Results for: Writing & Calligraphy

(Haas, Robert). Fraser, James H (editor).

ROBERT HAAS, PRINTING, CALLIGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY. AN EXHIBITION MAY 13-SEPTEMBER 1, 1984.

With an introduction by Hermann Zapf, Appreciation by Paul Standard, and Catalogue by Renee Weber.
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, (1984). small 4to. printed paper wrappers. 64 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf, Appreciation by Paul Standard, and Catalogue by Renee Weber. First edition. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including many illustrations in color. READ MORE about ROBERT HAAS, PRINTING, CALLIGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY. AN EXHIBITION MAY 13-SEPTEMBER 1, 1984

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 27862

Hamilton, Charles.

THE ILLUSTRATED LETTER.

New York: Universe Books, (1987). 4to. cloth-backed boards, dust jacket. 157, (3) pages. First edition. A study of authors who added illustrations to their letters. Over 100 examples reproduced, 12 in color. Minor jacket wear. READ MORE about THE ILLUSTRATED LETTER

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24928

(Harkness, Edward S.).

LIVRE DE PETIT ARTUS: FILS DU BON DUC JEHAN DE BRETAIGNE.

New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1928. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. Reprinted from the Bulletin of the New York Public Lbbrary, June 1928. Description of an illuminated manuscript donated to the Library by library trustee Edward S. Harkness. Frontispiece and black and white plates. Handwritten notes laid in. Tearing along ends of spine. Light tanning. Previous owner's name on front free endpaper. READ MORE about LIVRE DE PETIT ARTUS: FILS DU BON DUC JEHAN DE BRETAIGNE

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 126733

Harrsen, Meta and George K. Boyce.

ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. 4to. cloth, slipcase. xii, 82 pages and 78 plates. Limited to 750 copies. Printed at the Spiral Press and containing 72 collotype and 84 other illustrations and 6 plates in color. Name in ink at bottom of free endpaper. READ MORE about ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 38134

Harrsen, Meta and George K. Boyce.

ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY.

New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1953. 4to. cloth. xii, 82 pages and 78 plates. Limited to 750 copies. Printed at the Spiral Press and containing 72 collotype and 84 other illustrations and 6 plates in color. READ MORE about ITALIAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 103786

Hayes, James.

THE ROMAN LETTER, A STUDY OF NOTABLE GRAVEN AND WRITTEN FORMS FROM TWENTY CENTURIES.

Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1951. small 4to. later quarter faux leather with marbled paper covered boards and with original paper wrappers bound-in. 54, (2) pages. With 58 figures in the text demonstrating the formation and design of the Roman letter. In nicely executed binding. READ MORE about THE ROMAN LETTER, A STUDY OF NOTABLE GRAVEN AND WRITTEN FORMS FROM TWENTY CENTURIES

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 38149

Hector, L.C.

THE HANDWRITING OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS.

Dorking: Kohler and Coombes Ltd., 1980. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (ii), 136 pages. Reprint of the second edition, revised. Discusses the equipment used by both writer and reader, abbreviations, scribal conventions, etc. Illustrated. Jacket is toned. Name in ink in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about THE HANDWRITING OF ENGLISH DOCUMENTS

Price: $55.00 Order nr. 126260

(Heineman).

THE DANNIE AND HETTIE HEINEMAN COLLECTION.

New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978. 8vo. cloth. x, 109 pages followed by 12 pages of plates. First edition, limited to 250 copies bound in cloth. Catalogue of this valuable gift given to the Pierpont Morgan Library in 1977. Named after the library's founder and his wife, the collection includes illuminated Mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts, incunabula, printed books, autographed letters and manuscripts, and musical manuscripts and letters. READ MORE about THE DANNIE AND HETTIE HEINEMAN COLLECTION

Price: $14.00 Order nr. 55942

Herbert, J.A.

ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS.

New York: Burt Franklin, 1969. thick small 4to. cloth. xiv, 356 pages. Reprint of the 1911 first edition issued by this reprint house. Virtually an encyclopedia of the hand-illuminated book. An historical account. Many illustrations. READ MORE about ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 23337

Hewitt, Graily.

LETTERING, FOR STUDENTS AND CRAFTSMEN.

London: Seeley, Service & Co., (1954). thick 8vo. cloth. 336 pages. part of the New Art Library. With 403 illustrations. An essential book for the reference library of anyone interested in lettering. READ MORE about LETTERING, FOR STUDENTS AND CRAFTSMEN

Price: $65.00 Order nr. 115715

Hilton, Ordway.

SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS.

(New York: Elsevier North Holland, Inc., 1982). 8vo. paper covered boards. xv, (v), 424 pages. Revised edition. Illustrated. Covers rubbed and corners bumped. READ MORE about SCIENTIFIC EXAMINATION OF QUESTIONED DOCUMENTS

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 126856

(Hoepli, Ulrico).

INVNABVLI MANOSCRITTI AVTOGRAFI LIBRI ILLVSTRATI DAL SECOLO XVI AL XIX VENDITA ALL'ASTA IN ROMA.

Esposizione: dal 19 al 26 Aprile, Vendita: 27 Aprile, Ore 16,30
Milano: Libreria Antiqvaria di Ulrico Hoepli, 1933. 4to. dust jacket over stiff paper wrappers. (vi), 73, (iii) pages followed by 48 plates. Esposizione: dal 19 al 26 Aprile, Vendita: 27 Aprile, Ore 16,30. Text in Italian. Blogie VI 500. Catalogue of an auction listing 116 lots. Items offered include autographs, manuscripts, incunabula, and XVIth-century to modern books. Descriptions followed by 48 plates, many of which fold out. Columbia University bookplate on inside front wrapper. Corners..... READ MORE about INVNABVLI MANOSCRITTI AVTOGRAFI LIBRI ILLVSTRATI DAL SECOLO XVI AL XIX VENDITA ALL'ASTA IN ROMA

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 95751

(Hoffman, Lothar).

Catalogue of Calligraphic Works.

Harper Woods, MI: Lothar Hoffman, n.d. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by Lothar Hoffman on inside back cover. Illustrations of a number of Hoffman's calligraphic works. READ MORE about Catalogue of Calligraphic Works

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 132390

Holub, Rand.

SIGNATURES AND TRADEMARKS.

New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1956). small 4to. boards with metal spiral binding. 61+(1) pages. First edition. Showings of signatures used in trademarks printed in two colors. Near fine. READ MORE about SIGNATURES AND TRADEMARKS

Price: $60.00 Order nr. 33623

Humez, Alexander & Nicholas.

A. B. C. ET CETERA, THE LIFE & TIMES OF THE ROMAN ALPHABET.

Boston: David R. Godine, (1985). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xi, 274, (2) pages. First edition. A study tracing the origins of the Roman alphabet letter by letter to ancient times. Spine of jacket faded. READ MORE about A. B. C. ET CETERA, THE LIFE & TIMES OF THE ROMAN ALPHABET

Price: $6.00 Order nr. 29893

Humez, Alexander & Nicholas.

ALPHA TO OMEGA, THE LIFE & TIMES OF THE GREEK ALPHABET.

Boston: David R. Godine, (1986). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xv, 203, (5) pages. First edition, later printing. READ MORE about ALPHA TO OMEGA, THE LIFE & TIMES OF THE GREEK ALPHABET

Price: $5.00 Order nr. 62665

(Hunt, Richard William). De La Mare, A.C. & B.C. Barker-Benfield.

MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD: AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF RICHARD WILLIAM HUNT (1908-1979), KEEPER OF WESTERN MANUSCRIPTS AT THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY OXFORD, 1945-1975, ON THEMES SELECTED AND DESCRIBED BY SOME OF HIS FRIENDS.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1980. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. x, 155 pages. Filled with illustrations. Ownership inscription in pencil on front free endpaper. READ MORE about MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD: AN EXHIBITION IN MEMORY OF RICHARD WILLIAM HUNT (1908-1979), KEEPER OF...

Price: $30.00 Order nr. 31786

Hyland, Alice R.M.

THE LITERATI VISION: SIXTEENTH CENTURY WU SCHOOL PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY.

Memphis, TN: Brooks Museum of Art, 1984. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 104 pages. Published in conjunction with exhibition of 16th century painting and calligraphy in Suchou, China. Frontispiece. Table of contents, list of lenders, preface and essay by the author, chronological index, bibliography, index of artists. Color and black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE LITERATI VISION: SIXTEENTH CENTURY WU SCHOOL PAINTING AND CALLIGRAPHY

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 119948

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

ANGLO-SAXON ILLUMINATION IN OXFORD LIBRARIES.

Oxford, England: Bodleian Library, (1970). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 16 pages, plates. Bodleian Picture Books Special Series No. 1. Preface by J.J.G. Alexander, description of plates, select bibliography, index of manuscripts. 36 black and white plates. READ MORE about ANGLO-SAXON ILLUMINATION IN OXFORD LIBRARIES

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 131766

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Backhouse, Janet.

THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS.

Oxford: Phaidon in Association with the British Library, (1981). small 4to. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition. Origins and making, and later history of the Lindisfarne Gospels (8th century), with a chapter comparing the illumination of the Lindisfarne Gospels to that of several more or less contemporary manuscripts and to some decorative metalwork of the same era. The 66 illustrations include color photographs of all of the major illuminated pages of the manuscripts..... READ MORE about THE LINDISFARNE GOSPELS

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 62267

(Illuminated Manuscripts).

BAMBERGER APOKALYPSE, MINIATUR DER REICHENAUER SCHULE UM DAS JAHR 1000 AUS DER BAMBERER STAATSBIBLIOTHEK (BIBL. 140).

N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. 37+(1) pages. Introduction by Dr. Johannes Maas. One color plate and many in black and white. READ MORE about BAMBERGER APOKALYPSE, MINIATUR DER REICHENAUER SCHULE UM DAS JAHR 1000 AUS DER BAMBERER...

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 45377

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Bange, E. F.

EINE BAYERISCHE MALERSCHULE DES XI. UND XII. JAHRHUNDERTS.

Münich: Hugo Schmidt, (1923). 4to. original half vellum, printed paper-covered boards. 168 pages. First edition. With 186 illustrations of miniatures taken from early illuminated manuscripts. Includes some illustrations of early bookbindings. Covers soiled. READ MORE about EINE BAYERISCHE MALERSCHULE DES XI. UND XII. JAHRHUNDERTS

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 80556

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Boase, T.S.R. (preface).

ENGLISH ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATION.

Oxford: Bodleian Library, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 12 pages followed by 25 plates. Bodleian Picture Book No. 1. Cover slightly soiled. Minor wear and soiling. Very small black ink mark (?) on title page which leached through the text, but not the plates. READ MORE about ENGLISH ROMANESQUE ILLUMINATION

Price: $6.00 Order nr. 102192

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Bober, Harry.

THE MORTIMER BRANDT COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATIONS.

New York: Institute of Fine Arts/New York University, (1966). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 63+(1) pages. Exhibition catalogue for 30 manuscript miniatures collected by the art dealer Mortimer Brandt, from the German school, Augsburg (c.1235-1250) to the Italian school, Rome (c.1566-1573). Black and white illustrations. READ MORE about THE MORTIMER BRANDT COLLECTION OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ILLUMINATIONS

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 69305

(Illuminated Manuscripts). Boeckler, Albert.

DEUTSCHE BUCHMALEREI DER GOTIK.

Nachfolger: Karl Robert Langewiesche, (1959). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 80 pages. Profusely illustrated including many in full color. Covers soiled; some internal soiling. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHMALEREI DER GOTIK

Price: $5.00 Order nr. 9188

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