Crutchley, E.A.

HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PITT PRESS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. PITT FOR THE USE OF THE UNIVERSITY PRINTING PRESS A.D. 1833, ALTERED AND RESTORED A.D. 1937.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1938. square 8vo. cloth. v, 35, (3) pages. Reprint of the first edition which was a Cambridge Christmas Book. Colored foldout frontispiece and 6 other plates in the text. Some foxing. READ MORE about HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PITT PRESS ERECTED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. PITT FOR THE USE OF THE...

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Curwen, Harold.

PROCESSES OF GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN PRINTING.

London: Faber and Faber, (1947). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 143 pages. New edition. Part one on autographic methods and part two on photographic reproduction. This edition also includes a section on bookbinding. READ MORE about PROCESSES OF GRAPHIC REPRODUCTION IN PRINTING

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Daish, A.N.

PRINTERS' PRIDE, THE HOUSE OF YELF AT NEWPORT ISLE OF WIGHT,1816-1966.

Isle of Wight: Yelf Brothers Ltd., 1967. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xii), 92 pages. First edition. Profusely illustrated history of this printing firm. READ MORE about PRINTERS' PRIDE, THE HOUSE OF YELF AT NEWPORT ISLE OF WIGHT,1816-1966

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Darnton, Robert.

THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND OF THE OLD REGIME.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 258 pages. First edition. Darton "introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment." READ MORE about THE LITERARY UNDERGROUND OF THE OLD REGIME

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Davis, Alec.

GRAPHICS, DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION.

(London): Faber & Faber, 1975. 8vo. cloth. 154 pages. Reprint of the 1973 first edition. A look through a designer's eyes at the main methods of graphic reproduction in use twenty-five years ago. "The book's aim is deliberately limited to the provision of facts" about production. Chapters on The Scope of Graphics Today, Printing and Printers, Words into Print, Pictures into Print, Graphics Not on Paper, and Functional Considerations. With 125 illustrations. Glossary. READ MORE about GRAPHICS, DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION

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De La Caille, Jean.

HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA LIBRAIRIE.

Geneva, Switzerland: Slatkine Reprints, 1971. 8vo. cloth, spine gilt-stamped. (viii), 322, (26); (iv), (8), 8 pages. Text in French. Two volumes in one. Reprint of original edition (Paris: Jean de la Caille, 1689). Original in Bigmore and Wyman I, 98. An important late 17th century work on the history of printing. Later scholars of that art relied on it. A history of early printing, arranged by city. Provides descriptions of the first printers, the titles..... READ MORE about HISTOIRE DE L'IMPRIMERIE ET DE LA LIBRAIRIE

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De Vinne, Theodore Low.

CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS, THE PROPER USE OF FIGURES AND NUMERALS ... Part of the Practice of Typography Series.

New York: Oswald Publishing Co., 1921. 8vo. cloth. x, 3-476 pages. Reprint of the second edition.(Hart no.14). Covers rubbed around edges. Corner bumped. READ MORE about CORRECT COMPOSITION A TREATISE ON SPELLING, ABBREVIATIONS, THE COMPOUNDING AND DIVISION OF WORDS,...

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De Vinne, Theodore Low.

SCHLUSSEL ZUR ERFINDUNG DER TYPOGRAPHIE EIN ABSCHNITT AUS DEM WERKE THE INVENTION OF PRINTING. Aus dem Englishchen Ubersetzt von Dr. Oscar Jolles.

Berlin: H. Berthold, 1921. small 4to. boards. 27, (3) pages. Limited to 400 numbered copies. Printed by this German typefoundry and containing a one page preface by the translator. With a number of illustrations. Covers spotted with some wear. READ MORE about SCHLUSSEL ZUR ERFINDUNG DER TYPOGRAPHIE EIN ABSCHNITT AUS DEM WERKE THE INVENTION OF PRINTING....

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Delisle, L.

MANDEMENTS ÉPISCOPAUX.

Imprimés a Tréguier au XVe Siècle
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. (59)-70. Imprimés a Tréguier au XVe Siècle. Text in French. An extract from the Bibliothèque de l'École des Chartes. Letter written to Arthur de la Broderie, founder of the Musée du Château, Vitre, from Leopold Delisle, great bibliophile and historian. A note written on the verso of an unrelated wrapper indicates that the extract was printed in 1900. A loosely laid-in plate indicates that this copy came..... READ MORE about MANDEMENTS ÉPISCOPAUX

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Desgraves, Louis.

INTRODUCTION ET LA DIFFUSION DE L'IMPRIMERIE.

Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1965. stiff paper wrappers bound-into a pamphlet binder. Pages 593-606. Offprint from the BULLETIN PHILOLOGIQUE ET HISTORIQUE. Well footnoted. Some underlining in ink in footnotes. READ MORE about INTRODUCTION ET LA DIFFUSION DE L'IMPRIMERIE

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Dickson, Robert.

INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND.

Aberdeen: J. and J.P. Edmond and Spark, 1885. 8vo. original cloth, beveled edges, top edge cut, others uncut. xvi, 98 pages. First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies. With 27 illustrations. Chapters on Chepman, Myllar, the Aberdeen Breviary, etc. Ex library copy with markings and covers spotted. Perforated library stamp on plates and title page. Covers loose from book block. READ MORE about INTRODUCTION OF THE ART OF PRINTING INTO SCOTLAND

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Dickson, Robert and John Philip Edmond.

ANNALS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ART IN 1507 TO THE BEGINNING OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.

2 volumes.
Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1890. 4to. original creme colored paper spine with light green paper covers. xv, 272; (iv), 273-530 pages. 2 volumes. Limited to 600 numbered copies signed by Edmond, of which this is one of the 100 large paper copies bound thus. Includes both a history and bibliographical descriptions of 333 books. Illustrated. Note that the large paper copies have a separate half-title and title page for the second volume. The bookplate of..... READ MORE about ANNALS OF SCOTTISH PRINTING FROM THE INTRODUCTION OF THE ART IN 1507 TO THE BEGINNING OF THE...

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Doane, Gilbert Harry.

THE LEGEND OF THE BOOK.

Illustrations by John W. Alexander.
Chicago: The Bookfellows, 1924. 8vo. half cloth over boards, paper spine and cover labels. 30 pages. Illustrations by John W. Alexander. First edition, limited to 300 copies. Part of The Little Bookfellow Series. Long poem on the beginning of printing. The illustrations are reproductions of the murals that Alexander did for the Library of Congress. Printed by the Torch Press. Each author has signed the half-title of this copy. Covers soiled. Bookplate on free endpaper..... READ MORE about THE LEGEND OF THE BOOK

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