Wichita, KS: Oak Park Press, 1988. miniature book (7.5 x 6.0 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 7). An alphabetical overview of type faces, with illustrations. Introductory comments by the author. READ MORE about B IS FOR BROADWAY: ABC'S FOR PRINTERS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 118437
London, England: The Monotype Corporation, 1934-71. 4to. self paper wrappers. variously paginated. Various issues. Have the following available: Monotype House No. 50, Sept 1956 (1); No. 55, Aug 1958 (1); No. 56, Dec 1958 (1); No. 58, Oct 1959 (1); No. 59, Jul 1960 (1); No. 61, Apr 1961 (1); No. 63, Sept 1961 (1); No. 64, Dec 1961 (1); No. 65, Mar 1962 (1); No. 67, Sept 1962 (1); No. 68, Dec 1962 (1);..... READ MORE about MONOTYPE NEWSLETTER
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132448
n.p. Monotype Corporation, n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. unpaginated. Small pamphlet regarding the design phases of producing corporate documents and manuals.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about MONOTYPE: DESIGNING BUSINESS DOCUMENTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 135183
St Paul, MS: Blinc Publishing, 2004. 8.5 x 8.5. stiff paper wrappers. 65 pages. Hamilton began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton's collection is one of..... READ MORE about HAMILTON WOOD TYPE: A HISTORY IN HEADLINES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 99663
London: Westerham Press, 1978. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (viii), 65 pages. First edition. This was the last project James Moran was involved with before his death. A history of the organization through its first 50 years. Illustrated including some in color. READ MORE about FIT TO BE STYLED A TYPOGRAPHER , A HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY OF TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGNERS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 70956
Edited by D.B. Updike.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1924. 8vo. marbled cloth. xlii, 103, (3) pages. Edited by D.B. Updike. Limited to 250 copies and printed by D.B. Updike at his Merrymount Press (Asaf 84). Paper spine label is chipped, with some loss. Head of the spine is lightly worn. Else near fine. Bookplate of RIT Library on front pastedown. A reprint of the first edition of 1779 with Richard Gough's memoir of Mores and comments by Updike..... READ MORE about A DISSERTATION UPON ENGLISH TYPOGRAPHICAL FOUNDERS AND FOUNDERIES WITH APPENDIX BY JOHN NICHOLS
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 19587
Brighton: Tony Appleton, 1976. 8vo. parchment-backed boards, dust jacket. xx, 117 pages. Limited to 600 numbered copies. Best bibliography to-date. Loosely inserted is a catalogue issued by Appleton on Morison. Also present is an A.L.s. from Appleton in which he describes some changes in this catalogue. READ MORE about THE WRITINGS OF STANLEY MORISON, A HANDLIST
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 7197
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. 8vo. cloth. 566 pages and many illustrations. First U.S. edition. (Appleton no.380). The best biography of Morison. Lacking the dust jacket, else near fine. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 11197
Brussel: Bibliotheek Albert I, 1966. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages. An excellent exhibition catalogue with full descriptions of 149 items and an essay by Morison entitled "Grondberginselen van de boekdrukkunst" (Appleton 351). Covers show some age darkening with spots in the corner of front wrapper. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON EN DE TYPOGRAFISCHE TRADITIE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37458
Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Albert, 1966. small 4to. paper wrappers. 88 pages. An excellent exhibition catalogue with full descriptions of 149 items and an essay by Morison entitled "Les Premiers Principes de la Typographie." (Appleton 351). Covers age darkened with some spotting. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON ET LA TRADITION TYPOGRAPHIQUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7196
With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter.
Bishop's Stortford: Elkin Mathews Ltd., (1959). 4to. blue paper wrappers, stapled with paper cover label. pp.(51)-57. With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter. Reprinted from Motif 3 and published by the Shenval Press Ltd. (Appleton no.212). Issued on the 70th birthday of Morison. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, A SECOND HANDLIST, 1950-1959
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 4564
Oxford, England: Clarendon Press, 1967. folio. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 278, (2) pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies and printed on rag paper "from hand-set type cast at the Press in the matrices given by Fell." (Appleton no.227). "This magnificent folio is one of the most impressive pieces of bookmaking this century." Contains a history of Fell and the press, the development of the Fell types with catalogues of each, a bibliography of Fell's..... READ MORE about JOHN FELL, THE UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE "FELL" TYPES THE PUNCHES AND MATRICES DESIGNED...
Price: $250.00 Order nr. 11273
London: The Monotype Corp. (1968). 4to. paper wrappers. 32 pages. First edition (Appleton no.363). Being the entire issue of volume 43, No.3, for Autumn 1968 of the Monotype Recorder. Illustrations of Morison's design including a number in color. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, 1889-1967
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 4584
London: Lund Humphries, (1971). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 184 pages. First edition. (Appleton no.374). Biography of Morison including his time at the Fleuron, the Penrose Annual, The Times, etc. Many illustrations. Corners slightly bumped. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, HIS TYPOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4585
New York: Hastings House, (1971). 4to. cloth. 184 pages. First U.S. edition. (Appleton no.374). Biography of Morison including his time at the Fleuron, the Penrose Annual, The Times, etc. Many illustrations. Covers rubbed with scratch on front cover. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, HIS TYPOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 128930
London, England, and Paris, France: Ernest Benn and Éditions Albert Lévy, n.d. folio. cloth. xl, plates. Text in French. This French edition limited to 200 numbered copies. Table of contents, acknowledgments. 212 specimens of modern typography from England, the United States, France, Italy, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Holland, and Sweden since the commencement of the 20th century, with descriptive information. Scattered spots on covers..Covers lightly worn at edges and at extremities of spine. READ MORE about LES PLUS BELLES PAGES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE MODERNE
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 132149
London: The Fleuron, 1926. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (viii), 70, (2) pages. First edition. (Appleton p.50). Spine slightly faded. Corner of paper spine label chipped off. Foxing. READ MORE about TYPE DESIGNS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121392
London: Theodore Brun, (1949). 8vo. original full tan leather, top edge gilt. 106 pages. First printing of The Typographic Arts and The Art of Printing in one volume. Limited to 250 numbered copies and in full leather binding as issued. Contains 32 illustrations. Leather scuffed along top of front and back hinges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 13308
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 106 pages. First U.S. edition. Reprints The Typographic Artsand The Art of Printing. (Appleton no.148c). With information on William Morris throughout. Jacket has pieces missing along edges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128441
1960. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.159-172. In The Newberry Library Bulletin, Vol.V, No.5, August 1960. Short biography. (Appleton no.342). READ MORE about "THE WORK OF STANLEY MORISON."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4570
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Occasional Publication No. 14. Corrected and updated supplement to Berry and Johnson's bibliography of British type specimen books. Gives locations, an appendix of printer's specimen books and a chronological list of specimens. A valuable supplement. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11740
London: The Collector Ltd., 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 559-570. An offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1978. Muir's review of the book "Buchkunst und Literatur in Deutschland" by Ernst L. Hauswedell and Christian Voigt. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59715
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 174 pages. First edition. Contains seven papers presented to the Seventh annual conference on Book Trade History. Includes "The Printers and the Government, 1604-1640" by Sheila Lambert, "English Printers and their Typefaces, 1600-1700" by Derek Nuttall, and "Bertuch: Weimar's Literary Midwife" by Ian Maxted. Illustrated. From the Publishing Pathways series. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF PRINTING FROM 1600
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 26344
Lunenburg: The Stinehour Press, 1953-. 8vo. cloth-backed boards as issued by the publisher. various pagination. Various odd volumes of this periodical in publisher's binding. Includes Volumes, V(4), VI(2), VII, VIII (4), IX(5). Price is per volume. READ MORE about PRINTING & GRAPHIC ARTS (PAGA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 75494
New York: n.p., 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers - hand bound. no pagination. This title was dedicated to Ray Nash by his students on his birthday in 1955. Each page is hand printed by individual students. The book has a variety of wood cuts and prose in crisp black ink. Some wear exists at the heel of the cover and at both ends of the spine. READ MORE about RN. A FRESH APPROACH
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 91537
