New York: Canfield Paper Co., n.d. 8vo. half- cloth over patterned boards. Just the book of text without the separately issued specimens. READ MORE about DEMONSTRATIONS OF TYPE AND ILLUSTRATIONS BY LETTERPRESS LITHOGRAPHY AND SHEET-FED GRAVURE ON FINE...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 5505
London: The Fleuron, 1926. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (viii), 70, (2) pages. First edition. (Appleton p.50). Spine slightly faded. Corner of paper spine label chipped off. Foxing. READ MORE about TYPE DESIGNS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121392
(Kalamazoo, MI): Sequoia Press, n.d., but after 1957. 4to. self paper wrappers, plastic bound. unpaginated. Demonstrates the use of plastic binding as well as showing acquisitions of type. Also includes paper specimens offered by Sequoia. READ MORE about OCCASIONAL NO. 9: BEING A SUPPLEMENT TO OUR TYPE SPECIMENS AND A REVIEW OF TECHNICAL AND DESIGN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 114803
N.P. Western Publishing Co., 1971 (1975). square 12mo. pictorial paper-covered boards. (26) pages. In 1979, Henry Morris published a book by Timothy Barrett on Japanese papermaking entitled Nagashizuki. Morris decided to add an additional title to the list of reference books to see if anyone ever really consulted these lists. Thus the last entry was "Wilcox, Daniel. The Invention of Paper. New York: Western Publishing Co., 1971" and was a direct reference to a little..... READ MORE about ERNIE THE CAVE KING AND SHERLOCK THE SMART PERSON IN THE INVENTION OF PAPER
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 39600
N.P. American Printing History Association, 2006. 8vo. contributions loosely inserted in cloth clamshell box, paper spine label. Limited to 200 copies for sale (of 225 copies). Seventeen typographic arrangements of poems, contributed by 15 presses in a variety of typefaces, colors, formats, papers, some illustrated, all printed letterpress. The designers/printers are: Mindy Beloff, Michael and Winifred Bixler, Carolee Campbell, Ed Colker, Sandy Connors, Ron Gordon, Barbara Henry, Jerry Kelly, Kay Michael Kramer, David Pankow, Michael..... READ MORE about VERSE INTO TYPE, THE APHA POETRY PORTFOLIO
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 92033
New York, NY: Press of A. Colish, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Foreword. Type faces offered by the Colish firm. Wrappers sunned along edges, chipped at edges. Lacking paper cover label. READ MORE about TYPE SPECIMENS SHOWING EXAMPLES OF TEXT TYPOGRAPHY FOR FINE BOOK PRINTING, ADVERTISEMENTS &...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125221
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A...... READ MORE about PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Price: $1,200.00 Order nr. 100094
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. unbound signatures. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and consists of unbound signatures for the book. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time..... READ MORE about PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 120691
Marina del Rey, California: Bieler Press, 1998. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, sewn. 37 pages, A technical guide written and designed by Gerald Lange. Digitally set in Stone Print and laser-printed on recycled acid-free Crescent Crest Writing paper. READ MORE about PRINTING DIGITAL TYPE ON THE HAND-OPERATED FLATBED CYLINDER PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 55330
La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1947. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. (28) pages. Limited to 150 copies. Schanilec 48. Nicely designed commonplace book printed in black and brown. A variant paper binding which is partially detached and chipped. READ MORE about A COMP'S-EYE VIEW OF TYPE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 93818
Evanston, IL: Borderland, 1976. large 8vo. stiff paper folder. (viii), 416 loose leaves. A collection of thousands of borders, ornaments, corners, embellishments, combination borders, frames, and grounds; some classically inspired, most delightfully rococo. Originally published with 400 pages and intended to add more plates from time to time. This copy has the first 400 pages still shrinkwrapped, plus pages 401-416 laid in along with fold-out preface, acknowledgements page, homage page, and copyright page. All loosely..... READ MORE about HERITAGE OF BORDERS, THE TYPE COLLECTION OF WENDELL KRIEG
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 48246
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992. tall 4to. quarter leather, paper over boards. 40, (22) pages. Limited to 138 numbered copies, this work was printed at the Bird & Bull Press by Henry Morris using Van Dijck types by M&H Type on Frankfurt mould-made paper (Berger A53). Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn De Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum contains four essays written for this..... READ MORE about THREE LIONS AND THE CROSS OF LORRAINE, BARTHOLOMAEUS ANGLICUS, JOHN OF TREVISA, JOHN TATE, WYNKYN...
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 36463
(London): S.J. Baker, Auctioneer & Valuer, 1933. 4to. cloth-backed paper-covered boards. (iv), vi, 46, (2) pages. Interleaved with bound-in ruled paper with lot numbers and prices realised written in, a few purchasers names also written in ink on catalogue text pages. With several important papers loosely inserted (see below). Of particular interest for the loosely inserted papers: 1) A T.L.s. from the Liquidator to J. Thomson, Northcliffe Newspapers Group, with attachment of "outstanding plant and..... READ MORE about A CATALOGUE OF NEWSPAPER PLANT AND MACHINERY TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION ON TUESDAY, JULY 11TH AND...
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 98818
Philadelphia: Thomas Morrison, n.d. (c1832). Broadside, 27 by 20 inches in modern tiger maple molded frame. Broadside of the Declaration. Published by Morrison and printed by C.A. Elliott of Philadelphia. Copyright December 8, 1832. Central medallion bust of George Washington flanked by spread-wing eagles with printed text of the Declaration, printed facsimile signatures of the original signers. Within an architectural border with the title forming an arch around Washington's portrait. Information about the 27 states..... READ MORE about DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND GEOGRAPHICAL CHART OF THE U. STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $6,500.00 Order nr. 109824
Risbury, Herefordshire, England: The Whittington Press, 1993. 4to. limp decorated boards, dust jacket, in custom clamshell box with gilt-stamped spine. (vi), 234 pages. Limited to 925 copies, this being one of 835 copies bound thus. Filled with tipped-in plates, photographs and samples of private press items. Some of the articles in this issue are "Epinal's Imagerie - the Pochoir Image Factory of France" by Peter Allen, "The Vine Press, 1957-1963" by John Dreyfus, James Mosely..... READ MORE about MATRIX 13: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 129294
London: Spicers Ltd., (1957). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 28 pages. A book printed to show the uses of paper and type in book production. Illustrations reproduced from LES FILIGRAINES by Bricquet, THE UNIVERSAL PENMAN by Bickham and THE FLORICULTURAL CABINET. READ MORE about THE PEN AND THE ROSE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4729
(Cacrrollton, OH): Press on Scroll Road, n.d. (circa 2004). 4to. green cloth, paper title label on spine (bound by Priscilla Spitler). (viii), 34, (6) pages. Limited to 54 numbered copies. Printed from handset Cloister Lightface type in two colors on dampened Twinrocker handmade paper in an iron handpress. Small green engraving by Abigail Rorer. A beautifully printed book in fine condition. READ MORE about SOME RULES OF THE GAME. ESSAYS ON GARDEN DESIGN BY SIR FRANCIS BACON, HENRY MITCHELL AND ROGER SWAIN
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 131108
Famous Press Books Latin-English-French-German-Italian-Spanish Books on Paper Making Type Specimen Books, Selections from the Library of the late Dr. Charles Thomas Silve.
New York: Parke-Bernet Galleries, 1946. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 116 pages. Famous Press Books Latin-English-French-German-Italian-Spanish Books on Paper Making Type Specimen Books, Selections from the Library of the late Dr. Charles Thomas Silve. Parke-Bernet Sale No. 787. Auction catalogue, estate of Dr. Charles Thomas Silve, a research engineer, October 7-8, 1946. Included woodcut books calligraphic examples, famous press books in six languages, books about paper making and type specimens. 675 lots. Wrappers lightly faded..... READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF FINE PRINTING OF THE XVI-XX CENTURY INCLUDING WOODCUT BOOKS AND CALLIGRAPHIC EXAMPLES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 107958
A Leaf Book
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. small 4to. quarter morocco leather, Japanese silk boards, leather spine label. 59 , (13) pages. A Leaf Book. Limited to an edition of 150 numbered copies. The book contains a foreword by Henry Morris, and essay about Joseph Florimond Loubat by Pete Smith, a bibliographical addendum by George Kolbe, a book review of Loubat's master work, Medallic History of the United States of America, by John W. Adams..... READ MORE about THE MAGNUM OPUS OF JOSEPH FLORIMOND LOUBAT
Price: $110.00 Order nr. 97135
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 Order nr. 109485
Tuscaloosa, AL: Legacy Press, 2000. large 8vo. quarter cloth, pattern paper-covered boards. 154+(1), followed by 5 tipped in specimens, (1) pages. Limited to 115 numbered copies, signed by both authors. This book contains 117 wood-engraved designs by John DePol that were orginally used to create pattern papers. These images are reproduced as originally conceived by DePol in beautiful black and white. Accompanying these images is an autobiographical sketch, an essay on the history of black..... READ MORE about ENDGRAIN DESIGNS AND REPETITIONS: THE PATTERN PAPERS OF JOHN DEPOL
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 60925
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
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 108578
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 Order nr. 4977
The Robert L. Nikirk Lecture 2002
New York: The Grolier Club, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15 pages. The Robert L. Nikirk Lecture 2002. Contains Comenius type of Hermann Zapf; 1000 copies on Mohawk Vellum paper; stapled in stiff orange wrappers decorated overall with a pattern of the Grolier Club device. One copy sent gratis to each Grolier Club member. Designed by Jerry Kelly. The Nikirk Lectures, New Series, Number 3. The lecture was delivered on November 19, 2002. READ MORE about JULIAN BOYD AND THE BATTELFIELD OF HASTINGS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 105515
Conversation between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec.
N.P. Midnight Paper Sales and Solmentes Press, 2003. 4to. full leather, cloth clamshell box. 153, (3) pages. Conversation between David Esslemont & Gaylord Schanilec. Printed in an edition of 200 copies of which this is one of an undisclosed amount of copies issued in sheets (Leaf Book - Chalmers 227). This particular copy was bound by notable binder Don Etherington. Full morocco, with leather onlays in the form of a type case. Title stamped in..... READ MORE about INK ON THE ELBOW
Price: $1,600.00 Order nr. 75258
