New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1964). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. (vi), 262 pages. Reprint of the first edition. More than 275 black-and-white with some color drawings by the author in this history of the alphabet. Jacket shows wear. READ MORE about THE 26 LETTERS
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 9834
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, (1956). 8vo. cloth. (xii), 254, (3) pages. Reprint of first edition. More than 275 illustrations by the author to enhance the text. Executed in black and orange. Covers rubbed with spotting on back. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about THE 26 LETTERS
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 54287
New York: Wings Books, (1995). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. Reprint of the first edition. A one volume history of the book illustrated with 350 photographs. With an introduction by Christopher de Hamel. This book received excellent reviews. READ MORE about THE SMITHSONIAN BOOK OF BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 93811
Washington: American Council on Education, (1932). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. Achievement of Civilization, number 1. Illustrated. READ MORE about THE STORY OF WRITING
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 22637
Developed and designed by Mark Oldach and Rhonda Taira.
N.P. Society of Typographic Arts in association with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, 1989. folio. blue cloth lettered in red and white. Not paginated. Developed and designed by Mark Oldach and Rhonda Taira. First edition. Foreword by Josef Godlewski, In Celebration by John Cole, Introduction by Rhodes Patterson. 26 different designers executed a letter of the alphabet as a drawing in color and accompanied their letter by a few lines..... READ MORE about ZYX, 26 POETIC PORTRAITS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 107490
New York: Orchard, (1996). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. Not paginated. Reprint of first edition. An elegant alphabet book in full color. READ MORE about THE GRAPHIC ALPHABET
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 110182
(Chevy Chase, MD): Posterity Press, (1999). 4to. paper covered boards, dust jacket. (vi), ii, 97, (1), iii-iv pages. Children's tale. Illustrated by Sheila Waters. Design and calligraphy by Julian Waters. Signed by designer and illustrator on half-title. Color illustrations. Card to Deborah Evetts and brochure about another publication laid in. READ MORE about THE BLACKSMITH'S TALE OR ONCE UPON A FLOWER
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 106904
(Hardheim, Germany: Die Kalligraphie Editions, 1989). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, dust jacket. unpaginated. Text in English and German. Limited to 2000 copies. Presentation by the author on title. The product of summertime workshops in Offenbach, Germany. Illustrations of each letter of the alphabet. READ MORE about WORKSHOP IMPRESSION
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 125294
Boston: L. Prang & Co., n.d. (before July 1870). oblong 8vo. original green cloth stamped in gilt. (16) leaves. Preface, color title page followed by 15 plates of alphabets (some colored), and a leaf of advertising. Publishing date comes from title in ad in the back. Former owner has added pencil addresses and comments on front pastedown, free endpaper and verso of free endpaper. Shaken with pages detached. Covers are well preserved. READ MORE about ALPHABETS PLAIN, ORNAMENTED AND ILLUMINATED, A SELECTION FROM THE BEST ANCIENT AND MODERN STYLES,...
Price: $700.00 Order nr. 121470
St. Gall: Zollikofer and Co., 1948. small 4to. boards, dust jacket. 95 pages. Examples of lettering for book design. Some illustrations are printed in two colors. Piece of front cover of jacket lacking. Wear along spine of jacket. Book is in fine condition. READ MORE about LETTERING IN BOOK ART. [THE APPLICATION OF LETTERING FOR DISPLAY WORK ON JACKETS, TITLE-PAGES AND...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 85779
Berkeley, CA: The Bancroft Library/University of California, Berkeley, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), ii, 48 pages. The Book Artifacts Collection of The Bancroft Library contains material relating to the development of writing, the history of printing, and the various book arts. Part I is an illustrated guide to the collection; Part II, Outline of Holdings, is intended as a convenient record for readers familiar with the subject. READ MORE about GUIDE TO THE BOOK ARTIFACTS COLLECTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 69468
W.W. Norton & Company: New York, (1968). 4to. cloth. 307 pages. A study of Western illuminated manuscripts in the German Democratic Republic, covering the period 400-1600, with commentary on the plates. Illustrated with 160 plates, 96 of which are in color. Covers soiled. READ MORE about MEDIAEVAL BOOK ILLUMINATION IN EUROPE, THE COLLECTIONS OF THE GERMAN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 99333
Los Angeles: University of California, 1988. 8vo. stiff wrappers. 127 +(1) pages and 25 plates. First edition. Examples of late medieval or renaissance artists at work in a collection of early printed books. The authors suggest that it was the cartolai or paper dealers, who, in the first twenty-five or so years of Italian printing, were instrumental in the hand-finishing and decoration of printed books. With color frontis and twenty-five black-and-white plates following text. READ MORE about CARTOLAI, ILLUMINATORS, AND PRINTERS IN FIFTEENTH-CENTURY ITALY: THE EVIDENCE OF THE RIPOLI PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 62719
(Munchen, Germany: Typostudio SchumacherGebler), 1989. 4to. stiff paper binder with spiral rings. (168) pages. A calendar and typographical compendium that serves as a reference book about letter forms, their designers, function and history. Most illustrations were supplied by the contributors and the typeface designers. Sponsored by the German Printers Federation, the Bundesverband Druck. An article about the editor's typeface collection and correspondence between him and the type designer George Abrams loosely inserted. READ MORE about 26 LETTERS, LETTERN, LETTRES, AN ANNUAL AND CALENDAR OF 26 LETTERS OF THE ROMAN ALPHABET
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 70830
(Munchen, Germany: Typostudio SchumacherGebler), 1992. 4to. stiff paper binder with spiral rings. Not paginated. A calendar and typographical compendium that serves as a reference book about letter forms, their designers, function and history. Most illustrations were supplied by the contributors and the typeface designers. Sponsored by the German Printers Federation, the Bundesverband Druck. READ MORE about 26 LETTERS, LETTERN, LETTRES, AN ANNUAL AND CALENDAR OF 26 LETTERS OF THE ROMAN ALPHABET
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 121230
N.P. First Editions Club, 1932. 8vo. boards. 10 pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. Printed by the Bradley Press on hand-made paper from the Barcham Green Mills. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about LETTERING, A PLEA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 62414
Munich: M. Wittenzellner, 1956. large 8vo. loose sheets housed in a paper-covered clam shell box. not paginated. Limited to an edition of 300 numbered and signed copies. Each page contains a poem by Georg Friedrich Solms-Laubach, handwritten in various calligraphic styles and reproduced from the original manuscripts. Finely printed in color. The original poems are now housed in the Solms-Laubach'schen graphic collection in the Laubach Oberhessen library. READ MORE about UND IST DOCH LIEBE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 59811
Cambridge: University Press, 1969. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped. READ MORE about VISIBLE WORDS, A STUDY OF INSCRIPTIONS IN AND AS BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART
Price: $38.00 Order nr. 42123
Cambridge: University Press, 1969. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 152 pages. First edition. Over 60 illustrations. Illustrated. Jacket price clipped and with chipping around edges with small pieces missing. READ MORE about VISIBLE WORDS, A STUDY OF INSCRIPTIONS IN AND AS BOOKS AND WORKS OF ART
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 121587
2 volumes.
Berlin: Deutscher Verein Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1936. folio. half vellum with paper-covered boards. (viii), 188 pages; (xii), 202 plates with 1096 illustrations. 2 volumes. First edition. An examination of the art of the 13th century divided in its study by regional schools with particular attention to stylistic similarities and departures with particular attention to the Upper, Middle, and Lower Rhein regions as well as the schools of Regensburg and Salzburg. Includes supplementary tables of the annual..... READ MORE about DIE LATEINISCHEN ILLUMINIERTEN HANDSCHRIFTEN DES XIII. JAHRHUNDERTS IN DEN LÄNDERN AN RHEIN,...
Price: $950.00 Order nr. 75794
Mexico City, Mexico: Editorial Hermes, (1965). 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. First printing. Published in collaboration with UNESCO. Index, bibliography. 28 color plates of Irish manuscripts. READ MORE about MANUSCRITOS IRLANDESES PRIMITIVOS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131523
Köln: J.P. Bachem, 1925. 4to. cloth, lettering in gilt. 48 pages, 76 plates. First edition. A study of German book arts throughout the ages, including examples of manuscript illumination, engraving and bookbinding. Contains 76 black-and-white plates with examples of the German book arts. Jacket was torn at one point and has been internally repaired with tape. Free endpaper foxed. With the small booklabel of H.P.K. (Kraus) indicating that this book came from the Kraus reference..... READ MORE about RHEINISCHE BUCHKUNST IM WANDEL DER ZEIT
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 75562
N.P. n.p., n.d. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages and 4 separate plates. Vestutal Monumenta, Vol. VI. Part of a series of antiquarian papers published between 1718 and 1906. Plates XLIII-XLVI of medieval Irish manuscripts. Includes color illustrations from the Book of Kells, Garland of Howth and the Psalter of Ricemarth. Author was a Fellow of Trinity College and Regius Professor of Hebrew at the University of Dublin. Author's essay includes general descriptive information, in..... READ MORE about REMARKS ON ILLUMINATIONS IN SOME IRISH BIBLICAL MANUSCRIPTS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 109471
London: Faber and Faber, (1965). square 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 108 pages. First edition. Glossary in which hundreds of ornaments are illustrated and accompanied by the correct term for the ornament and a definition of the term. READ MORE about ORNAMENT IN MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS, A GLOSSARY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 8295
Paris: Editions du Chene, 1950. 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 120 pages. First edition in English. With many tipped-in plates in full color. One of the more important books on illuminated lettering. Dust jacket worn with pieces missing. Foxing to gutters of pastedowns / endpapers. READ MORE about THE DECORATED LETTER, FROM THE VIIITH TO THE XIITH CENTURY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 32433
