(Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press), n.d. large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. Not in Tanner and Alstrom. Bahr's thoughts on the purpose of Adagio Press, influenced by Daniel Berkeley Updike's PRINTING TYPES. READ MORE about ADAGIO
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 94189
Chicago, IL: Ragan Report Press, 1978. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, spiral bound. (iv), 135+(1) pages. Third printing. Table of contents, glossary. Instructions for the publishing of newspapers and magazines. Previous owner's name on title. Spiral binding cracked. READ MORE about ARNOLD'S ANCIENT AXIOMS: TYPOGRAPHY FOR PUBLICATIONS EDITORS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 134157
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 9.5 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because... READ MORE about TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 95866
Meriden, CT: Bayberry Hill Press, 1975. 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover labels. (iv), 27+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Poem by J. Johnson on title. A reflection on the demise of the typographer and the compositor with the onslaught of "Cold Type" and the computer. Illustrated. Complimentary gift card laid in. READ MORE about A BACKWARD GLANCE
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 128500
New York: Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 112 pages. "European, English and American Literature - The Fine Arts, including Painting, Engraving and Architecture - Genealogy & Heraldry - Incunabula - Manuscripts - Dictionaries and Vocabularies - The Arts of teh Book, including formation of libraries, the Book Trade, Typography, Illustration and Binding - mainly from the library of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, the noted 19th century historian and collector, co-founder of the... READ MORE about BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 101336
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. cloth, dust-jacket. (viii), 148 pages. First edition. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. Review copy with material inserted. READ MORE about FINE PRINT ON TYPE. THE BEST OF FINE PRINT MAGAZINE ON TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 23196
Berkeley: Editions Koch, 2004. 6 x 9 inches. Paperback. 138 pages. First edition. This companion piece to The Fragments of Parmenides reveals the "blood, sweat and tears" the creators put into their original book. Carving the Elements tells the detailed story of the making of The Fragments of Parmenides, a grandiose book project meticulously crafted by: master letterpress printer Peter Koch; poet, translator and typographer Robert Bringhurst; punchcutter, type designer, typefounder and poet Dan Carr;... READ MORE about CARVING THE ELEMENTS: A COMPANION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF PARMENIDES
Price: $30.00 save 20% $24.00 Order nr. 78258
Number one of the CODE(X) Monograph Series
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2008. 5.5 x 7.75 inches. paperback pamphlet. 16 pages. Number one of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Number one of the CODE(X)+1 Monograph Series. Adapted from The Surface of Meaning: Books and Book Design in Canada, published in fall 2008 by CCSP Press at Simon Fraser University, Vancouver. Robert Bringhurst's essay talks about book design and typography, as well as the future of the book. This book was designed and printed in... READ MORE about WHY THERE ARE PAGES AND WHY THEY MUST TURN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 102896
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller, (2009). 4to. hardcover, dust jacket. 112 pages. Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the... READ MORE about HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE
Price: $39.95 Order nr. 52752
N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1966. folio. stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items. Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon... READ MORE about PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 94532
2 volumes.
N.P. Privately printed for Napier College of Commerce & Technology, 1976. 8vo. cloth. xxxi,332; xii,333-685 pages. 2 volumes. With typographical notes by Harry Carter and an essay on the Printing of Illustrations by Frank P. Restall. This library was formed by the collector to demonstrate printing, typography and book illustration techniques from the beginning of printing. With a biographical sketch of Clark. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE EDWARD CLARK LIBRARY
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 30176
New York: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 44, (42) pages. Text followed by plates showing the typographical design work by Clarke. Printed by the Press of A. Colish. READ MORE about BERT CLARKE - TYPOGRAPHER, A CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF SELECTED WORKS WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY...
Price: $13.00 Order nr. 4967
(Pasadena, CA: Clinker Press, The, 2007). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 6 pages. First edition printed by Andre Chaves of The Clinker Press. Reprint of The Pacific Printer and Publisher article which Grabhorn explains the uses and functions of ornamentation in printing. READ MORE about ORNAMENTION IN PRINTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 134037
Berkeley, California: CODEX Foundation, 2018. 6.75 x 8.5 inches. Smythe sewn, letterpress printed wrapper. 144 pages. The inaugural issue of The CODEX Papers, an annual journal dedicated to bibliographic and art historical research and opinion in the field of contemporary book arts. The journal is dited by Gerald Cloud and Peter Koch, and the editorial brief is to publish articles that promote a clear understanding of the enormously complex and historically rich field of the... READ MORE about THE CODEX PAPERS: VOLUME 1-2018
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 133738
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s... READ MORE about MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96669
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2006. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 272 pages. Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 91843
Edited by Susan E. Meyer.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1981). 4to. boards, spiral bound. (ix), 176 pages. Edited by Susan E. Meyer. Reprint of the 1980 revised edition with a new introduction to the phototypesetting process. A good introductory manual to the subject. READ MORE about DESIGNING WITH TYPE, A BASIC COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 save 20% $12.00 Order nr. 104981
broadsides (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). unpaginated. A small collection of broadsides, praising the work of Everett R. Currier. "The examples here shown do not by any means indicate the entire range of his work. They have been selected simply because they lend themselves well to this particular grouping." (from the title broadside). This is followed by ten examples of Currier's work, including an order of service, advertising posters, letters, etc. Folded in half... READ MORE about SIMPLICITY IN TYPOGRAPHY AS EXEMPLIFIED IN THE WORK OF EVERETT R. CURRIER
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100624
New York: The Typophiles, 2003. 6"x 9.5" paperback. 33+(1) pages. Typophile Monograph - New Series, Number 18. 500 years ago, with the publication of a small octavo Virgil, the modern printed book emerged due to Venetian printer Aldo Manuzio (Aldus). Previous to this, the printing press had been seen primarily as a means of mechanically reproducing manuscript books. It was Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) who gave Aldus the idea for the small format of his books... READ MORE about PIETRO BEMBO: 'FOSTER FATHER' OF THE MODERN BOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 105074
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 401 pages. First U.S. edition, first published in Holland by Thieme in Dutch. Various authors discuss book typography for different countries including Handover on British Book Typography and James Wells on Typography in the U.S. 192 pages of illustrations. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16315
With an introduction by Hermann Zapf
New York: The Grolier Club, 2006. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 48 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf. Gotthard de Beauclair was a leading twentieth-century book designer. He produced some of the finest limited edition books through his craft techniques and use of precious materials. He stands as a model of fine bookmaking. This exhibition catalogue reveals his typography and design work for various German publishers. It includes fifteen color and black-and-white illustration and... READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 106666
New York: The Typophiles in conjunction with an exhibition at the Grolier Club, (2006). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Typophiles Monograph New Series no.22 according to tipped-in printed notice. Grolier Club exhibition catalogue of Gotthard De Beauclair's typography and design work for various German publishers. Introduction by Hermann Zapf. With 10 color and black-and-white illustrations. READ MORE about GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 105293
New York: The Typophiles, 1994. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 42, (4) pages. Limited to 500 copies. A Typophile Monograph, New Series Number Eleven. A listing of the lectures which ran in various series from 1965 to 1982, arranged by Dr. Robert L. (Doc) Leslie, the topics being typography, printing, paper, book design, calligraphy, and other aspects of the graphic arts. Illustrated by Lili Cassel Wronker. READ MORE about THE HERITAGE OF THE GRAPHIC ARTS LECTURE SERIES: A COMPLETE LISTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 48729
Boston, MA: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339+(1) pages. First hardcover edition. Table of contents, foreword, acknowledgments, handlist of the aurhor's writings, notes and references, index. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations throughout text. Focuses on private presses and typographers. READ MORE about INTO PRINT: SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 130839
Takeley: Elkin Mathews LTD, n.d. 8vo. later cloth, leather spine label, with original paper wrappers bound in. variously paginated. Catalogue number 152 in five parts. Concerning type specimens, fine printing, bibliographies and illustrated books about books and the book arts. Frontispiece, black-and-white illustrations. Rear board slightly bumped at the bottom corner. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 105174
