San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper covered slipcase. 138 pages. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Includes the prospectus. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS

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New York: The Typophiles in conjunction with an exhibition at the Grolier Club, (2006). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Typophiles Monograph New Series no.22 according to tipped-in printed notice. Grolier Club exhibition catalogue of Gotthard De Beauclair's typography and design work for various German publishers. Introduction by Hermann Zapf. With 10 color and black-and-white illustrations. READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105293

(New York): The Grolier Club, (1999). 4to. cloth. xxx, (ii), 110 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press in an edition limited to two hundred and fifty case bound copies set in Dante type. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Grolier Club catalogue of the 100 most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the 20th century arranged in chronologicial order. "The idea of one book a year, on average, seems almost presumptuous. Yet one must begin somewhere, and... READ MORE about A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999

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New York: The Grolier Club, 1999. 9 x 12 inches. paperback. 144 pages. This catalogue contains 100 of the most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the twentieth century. To choose just 100 out of an immense number of books, the selection was limited to books printed in England and America containing the Roman alphabet. Books as objects and more sculptural books are not included in the publication. The introduction is divided into two parts... READ MORE about A CENTURY FOR THE CENTURY, FINE PRINTED BOOKS FROM 1900 TO 1999

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Boston: Thomas G. Boss Fine Books, 2008. 5.75 x 8.75 inches. cloth-backed paper covered boards, stamped in gilt with the Riverside Press logo. 95 pages. As Daniel Berkley Updike's successor, from 1896-1912, Bruce Rogers worked at Houghton Mifflin's Riverside Press. This history of Bruce Rogers' work while at the Riverside Press was taken directly from the archives of his letters. Included in this book is how Rogers came to produce the series called Riverside Press... READ MORE about THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE...

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Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2008. 8vo. cloth. 54 pages, plates. A history of Rogers and the Riverside Press. With a bibliography. Color plates. Acknowledgments. READ MORE about THE FIRST FLOWERING: BRUCE ROGERS AT THE RIVERSIDE PRESS, 1896-1912, WITH A CHECKLIST OF THE...

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New York: The Grolier Club, 2019. 6.125 x 9.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. Published to accompany the Grolier Club exhibition "Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf," curated by Jerry Kelly and Steven Galbraith, on show at the Club February 20-April 27 2019, in celebration of the centenary of Zapf's birth. This is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918-2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type... READ MORE about HERMANN ZAPF AND THE WORLD HE DESIGNED: A BIOGRAPHY

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New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 6 x 9 inches. paperback pamphlet. 16 pages. Typophiles Monograph: New Series No. 27 Type Revivals gives the history of type revivals and explores their place in modern type design. By examining some of the earliest type revivals, the definition of a true type revival emerges: it is an adaptation of an old typeface for current production and use, not merely a rote reproduction. With this definition in mind, the... READ MORE about TYPE REVIVALS: WHAT ARE THEY? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? WHERE ARE THEY GOING?

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Pomona, New York: The Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004. large 8vo. cloth spine with paper-covered boards. X, 56, (2) pages plus 58 plates with 4 tipped-in original leaves. Printed in an edition limited to 300 copies, this being edition C containing 4 original leaves from Pickering titles (Leaf Book - Chalmers 229). A work highlighting the important role of William Pickering in nineteenth-century publishing. During his lifetime, Pickering published works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Donne and... READ MORE about A CHECKLIST OF BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM PICKERING 1820-1853

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New York: The Typophiles, 1984. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 13 pages with 8 pages of plates. First edition. Limited to 480 copies. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the press of A. Colish. READ MORE about THE BOOK TYPOGRAPHY OF HERMANN ZAPF. THE ARTICLE WHICH FIRST APPEARED IN FINE PRINT VOLUME TEN,...

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Foreword by Robert Bringhurst
New York: The Typophiles, 2011. 4.5 x 7 inches. hardcover, slipcase. 112 pages. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst. Deluxe edition signed by the author and limited to 75 copies. Includes four type specimens in a paper folder and a slipcase for the book and specimen folder. Typophiles Chapbook, New Series, 3. "Letterforms are things that nearly all of us in the Western world have learned to take for granted. We treat them much like door knobs... READ MORE about ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF

Price: $170.00  other currencies  Order nr. 109481