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Almquist, Johan Axel. SVERIGES BIBLIOGRAFISKA LITTERATUR FORTECKNAD AF J...TREDJE DELEN, HAFT 1, TYPOGRAFI OCH BOKHANDTVERK SAMT SUPPLEMENT TILL FOREGAENDE DELAR [SWEDEN'S BIBLIOGRAPHIC LITERATURE LISTED BY (THE AUTHOR), THE THIRD PART, FASICLE 1, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK ARTS, WITH SUPPLEMENT TO PRECEDING PARTS].
Stockholm n.p. (Royal Library)) 1912 8vo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 152 pages.
Part III, fasc. 1 of the work listed in Besterman 5949. Entries no. 4951-5810 (i.e. 860) of this work. The making and selling of books, and the history thereof. The supplement lists bibliographies, biobibliographies, books on library science and archives, and library catalogues. Concludes with list of corrections and errata. Unopened. Covers detached and missing pieces; backing missing.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 52954

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Anninger, Anne. SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE 16TH CENTURY BOOKS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF PRINTING AND GRAPHIC ARTS.
Cambridge The Houghton Library 1985 small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 94, (2) pages.
A catalogue from the exhibition held at The Houghton Library in 1985, which featured Spanish and Portuguese books from the sixteenth century. Almost all of the books were collected and donated by the late Philip Hofer, founding Curator of the Department. This collection provides an overall view of printing and illustration of the time, and documents the history of printing by region, even by city. It contains 210 entries and is illustrated and indexed.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 60766

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Armitage, Merle ACCENT ON LIFE.
Ames The Iowa State University Press (1965) 8vo. cloth, dust jacket xv, 386+(1) pages.
First edition. A witty memoir by this designer and typographer.
Price: $ 8.00 other currencies Order nr. 36357

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ARS TYPOGRAPHICA
New York Marchbanks Press & Press of the Woolly Whale 1934 4to. paper wrappers. 52 pages.
The fourth issue (of four total) of the first volume of Ars Typographica. This issue was published 14 years after the third issue and after the four issues of volume 2 and the one of volume 3. Article on type design by Goudy, Pollard on private presses, and even a small contribution by Christopher Morley. Printed at the Press of the Woolly Whale. Slightly bumped at head of spine.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 278

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ARS TYPOGRAPHICA
9 issues, the complete run. New York The Marchbanks Press edited by Frederic W. Goudy (then Douglas McMurtrie) 1918-1934 4to. stiff paper wrappers
Volumes I, 1-4; II, 1-4, III, 1., a complete set of this interesting periodical first issued under the editorship of Goudy and then Douglas McMurtrie. An excellent set of a typographic periodical difficult to find complete. First issue has tape repair to spine, third issue has tape repairs to cover. Minor chipping along edges.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 30570

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(Audin, Maurice and André Jammes) ESSAI SUR LA LETTRE D'IMPRIMERIE A PROPOS DES COLLECTIONS CONSERVÉES AU MUSÉE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA BANQUE
Lyon n.p. n.d. large 8vo stiff paper wrappers 69, (3) pages
Text in French. Traces the history of type from the sixteenth to the twentieth century with many illustrations of the historic types.
Price: $ 35.00 other currencies Order nr. 95632

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Bahr, Leonard F ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HANDBOOK
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America (1969) 4to. cloth. 158 pages.
Fourth edition. Covers all aspects of printing; ie, paper, type, different methods of illustrating, typography. Includes a glossary of terms. Covers rubbed.
Price: $ 10.00 other currencies Order nr. 326

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Barbier, Olivier DES MARQUES TYPOGRAPHIQUES.
Utilité de les Connoitre Paris J. Techener, Libraire 1864 8vo. not bound (i), 992-1013+(1) pages
This is an article about typographic marks from the July-August 1864 issue of the Bulletin du Bibliophile et du Bibliothécaire--a monthly revue published by the Paris bookseller J. Techener. This essay has been salvaged from the original publication and the original printed paper wrappers have been saved. This copy shows wear and the leaves have separated from one another, but the text and images are intact. It is currently housed in a sleeve with a clear plastic front. A loosely laid-in bookplate indicates that this copy came from the reference library and stock of H.P. Kraus.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 79774

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Barker, Nicolas THE FUTURE OF TYPOGRAPHICAL STUDIES.
Chapel Hill, NC Hanes Foundation 1996 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 28, (2) pages.
First edition. Printing of a lecture given by Nicolas Barker in Wilson Library at the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill. The lecture was tenth in the Hanes Lecture Series. Presented by the Hanes Foundation for the study and the origin and development of the book.
Price: $ 45.00 other currencies Order nr. 70638

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Bartlett, Edward Everett TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES IN EUROPE AND A STUDY OF CONTEMPORANEOUS BOOK PRODUCTION IN GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE, ITALY, GERMANY, HOLLAND AND BELGIUM.
With an Addendum by J.W. Muller giving the Principal Dates and Personages in Printing History. New York G.P. Putnam's Sons 1925 folio cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt, slipcase. 185, (3) pages.
First edition, limited to 585 copies. Contains five plates and much information. Spine spotted in places. Slipcase bottom creased.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 73481

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Bartram, Alan TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2007 9.5 x 10 inches cloth, dust jacket 128 pages
First edition. This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because current design methods do not require the drawing and tracing of letterforms in order to produce layouts, we have lost our close connection with them. Few understand their history, their appearance, and how and why they have developed as they have. Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, just as they were in the Atlas of Typeforms. But an entirely new feature is the author's attempt to place the types in their historical context. By including photographs of contemporary inscriptions on buildings and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their parallel course from the Renaissance until Victorian times. The opportunities offered for graphic and type designers in the digital age are greater than ever before. But without an understanding of the visual make-up of letterforms and some knowledge of their fascinating history, designers cannot fully exploit the potential of type. In this book, Alan Bartram educates us in these critical areas. Co-published with The British Library.
Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 95866

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(Berliner Typographische Gesellschaft) 75 JAHRE BERLINER TYPOGRAPHISCHE GESELLSCHAFT.
Berlin Berliner Typographische Gesellschaft 1954 square 8vo. quarter leather with paper-covered boards, top edge stained brown, bottom edge uncut. 78, (2) pages.
Festschrift including essays on the history of the BTG, on bookplates, on the history of writing, on typography, and on specific aspects of printing and reproduction. Rubbed with backstrip partially detached.
Price: $ 20.00 other currencies Order nr. 48776

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(Bibliography) BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS
New York Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers 112 pages
"European, English and American Literature - The Fine Arts, including Painting, Engraving and Architecture - Genealogy & Heraldry - Incunabula - Manuscripts - Dictionaries and Vocabularies - The Arts of teh Book, including formation of libraries, the Book Trade, Typography, Illustration and Binding - mainly from the library of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, the noted 19th century historian and collector, co-founder of the Philobiblon Society, and authority on Spanish art INCLUDING a large selection of priced auction catalogues of many of the most important late 18th and early 19th century libraries AND a separate section of Americana, including an extensive group of bibliographies and special studies by José Toribio Medina, as well as auction, dealer and private catalogues of great Americana collections." (from the title page). Contains 898 entries and an author index.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 101336

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(Bird & Bull Press) de Nova Villa, Henricus SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book Newtown, PA Bird & Bull Press 2007 small folio quarter morocco, slipcase (x), 117, (3) pages
Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces ranging from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, exhibit Morris's finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisitely executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental material from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. "I've seen many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it." (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types printed on Frankfurt paper.
Price: $ 550.00 other currencies Order nr. 93138

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Bjorkbom, Carl. DET GAMLA TRYCKERIET, ETT TRYCKERI PA 1500-TALET, ETT FRANSKT LANDSOR.
N.P. (Stockholm?) "Bibliophiles" (i.e. Society of B...?) n.d (c1960) 12mo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages.
Limited to 700 copies. Three articles by Björkbom, previously published elsewhere. The "printing shop of the 1500's" is that of C. PLantin. No.10 in the "Bibliophile's Miniature Series."
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 52925

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Blumenthal, Joseph THE ART OF THE PRINTED BOOK 1455-1955, MASTERPIECES OF TYPOGRAPHY THROUGH FIVE CENTURIES FROM THE COLLECTIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.
New York Pierpont Morgan Library (1973) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 192 pages.
First edition. Profusely illustrated. Jacket worn with tears.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 3276

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Blumenthal, Joseph THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.
Boston David R. Godine (1977) 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages.
First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Presentation on half-title "Inscribed for Mike McCurdy, Joe Blumenthal."
Price: $ 55.00 other currencies Order nr. 114825

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Blumenthal, Walter Hart. ECCENTRIC TYPOGRAPHY, AND OTHER DIVERSIONS IN THE GRAPHIC ARTS.
Worcester Achille J. St. Onge 1963 tall 8vo. cloth. 40 pages.
One of 500 copies printed by Joh. Enschede in Holland. An essay on typographic curiosities throughout the ages. With a handwritten letter by Blumenthal to Robert Massmann concerning this book mounted on front free endpaper. With the bookplate of Massmann on front pastedown.
Price: $ 85.00 other currencies Order nr. 116151

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Bringhurst, Robert WHY THERE ARE PAGES AND WHY THEY MUST TURN.
Number one of the CODE(X) Monograph Series Berkeley, California CODEX Foundation 2008 5.5 x 7.75 inches paperback pamphlet 16 pages
Number one of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Adapted from The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada, published in fall 2008 by CCSP Press at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Robert Bringhurst's essay talks about book design and typography, as well as the future of the book.

This book was designed and printed in an edition of 500 copies on a Heidelberg cylinder press by Peter Koch, assisted by Jonathan Gerken and Shanna Mahan for the CODEX Foundation. The cover was printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection.

Robert Bringhurst is a philosopher, poet, linguist, and typographer living in British Columbia.
Price: $ 25.00 other currencies Order nr. 102896

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(Calligraphy) Knight, Stan HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE.
New Castle, Delaware Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller (2009) 4to. hardcover, dust jacket 112 pages.
Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the high peaks in an endlessly shifting landscape. Throughout centuries, styles of writing were continually being modified and developed in response to a multitude of influences encompassing political, religious, aesthetic, intellectual, sociological, and pragmatic changes in the ways that books were made and scripts were written. The modern calligrapher, typographer, historian, and anyone interested in western lettering and documents benefits from studying the methods, skills, and attitudes of generations of historical scribes who produced such outstanding and accomplished works for so many centuries.
Revised and expanded, this book is an excellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style.
Price: $ 39.95 other currencies Order nr. 52752

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(Clarke, Bert) BERT CLARKE - TYPOGRAPHER, A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOHN DREYFUS & CATALOGUE NOTES BY MR. CLARKE.
New York The New York Public Library 1987 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44, (42) pages.
Text followed by plates showing the typographical design work by Clarke. Printed by the Press of A. Colish.
Price: $ 13.00 other currencies Order nr. 4967

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(Clark, Edward) CATALOGUE OF THE EDWARD CLARK LIBRARY.
2 volumes. N.P. Privately printed for Napier College of Commerce & Technology 1976 8vo. cloth. xxxi,332; xii,333-685 pages.
With typographical notes by Harry Carter and an essay on the Printing of Illustrations by Frank P. Restall. This library was formed by the collector to demonstrate printing, typography and book illustration techniques from the beginning of printing. With a biographical sketch of Clark.
Price: $ 30.00 other currencies Order nr. 30176

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Coakley, J.F. THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.
New Castle, Delaware and London Oak Knoll Press and The British Library 2006 7 x 10 inches hardcover 272 pages
Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use today. It is no wonder that this language has a long and rich printing history. The challenge of conveying the beautiful cursive Syriac script, in one or another of its three varieties, was taken up by many well-known type-designers in the letterpress era, from Robert Granjon in the sixteenth century to the Monotype and Linotype corporations in the twentieth, as well as by many lesser-known ones. This study records and abundantly illustrates no fewer than 129 different Syriac types, using archival documents, type-specimens, and the often scattered evidence of the print itself. The Typography of Syriac will be of interest not only to scholars of Middle Eastern languages and scripts but also to all historians of type and printing.
J. F. Coakley is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and on the staff of Houghton Library, at Harvard University. His private press, the Jericho Press, occasionally makes use of Syriac and other exotic types.
Price: $ 75.00 other currencies Order nr. 91843

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(Cooper & Beatty) Hajnal, Edna. COOPER & BEATTY, DESIGNER WITH TYPE.
Toronto University of Toronto 1996 large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 50 pages.
An exhibition catalogue of the Cooper & Beatty designs held at the University of Toronto in 1996. As Canada's most important typographic firm, the exhibition concentrates on the exciting years of the company's history. Illustrated.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 56871

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Craig, James DESIGNING WITH TYPE, A BASIC COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY.
Edited by Susan E. Meyer. New York Watson-Guptill Publications (1981) 4to. boards, spiral bound. (ix), 176 pages.
Reprint of the 1980 revised edition with a new introduction to the phototypesetting process. A good introductory manual to the subject.
Price: $ 15.00 other currencies Order nr. 104981

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