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See More... (Adagio Press) Bahr, Leonard F. THE ADAGIO PRESS.
N.P. Adagio Press n.d. 4to unbound 131 broadside specimen sheets enclosed by heavy paper covers
Ornaments and type faces offered by the Adagio Press. Includes designs by Will Bradley (American Type Founders), D. Stempel, Imre Reiner and Jose Mendoza y Almeida (Typefoundry Amsterdam), Alessandro Butti and Aldo Novarese, G.C. Lange (H. Berthold), American Type Founders, Monotype, Georg Trump, Konrad Bauer and Walter Baum, designers for Bauersche Giesserei, Hermann Zapf, Jan van Krimpen and others. Illustrations of all type faces and ornaments.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109160

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See More... AUTHOR'S PRINTING AND PUBLISHING ASSISTANT
London Saunders and Otley n.d. 12mo. original cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on cover, edges gilt (vi), 67, (36) pages plus 2 fold-out plates
Fifth edition (Bigmore & Wyman I,24). Subtitle continues, "Comprising Explanations of the Process of Printing, Preparation & Calculation of Manuscripts, Punctuation, Choice of Paper, Type, Binding, Illustrations, Publishing, Advertising, &c, with an Exemplification and Description of the Typographical Marks unused in the Correction of the Press." One fold-out displays specimens and names of the different sizes of type, the other shows a page properly annotated with corrections and the revised version. Section at the back listing works published by Messrs. Saunders and Otley. Covers blind stamped with border design. Front cover blind stamped with the words Mercantile Library Company with so much force that the indentation is visible through the cover and the endpapers. Library marks throughout. Spine missing, pages are loose, covers detached. Paper catalogue label on lower left corner of front cover. Mercantile Library Company stamp less forceful on the rear cover. Corners rubbed. Pages darkened. Front endpapers missing.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 79400

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See More... Bodoni, Giambattista MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
2 volumes. London The Holland Press 1960 4to. decorated paper cover boards, paper spine labels, slipcase. lxxii,267; (iv),279 pages.
One of 500 copies. An exact facsimile of the famous Bodoni specimen book - manual originally printed in Parma by the Presso la Vedova in 1818. Slipcase with top and bottom partially detached. Spines of books show some foxing.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 700

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See More... Bossange, Hector CATALOGUE DE LIVRES FRANÇAIS, ANGLAIS, ALLEMANDS, ESPAGNOLS, GRECS ET LATINS, ITALIENS, PORTUGAIS, ORIENTAUX, ETC. ... SUIVI DE PRIX COURANTS.
Paris Hector Bossange, Maison de Commission 1845 thick 8vo. contemporary half morocco, top edge gilt (xvi), 984 pages
A massive catalogue of 984 pages, the vast bulk of which (pp.1-802) is devoted to books as noted in the title. Some of this is very interesting, especially the section on the arts and architecture, which includes some rare and expensive books. The second part is of even more interest as it contains sections on maps, globes and spheres, astronomical instruments, and "machines typographiques" (with lithographic illustrations of the Stanhope Press, the Columbian Press, the Presse Française and the Machine à Glacier). This is followed by eight leaves of type specimens and "Les Articles pour la Reliure" which includes four folding plates of shiny glazed black paper printed in gold showing 'Fers a Doreur.' The two final plates are more fers a doreur and include two fully blocked spines, a fully blocked cover and other stamps, rolls and lines. These are in perfect condition and have great appeal as well as obvious documentary value for historians of 1840s binding. The letterpress lists also include skins for binding with prices. The final leaf of this section is Daguerreotypes, both full apparatus and plates. Contemporary bookplates of the Franklin Library of Boston and the later 19th century bookplate of the Lawrence Public Library. Rubbed, hinges rubbed but sound.
Price: $ 950.00 other currencies Order nr. 81799

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  (Caine, Michael) CONCATÉNATION DE CARACTÈRES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
(Paris) Atelier de la Cerisaie 2001) thin folio stiff paper wrappers, slipcase. (20) pages.
Limited to 25 numbered copies signed by Michael Caine who was a co-printer wtih Jon von in handseting and printing this magnificent specimen book. With showings of type from the following founderies: Amsterdam, Bauer, Beaudoire, Deberny & Peignot, Doublet, Enschedè, Nebiolo, P. Ribaudeau & Dumas, Stempel, Stephenson Blake, Tipografica Cooperativa, Typographique Francaise, Wagner (Weber).
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 105414

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See More... (Calligraphy) Valpey, F.B. THE ART OF LETTERING FOR THE USE OF ARCHITECTS, CIVIL ENGINEERS, DRAUGHTSMEN, DESIGNERS, ILLUMINATORS, MARBLE WORKERS AND THE DECORATIVE ARTIST.
Lynn, MA F.B. Valpey n.d., circa. 1890 oblong small 8vo. original quarter cloth, paper-covered boards Unpaginated
A collection of specimens including letters, numerals, scenery vignettes and punctuation. Designed for advertising and show-card work, as well as sign and decorative painters. Rear cover is stamped "Press of Thos. P. Nichols, Lynn, Mass." Includes one page of advertising before, and one page after, text. Printed recto only. OCLC lists three North American copies. A Fred B. Valpey is listed on the 1913 tax assessment list of Lynn, living in Ward Six at 15 Anoka Place, occupation designer (www.lynnhistory.com/Taxlists/1913JuryList.html). A March 14, 1893, account from the Worcester Daily Spy described the destruction of Valpey's office by fire. Boards soiled and worn at edges. Free endpapers detached. Hinges cracked. Facsimile of newspaper account cited above laid in.
Price: $ 295.00 other currencies Order nr. 109405

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See More... Enschedé, Charles TYPEFOUNDRIES IN THE NETHERLANDS, FROM THE FIFTEENTH TO THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Haarlem Stichting Museum Enschedé 1978 folio quarter leather, printed paper over boards. xxvii, 477 pages.
An English translation of the original edition of 1908 in Dutch with revisions and notes by Harry Carter with the assistance of Netty Hoeflake. Edited by Lotte Hellinga. Intended as a history of the Enschedé firm, it is also a wonderful contribution to typography in general. Not only is this book an extensive history of typefoundries in the Netherlands, but it also contains various alphabets from five centuries and hundreds of ornaments, type specimens and woodcuts. Also contains a bibliography of related items. Beautifully printed.
Price: $ 425.00 other currencies Order nr. 34977

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See More... Goudy, Frederic W. TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING With Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility and Fine Printing.
Berkeley University of California Press 1940 small 4to. quarter leather over parchment covered boards, slipcase. xix, 170, (2) pages.
First edition, one of the 300 numbered and autographed copies. A landmark book in the history of typography. With ink inscription on free endpaper. Rubbed along hinges and at top of spine.
Price: $ 185.00 other currencies Order nr. 54290

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See More... (Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages. In original mailing envelope addressed to a customer in India.
Price: $ 225.00 other currencies Order nr. 104929

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See More... (Hill & Dale) Mahr, Karl PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
N.P. Privately Printed 2000 folio stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages
Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text is set on the first ten pages and is accompanied by eight illustrations. The German text is on last three of the final unnumbered pages.
Price: $ 200.00 other currencies Order nr. 105320

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See More... Hupp, Otto EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457.
Munich Nationale Verlagsanstalt 1898 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in 30; 98; 142 pages
Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new interpretations. The third volume even includes extensive quotes from a number of other scholars. Text samples as well as entire pages of the Missale are reproduced in red, blue, and black-and-white. Though primarily known as a heraldist and ceramicist, this type of study fits naturally into Otto Hupp's concurrent interests as a typeface designer, engraver and artist. Memorial bookplate on front pastedown indicates that this copy came from the H.P. Kraus reference library and stock. Edges of cover rubbed.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 77014

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See More... Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry and .. Johnson THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF TYPE FACES.
New York Barnes & Noble (1970) 4to. cloth, dust jacket xvi, 420 pages.
Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Best edition to this excellent guide to the subject. Light jacket wear.
Price: $ 150.00 other currencies Order nr. 76761

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  (Johnson, A.F.) Muir, Percy H. (editor) A.F. JOHNSON, SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
Amsterdam Van Gendt & Co. 1970 thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 489 pages.
First edition. Contains 40 articles on printing, type specimens and book illustration. Numerous facsimiles and two folding maps. Four page prospectus loosely inserted. Few small tears in dust jacket, light sunning on spine. Book fine
Price: $ 175.00 other currencies Order nr. 11995

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See More... (Juniper Press) Harmsen, Tyrus G. JOSEPH ARNOLD FOSTER, PRINTER
Pasadena, CA Juniper Press 1998 12mo. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label vii, 13 pages with 23 pages of type specimens and miscellany, and (2) pages
Limited to 60 copies printed by the author on Barcham Green Georgian paper and 20 on Mohawk, this being one of the 20 on Mohawk. With an introduction and bibliography. Contains 25 type specimens, six pages of different borders, and five pages of miscellany (florets and mignonettes). Laid-in is a sheet by a book shop with a description of this book by the owner.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 101285

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See More... (Leaf Book) Wallis, Lawrence GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
(Nottingham/New York) Plough Press / Mark Batty (2004) 8vo. with 4to. portfolio half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase (vi), 128 pages
Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one leaf from Pearl, and one leaf from A Calendar for the Year 1923. Also, two copies of the dust jacket for this book are in the portfolio. This book provides the first extensive study of the life and work of George W. Jones and fills a gap in the literature of printing. (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). With a printed label mounted on the front pastedown giving the information about this special edition. This label is hand-numbered and signed by the author.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 86854

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See More... Legros, Lucien Alphonse and John Cameron Grant TYPOGRAPHICAL PRINTING-SURFACES THE TECHNOLOGY AND MECHANISM OF THEIR PRODUCTION.
New York Garland 1980 8vo. cloth. xxiv, 732, (5) pages.
Reprint of the 1916 edition. Berry & Poole in Annals of Printing have described this book as "the most important treatise on type designing, cutting, and casting since Fournier's manual of 1864, with valuable chapters on machine setting." Essential book.
Price: $ 350.00 other currencies Order nr. 2527

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See More... (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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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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See More... Müller, Sándor (editor) GRAFIKUS MÜVEZETOK EVKONYVE (YEARBOOK OF GRAPHIC TYPESETTERS).
3 Volumes. Budepest Magyarországi Magántisztviselök Országos Szövetsége Grafikus Muvezetök Szakosztályanak 1931-1933 8vo. cloth, decorated pastedowns and free endpapers 160; 144; 160
Text in Hungarian. Complete set of the yearbook of the Hungarian Association of Graphic Typesetters. Each volume set in Art Deco style with pages ornamentally ruled. First two volumes with label on front board; third with gilt-stamped title and decoration. Each volume 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. One color plate advertisement, 2 printed cards of commendation (one signed by editor) and an inset four-color print ad laid in first (1931) volume. 3 plates (with three inset advertisements and 1 printed card of commendation laid in second (1932) volume. 1 engraved plate of advertisement and 2 printed cards of commendation laid in third (1933) volume. Boards of third volume lightly faded near edges and bottom front fore-edge corner dented. Light foxing in parts of text. Very scarce with only one set located by Worldcat (Library of Congress) and an odd volume at the Newberry Library.
Price: $ 1,250.00 other currencies Order nr. 109575

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See More... (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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See More... (Prang) Prang, Louis PRANG'S STANDARD ALPHABETS
Boston L. Prang and Company 1901 oblong octavo publisher's cloth binding, decoratively embossed with silver lettering 2 leaves of preliminary matter, 38 plates including the full color title page.
Revised edition, first printed in 1876. Beautiful, vivid examples of chromolithography, a lithography process popularized in America by Prang that entails printing in color from drawings on stone. Intended as a calligraphy and type specimen book and designed as a tool for use by sign painters, engravers, illuminators, architects and civil engineers. Includes over 30 type specimens, symbols, and borders, as well as an advertisement for Prang's other art education publications. More than half of the plates are printed in color. Some spotting of covers and wear at spine ends. Slightly shaken. Name in ink at top of contents page.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 108372

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See More... 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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See More... Schiller, Albert VIEW FROM A SKYSCRAPER WINDOW.
New York by the author n.d. (circa 1940) Broadside, 12 by 17 inches framed and matted under glass.
Framed compostion by master printer/typesetter Albert Schiller, an employee of the Typographic Services Company, New York. Almost entirely made of printers' rules, individual typographic ornaments and border designs used by typographers in their daily work. Descriptive information on back of picture. Mainly shades of orange and tan.
Price: $ 290.00 other currencies Order nr. 110048

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See More... Tallone, Alberto MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO.
N.P. Tallone 2005 folio. stiff paper wrappers, loose in paper-covered boards, top edge cut, other edges uncut; slip case 51+(1) pages; samples ot title pages, type faces
Text in Italian. Limited edition of 18 + 20 + 95 + 120 + 100 copies, on differing kinds of papers. Commemorates the life of Italian printer and publsher Alberto Tallone (1898-1968). Introduction to the manual printed by Tallone. Essays on Tallone by Gianfranco Contini and Maurizio Pallante. Twelve orignal samples of Tallone's title pages tipped in. 50 samples of type faces, with descriptions, offered by Tallone. Letter from Enrico Tallone, with English translation to John Randle of the Whittington Press, Leominster, Herefordshire, laid in. Slip case lightly soiled and dented.
Price: $ 650.00 other currencies Order nr. 109778

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See More... 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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