Berkeley: University of California Press, (1977). small 8vo. cloth. xix, 170, (2) pages. Reprint of the 1940 edition. Illustrated. Lacking dust jacket. Housed in a lovely later quarter leather / cloth clamshell box. READ MORE about TYPOLOGIA, STUDIES IN TYPE DESIGN & TYPE MAKING With Comments on the Invention of Typography,...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19626
Mainz: Karl Pressler, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 426-484 plus 1 plate. Offprint from Essays in Honour of Victor Scholderer. Considers the presence of Gutenberg typeface in the work of "Monogrammist d"'s prints. Several black-and-white plates; one color plate tipped-in. READ MORE about GUTENBERGS TYPOGRAPHI UND DIE TEIGDRUCKE DES MONOGRAMMISTEN d
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 77018
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, (1980). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. A manual. READ MORE about PHOTOTYPOGRAPHY, A GUIDE TO IN-HOUSE TYPESETTING & DESIGN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 13738
Washington, DC: National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, 1983. 6 x 9 inches. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Publication accompanying a 1983 exhibition in the Hall of Printing and Graphic Arts of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Introduction, list of illustration captions, endnotes, bibliography. Black and white illustrations throughout. Corrigenda laid in. READ MORE about THE FAT AND THE LEAN, AMERICAN WOOD TYPE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 132741
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Machine Co., n.d. 4to. paper wrappers. 8 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of several type specimens. Corner bumped. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR ORIGIN & DEVELOPMENT BASED ON AN ADDRESS DELIVERED AT FRANLIN INSTITUTE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4286
A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade
Terra Alta: Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry, 1984. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A Monotype Fanatic's Escapade. Limited to 300 copies. Illustrations by Jim Willis. Typographic adventure at the St. Vincent Archabbey Press. READ MORE about IN QUEST OF TYPOGRAPHIC TREASURES AT THE ARCHABBEY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105500
N.P. Privately Printed, 2000. folio. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages. Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens. GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text..... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE
Price: $225.00 Order nr. 104929
Baltimore, MD: Hill Press, 2019. 8vo. cloth, paper label on cover and spine. (iv), vi, 44, (2) pages. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 47 copies bound in cloth by the Campbell-Logan Bindery. This book seeks to establish the relationship between Dutch-inspired type faces and English prayer books. Essays included are 'Hendrik van den Keere: an Exceptionally Gifted Craftsman', by Guy Hutsebaut; 'Peter de Walpergen, His Training..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPES USED IN THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: 1911 - 1930
Price: $425.00 Order nr. 134706
Baltimore, MD: Hill Press, 2019. 8vo. leather. (iv), vi, 44, (2) pages. First edition limited to 60 numbered copies, of which this copy is one of 9 copies bound in full leather by the Don Rash of Boss Dog Press. This book seeks to establish the relationship between Dutch-inspired type faces and English prayer books. Essays included are 'Hendrik van den Keere: an Exceptionally Gifted Craftsman', by Guy Hutsebaut; 'Peter de Walpergen, His Training and..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPES USED IN THE ENGLISH BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER: 1911 - 1930
Price: $590.00 Order nr. 134707
Pittsburgh: Carnegie Press, (1950). tall 8vo. cloth. x, 304 pages. First edition. Gathers all type faces available for use in one book so that comparisons may be made between the different faces. Includes history of the face with biographies of type designers. Covers rubbed along edges. Exlibrish with markings. Lacking dust jacket. Housed in a lovely quarter leather, cloth clamshell box. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES & HOW TO USE THEM
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62678
Berlin: Jürgen Holstein Antiquariat, 1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Text in German and English, with preface translated into Japanese. Catalogue of architecture, photography, graphics, illustrated books, artists' autographs, posters, typography and other items, mainly related to the Bauhaus. 358 items. Supplement includes French Studio Ceramics, 1870-1900. Select bibliography and index. READ MORE about KATALOG 105: BAUHAUS, ETC. ARCHITEKTUR, FOTOGRAFIE, GRAFIK, ILLUSTRIERTE BÜCHER,...
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 109058
Names of type Designers Set in One of Their Astute Creations
Baltimore: The House of Type, 1984. 16mo. stapled stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Names of type Designers Set in One of Their Astute Creations. Limited to 120 copies. List of type designers using their various type faces. READ MORE about THE MAN BEHIND THE FACE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105501
Baltimore, MD: The House of Type, 1978. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 28, (2) pages. A selection of quotations about typefaces and typography set in a number of typefaces. Includes a listing of different typefaces used in the text. READ MORE about TYPOGRAFIKS 2
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 118881
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers..... READ MORE about THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920
Price: $65.00 save 50% $32.50 Order nr. 95868
Munich: Nationale Verlagsanstalt, 1898. 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 30; 98; 142 pages. Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new..... READ MORE about EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 77014
Oldham, England: Incline Press, 2007. 4to. cloth, marbled paper covered boards, slipcase. 95 pages, 76 broadsides. One of 150 copies of which this is one of 120 numbered copies bound thus by Chris Hicks. Sixty-seven broadsheets explore some of the endless design possibilities of single-sheet printing. Presenting a wide range of typefaces, borders and illustrations, these miniature posters range from the whimsical to the serious, representing more than six years of single sheet printing of..... READ MORE about HUNG OUT TO DRY
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 133729
England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 58721
Brooklyn: Intertype Corporation, (1929). tall 12mo. paper wrappers. 32 pages. Revised edition. Covers soiled. READ MORE about HOW TO SELECT TYPE FACES ESPECIALLY INTERTYPE FACES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 33093
A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 210 pages. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen. Although "imposition manuals" -- instructions on the proper layout of typeset pages for the press -- have always been useful tools of the printing trade, surviving examples are rare. The present volume has been reproduced from a unique manuscript in the collection of the Grolier Club Library. Entitled Overslag-Boek, zeer nuttig..... READ MORE about THE EARLIEST DUTCH IMPOSITION MANUAL
Price: $75.00 save 20% $60.00 Order nr. 121734
Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1970. thick 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 489 pages. First edition. Contains 40 articles on printing, type specimens and book illustration. Numerous facsimiles and two folding maps. READ MORE about A.F. JOHNSON, SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 19884
New York: The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, (1979). 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Sample Issue, June 1979. READ MORE about FESTINA LENTE, THE JOURNAL OF THE MELBERT B. CARY, JR. GRAPHIC ARTS COLLECTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 34493
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
An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light, and the typeface Penumbra
(Florence MA): Kat Ran Press, 2007. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 60 pages. An artist's commentary on theory, gesture, photography, compostition, color, light, and the typeface Penumbra. Part of the Kat Ran Essays in Philatelics series. First edition. Hidy describes the entire process and evolution of the stamp. This stamp is believed to be the only U.S. stamp with the artwork and typeface designed by the same individual. Many color illustrations, mostly Hidy's work but some..... READ MORE about LANCE HIDY: DESIGNING THE MENTORING STAMP
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 99451
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120, (2) pages. 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 of lowercase letters that had evolved from the Carolingian minuscules of the ninth century, Jenson's..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 129302
With an Introduction by Hermann Zapf
New York: The Typophiles, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an Introduction by Hermann Zapf. Born in 1907, Gotthard de Beauclair spent most of his life learning about calligraphy, printing, typography, and book design. With his expertise and skillful technique, he produced some of the finest examples of limited edition books. Even now, his work stands as a model for superior bookmaking. This catalogue includes an Introduction by Hermann Zapf and a...... READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 108921
