 small 4to. later stiff wrappers, half brown morocco slipcase and chemise. 52 pages
First separate appearance. (Bigmore & Wyman, Vol. II, p. 62; Burke no.810; Wing M3020). This edition of the work gives every appearance of having been made from leftover sheets. The text appears to be from the same setting of type as the first edition of 1676. The plates are printed on thin paper, with the exception of Plate I, which looks like new work for this edition. They correspond exactly with the like-numbered plates from the section on letter-cutting in Moxon's Mechanick Exercises of 1683. . ." (Burke catalogue). This last work, subtitled The Doctrine of Handyworks, was the first published manual describing printer's tools and the various processes of printing. In this present Regulae Trium Ordinum, as in the 1676 original, Moxon models his types on Elzevir's, but modifies them with his mathematician's sense of rigid geometrical proportion (Bigmore & Wyman). Lacking title and dedication leaves and one of the seven plates. Title, dedication to Christopher Wrenn, and plate thirteen supplied in photo facsimile. From the Library of Jackson Burke.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 65218

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Müller, Sándor (editor) GRAFIKUS MÜVEZETOK EVKONYVE (YEARBOOK OF GRAPHIC TYPESETTERS).
Budepest Magyarországi Magántisztviselök Országos Szövetsége Grafikus Muvezetök Szakosztályanak 1932 8vo. cloth, decorated pastedowns and free endpapers 144 pages
Text in Hungarian. The 1932 volume of the Yearbook of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Typesetters. Set in Art Deco style with pages ornamentally ruled. Label on front board. Contains a calendar, articles about Hungarian graphic design and numerous color advertisements throughout. Listing of officers and members of the Association at end of each volume. Black and white illustrations accompany some articles. Three plates (with three inset advertisements and three printed card of commendation) laid in. Very scarce with only two sets located by Worldcat (Library of Congress & Newberry Library).
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 118705

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(Officina Bodoni) PASTONCHI, A SPECIMEN OF A NEW LETTER FOR USE ON THE "MONOTYPE."
London The Lanston Monotype Corporation (1928) small 4to. half vellum with marbled paper-covered boards, remnants of slipcase. 65, (5) pages.
Printed in an edition limited to 200 copies on special Fabriono paper by Mardersteig at his Officina Bodoni. (Officina Bodoni 25). A trade edition was also issued but was not bound in quarter vellum and printed on special paper. An English specimen of a new type-face is designed by Eduardo Cotti under the direction of Francesco Pastonchi. Various specimen booklets of various sizes bound in. Introduction by Giovanni Mardersteig. Light foxing (as typical).
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 57642

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(Poltroon Press) Butler, Frances and Alastair Johnston PSHAW! 1975 - 2005
30 years of Poltroonery N.P. (but Berkeley CA) Poltroon Press n.d.(but 2006) folio quarter cloth, paper-covered boards not paginated (but 44 pages)
100 copies letterpress on Hahnemühle paper. The paper is in three colors. Far more than a simple bibliography, there are eight pochoir plates by Frances Butler and 28 tipped-in facsimiles and recreations of Poltroon ephemera.
Price: $ 500.00 other currencies Order nr. 91656

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Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND THE IRON HANDPRESS
2 volumes. New Castle Oak Knoll Press and the British Library 2004 small 4to. cloth, dust jackets 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, 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. Contains 480 illustrations.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 98483

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Tory, Geofroy CHAMP FLEURY OU L'ART ET SCIENCE DE LA PROPORTION DES LETTRES, Reproduction Phototypique de L'Edition Princeps de Paris 1529. Precedee d'un Avant-propos et suivie de Notes, Index et Glossaire par Gustave Cohen.
Paris Charles Bosse 1931 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), xx, facsimile, (2), 62, (6) pages.
Limited to 500 copies. Facsimile reprint of the 1529 edition of this famous lettering book accompanied by introduction, notes, glossary and index. Some wear at spine ends. A few light spots along hinge. Bookplate.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 46912

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Tschichold, Jan GUTE SCHRIFTFORMEN, EINE BEISPIELSAMMLUNG FUR ZEICHNER, MALER UND BILD HAUSER, HERAUSGEGEBEN VON DER ALLG. GEWERBESCHULE BASEL.
Basel Lehrmittelverlag des Erziehungs- Departments (1946) small 4to. board portfolio with cord ties containing six fascicles. 16; 16; 16; 16; 16; 16 pages.
Third edition. A complete set of these issues on type specimens, printing, and handwriting. Outer portfolio is soiled with some toning.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 27829

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(Type Specimens) Amsterdam. LETTERPROEF DER LETTERGIETERIJ "AMSTERDAM", VOORHEEN N. TETTERODE, SPECIMEN GENERAL DE LA FONDERIE "AMSTERDAM", SUCCESSEUR DE N. TETTERODE [TYPE SPECIMEN(S) OF THE TYPE FOUNDRY "AMSTERDAM", FORMERLY N. TETTERODE...].
Amsterdam Lettergieterij Amsterdam n.d. (c1915) large 8vo. cloth. xxxii, 720 pages with various gaps but complete as issued.
Large type specimen book from around 1910-1915 (Lane - Lommen 334). Arranged as follows: a) Introduction and general table of contents; b) photographs of the factory and showrooms in Amsterdam; c) brief samples (short texts, alphabets, figures) of selected bookfaces first by size and then by face, and then first by face and then by size, Some of these faces include Plantin, Cheltenham, Electa, Firenze, Aldine, and others; d) longer text samples of bookfaces in different sizes and spacings; e) selected bookfaces in short texts grouped by size, each text specimen accompanied by lines of typographically compatible bolds and cursives in various faces; f) "fantasy-types" (which seems to include display and ornamental faces, along with initials) in lines, texts, and sample advertising compositions; g) borders and ornaments, generally in sample compositions and often in different colors; h) "diverse" materials - rules, symbols, numbers, scientific and technical signs, etc., and i) German and oriental typefaces (Fraktur, Hebrew, Arabic, and so on). In all there are about 50 basic typeface styles in a wide range of variants. The text specimens are often elaborately printed, with borders, columns, illustrations and decorated initial letters. Covers rubbed. Slightly shaken.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 52986

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(Type Specimens) ATF. THE ENTIRE LORD'S PRAYER ON A SINGLE TYPE.
Elizabeth (NJ) American Type Founders n.d. small 16mo. glassine envelope, folded sheet, two cast type examples loosely inserted.
The Lord's Prayer cast on type from an ATF matrix. Two examples, the smallest being only 4 points in size. You will need really good magnification to read this! Explanatory sheet wrinkled and soiled.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 116564

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(Type Specimens) ATF. SPECIMEN BOOK AND CATALOGUE
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1923 thick 4to. two toned cloth. 1148 pages.
Annenberg p.44. "The last of the large catalogues." Excellent reference book which is becoming harder to find. With section headings in color, some use of color in the illustration part, color in borders, etc. Loosely inserted is 16 page price list dated January, 1924. Covers are spotted with most of spine covering partially rubbed off. A damp smell from poor storage.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 43759

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(Type Specimens) ATF. SPECIMEN BOOK AND CATALOGUE
Jersey City American Type Founders Co. 1923 thick 4to. two toned cloth. 1148 pages.
Annenberg p.44. "The last of the large catalogues." Excellent reference book which is becoming harder to find. With section headings in color, some use of color in the illustration part, color in borders, etc. Loosely inserted is 16 page price list dated January, 1924. Covers are rubbed with a small hole in cloth covering spine.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 116226

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(Type Specimens) Berthold EXCLUSIEVE LETTERS.
Mijdrecht, Netherlands Wifac b.v. n.d. 4to. self paper wrappers in case variously paginated
Text in Dutch. 44 catalogues of type faces offered by Bethold, marketed by the Dutch firm Wifac. Letter from Wifac Production Manager laid in.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109803

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(Type Specimens) Berthold. H. BERTHOLD, AKTIEN-GESELLSCHAFT, BERLIN SW, FABRIKEN IN BERLIN, LEIPZIG, STUTTGART, WIEN UND RIGA. ERSTER TEIL: BROTSCHRIFTEN IN FRAKTUR, ANTIQUA UND KURSIV, FRAKTUR-TITELSCHRIFTEN.
Berlin H. Berthold n.d. small 4to. red cloth with two metal pegs. Not paginated (1 inch thick)
The original red covers are printed with "Registerprobe. 1. Tiel." With a presentation page at the front that has an elaborate printed ornamental border containing a handwritten presentation to "Nr 6779. Der Firma H.C. van Grinsverr, Venlo" filled in. This is followed by a spread page illustration showing plants in six locations (Berlin, Leipzig, Wien, Berlin (2nd location), Stuttgart and Leningrad). Four page introduction followed by the register of all the type faces shown, followed by the actual type specimens. Spine faded. Bookplate of Berthold.
Price: $ 375.00 other currencies Order nr. 109184

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(Type Specimens) Curwen Press. A SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPES & ORNAMENTS.
London Published for the Curwen Press by The Fleuron Ltd. 1928 small 4to. cloth, leather spine label, top edge gilt. ix, 229, (13) pages.
Limited to 135 numbered copies. The first of the three type specimen books issued by the Curwen Press. Contains a two page prefatory note by Oliver Simon. This is followed by demonstrations of 15 type faces, initial letters, borders and printers' flowers, ornaments, head-pieces, vignettes, etc. Includes the work of Claud Lovat Fraser, Paul Nash, Albert Rutherston, Randolph Schwabe, and Percy Smith. A magnificent specimen book printed on fine paper. Small foxing spot at the fore-edge of a few leaves.
Price: $ 2,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 39623

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(Type Specimens) Danel, L. LIVRET TYPOGRAPHIQUE L. DANEL.
(Lille) L. Danel (1935) 4to. paper-covered boards; label on front board xiv, (iv), 183, (5) pages
Text in French. Introduction by Maximilien Vox. Historical sketch of the Danel foundries in Lille and Loos with black and white illustrations. Table of contents organized by category (ancien, moderne, classique, etc.), including lines, ornaments and symbols. Boards lightly scuffed at edges. Label on front board scuffed.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 109792

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(Type Specimens) Harpel, Oscar H. HARPEL'S TYPOGRAPH OR BOOK OF SPECIMENS CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS AND A COLLECTION OF EXAMPLES OF LETTERPRESS JOB PRINT ARRANGED FOR THE ASSISTANCE OF MASTER PRINTERS, AMATEURS, APPRENTICES, AND OTHERS.
Cincinnati Oscar H. Harpel 1870 8vo. original gilt stamped cloth, all edges stained red. Frontispiece; (ii), 252, (18) pages.
First and only printing. (Bigmore and Wyman I, 306). Harpel lists many important facts necessary for the running of a successful printing business and includes a history of printing. The most important feature of this book is the full color plates, some printed and some done by lithography. Contains folded plates, tipped-in specimens, and other examples of color work. Each page is printed within colored borders and with a different design and color. A landmark book in the history of American printing. Seven plates with eleven wood-engravings; one plate composition in "Stigmatypie;" and fourteen inserted leaves of fancy jobbing specimens, some color printed (four printed on enameled paper). Pages three to five, as well as the plate in this range, are color photocopied replicas of the original pages. Other than that, all pages and plates are accounted for. Ownership stamp on front pastedown by 'J. Durie & Son, General Booksellers & Stationers, Sparks St. Ottawa'. Red stain on edges shows signs of wear. Corners and edges have been bumped and repaired. Some scuffs and signs of wear. Recased with original spine laid down on newer cloth. All endpapers and pastedowns and blank pages are preserved.
Price: $ 2,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 106067

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(Type Specimens) Inland SPECIMEN BOOK AND CATALOG, A PRICE LIST OF PRINTERS' SUPPLIES, TYPE ...
Saint Louis Inland Type Foundry 1907 8vo. cloth. 243 pages.
Annenberg p.158. This copy dated September 1907. Reproduction of a picture of the foundry, pertinent facts, price lists, followed by the many pages of type faces in different sizes. Spine slightly faded. Well preserved.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 16276

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(Type Specimens) Jammes, Paul COLLECTION DE SPÉCIMENS DE CARACTÈRES, 1517-2004
(Paris) Librairie Paul Jammes, Éditions des Cendres (2006) 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket 393, (5) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 1000. A magnificent catalogue of type specimen books issued by this noted French bookseller. Contains 380 color illustrations of type specimens, many never before seen, with historical and bibliographical information for each. Printed in Sabon Next type.
Price: $ 320.00 other currencies Order nr. 94597

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(Type Specimens) Lanston. MONOTYPE TYPE FACES.
Philadelphia Lanston Monotype Machine Co. n.d (circa 1938) small 4to. in publisher's post binder. Not paginated (but very thick)
Monotype specimen book with hundreds of typefaces. Includes specifications of monotype faces, classification of typefaces by basic style (ie. modern, gothic, etc.), matrix information, long descenders, the typefaces, monotype figures and symbols, fractions, borders and ornaments, phonetic characters, etc. With covers and pages at beginning and end showing water damage at one point.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 114343

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(Type Specimens) Laurent LA FONDERIE TYPOGRAPHIQUE.
de Laurent, Balzac et Barbier Crée en 1827. Réédition du Spécimen des Divers Caractères, Vignettes et Ornemens Typographiques de la Fonderie de Laurent et de Berny Dit de Balzac Paris Éditions des Cendres 1992 oblong large 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, glassine wrapper xxxix, (ix) pages followed by 86 leaves numbered recto only, then (3) pages
Text in French. Limited to an edition of 999. Facsimile of the rare 1828 catalogue of types and decorations offered by the Founderie de Laurent et de Berny printed by H. Balzac. Preface by René Ponot and foreword with an history of Balzac as an editor and printer by John Dreyfus. Illustrated throughout, with 1505 examples of type and decorations. Printed in Bauer-Bodoni type.
Price: $ 195.00 other currencies Order nr. 94612

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