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Topic=TYPE SPECIMENS, SIXTEENTH CENTURY


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(Caflisch, Max) "LE CÉLÈBRE GARAMOND", ZUR SCHRIFT DIESES HEFTES.
N.P. n.p. n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers 29-36 pages
Written in German. This is presumably an essay by Max Caflisch, originally for the "Typografische Monatsblätter", which he contributed many articles to. With several type specimens and black-and-white plates throughout. Caflisch has signed his name beneath the title.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 101416

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Ferguson, W. Craig PICA ROMAN TYPE IN ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND.
Vermont Scolar Press (1989) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 33, (190) pages.
First edition. An important study of the differences among letter forms used by Elizabethan printers. Covers the period from 1550, when punch-cutters first arrived in England, to 1610, when new Dutch faces started to flood the market. Well-illustrated, with 171 plates of original text pages.
Price: $ 28.00 other currencies Order nr. 24670

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Isaac, Frank " ELIZABETHAN ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPES."
London Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press 1933 8vo. stiff paper wrappers; top edge cut, other edges uncut. pp. 212-228
An article in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2. With facsimiles of items cited by the author. Other articles focusing on printing and publishing in Tudor and Stuart England. Edges slightly worn and wrappers lightly tanned. Unopened.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 110065

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Koch, Herbert DIE JENAER SCHRIFTGIESSER SEIT DEM JAHRE 1557.
Mainz Gutenberg-Gesellschaft 1956 small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54, (2) pages.
Study of these early type founders with illustrations. Kleiner Druck no.62.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 30788

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Lane, John EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM, ANNOTATED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SPECIMENS TO CA. 1850 (MOSTLY FROM THE LOW COUNTRIES AND FRANCE) WITH PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE TYPEFOUNDRIES AND PRINTING OFFICES.
With a preface by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet New Castle and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2004 8.5"x 11" Hardcover, dust jacket 352 pages.
First edition. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gillé, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most of the type specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's extraordinary archives help to document the origins of many specimens.
This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown.
Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for the first time, and extensive indexes make this book a powerful reference tool for type specimen enthusiasts and printing historians. Contains fifteen illustrations and four rare facsimile specimen sheets inserted in the inside back cover. Co-published with The British Library.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 117058

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Philip, Ejnar. BOGTRYKKETS FORTID OG NUTID.
Copenhagen New Nordic Publishing House Arnold Busck 1952 large 8vo. patterned paper-covered boards. 107, (3) pages.
Two short works in one volume. In "Calligraphy and Book Type" (pp.9-50), E. Philip discusses medieval calligraphy and the typefaces of incunabula and early 16th-century books. Following this, C.V. Nordlunde, in "From Kelmscott Press to Penguin Books" (pp.51-101), discusses the development of modern book typography with William Morris to Penguin Books productions of the late 1940's. Both with index, bibliography. (In Danish)
Price: $ 11.00 other currencies Order nr. 51890

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(Silvius, Willem) Blouw, Paul Valkema THE LEIDEN 'AFDRUCKSEL' A TYPE SPECIMEN OF THE PRESS OF WILLEM SILVIUS IN ITS LAST DAYS (1582), A FACSIMILE WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES.
Leiden Ter Lugt Press 1983 folio stiff paper wrappers 23 pages.
Limited to only 108 copies. With a facsimile of this specimen broadside. Prospectus loosely inserted.
Price: $ 95.00 other currencies Order nr. 78881

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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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(Type Specimens) THIS IS A SPECIMEN SHEET OF GARAMOND 248, GARAMOND BOLD 548 & 5481.
Bangor, Maine Eastern Corporation n.d. large broadside folded twice with explanatory sheet printed on heavy paper stock loosely inserted.
This broadside was designed by Ben Wiley. With text on Claude Garamond.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 23467

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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

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES: A CONSPECTUS
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society, and The Printing Historical Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 inches Hardcover 472 pages
A majority of today's Western text types, whether Roman, Italic, Greek, or Hebrew, derive from type designs conceived or perfected in sixteenth-century France. They became available all over Europe from the 1540s onwards. Their design, often going by the name of Garamont, remained unchanged for two centuries. Their pleasant serenity and excellent readability triggered a revival from the 1850s onwards.

This conspectus aims at surveying exhaustively and regardless of aesthetics, all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence.

The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use.

Author Henrik D.L. Vervliet was previously Librarian at the University of Antwerp and a professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history.

Available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society.
Price: $ 120.00 other currencies Order nr. 103920

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Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES: A CONSPECTUS
New Castle, Delaware, and London Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society, and The Printing Historical Society 2010 8.5 x 11.5 inches Hardcover 472 pages
A majority of today's Western text types, whether Roman, Italic, Greek, or Hebrew, derive from type designs conceived or perfected in sixteenth-century France. They became available all over Europe from the 1540s onwards. Their design, often going by the name of Garamont, remained unchanged for two centuries. Their pleasant serenity and excellent readability triggered a revival from the 1850s onwards.

This conspectus aims at surveying exhaustively and regardless of aesthetics, all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence.

The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use.

Author Henrik D.L. Vervliet was previously Librarian at the University of Antwerp and a professor at the University of Amsterdam. His work includes bibliography and books on humanism and book history.

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Price: $ 100.00 other currencies Order nr. 114966

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