EDWARD JOHNSTON.
New York: Pentalic Corp. (1976). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 316 pages. Second edition. A very good copy. Biography of this calligrapher. READ MORE about EDWARD JOHNSTON
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LETTERS OF JOHN JOHNSTON AND ROBERT HOWIE.
Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, (1963). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. lxxiv, 392 pages. Book contains seventy-three letters written by John Johnston, a Professor of Divinity in the University of St. Andres from 1593-1611. Also includes twenty-three letters from Robert Howie, first Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen. Some black-and-white illustrations. Water damage on dust jacket and bottom edge of boards, some staining on the verso of dust jacket, pages unharmed. READ MORE about LETTERS OF JOHN JOHNSTON AND ROBERT HOWIE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 99121
EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER.
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2007. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 412 pages. First edition. Edward Johnston (1872-1944) was a man of letters - master calligrapher, typeface designer and creator of the lettering and branding for the London Underground. He was also a great teacher and philosopher. Many were, and still are, influenced by his down-to-earth ideas on calligraphy and lettering, and those who studied in his classes at..... READ MORE about EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER
Price: $49.95 Order nr. 92516
DREAMING ON THE EDGE: POETS AND BOOK ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 10.5 x 8 inches. Cloth, dust jacket. 232 pages. "Alastair Johnston's engaging and all-embracing survey of California printing takes us from its early beginnings in the 1870s (San Francisco's first type foundry opened in 1874), and covers all the printers we encountered in California, including himself, and a great many others besides." - John Randle, Matrix "Through the lens of Johnson's expertise, we again see how fine art..... READ MORE about DREAMING ON THE EDGE: POETS AND BOOK ARTISTS IN CALIFORNIA
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 128359
INCIDENTS ATTENDING THE CAPTURE, DETENTION, AND RANSOM.
Cleveland: Burrows Brothers Company, 1905. 8vo. Bound in pictorial red cloth with gilt, gilt title and author, top edge gilt. 156 pages. First edition thus limited to 267 numbered copies. Front right and back left tips have a small triangular damp stain which does not bleed to the textblock. Light rubbing to spine gutter. Light bumping to tips, head, and tail. Includes a map of Johnston's journey. Charles Johnston, an attorney in Botetourt County in..... READ MORE about INCIDENTS ATTENDING THE CAPTURE, DETENTION, AND RANSOM
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 137339
WILLIAM AND HENRY WALTERS, THE RETICENT COLLECTORS.
Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins/Walters Art Gallery, (1999). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, (ii), 309+(1) pages. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. The story of how William Walters and his son Henry created the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, Maryland, one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States, is here told for the first time. Drawing on the knowledge of the early museum staff and other valuable sources, William Johnston, the..... READ MORE about WILLIAM AND HENRY WALTERS, THE RETICENT COLLECTORS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 75029
CLEVELAND HERBAL, BOTANICAL, AND HORTICULTURAL COLLECTIONS A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRE-1830 WORKS FROM THE LIBRARIES OF THE HOLDEN ARBORETUM, THE CLEVELAND MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION, AND THE GARDEN CENTER OF GREATER CLEVELAND.
Kent: The Kent State University Press, (1992). thick tall 8vo. cloth. xviii, 1012 pages. First edition. A fine copy. A total of 975 books and 27 manuscripts described in great bibliographical detail with annotations. Illustrated including a full color frontispiece. Has indices of authors, titles, printers, publishers, booksellers, illustrators, portraits and non-botanical illustrations. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included. READ MORE about CLEVELAND HERBAL, BOTANICAL, AND HORTICULTURAL COLLECTIONS A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRE-1830...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 37354
BOOKWAYS. 3.
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1992. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 52 pages. With Decherd Turner on "A Perplexed Scene," an article by Alastair Johnston and many reviews of fine press books. READ MORE about BOOKWAYS. 3
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 43048
CONTEMPORARY TITLE PAGES, A SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS COMPOSED ON THE LINOTYPE.
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype, 1932. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xiv, 204 pages. With an introduction by Dwiggins followed by pages of designs by Dwiggins, Adler, Johnston, Rogers, Rudge and others. Crude tape repair along head of spine, minor shelfwear. For the year 1931. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY TITLE PAGES, A SELECTION OF OUTSTANDING BOOKS COMPOSED ON THE LINOTYPE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 15664
A MAJOR ART, "... THAT THE BOOK OF STONE, SO SOLID AND SO ENDURING MUST MAKE WAY FOR THE BOOK OF PAPER, STILL MORE SOLID AND ENDURING,
Designed and printed for his friends by S. Vance Cagley.
N. P. n.p., (Christmas) 1926. small 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. (24) pages. Designed and printed for his friends by S. Vance Cagley. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies of which this is no.34. Printed as a Christmas greeting. With a foreword by Samuel P. Johnston. Ornaments printed in orange ink. Some minor cover soiling. READ MORE about A MAJOR ART, "... THAT THE BOOK OF STONE, SO SOLID AND SO ENDURING MUST MAKE WAY FOR THE...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 1424
PARENTHESIS 27: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION.
Kentville, Nova Scotia: Fine Press Book Association, 2014. 4to. quarter cloth over paste-paper covered boards, separate cloth portfolio, slipcase. 55+(1) pages. Fall 2014 / Number 27 / Robert McCamant, Editor NOTE: THIS IS THE DELUXE EDITION which is hardbound and contains a separate portfolio containing eleven pieces of ephemera. Chairmans Letter | Jason Dewinetz Walter Hamady: Life and Death in Driftless, Wisconsin | Alastair Johnston Dwiggins and Updike: Pupil and Mentor | Paul Shaw David..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 27: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 135830
PARENTHESIS 31.
N.P. Fine Press Book Association, 2016. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Autumn 2016 issue. Table of contents, feature articles, book reviews, biographical sketches of contributors. Color and black and white illustrations. Fall 2016 / Number 31 / Robert McCamant, Editor Chairmans Letter | Jason Dewinitz Colophon David Johnston, 19852015 Harry Duncan: the Man and the Work New England Novitiate | Harry Duncan An Apprentices Story | Juan Nicanor Pascoe A Checklist of Printed Work..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 31
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 135855
PARENTHESIS 33. THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION.
N.P. Fine Press Book Association, 2017. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Autumn 2017 issue printed in an edition of 895 copies. Table of contents, feature articles, book reviews, biographical sketches of contributors. Color and black and white illustrations. Fall 2017 / Number 33 / Robert McCamant, Editor Chairmans Letter | Jason Dewinetz Colophon Obituary: Jill Mason | Tom Taylor Features An Interview with Mark Cochram | Abby Schoolman Lost in Moisty Cloisters | Alastair..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 33. THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 132216
PARENTHESIS 33. THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION. DELUXE EDITION.
N.P. Fine Press Book Association, 2017. 4to. quarter cloth over paste-paper covered boards, portfolio, slipcase. 64 pages. Autumn 2017 issue limited to 895 copies of which this is one of 95 deluxe copies hardbound with a separate portfolio of printer's specimens, inserted into a slipcase. Table of contents, feature articles, book reviews, biographical sketches of contributors. Color and black and white illustrations. Fall 2017 / Number 33 / Robert McCamant, Editor Chairmans Letter | Jason..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 33. THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION. DELUXE EDITION
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 137483
PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9.
New York, NY: American Printing History Association, 2011. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 47+(1) pages. Michael Winship on "Pirates, Shipwrecks, and Comic Almanacs: Charles Ellms Packages Books in Nineteenth-Century America" and Alastai M. Johnston on "A Glance at the First Century of California Printing." READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.9
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 110229
THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER.
Berlin and Williamstown, MA: Triton Verlag and the Chapin Library, Williams College, 2005. 4to. cloth, slipcase. 456 pages. First edition in English (from the 2004 German edition). The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press movement. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces were drawn by Edward Johnston and cut by Edward Prince and George Friend; then Harry Gage-Cole was called in as..... READ MORE about THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER
Price: $290.00 Order nr. 88729
A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS, THE RECORD OF THE SCOTTISH TYPOGRAPHICAL AS SOCIATION, 1853 TO 1952.
Glasgow: Scottish Typographical Association, 1953. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. Color Frontispiece; xv, 268 pages. First edition. Introduction by Thomas Johnston. Nineteen separate chapters covering the Scottish printing industry from 1507 up through 1952. The appendixes reprints the rules of the association as of 1841, gives a list of General Secretaries and has a table of benefits paid over the period 1853 to 1952. Small chip in jacket along back hinge at top. READ MORE about A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS, THE RECORD OF THE SCOTTISH TYPOGRAPHICAL AS SOCIATION, 1853 TO 1952
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 97316
HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. A SELECTION OF LECTURES DELIVERED ... UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR. ROBERT L. LESLIE.
New York: R.R. Bowker Co., 1972. tall 8vo. cloth. xii, 291 pages. First edition. Essays on William Morris, Frederic Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Edward Johnston, T.M. Cleland, the Grabhorns, etc. Illustrated. Covers show fading. READ MORE about HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS. A SELECTION OF LECTURES DELIVERED ... UNDER THE DIRECTION OF DR....
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4213
RUFUS AT THE DOOR & OTHER STORIES.
Afton, MN: Afton Historical Society Press, (2000). small 4to. quarter gilt-stamped cloth, paper covered boards, dust jacket. 126, (2) pages. Limited to fifty copies, signed by the author on colophon. This copy not numbered. Publisher's note by Elizabeth Condon Johnston, table of contents, postscript note by Agatha McGee. Wood engravings by Gaylord Schanilec. READ MORE about RUFUS AT THE DOOR & OTHER STORIES
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 131941
PARENTHESIS 27: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION.
Kentville, Nova Scotia: Fine Press Book Association, 2014. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. 55+(1) pages. Autumn 2014 issue. Includes editorial, articles on a number of fine presses, obituaries, and book reviews. Color illustrations throughout. This issue includes information on Walter Hamady, W.A. Dwiggins and D.B. Updike among others. Fall 2014 / Number 27 / Robert McCamant, Editor Chairmans Letter | Jason Dewinetz Walter Hamady: Life and Death in Driftless, Wisconsin | Alastair Johnston Dwiggins..... READ MORE about PARENTHESIS 27: THE JOURNAL OF THE FINE PRESS BOOK ASSOCIATION
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 123086
PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED SAMSON AGONISTES & POEMS BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN COMPOS'D ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
Two volumes.
Hammersmith: The Doves Press, 1902, 1905. 8vo. original full limp vellum with title in gilt on spine, each enclosed in modern slipcase with cloth dust jacket. 386,(2); 343+(1) pages. Two volumes. Limited to 325 copies printed by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson (Marianne Tidcombe, The Doves Press, 37-42, Catalogue Raisonne p.20; Ransom no.5&7). Title and margin notes in red. Initials designed by Edward Johnston. The present work is one of Walker and Cobden-Sanderson's earlier productions, and certainty one..... READ MORE about PARADISE LOST, A POEM IN XII BOOKS WITH PARADISE REGAINED A POEM IN IV BOOKS TO WHICH ARE ADDED...
Price: $9,000.00 Order nr. 41140
REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW.
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310, (2) pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Contains a full-page advertisement for Johnston & Bogia as..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 28663
REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW.
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310 pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. With the bookplate of the Bradford family. Also contains the..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 39630
REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW.
B1-488.
Wilmington: Johnston & Bogia, 1872. 8vo. original green cloth. Frontispiece portrait of Israel Acrelius; xvi, 17-310, (2) pages. B1-488. B1-488. Second edition, actually a second printing with a two page preface by the new publishers. History of the settlement of Wilmington, De., followed by the author's recollections of the town. With a lengthy section on the Gilpins and their papermill and some notes on printers and booksellers. Contains a full-page advertisement for Johnston & Bogia..... READ MORE about REMINISCENCES OF WILMINGTON, IN FAMILIAR VILLAGE TALES, ANCIENT AND NEW
Price: $135.00 Order nr. 126879
RECOLLECTIONS OF A COUNTRY PRINTING OFFICE.
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, (1992). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (16) pages. Limited to 200 copies printed as a Keepsake for the Monotype Conference held in Cambridge, MA. A fine copy. Composed, illustrated and printed by Alastair Johnston at his Poltroon Press. Has a section entitled "Some Curious Specimens of Nineteenth-Century Types."From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about RECOLLECTIONS OF A COUNTRY PRINTING OFFICE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 87644