Oak Knoll Books & Oak Knoll Press



Advanced Search >>

	Bibliography
	Book Collecting
	Book Design
	Book Illustration
	Book Selling
	Bookbinding
	Bookplates
	Cartography
	Children's Books
	Delaware Books
	Fine Press Books
	Forgery
	Graphic Design
	Images & Broadsides
	Libraries
	Literary Criticism
	Miniature Books
	Papermaking
	Printing History
	Publishing
	Typography
	Writing & Calligraphy

Antiquarian (55)

Type Specimens

Refine Result ?

Displaying 51-67 of 67

Type Specimens

Sort By :

Jump to page:

1 2 3

Page 3 of 3

(Type Specimens) Poeschel & Trepte. SCHRIFTPROBE ... OFFIZIN POESCHEL & TREPTE.
Leipzig Offizin Poeschel & Trepte 1931 4to. limp cloth. (viii), 100, (2) pages printed French fold.
Wing 3027; not in ATF. Type specimen book of the well-known German printer and publisher Poeschel & Trepte. Thirty faces with variants for hand composition, and thirty-two for machine composition (Monotype or "Typograph"). Specimens are lines and text, with occasional sample compositions. There are twelve photographs of composing and printing processes; these have no captions but presumably show operations at P&T. A well-designed and modern-looking specimen book with attractive specimens, as one would expect from a firm known for its involvement in fine printing in Germany. Minor foxing of covers.
Price: $ 475.00 other currencies Order nr. 55024

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) PRØVEBOG FRA FR. G. KNUDTZONS BOGTRYKKERI.
Copenhagen Fr. G. Knudtzons Bogtrykkeri n.d. (but ca. 1900) 4to. decorated leather, title and decorations gilt-stamped on spine and front board, marbled edges, pastedowns and free endpapers (330) pages
Text in Danish. Type specimens from the Knudtzon printing house. Specimens of type faces, decorations, borders, etc. Some in color. Reference to year 1900 in text. 330 leaves, printed on recto only. Some leaves in color. Scuffing at edges and along spine, spine sunned, bumped at top front edge. Endpapers tanned, light foxing.
Price: $ 850.00 other currencies Order nr. 109793

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Reci(usione) Militare ALBUM PER L'ESPOSIZIONE DI BELLE ARTI E MESTIERI IN SAVONA. DIDICATO AL CAVALIERE TOMMASO BONGIORNI.
LUOGOTENENTE-COLONNELO COMANDANTE IL CORPO MONSCHETTIERI Savona Tip. della Reci(usione) Militare 1864 folio contemporary green morocco with covers with gilt fillet and corner ornaments, gilt center ornament. 32 unnumbered leaves printed on rectos only.
Text in Italian. Each page framed by beautifully color printed ornaments and borders. The printing itself is partially done in various colors on different backgrounds. See Fumagalli, Lexicon typographicum p. 387 (for Savona where printing started in 1474). A magnificent Italian type specimen issued by the Military Printing Department of Savona to celebrate the opening of an art exhibition there. Printed on fine paper. A scarce book with no copies located by WorldCat, COPAC, ICCU (2900 Italian libraries). Edges bumped, with one edge severely bumped. Some spotting on cover.
Price: $ 5,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 105547

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Schelter & Giesecke ALLERLEI ZIERAT
zur Ausstattung von Drucksachen jeden Charakters Leipzig J.G. Schelter & Giesecke n.d. (circa 1902) small 4to. cloth 384 pages followed by 9 additional leaves
This encyclopedic specimen book of the Leipzig, Germany type foundry and printing supply house J.G. Schelter & Giesecke features, as the title indicates, all kinds of decoration for supplying printing of every type. On the title page, the firm boasts winning grand prize in 1900 in Paris (presumably at the Exposition Universelle). It is hard to do justice in a short description to the variety of styles (traditional, Jugenstil, etc.) and categories (certificates, letterheads, borders, ornaments, exotic motifs, flowers, animals, silhouettes, menus, greeting cards, vignettes humorous and otherwise, images of bicyclists, occupational symbols, portraits, Classical figures, religious art, heraldry, ships, trains, athletes, etc.) offered in this volume. Some of the examples are printed in color, most are in black-and-white. The Jugenstil cover of this copy shows minor wear and soiling. The plate of "Gust. Carlsson & Co., Stockholm" is attached to the front pastedown. A small fraction of pages show minor soiling, a pencil notation or a short closed tear. Two of the fold-outs at the back have a little more damage-one is missing a 1x2 inch piece along the margin, the other has a 3-inch closed tear and an edge which is crumpled.
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 90581

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Stevens. SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE AND BORDERS CAST ON POINT BODIES. CATALOGUE OF PRINTING MATERIALS
London R.H. Stevens & Co. (1912) 4to. paper wrappers (iv), 127 pages
This specimen book details samples of the R.H. Stevens & Co. faces, borders, and symbols. The type specimen book and catalogue of printing materials from R.H. Stevens, who succeeded V. & F. Figgins in 1907, a firm originally founded in 1792, and later carried on as Stevens, Shanks & Sons. In 1874 the firm began a new series of specimen books in octavo in an edition of 5000 copies, giving an idea of its importance at that time. Lacking the smaller second catalogue on printing material. Cover completely missing (front, spine, rear). Some chipping, but overall text block beautiful and intact. Bumped at bottom of spine. Price list dated 1912 tipped-in.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 104966

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Taylor TYPES, BORDERS AND MISCELLANY OF TAYLOR & TAYLOR, WITH HISTORICAL BREVITIES ON THEIR DERIVATION AND USE.
San Francisco Taylor & Taylor 1939 thick 8vo. original quarter-leather, cloth, slipcase. xxxi, 563 pages.
Limited to 350 numbered copies. This well printed specimen book was named one of the "50 Books of the Year" by the AIGA and a notice to this effect is tipped-in stating that it was the first time in the history of the award that a type specimen book was chosen. Includes specimens of Bodoni, Civilite, Caslon, Gill, and many others. Only minor wear to the slipcase. Well preserved copy of a book that usually shows wear.
Price: $ 400.00 other currencies Order nr. 39633

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) University Press SPECIMEN BOOK OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON AND SON (INCORPORATED) CONTAINING SAMPLE PAGES FROM CERTAIN CHARACTERISTIC BOOKS MANUFACTURED BY THEM AND ALSO SAMPLES OF THE VARIOUS STOCK, BOOK, AND JOB FACES, FOREIGN AND MUSIC TYPE, HEAD AND TAIL PIECES INITIAL LETTERS, ETC.
Cambridge The University Press (1900) oblong 4to. cloth, title and logo gilt-stamped on front board, title gilt-stamped on spine xii, 228, (2) pages
Type specimens offered by the press. Frontispiece, photograph of the press's plant. Includes a historical sketch, dating its beginnings to 1639, when Joseph Glover of London engaged the services of printer Stephen Day. Although Glover died enroute to Massachusetts, Rev. Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, provided oversight of the press's operations. In 1879, John Wilson and Charles Wentworth became proprietors, adding to it the firm John Wilson & Son. Facsimile title page of a 1640 Psalm book included, along with black and white illustrations of a 1661 New Testament and the first press in America included. Index. Some examples of the work of Will Bradley. Boards soiled and scuffed at edges. Recased with original spine laid down on newer cloth. New endpapers. Old library stamp in corner of a few pages. Very scarce book.
Price: $ 1,350.00 other currencies Order nr. 109185

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Van Loey-Nouri CATALOGUE VAN LOEY-NOURI.
(Brussels) Van Loey-Nouri n.d., circa 1897 4to later loth; title gilt-stamped on leather label on spine, marbled pastedown and endpapers unpaginated
Text in French. Type faces offered for sale by the Van Loey-Nouri firm of Brussels. Illustrated descriptions of printshop furniture, tools, and presses. Also includes borders, ornaments, decorations, coats of arms, Christian religious symbols and various other symbols. Some pages with different colored type. Some light foxing. Page with notes in ink laid in.
Price: $ 1,500.00 other currencies Order nr. 109209

READ MORE...

(Type Specimens) Van Loey-Nouri. SPÉCIMEN DE LA FONDERIE TYPOGRAPHIQUE VAN LOEY-NOURI.
Bruxelles Van Loey-Nouri n.d. (circa 1930) 4to. original quarter leather over cloth. (x), 36, 307 pages.
Text in French. Well produced specimen catalogue including some two-color work. Specimens include Caracteres de Texte, de Fantasie, Machine a Ecrire, Filets, and other ornaments. Leather worn along hinges with partially split at bottom of front hinge. Internally fine.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 36850

READ MORE...

Updike, Daniel Berkeley PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE A STUDY IN SURVIVALS.
2 volumes. Cambridge Harvard Univ. Press 1937 8vo. cloth, dust jackets, original slipcase. xl,292; xx,326 pages.
Second edition. (Appleton p.69). Profusely illustrated. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces. Light wear at ends of spine of jackets. Slipcase rubbed along edges. Well-preserved copy of an important set.
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 22948

READ MORE...

Vervliet, H.D.L SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING TYPES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. WITH A FOREWORD BY HARRY CARTER.
Amsterdam HES & DE GRAAF 1968 4to. cloth. xxv, 366 pages.
This pioneer work is an annotated catalogue, illustrated with specimens of the types made during the sixteenth century in the area now covered by the Netherlands and Belgium. The influence of the sixteenth-century typecutters was considerable; in fact, many of their type faces, described in this book, were to be found in English printing offices of those days and even much later. With 267 facsimile-illustrations depicting 147 type specimens.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 103261

READ MORE...

(Whittington Press) MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. [Vol 1-31]
32 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are reprints. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1981-2013 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets for volumes 1-5 and decorated paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets for volumes 6-22.
All 31 volumes are in as-new condition. With limitations varying from 450 for the first volume to limitations in the 900s for later volumes. The first and second volumes are present in the reprint edition, which are limited to 450 and 475 copies respectively. The first volume contains a three-page historical note by John Randle not present in the first printing. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history, and all other subjects of interest to the bookarts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical. The additional volume is the deluxe copy of the Index for volumes 1-21. This set is in remarkable condition and extremely rare to find with volumes 3 and 4, as well as with the index.
Price: $ 6,475.00 other currencies Order nr. 73416

READ MORE...

(Whittington Press) MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. [VOL 1-31]
32 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are first editions. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1981-2013 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets (for first five volumes) and decorated paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets (for volume six to seventeen).
With limited runs varying from 350 for the first volume to 900 for later volumes. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history and all other subjects of interest to the book-arts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. This set contains the original volumes of one and two. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical. The additional volume is the deluxe copy of the Index for volumes 1-21. This set is in remarkable condition and extremely rare to find with volumes 3 and 4, as well as with the index.
Price: $ 6,975.00 other currencies Order nr. 116076

READ MORE...

(Whittington Press) MATRIX, A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES. [VOL 1-31] AND INDEX 1-21
32 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are first editions. Includes the deluxe edition of the Index to Volumes 1-20. Andoversford The Whittington Press 1981-2013 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets (for first five volumes) and decorated paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets (for volume six to seventeen).
All 31 volumes are in as-new condition. With limited runs varying from 350 for the first volume to 900 for later volumes. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history and all other subjects of interest to the book-arts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. This set contains the original volumes of one and two. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical. The additional volume is the deluxe copy of the Index for volumes 1-21. This set is in remarkable condition and extremely rare to find with volumes 3 and 4, as well as with the index.
Price: $ 6,975.00 other currencies Order nr. 47602

READ MORE...

Will Be Available Fall 2013

(Whittington Press, The) Randle, John and Patrick POSTERS FROM WHITTINGTON, 1996-2013.
Lower Marston Farm Whittington Press 2013 folio half calf and paper covered boards, chemise with ties 25 posters
Limted to 150 copies, of which this is one of 80 copies. In 1995 the Press published A Book of Posters from the Whittington Press, which contained (in the A edition) thirty-five of our posters printed between 1974 and 1995, in the same types and on the same papers as the originals - indeed some of them were from the original printings, as well be a few in this new collection.

At the time, in 1995, the Press had printed some 100 posters, and in the eighteen years since then another 150 have been added to the total, and thirty-five chosen here show off a great variety of typefaces on equally esoteric variety of papers from England (some over a century old), France, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan and Korea. They include illustrations from linocuts, wood-engravings, and in special copies, pochoir, among a dazzling array of the Press' extensive collection of founts.

Whittington Posters are produced as a distraction from more important projects, usually in small editions of 100 or 200 copies, and given away or sold on our open days, but have nevertheless become an important part of the Press' output in helping to spread the message about its activities. By their nature they are occasional and ephemeral, and the only time they will ever come together is in a collection such as this.

Also included in the collection are posters by Tom Mayo and Patrick Randle, which will add a radical note to our normal, more predictable, fare. An article describing the background and development of the Press' posters appeared in Parenthesis 20 (Spring 2011).
Price: $ 1,050.00 other currencies Order nr. 116888

READ MORE...

Will Be Available Fall 2013

(Whittington Press, The) Randle, John and Patrick POSTERS FROM WHITTINGTON, 1996-2013.
Lower Marston Farm Whittington Press 2013 folio half calf and paper covered boards, dropback box 35 posters plus additional suite
Limted to 150 copies, of which this is one of 60 copies. In 1995 the Press published A Book of Posters from the Whittington Press, which contained (in the A edition) thirty-five of our posters printed between 1974 and 1995, in the same types and on the same papers as the originals - indeed some of them were from the original printings, as well be a few in this new collection.

At the time, in 1995, the Press had printed some 100 posters, and in the eighteen years since then another 150 have been added to the total, and thirty-five chosen here show off a great variety of typefaces on equally esoteric variety of papers from England (some over a century old), France, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Japan and Korea. They include illustrations from linocuts, wood-engravings, and in special copies, pochoir, among a dazzling array of the Press' extensive collection of founts.

Whittington Posters are produced as a distraction from more important projects, usually in small editions of 100 or 200 copies, and given away or sold on our open days, but have nevertheless become an important part of the Press' output in helping to spread the message about its activities. By their nature they are occasional and ephemeral, and the only time they will ever come together is in a collection such as this.

Also included in the collection are posters by Tom Mayo and Patrick Randle, which will add a radical note to our normal, more predictable, fare. An article describing the background and development of the Press' posters appeared in Parenthesis 20 (Spring 2011).
Price: $ 1,750.00 other currencies Order nr. 116889

READ MORE...

(Zapf, Hermann) Kelly, Jerry ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF
Foreword by Robert Bringhurst New York The Typophiles 2011 4.5 x 7 inches hardcover, slipcase 112 pages
Deluxe edition signed by the author and limited to 75 copies. Includes four type specimens in a paper folder and a slipcase for the book and specimen folder.

Typophiles Chapbook, New Series, 3. "Letterforms are things that nearly all of us in the Western world have learned to take for granted. We treat them much like door knobs, water taps, thermostats, and hinges. We evidently think (in defiance of all logic) that what we read or write matters far more than how it's read or written, and that letterforms are just a way to get there, as a door knob is a way to open a door," writes Robert Bringhurst in the Foreword to About More Alphabets. This book hopes to bring attention to a neglected topic by focusing on the letterforms of Hermann Zapf.

From metal type to the digital characters, Hermann Zapf has composed exceptional type designs for seventy years. He can be considered one of the most important calligraphers of all time, as well as a most notable book designer and typographer. His typefaces are among the most beautiful and familiar in the world. This book, a companion volume to the Typophile Chapbook About Alphabets (1960, updated 1970), describes Zapfs post-1970 type designs and provides new research on many of the earlier types.

In this volume, typographer and calligrapher Jerry Kelly describes the origins and history of numerous Hermann Zapf typefaces including Marconi, ITC Zapf International, Linotype Zapfino, and Zapf Civilité. Kelly also includes new information on the Palatino nova and Optima nova families. This new Typophiles Chapbook is profusely illustrated with type specimens and drawings, many of which have never before been reproduced. Illustrations include drawings by Zapf, comparisons of various types, early sketches, typefaces never issued, and a twenty-eight page image section of type specimens. Other types described include Hallmark Textura, AMS Euler fraktur bold, Zapf Renaissance italic swash, Medici script, Aurelia, AMS Euler, Zapf Renaissance, ITC Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Civilité.

Robert Bringhurst calls Zapf one of historys greatest two-dimensional architects. He says, "Hermann Zapf has made letters so subtle, so lovely they bring tears to knowledgeable eyes. And there are very few people who know Zapfs work as well as Jerry Kelly. Read him and weep."
Price: $ 170.00 other currencies Order nr. 109481

READ MORE...

E-mail/Export ?

Jump to page:

1 2 3

Page 3 of 3

Refine Result
Within This List:

New search of entire database?

	Include		Exclude
Author		Author
Title		Title
Keyword		Keyword

Clear all entries and click "Go" button to return to original search result.

Technology by Rockingstone
Viewed best in Internet Explorer 7

Copyright © 2009 Oak Knoll. All rights reserved.