Aurora-on-Cayuga, (NY): (Press of Robert LoMascolo), 2019. 8vo. letterpress paper wrappers, cord tied. (viii), 27, (1) pages. Softcover edition. Beautifully designed in Italic type and digitally printed on acid free papers. Introduction by Dr. Linda Schwab. The book is in honor of the Smithsonian's Aurora Water/Ways Exhibition and was produced through financial support from the Museum Association of New York. "Back in 1850, "The Knickerbocker" magazine started a short series on "The Lakes of New..... READ MORE about THE WINTER RACE ON LAKE CAYUGA: A TALE OF OLD AURORA

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 136301

Elizabeth, NJ: American Type Foundry, n.d. (after 1933). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (8) pages. With a number of woodcuts and other illustrations. "Adapted by Morris Benton from a face cut about 1790 by William Martin for William Bulmer and the Shakespeare Press in London." McGrew, American Metal Type Faces, page 55. A variant of this specimen booklet bound into a larger heavy paper wrapper printed with "Bulmer." Some wear to edges. Staining on rear..... READ MORE about BULMER ROMAN AND BULMER ITALIC, FROM THE TYPES USED BY W. BULMER AT THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS, 1790-1819

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109485

N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America, (1963). 4to. cloth. 133 pages. Third edition. Covers all aspects of printing; ie, paper, type, different methods of illustrating, typography. Includes a glossary of terms. READ MORE about ATA ADVERTISING PRODUCTION HANDBOOK

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 22391

London: Bertram Rota, 1987. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. 283 pages. First edition, limited to 400 copies. A fascinating look at Frederic Prokosch and the collection of printed books of famous 20th century authors that were produced under his name. Barker's detective work, along the lines of the famous Wise affair, used type founts, paper and textual study to reveal a series of forgeries that had passed through Sotheby's hands during the 1960s and 1970s. With a...... READ MORE about THE BUTTERFLY BOOKS, AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURE OF CERTAIN TWENTIETH CENTURY PAMPHLETS

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 20692

Chelsea, London, England: Ashendene Press, 1903. 8vo. limp vellum. 48 pages. One of 150 copies, printed in 'Subiaco' type, with one initial in red, on Japanese paper. With the famous woodcut frontispiece of a man fishing and decorations after the text of Wynkyn de Worde in 'The Boke of St. Alban's empynted at Westmester in the yere of thyncarnacion of our Lorde mcccclxxxxvi (1496 by St. John Hornby and Meysey Turton. Fine textual illustrations throughout..... READ MORE about A TREATYSE OF FYSSHYNGE WYTH AN ANGLE

Price: $2,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 134846

n.p. National Endowment for the Arts, 2008. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper front cover label, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (12) pages. Limited to 110 copies. Bembo type on Zerkall paper. A preface written for the Egyptian edition of Fahrenheit 451. READ MORE about READ MY PAGES

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129587

Jersey City: American Type Founders Co., April 1905. 12mo. decorative paper-covered boards, paper cover label. (32) pages. Contains "Business Cards" by Bradley with many illustrations. The hardbound version of these chapbooks are more difficult to find than the paperbound. This copy is signed by Bradley. Corner of covers and pages has been cut away. READ MORE about AMERICAN CHAP-BOOK, II, 2

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 35592

New Haven, CT: The Arts of the Book Collection/Yale University, (2000). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 135, (3) pages. Published on the occasion of Fritz Kredel's centennial and exhibitions at The Arts of the Book Collection, Yale University, New Haven, CT; The Grolier Club, New York City; Odenwald Museum, Michelstadt, Germany. A comprehensive list of Kredel's work by Mathilde Kredel Brown; with essays by Gay Walker, Hermann Zapf, & Ronald Salter. Type set in Stempel..... READ MORE about FRITZ KREDEL, 1900-1973

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Vancouver, B.C., Canada: Heavenly Monkey, 2018. 4to. paper covered boards. 63, (5) pages. First edition limited to 48 copies, of which this is one of 25 copies with a leaf from both Rollenhagen and Wither (different emblems). Cased in printed paper over boards, with a printed paper vellum spine, at the HM studio. George Withers A Collection of Emblemes Ancient & Moderne shares the milestone for first emblem book printed in England with his contemporary..... READ MORE about LABOUR VERTUE GLORIE. LEAVES FROM THE EMBLEM BOOKS OF GABRIEL ROLLENHAGEN & GEORGE WITHER

Price: $900.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135357

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2013. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 208 pages. Founded by Will Carter in 1924, the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England, established itself as one of the leading letterpress workshops in the decades after the Second World War. Will was joined by his son Sebastian in the 1960s, and the business became known worldwide for its craftsmanship and design skills. It was not strictly a private press..... READ MORE about THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS: A NARRATIVE CATALOGUE

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 114713

N.P. (West Chester, PA): Aralia Press, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (14) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 180 copies, of which this is the second state with the corrected "Shakesperian," as opposed to the first state's "Shakesperean". This copy is signed by Cope on colophon. A collection of 5 poems. Romanée type on dampened Rives Heavy Paper. Fine condition. READ MORE about BEING BORING

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N.P. (West Chester, PA): Aralia Press, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top edge cut, other edges uncut, cord-tied. unpaginated (14) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 180 copies, of which this is the first state with the misprint "Shakesperean." This copy is signed by Cope on the colophon. A collection of 5 poems. Romanée type on dampened Rives Heavy Paper. Fine condition. READ MORE about BEING BORING

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Ipswich, UK: W.S. Cowell Ltd., (1952). small 4to. metal spiral binding, cloth, dust jacket. 74 pages. Well produced book printed in different colors on different colored paper stock. With presentation bookplate present although it was once taped to front free endpaper and is now detached with tape remnants present. Loosely inserted is a broadside entitled "Supplementary Sheets for A Book of Typefaces. 1954." Jacket soiled. READ MORE about A BOOK OF TYPEFACES, WITH SOME ILLUSTRATED EXAMPLES OF TEXT AND DISPLAY SETTING

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 4977