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See More... (ad lib Press) Hopkinson, Francis PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ART OF PAPER WAR
Richmond, VA ad lib Press 1990 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages.
Reprint of the 1787 printing that occured in the American Musuem. Limited to 155 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. An article discussing American type faces and American type. Silver, in his THE AMERICAN PRINTER, p.146, says "In an essay printed in 1787 ... (Hopkinson) proposed an improvement in the art of printing, so as to make it expressive not only of the author's narrative, opinions, or arguments, but also of the peculiarities of his temper, the vivacity of his feelings .... Carey printed the essay with each type size displayed when Hopkinson referred to it; a description of a newspaper quarrel begins in long primer, the reply to follow in pica, the next artument in great primer, the retort in double pica, and so on, concluding with five-line pica, which indeed is as far as the art of printing, or a modern quarrel can well go."
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 105321

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  (Baskerville, John) Bennett, Paul A. JOHN BASKERVILLE'S TYPE IN AMERICA
Portland The Southworth-Anthoensen Press (1944) 8vo. paper wrappers. 7 pages.
Printed for the Society of Printers of Boston. Loosely inserted is a T.L.s. from Bennett to Herb Simpson meant to accompany this booklet. Chipped around edges.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 116279

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See More... (Baskerville, John) Pardoe, F.E. JOHN BASKERVILLE OF BIRMINGHAM LETTER-FOUNDER & PRINTER.
London Frederick Muller 1975 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 181 pages.
First edition. A biography of the printer; color frontispiece. Part of the Ars Typographica series.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 363

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See More... Bruce, David THE HISTORY OF TYPEFOUNDING IN THE UNITED STATES EDITED AND ANNOTATED FROM THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY JAMES ECKMAN.
New York The Typophiles 1981 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 66 pages.
Limited to 1500 copies. Typophiles Chap Book 55.The first accurate printing of this 19th century manuscript. Much of biographical interest. Author and title in ink on spine.
Price: $ 7.00 other currencies Order nr. 4069

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See More... (Caslon, William) McRae, J. F. TWO CENTURIES OF TYPEFOUNDING. ANNALS OF THE LETTER FOUNDRY ESTABLISHED BY WILLIAM CASLON IN CHISWELL STREET, LONDON, IN THE YEAR 1720.
London George W. Jones 1920 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 93+(1) pages.
Colored portrait frontispiece, plates, illustrations., 2 folding facsimiles. type specimen plates. Beautifully produced specimen booklet with interesting text. Title written in ink on spine. Small tear along top of front hinge. Faint stain on front cover at bottom.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 82159

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See More... (Caslon, William) PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON
N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society 1966 folio stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items
Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon lacking the specimen, and a Students' Exercise by the College of Art Press, Canterbury. Portfolio has a hint of edgewear.
Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 94532

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See More... (Caslon, William) WILLIAM CASLON, 1692-1766
London The Wynkyn de Worde Society 1967 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages.
Printed in the US by Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, for the Wynkyn de Worde Society.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 17926

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See More... (Fournier, Pierre Simon) Hutt, Allen FOURNIER, THE COMPLETE TYPOGRAPHER
London Frederick Muller Ltd. 1972 small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 89 pages.
First edition. A biography of Pierre Simon Fournier. Reprints his CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE (1742) in facsimile of the original edition.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 42365

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  Fry, Edmund PANTOGRAPHIA; CONTAINING ACCURATE COPIES OF ALL THE KNOWN ALPHABETS IN THE WORLD; TOGETHER WITH AN ENGLISH EXPLANATION OF THE PECULIAR FORCE OR POWER OF EACH LETTER ...
London John and Arthur Arch, et. al. 1799 8vo. original paper-covered boards with covers detached, most of spine covering missing but parts of original paper spine label still preserved. xxxvi, 320 pages.
First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I,243; Bonacini 647, Lowndes 844,Updike II,120 and Birrell and Garnett 93). Each alphabet is accompanied by a textual description by Fry and demonstrations of the full range of the alphabet. This necessarily involved a large range of type specimens. Fry was probably the most learned founder of his day. Untrimmed copy with wide margins. Very ususual to find in original state.
Price: $ 750.00 other currencies Order nr. 116262

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See More... Hudson, Graham THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2008 8.5 x 11 inches Hardcover, dust jacket 160 pages
First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers, playbills and other ephemera. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic. American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain, yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction of over 200 items of ephemera, many in full color, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all with an interest in the visual arts. Graham Hudson is secretary and a founding member of the Ephemera Society and a member of the Ephemera Society of America. His published articles on aspects of ephemeral printing include contributions to the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Art Libraries Journal, the Journal of the Writing Equipment Society, Industrial Archaeology and numerous articles in The Ephemerist..

Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library

Price: $ 65.00 other currencies Order nr. 95868

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See More... (Massachusetts Historical Society) Riley, Stephen T. THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Boston Massachusetts Historical Society 1959 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 62 pages
An illustrated history of the society, featuring some of its more noteworthy collections. Black and white illustrations throughout. Matrices once in the possession of Benjamin Franklin illustrated on the wrappers.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114549

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See More... (Miniature Books) Pardoe, F.E. IN PRAISE OF JOHN BASKERVILLE, A TRIBUTE.
Wakefield The Fleece Press (1994) miniature book (5.2 x 7.4 cm.) patterned paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (64) pages.
Limited to 260 copies. Printed by hand by Simon Lawrence at his Fleece Press and illustrated by Anthony Christmas.
Price: $ 70.00 other currencies Order nr. 40913

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  Morison, Stanley L' INVENTAIRE DE LA FONDERIE LE BE, SELON LA TRANSCRIPTION DE JEAN PIERRE FOURNIER.
Paris Andre Jammes 1957 square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30 pages.
First edition, printed in "a small number." (Appleton 206). Documents Typographiques Francais - I. Text is in English. Reproduction for the first time of the inventory of the Le Be foundry as recorded in an 18th century manuscript. With historical comment.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 18303

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See More... Musson, A.E. "THE LONDON SOCIETY OF MASTER LETTER-FOUNDERS, 1793-1820."
N.P. (Oxford University Press) 1955 8vo. stiff paper wrappers pp. 86-102
An article in "The Library", Fifth Series, Vol. X, No. 2, June 1955. Minor wear and fading on spine, some binding flaws.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101790

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See More... (Paas, C. & A.) A SPECIMEN OF BRASS CARD BORDERS, ON AN ENTIRE NEW PRINCIPLE, BY C. & A. PAAS, ENGRAVERS TO THEIR MAJESTIES.
(London Printing Historical Society 1965) 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 22 pages.
Limited to 175 copies. A facsimile of the 1788 catalogue printed by T. Rickaby of London showing 52 of Cornelius and John Paas's beautiful brass ornaments for card borders. Includes historical note.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 56448

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See More... (Printing) CATALOGUE OF I. TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS.
London Birrell & Garnett 1972 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 108 pages.
Reprint issued by Tony Appleton of the 1922 first edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. A useful reference book for the study of type specimens. Well preserved.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 2914

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See More... (Printing) PRINTING TYPES FOUNDRY, PRECEDED BY THE ENGRAVING OF PUNCHES, THE TWO ARTS INCLUDE EIGHT PLATES.
N.P. n.p. n.d. small 4to. loose leaves printed on heavy paper and enclosed in mailing envelope addressed to Arvind Patel. 4 pages of text and 8 plates.
A reprint of this section of Diderot's The Encyclopedia of Trades, Paris, 18th century, with an English translation. Handwritten information on outside of envelope attributes this work to David Peat.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 107500

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See More... Rosart, Jacques-François THE TYPE SPECIMEN OF JACQUES-FRANÇOIS ROSART. FACSIMILE, WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY FERNAND BAUDIN AND NETTY HOEFLAKE.
Nieuwkoop HES & DE GRAAF 1973 8vo paper covered boards. 82 pages followed by facsimile.
Fine facsimile of the `Epreuve des caracteres, Qui se gravent & fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Jacques-François Rosart`.. Deuxième Edition augmentée. Bruxelles, 1768.

Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers.

Price: $ 115.00 other currencies Order nr. 103260

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See More... Silver, Rollo G TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825
Charlottesville Univ. Press of Virginia (1965) 8vo. cloth. xiv, 139, (3) pages.
First edition. Illustrated. Excellent guide to early printing and production of type in America. Covers rubbed along bottom edge.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 4843

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See More... Silver, Rollo G TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825
Charlottesville Univ. Press of Virginia (1965) 8vo. cloth. xiv, 139, (3) pages.
First edition. Illustrated. Excellent guide to early printing and production of type in America. Presentation on free endpaper "I'm proud to see this in the library of Susan (Thompson), friend of arts, crafts, and Rollo."
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 96543

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See More... Trattner, Johann Thomas ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN RÖSLEIN UND ZIERRATHEN WELCHE SICH IN DER K.K. HOFSCHRIFTGIESSEREY.
Vienna Herbert Reichner 1927 small 4to. boards, paper spine label. (ii) pages followed by the 27 page facsimile of the 1760 original edition.
Limited to 200 numbered copies, being part of the series entitled Bibliotheca Typographica edited by Reichner. Reproduction of this 1760 book of type ornaments and ornamental arrangements. Covers faded with slight wear at spine ends. Front pastedown and free endpaper foxed. A scarce and interesting facsimile.
Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 19784

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See More... (Type Specimens) Bodoni. FREGI E MAJUSCOLE DA GIAMBATTISTA BODONI DIRETTORE DELLA STAMPERIA REALE.
(Cambridge, MA The Houghton Library 1982) 12mo. paper wrappers. xii, 55 pages.
A facsimile of Bodoni's first type specimen of 1771. Concludes with a note by Eleanor M. Garvey, Curator of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 31054

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See More... (Type Specimens) De Jong, Cees W., Alston Purvis, Jan Tholenaar (editors) A VISUAL HISTORY OF TYPEFACES AND GRAPHIC STYLES, VOLUME 1. 1628-1900.
Volume 1 Cologne, Germany Taschen 2009 4to cloth 360 pages
Vol 1: This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter, reproducing pages from exquisitely designed catalogs showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Also included are borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations, and many spectacular examples of their use. Victorian fonts, spectacular in their complexity, are accorded a prominent place. In addition, examples from lithography and letters by inscription carvers and calligraphers are also included and described.

Featured works by type designers William Caslon, Fritz Helmuth Ehmcke, Peter Behrens, Rudolf Koch, Eric Gill, Jan van Krimpen, Paul Renner, Jan Tschichold, A. M. Cassandre, Aldo Novarese, and Adrian Frutiger.

In order to accommodate a vast amount of material, the publisher has divided this text into two volumes. This, the first volume covers the period from 1628-1900 and contains a history of the collection by Jan Tholenaar.

Includes exclusive access with TASCHEN keycard to online image library: over 1400 high-resolution scans of type specimens downloadable for unrestricted use.

Price: $ 60.00 other currencies Order nr. 109837

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