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See More... Osley, Arthur S. LUMINARIO. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ITALIAN WRITING-BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1972 small folio cloth xiii, 173 pages,
The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th-and 17th century Italian writing-books. With 116 full-size facsimiles, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 230.00 other currencies Order nr. 103728

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See More... Palomares, Francisco Xavier de Santiago ARTE NUEVA DE ESCRIBIR
Inventada por el Insigne Maestro Pedro Diaz Morante, e Ilustrada con Muestras nuevas, y various discursos conducentes al verdadero Magisterio de Primeras Letras Madrid Antonio de Sancha 1776 small folio modern wrappers (iv) xxviii, 136 pages
First edition. Forty engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. "Influential text, the result of a commission to design a more efficient national script." (Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612,299945). Includes engraved additional title, lacking errata leaf. Spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored. With fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates and plate 33 wormed and probably supplied from another copy.
Price: $ 2,000.00 other currencies Order nr. 96419

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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... Roelands, David T`MAGAZIN OF T`PAC-HUYS DER LOFFELIJCKER PENN-CONST ...
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1971 oblong small folio; 15.5 x 11.5 inches decorative stiff paper wrappers. 89 pages
Facsimile reprint of the 1616 edition published in Antwerp, 1616. Edition limited to 300 handnumbered copies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens on 41 plates.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.
Price: $ 190.00 other currencies Order nr. 103730

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See More... Thompson, Edward Maunde AN INTRODUCTION TO GREEK AND LATIN PALAEOGRAPHY.
Oxford At the Clarendon Press 1912 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 600 pages.
First edition. An important text accompanied by 250 large facsimiles. From the library of J.R. Abbey with his bookplate. Over half of the jacket spine is missing. Inside hinges cracked. Scarce book.
Price: $ 250.00 other currencies Order nr. 30673

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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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See More... Williams, Henry Smith MANUSCRIPTS, INSCRIPTIONS AND MUNIMENTS, ORIENTAL, CLASSICAL, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN, DESCRIBING, CLASSIFIED AND ARRANGED, COMPREHENDING THE HISTORY OF THE ART OF WRITING.
4 volumes. London and New York Merrill & Baker 1901-1902 folio original half brown cloth with light brown paper covered boards.
Complete with all 227 plates (numbered 1-203 with extras being "a" and "b" plates). The first volume is the Oriental Series and includes Egyptian and Assyrian, other scripts of Asia and the ancient Meximan writing of America; the second is the Classical Series and includes examples of the origin and the development of the Greek and Latin scripts; the third is the Medieval Series and includes illuminated books, Bible manuscripts, and historical documents; the fourth demonstrates illuminated manuscripts of the Orient, and autograph writings of modern times. Each large volume has a number of separate folders with text describing the contents loosely inserted. Each plate is accompanied by a text page. Edges of pages chipped; foxed throughout.
Price: $ 450.00 other currencies Order nr. 105732

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See 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

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See More... Zapf, Hermann MANUALE TYPOGRAPHICUM, 100 TYPOGRAPHICAL ARRANGEMENTS WITH CONSIDERATIONS ABOUT TYPES, TYPOGRAPHY AND THE ART OF PRINTING SELECTED FROM PAST AND PRESENT, PRINTED IN EIGHTEEN LANGUAGUES.
New York Z-Presse Frankfurt 1968 4to. parchment-backed cloth (vi) pages followed by 117 leaves, each with an embossed page number.
English translation, limited to 975 numbered and signed copies. Contains material developed after the 1954 version. A landmark in the study of type and design. Printed in black and red. Lacks dust jacket.
Price: $ 300.00 other currencies Order nr. 30593

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