Results for: Printing History

(Incunabula). Collijn, Isak.

KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA.

Leipzig: Rudolf Haupt, (1907). large 8vo. stiff paper wrapper, unopened pages. xxxviii, 507 pages. First edition (Besterman 5073). Introduction by the author. A brief list of reference material followed by the extensive bibliography of incunabula in the university library of Uppsala, Sweden. With cross references to other incunabula listings, use of type, provenance, etc. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA

Price: $85.00 Order nr. 76859

(Incunabula). Collijn, Isak.

KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA.

Leipzig: Rudolf Haupt, (1907). large 8vo. later cloth with original paper wrappers bound-in, top edge gilt. xxxviii, 507 pages. First edition (Besterman 5073). Introduction by the author. A brief list of reference material followed by the extensive bibliography of incunabula in the university library of Uppsala, Sweden. With cross references to other incunabula listings, use of type, provenance, etc. Spine faded. READ MORE about KATALOG DER INKUNABELN DER KGL. UNIVERSITÄTS-BIBLIOTHEK ZU UPPSALA

Price: $95.00 Order nr. 96491

(Incunabula). Delisle, Léopold.

CATALOGUE DES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS OU PUBLIÉS À CAEN AVANT LE MILIEU DU XVIe SIÈCLE.

2 volumes.
Caen: H. Delesques, 1903-1904. 8vo. later full cloth, leather spine labels, original paper wrappers bound in. xiv, 354+(2); cxxxii, 178+(2) pages, plates. 2 volumes. First edition. (Besterman, 5094). A two-volume catalogue of the printing and incunabula in Caen, followed by discussions of printers, booksellers, and noteworthy libraries. Includes 403 bibliographical references. Delisle (1826-1910) was a curator of the manuscripts collection in the Bibliothèque Impériale, and is admired for his scholarship in illuminated manuscripts and early..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DES LIVRES IMPRIMÉS OU PUBLIÉS À CAEN AVANT LE MILIEU DU XVIe SIÈCLE

Price: $175.00 Order nr. 76167

(Incunabula). Grothe, Walter.

WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE.

Klagenfurt: Ferd. Kleinmayr, 1950. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. x, 148 pages and 12 plates. An essay on incunabula including an annotated bibliography describing 132 items. Illustrated with plates of early book illustrations and one period binding. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 43541

(Incunabula). Grothe, Walter.

WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE.

Klagenfurt: Ferd. Kleinmayr, 1950. 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. x, 148 pages and 12 plates. An essay on incunabula including an annotated bibliography describing 132 items. Illustrated with plates of early book illustrations and one period binding. Wear along outer edge of front board. Boards slightly warped. READ MORE about WIEGENDRUCKE IN DER ZEITENWENDE

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 126249

(Incunabula). Riedl, Mirko.

KATALOG PRVOTISKU JIHOCESKÝCH KNIHOVEN.

Prague: Státni Pedagogické Nakladatelství, (1974). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 478, (2) pages. Text in Czech. Summary in Russian, English, French and German. Describes incunabula held in libraries, "public property," in southern Bohemia "with reference to the situation after 1945." 1026 entries. Index of published works, alphabetical list of printers of the incunabula, Listing of provenances, and other indices. 33 black and white plates. List of abbreviations attached to rear pastedown. Dust jacket chipped and rubbed..... READ MORE about KATALOG PRVOTISKU JIHOCESKÝCH KNIHOVEN

Price: $100.00 Order nr. 107544

(Incunabula). Campbell, M-F-A-G.

ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 2nd SUPPLEMENT.

La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1884. 8vo. original paper wrappers. viii, 44 pages. Second supplement to expand the bibliography of fifteenth century books printed in the Netherlands (Besterman 5160). Entries accompanied by brief commentaries. Laid paper, uncut pages. Spine rubbed. Edges of cover slightly discolored and occasionally chipped. READ MORE about ANNALES DE LA TYPOGRAPHIE NEERLANDAISE AU XVe SIECLE, 2nd SUPPLEMENT

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 76906

(Kells, Press of). Johnson, Everett C.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AN APPRECIATION.

N.P. n.p., 1911. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with portrait of Lincoln embossed into front cover, cord-tied. Not paginated (printed French-fold). Printed at the Press of Kells. This talk was delivered before the General Assembly of Delaware. Covers spotted. READ MORE about ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AN APPRECIATION

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 73157

(Lakeside Press).

MAN FOR THE AGES.

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, n.d. oblong small folio. self paper wrappers. (4) pages. With a color reproduction of a portrait of Abraham Lincoln owned by the Henry E. Huntington Library and Museum. Demonstration of their color printing work. Full page of text about the portrait and the color printing process. Slightly creased. Dark stain along bottom edge of outer portfolio. READ MORE about MAN FOR THE AGES

Price: $20.00 Order nr. 105839

(Lakeside Press). Schniewind, Carl O.

A UNIQUE FIFTEENTH CENTURY HAND-COLORED WOODCUT.

Chicago, IL: The Lakeside Press, n.d. large folio. self paper wrappers with tipped-in color plate. (4) pages. Full color reproduction of this woodcut entitled "Man of Sorrow" and dating from the 1460s is tipped-in to demonstrate the Lakeside Press color printing skills. Inside front cover contains historical text. READ MORE about A UNIQUE FIFTEENTH CENTURY HAND-COLORED WOODCUT

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 105844

(Leaf Book). Amelung, Peter.

PETER AMELUNG'S JOHANN ZAINER, THE ELDER & YOUNGER TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY RUTH SCHWAB-ROSENTHAL.

Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Hugo Ripelin's COMPENDIUM THEOLOGIAE VERITATIS (c.1478-81).
Los Angeles: Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, 1985. 4to. cloth, paper spine label. ix, 22, (4) pages. Introduction by Bernard M. Rosenthal. With an Original Leaf from Hugo Ripelin's COMPENDIUM THEOLOGIAE VERITATIS (c.1478-81). Limited to 159 copies printed by Patrick Reagh and each containing a leaf (Disbound and Dispersed 183). Information on this early Ulm, Germany, printer. Zainer was printed in Ulm in the last quarter of the 15th century where his press printed over 150 editions..... READ MORE about PETER AMELUNG'S JOHANN ZAINER, THE ELDER & YOUNGER TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY RUTH...

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 78410

(Leaf Book). Barker, Nicolas.

ALDUS MANUTIUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SCRIPT & TYPE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.

Sandy Hook: Chiswick Book Shop, 1985. small 4to. cloth, slipcase. xiv, 115, [4] pages. Limited to 200 copies. With Original Leaves from the First Aldine editions of Aristotle, 1497; Crastonus' Dictionarium Graecum, 1497; Euripides, 1503; and the Septuagint, 1518. With new text by Barker, fifty illustrations and four leaves showing four different Greek Aldine types. Printed and bound at Meriden-Stinehour. Prospectus loosely inserted. Slipcase lightly spotted, else fine. READ MORE about ALDUS MANUTIUS AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF GREEK SCRIPT & TYPE IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY

Price: $1,600.00 Order nr. 11893

Leroy, David H.

MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES.

With a Census of Signed Copies
New Castle, DE & Chicago, IL: Oak Knoll Press & Abraham Lincoln Book Shop, 2009. 6 x 9 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 228 pages. With a Census of Signed Copies. Fifty years ago, David Mearns at the Library of Congress wrote a twenty-page overview of the basic process that led to the publication of the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Here, for the first time in a detailed and readable account focusing on Lincoln's personal involvement, Dave Leroy..... READ MORE about MR. LINCOLN'S BOOK: PUBLISHING THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES

Price: $49.95 Order nr. 99275

Luckombe, P.

CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING WITH PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TRADE IN GENERAL. COMPILED FROM THOSE WHO HAVE WROTE ON THIS CURIOUS ART.

London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770. 8vo. later half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, gilt ruling on spine. Frontispiece; (xii), 502, (4) pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 447). The practical instructions are the best part of the book. In addition to the Caslon type specimens there are 23 pages of flowers and other types of ornaments. Pages 133-168 are a Caslon specimen of type faces with foreign types, music..... READ MORE about CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING WITH PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TRADE...

Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 2224

(Maggs Bros). 816.

CENTURY OF PRINTED BOOKS (1462-1562) AND SOME MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS.

London: Maggs Bros. 1953. square 8vo. later full brown leather, four raised bands with spine gilt and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 141 pages and 29 plates. Catalogue no.816. 391 items described. READ MORE about CENTURY OF PRINTED BOOKS (1462-1562) AND SOME MEDIAEVAL MANUSCRIPTS

Price: $50.00 Order nr. 123793

Middleton, R. Hunter.

MAKING PRINTERS' TYPEFACES.

Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1938. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 36, (18) pages. First edition. A detailed description of how to produce typefaces followed by 15 full page plates reproducing typeface alphabets by the author for Ludlow matrices. One of the best books on the subject. Fine condition. READ MORE about MAKING PRINTERS' TYPEFACES

Price: $45.00 Order nr. 13615

Morley, Jacqueline (editor).

A GERMAN PRINTER.

New York: Peter Bedrick, (1987). small 4to. paper-covered boards. 29 pages. First American edition. Nicely illustrated children's book relating the story of Martin, a young boy learning the printer's trade in Nuremberg in 1485. READ MORE about A GERMAN PRINTER

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 64966

(New Jersey). Felcone, Joseph J.

PRINTING IN PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1786-1876, A BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. 8vo. cloth. xii, 147 pages. Bibliography of Princeton imprints. 519 numbered, chronologically arranged entries. Library holdings are indicated. With secondary bibliography and index. 13 illustrations. READ MORE about PRINTING IN PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY, 1786-1876, A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Price: $35.00 Order nr. 52860

(Oxford Bibliographical Society).

OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS.

23 volumes
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographic Society, 1967-1992. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers (last 4 volumes with blue covers, others red). variously paginated. 23 volumes. Run of issues from the inception through volume 24. (volume 9 missing) Printed for the Oxford Bibliographic Society, Bodleian Library. Each volume is by a different scholar. Many issues concentrate on formulating a complete bibliography or checklist while others contain a single essay with illustrations. Also included are facsimiles and catalogues of printers'..... READ MORE about OCCASIONAL PUBLICATIONS

Price: $450.00 Order nr. 79801

Palmer, S.

GENERAL HISTORY OF PRINTING, FROM ITS FIRST INVENTION IN THE CITY OF MENTZ, TO ITS FIRST PROGRESS AND PROPAGATION THRO THE MOST CELEBRATED CITIES IN EUROPE, Particularly, its Introduction, Rise and Progress here in England, the Character of the Most Celebrated Printers.

London: S. Palmer, 1732. 4to. half 19th century half calf over marbled paper boards. vii, (v), 400 pages. First edition (Bigmore & Wyman II, 110). Bigmore and Wyman state that George Psalmanazar had much to do with the writing of this book, and he added a brief 3-page biographical note on Palmer (who had died in 1732) at the end of the book, which is lacking in this copy. The historical facts presented by Palmer..... READ MORE about GENERAL HISTORY OF PRINTING, FROM ITS FIRST INVENTION IN THE CITY OF MENTZ, TO ITS FIRST PROGRESS...

Price: $7,000.00 Order nr. 4597

(Printing).

LEARNING BY DOING: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ARAB PRINTING MACHINE.

N.P. The Oxford Guild of Printers, n.d. 8vo. plastic. unpaginated. A DVD of instruction by demonstration. Edited by Brian Clarke, with a practical demonstration by Graham Moss in the workshop of the Incline Press. READ MORE about LEARNING BY DOING: THE ANGLO-AMERICAN ARAB PRINTING MACHINE

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 132787

(Printing). Burn, William.

THE TYPE RUBBER.

(Princeton: The Typography Studio Princeton University, 1999). 8vo. accordion fold pamphlet. unpaginated. Limited to 300 copies. Extract from Life in "New York, In Doors and Out of Doors" from 1851. An essay concerning women's trades in New York. READ MORE about THE TYPE RUBBER

Price: $25.00 Order nr. 105162

PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Eighteen.

1987. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Volume IX, No.2. A memorial article on Dr. Robert Leslie, Susan Allen on Jane Yetsweirt, Tyrus Harmsen on Robinson Jeffers, Tanselle, Petro on Gwasg Gregynog and Victor Margolin on Paul Theobald. READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOC IATION. Number Eighteen

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 32442

PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.10.

New York: American Printing History Association, 2011. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 63 pages. William Berkson on "Readability and Reval: The Case of Caslon," Betsy Davids on "From Palm Leaf to Book" and Marvin J. Heller on ""Behold, You are Beautiful, My Love: The Use of Ornamental Frames in Hebrew Incunabula." READ MORE about PRINTING HISTORY, THE JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PRINTING HISTORY ASSOCIATION. NEW SERIES NO.10

Price: $10.00 Order nr. 110230

(Printing).

THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF PRINTING.

New York, NY: The New York Public Library, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (12) pages. Introductory comments by Miriam Mandelbaum, Rare Book Librarian. Acknowledgments. Catalogue of an exhibition, March-June 1987. Bibliography, illustrations. READ MORE about THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF PRINTING

Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123830

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