Lubbock, Joseph G.

FROM THE SNOWS TO THE SEAS.

London: Bertram Rota, 1986. small folio (14 x 10 1/2"). gilt-stamped blue silk after a design by the artist, blue morocco spine, publisher's acetate dust jacket, publisher's slipcase. 26 pages, four triple-fold-out colored prints. One of 95 copies only on R.W.S. hand-made paper. Each copy signed by the artist/author. Prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy in fine slipcase. Bound by George Percival. Illustrated with four triple fold-out copperplates worked by etching and aquatint. The colors..... READ MORE about FROM THE SNOWS TO THE SEAS

Price: $475.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61467

Mackellar, Thomas.

AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNERS, AS WELL AS PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING ALL DEPARTMENTS OF A PRINTING OFFICE.

Philadelphia: L. Johnson & Co., 1866. 8vo. original cloth. (ii), 336, (2) pages with a frontispiece showing Gutenberg and Faust. Second edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 3; Appleton p.41). Marginal damp stain first 60 pages. Binding lightly worn. A good working copy. The first edition also appeared in 1866 and this is essentially a reprint of that edition except for a two page description of the type and stereotype foundry of L. Johnson & Co..... READ MORE about AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING COMPLETE INSTRUCTIONS FOR BEGINNERS, AS WELL...

Price: $150.00  other currencies  Order nr. 4449

Mackellar, Thomas.

AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING EVERY DEPARTMENT OF A PRINTING OFFICE.

Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan, 1885. 8vo. original cloth. xiv, 13-384, (6) pages. Fifteenth edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II,3; ATF Cat. 1512). A reprint of the fourteenth edition with a brief note on this fifteenth edition and a few other changes. Rubbed at spine ends. Front inside hinge cracked. READ MORE about AMERICAN PRINTER: A MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY CONTAINING PRACTICAL DIRECTIONS FOR MANAGING EVERY...

Price: $135.00  other currencies  Order nr. 23167

Mansfield, Arthur.

COMPOSITION AND PRESSWORK.

Melrose, MA: Mansfield Printing Co., (1932). 8vo. cloth. xi, (2), 223 pages. Later edition. Textbook for students: typography, typesetting, tools & equipment, job & machine composition, various presses, etc. With "test questions" and outline for a 4-year course of study. No index. Mansfield headed the Printing Dept. of the Boston Trade School, 1916-1921. Presentation bookplate from Tileston & Hollingsworth Co., Papermakers of Boston on front pastedown. Lacking the dust jacket. READ MORE about COMPOSITION AND PRESSWORK

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(Marion Press). Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins Larremore.

THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST.

With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1981. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 271 pages. With Incidental Alarums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. Reprint of the 1943 first edition which was printed in a very small number. Spine of jacket faded, else near fine. Frank E. Hopkins set up a press in the attic of his "Red House" in Jamaica, New York in 1896 and named it after his daughter Marion..... READ MORE about THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 75444

McLean, Ruari.

HOW TYPOGRAPHY HAPPENS.

New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition; Noted English typographer, Ruari McLean discusses the evolution of typography as an art form. Looking at the work of other well known typographers in England, Europe and America, the author examines the development of typography, starting in the 17th century with Moxon's Mechanick Exercises and progresses to the work of Jan Tschichold and his contemporaries. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate..... READ MORE about HOW TYPOGRAPHY HAPPENS

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 56807

McLean, Ruari.

THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY.

(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 216 pages. Reprint of the first U.S. paperback edition. Contains an historical introduction and chapters on equipment, methods of composition, casting-off, and jobbing, newspaper and magazine production. Well illustrated. A fine copy. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 24138

McLean, Ruari.

THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY.

(New York): Thames and Hudson, (1988). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 216 pages. Reprint of the first U.S. paperback edition. Contains an historical introduction and chapters on equipment, methods of composition, casting-off, and jobbing, newspaper and magazine production. Well illustrated. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 76328

McLean, Ruari.

THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY.

London: Thames and Hudson, (1980). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 216 pages. First edition. Short history followed by practical manual. Illustrated. With 188 illustrations. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. READ MORE about THE THAMES AND HUDSON MANUAL OF TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122185

McQuiston, Liz.

GRAPHIC AGITATION.

Social and political Graphics since the Sixties
(London: Phaidon Press, 1993). large 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. Social and political Graphics since the Sixties. Filled with color and black-and-white images. Visually stunning. READ MORE about GRAPHIC AGITATION

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96340

Meggs, Philip B.

A HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN.

New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, (1998). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. (xvi), 510, (6) pages. Third edition. A complete and comprehensive study of the development of graphic design from prehistoric times to the twentieth century. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF GRAPHIC DESIGN

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 97880

(Merrymount Press). Winship, George Parker.

THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS OF BOSTON.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE. WITH A LIST OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MERRYMOUNT PRESS BOOKS.
Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1929. 4to. boards, paper spine label, slipcase. 46 pages followed by 60 plates showing the typography of books produced at the Merrymount Press in color. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORK OF DANIEL BERKELEY UPDIKE. WITH A LIST OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY MERRYMOUNT PRESS BOOKS. Limited to 380 copies. Bibliotheca Typographica Vol.V. Spine of the book separated, yet present. Top panel of the slipcase separated, yet present. Front gutter tender. The list..... READ MORE about THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS OF BOSTON

Price: $40.00  other currencies  Order nr. 19612

(Miniature Books).

APHORISMS AND SAYINGS COLLECTED CHIEFLY IN MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES, INDIANA.

Bloomington, IN: Graphic Design Press, 1996. broadside, 11 by 7 inches. Uncut press sheet. Published in memory of Ruth E. Adomeit (1910-1996). Two illustrations. READ MORE about APHORISMS AND SAYINGS COLLECTED CHIEFLY IN MONROE AND OWEN COUNTIES, INDIANA

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 119067