ITALIX, THE CALLIGRAPHIC QUARTERLY.

Fair Lawn, NJ: Haywood House, 1971. small 4to. plastic slide covers on most volumes though some are bound in paper wrappers with four issues to a booklet. not paginated, but 15-20 pages each. Edited by Bill Haywood. Each issue contains a feature article, biographical sketch and portrait, book review, and letters to the editor. Illustrated. This run goes from Volume I, No.1 to Volume VI, No.4 complete and Volume XI, No.1 to Volume XIV, No.4..... READ MORE about ITALIX, THE CALLIGRAPHIC QUARTERLY

Price: $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 79384

Judge, Cyril Barhurst.

SPECIMENS OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HANDWRITING TAKEN FROM CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RECORDS.

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1935. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (18) pages followed by 24 plates, some foldout. First edition. Jacket slightly chipped around edges with some toning. Ink ownership inscription on front pastedown. READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF SIXTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH HANDWRITING TAKEN FROM CONTEMPORARY PUBLIC AND PRIVATE...

Price: $75.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33496

Kéki, Béla.

AZ ÍRÁS TÖRTÉNTE,

Budapest: Gondolat, 1971. 12mo. cloth, illustrated. 159+(1) pages. Text in Hungarian. Illustrations by Köpeczi Bócz István. Traces the history of written languages from prehistoric to modern times. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Bibliography. Publisher's description laid in. READ MORE about AZ ÍRÁS TÖRTÉNTE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108207

Kelly, Jerry.

SPEND YOUR ALPHABETS LAVISHLY! THE WORK OF HERMANN & GUDRUN ZAPF.

With an Introduction by David Pankow
New York: The Typophiles in association with RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2007. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an Introduction by David Pankow. This catalogue of an exhibition at the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection Rochester Institute of Technology presents a survey of work by Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. Honoring their fifty-year long relationship with RIT, the exhibition featured examples of calligraphy, type design, book design, and bookbinding drawn completely..... READ MORE about SPEND YOUR ALPHABETS LAVISHLY! THE WORK OF HERMANN & GUDRUN ZAPF

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 108920

(Ker, N.R.). Parkes, M.B. and Andrew G. Watson (editors).

MEDIEVAL SCRIBES, MANUSCRIPTS & LIBRARIES, ESSAYS PRESENTED TO N.R. KER.

London: Scolar Press, (1978). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xv, 395 pages. First edition. Includes papers by Pierre Chaplais, John C. Pope, T.A.M. Bishop, J.J.G. Alexander, R.M. Thomson, Graham Pollard, A.I. Doyle, A.J. Piper, R.W. Hunt, A.G. Rigg, Richard and Mary Rouse and a bibliography of Ker's writings by Joan Gibbs. Jacket chipped along edges with small tears. Ink ownership inscription in corner of front free endpaper. An uncommon festschrift. READ MORE about MEDIEVAL SCRIBES, MANUSCRIPTS & LIBRARIES, ESSAYS PRESENTED TO N.R. KER

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 33991

Kindersley, David.

SPACE CRAFT.

(London: The Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1973). 12mo. stiff card covers with plastic spiral binding, paper slide-on wrapper (with author and title in ink on one edge). Not paginated. Printed by Moore & Matthes for the Society. Text followed by many plates of illustrations meant for a lecture given by Kindersley on critical letter spacing. READ MORE about SPACE CRAFT

Price: $22.50  other currencies  Order nr. 118934

Kneidl, Pravoslav.

Z HISTORIE EVROPSKÉ KNIHY.

Po stopách knih, knihtisku a knihoven.
Praha: Svoboda, 1989. small 4to. stamped cloth, dust jacket. 143+(1) pages. Po stopách knih, knihtisku a knihoven. First edition. A history of the production and distribution of books, from ancient heirogylphics and stone tablets to contemporary fine printing and private presses. Published in Czech with many illustrations, some in color. READ MORE about Z HISTORIE EVROPSKÉ KNIHY

Price: $17.50  other currencies  Order nr. 74140

(Leighton, J.J.).

CATALOGUE OF GERMAN, DUTCH & FLEMISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.

London: J. & J. Leighton, n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, top and fore edges cut, bottom edge uncut. 286, (2) pages. Sales catalogue for J. & J. Leighton listing 378 items in alphabetical order by author, title, or subject, from A to H, including several illuminated manuscripts. Contains many black-and-white reproductions from the works. Wrappers detached and chipped at edges. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF GERMAN, DUTCH & FLEMISH ILLUSTRATED BOOKS

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 56505

(McCrillis, John O.C.).

JOHN O.C. McCRILLIS FIFTY YEARS IN ART AND DESIGN.

A retrospective exhibition at the John Slade Ely House New Haven, Connecticut May 22 to June 12, 1994
New Haven, CT: (Phoenix Press), 1994. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (v), 97 pages. A retrospective exhibition at the John Slade Ely House New Haven, Connecticut May 22 to June 12, 1994. Limited to an edition of 750 copies, the catalogue was designed by McCrillis for the exhibition of his work. There were three locations ( the others in Newport NH and Newport RI later in the same year). 103 items form the checklist with most..... READ MORE about JOHN O.C. McCRILLIS FIFTY YEARS IN ART AND DESIGN

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 91119

(Miniature Books). Massmann, Robert E.

ERE E EME.

New Britain, CT: REM Miniatures, (1983). miniature book (4.5 x 5.7 cm.). paper covered boards, paper cover label, paper slide-on case with cover label. (10) pages printed French-fold. Limited to 300 copies of which this is one of 59 numbered copies to be hand-colored and signed by the illuminator and calligrapher, E. Helene Sherman (Bradbury, REM, 64). Issued on Massmann's 59th birthday. Miniature broadside folded and loosely inserted in a pocket in the back. Also..... READ MORE about ERE E EME

Price: $85.00  other currencies  Order nr. 127835

(Monograms). Renoir, H.

ART NOUVEAU MONOGRAMMES.

Paris, France: Librairie des Arts Décoratifs, n.d., 4to. stiff paper wrappers loosely inserted in quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards with cloth front cover label. (i), 55 pages. Text in French. This work appears to be a sequel to Renoir, Collection complète Chiffres et Monogrammes (Paris, 1865). Worldcat notes that this work was reprinted in 2007, from a 19th century portfolio, by Dover as 990 Art Nouveau Monograms. With 55 leaves of monograms, printed on recto..... READ MORE about ART NOUVEAU MONOGRAMMES

Price: $750.00  other currencies  Order nr. 129775

(Morgan Library).

MEDIAEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS MAJOR ACQUISITIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, 1924-1974.

New York: (Pierpont Morgan Library, 1974). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 106 pages. With 50 full-page illustrations. READ MORE about MEDIAEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS MAJOR ACQUISITIONS OF THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, 1924-1974

Price: $9.00  other currencies  Order nr. 9683

Nakanish, Akira.

WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD.

Rutland: Charles E. Tuttle Company, Inc., (1984). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 122 pages. Reprint of the 1980 first edition. A well illustrated book, covering scripts from all four corners of the world. Details of 29 writing systems in common use are explained here and work to represent hundred of different spoken languages. Includes bibliography and index. READ MORE about WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE WORLD

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121395