(Balding & Mansell, Printers).

TYPE, PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION.

Wisbech, Cambs.
Balding & Mansell, Printers, n.d. small 8vo. cloth. 80, (8) pages. Wisbech, Cambs. WITH TWO OTHER BOOKLETS. The style book of this printing house. Illustrated and with a glossary of terms. Loosely inserted in a cardboard case with two other specimen booklets issued by the firm.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about TYPE, PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 21913

(Bird & Bull Press). Morris, Henry.

BON MOT.

N.P. Bird & Bull Press, n.d. 4to. cardboard frame with title and Bird & Bull insignia printed at the bottom enclosing 12 broadsides printed on different colored paper. Each broadside shows a different example of typography and is printed in two colors. Meant as a gift for standing order customers of his fine private press. Displays Henry Morris's design work and sense of humor. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about BON MOT

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 15851

Blumenthal, Joseph.

THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45842

Bosomworth, Dorothy.

THE CLIP ART BOOK OF DESIGNS: MORE THAN 5,000 MOTIFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD.

New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1995. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 302 pages. Introduction, Bibliography. Clip art and motifs from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas, Australasia. Fine condition.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE CLIP ART BOOK OF DESIGNS: MORE THAN 5,000 MOTIFS FROM AROUND THE WORLD

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135187

(Bulmer, William). Siegfried, Laurance B.

WILLIAM BULMER AND THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BULMER FROM A DICTIONARY OF PRINTERS AND PRINTING BY C. H. TIMPERLEY, LONDON, 1839.

With an introductory note on the Bulmer-Martin types by Laurance B. Siegfried.
Syracuse: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1957. 12mo. black cloth. iv, 36 pages. With an introductory note on the Bulmer-Martin types by Laurance B. Siegfried. With illustrations by John DePol. READ MORE about WILLIAM BULMER AND THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM BULMER FROM A DICTIONARY OF...

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 950

(Calligraphy). Baker, Arthur.

CALLIGRAPHY.

New York: Dover Publications, (1973). oblong 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 155 pages. A sampling of the calligraphy of this well-known type designer. Includes 100 original alphabets as well as single letters, words, sentences and examples of Oriental and abstract calligraphy. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHY

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 47305

Chappell, Warren.

MY LIFE WITH LETTERS.

New York: The Typophiles, 1974. tall 12mo. paper wrappers, dust jacket. (iv), 18 pages. A Typophile keepsake designed and produced by Bert Waggott. An autobiographical story of type design and calligraphy.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about MY LIFE WITH LETTERS

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 20754

Dauer, Joanne C. & Edward A. Dauer.

AMERICAN HISTORY AS SEEN THROUGH CURRENCY.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL: Ivy Press, 2003. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 400 pages. Color illustrations on every page. Very informative about the history of currency.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about AMERICAN HISTORY AS SEEN THROUGH CURRENCY

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 135189

Dreyfus, John.

INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION.

Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist..... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45937

(Gill, Eric). Carter, Sebastian.

ERIC GILL: THE CONTINUING TRADITION.

N.P. Monotype Recorder, 1990. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 39 + (1) pages. New series Autumn 1990 number eight. Issue of the Monotype Recorder that concentrates on the type design of Eric Gill. The text is profusely illustrated . The issue was set using Gill's own faces which had been adapted to the MonoText (computerized) system. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about ERIC GILL: THE CONTINUING TRADITION

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93477

(Gill, Eric). Skelton, Christopher.

ERIC GILL, THE ENGRAVINGS.

Boston: Godine, (1990). thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 478 pages. Reprint of the edition designed by Skelton. Over 1000 engravings described and illustrated. Near fine.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about ERIC GILL, THE ENGRAVINGS

Price: $55.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33357

(Gutenberg, John). Kapr, Albert.

JOHANN GUTENBERG, THE MAN AND HIS INVENTION.

(Aldershot): Scholar Press, (1996). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 331+(1) pages. First edition in English. A biography of Johannes Gutenberg, covering both his personal life and his achievements. Well illustrated with photographs, diagrams, drawings and facsimile pages, many in full color. With end notes, chronology, suggested readings, glossary, indexed by name and subject. Spine of dust jacket lightly sunned, else fine. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about JOHANN GUTENBERG, THE MAN AND HIS INVENTION

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 93704

Hess, Stephen and Milton Kaplan.

THE UNGENTLEMANLY ART, A HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CARTOONS.

New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., (1975). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 252 pages. Revised edition. With reproductions of over 300 cartoons by such artists as Thomas Nast, Bernard Gillman, Frederick B. Opper, Homer Davenport, and Herbert Block. Jacket faded along spine, with some tears around the edges.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE UNGENTLEMANLY ART, A HISTORY OF AMERICAN POLITICAL CARTOONS

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 32736