London: British Museum, 1965. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. viii, 274 pages. First edition. With index of printers and publishers. READ MORE about SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF BOOKS PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS AND BELGIUM AND OF DUTCH AND FLEMISH...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 24295
London: Ernest Benn, 1926. small 4to. decorated boards, paper cover and spine labels, dust jacket. 50 pages and 50 illustrations. First edition. Edited by Stanley Morison. (Appleton p.36). Jacket has tears and is soiled. READ MORE about FIRST CENTURY OF PRINTING AT BASLE
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 30546
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
An offprint from The Biblographical Society.
N.P. n.p., 1936. smal 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 36-61, (2) pages. An offprint from The Biblographical Society. Reprinted by Oxford University in June 1936. A comprehensive survey of Andreas Brentius's reprint of Caesar's address to his men (circa 1481) giving information about the author, printer and layout of the book. Four black-and-white illustrations and diagrams. Inscription on front cover reads, "with compliments from Irvine Masson." Tanned at the edges. Front corners creased. READ MORE about THE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF A SMALL INCUNABLE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 77003
Chicago: Chicago Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1939. square 8vo. paper wrappers. 42 pages; ten full page illustrations of the earliest examples of printing. First edition. Slightly faded along spine. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about SOME FACTS CONCERNING THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11560
New York: Rand Mcnally & Co., 1940. small 4to. decorated cloth, dust jacket. 175+(1) pages. First edition. With the collaboration of Don Farran. Illustrated by Edward A. Wilson. The fascinating life-story of Johann Gutenberg told in a popular, entertaining style. Much history of the world at that time. Inscribed by the author. Minor wear and chipping along edges of jacket. READ MORE about WINGS FOR WORDS, THE STORY OF JOHANN GUTENBERG AND HIS INVENTION OF PRINTING
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 24684
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
New York: Diamant Typographic Service, 1945. 32mo. decorated boards. viii, 126 pages and 28 plates. Limited to 650 copies. (Appleton 148a). Appleton states that there are some additions to the appendix in this edition. The Third Diamant Classics. READ MORE about THE ART OF PRINTING
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 18316
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
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
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label, top edge gilt. 222 pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. With three mounted color plates and 125 facsimile plates. Covers soiled with spotting along edge of back cover. READ MORE about THE BOOK IN ITALY DURING THE FIFTEENTH AND SIXTEENTH CENTURIES SHOWN IN FACSIMILE REPRODUCTIONS...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 126938
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
1970. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.21-31. An article in the Harvard Library Bulletin, Volume XVIII, Number 1, January 1970. READ MORE about " ENGLISH PRINTING AT ANTWERP IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY."
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 107967
New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1940. 4to. cloth, leather spine label, slipcase. xii, 260 pages. Limited to 660 copies. Handset in Bruce Rogers' 14 point Centaur by George W. Van Vechten Jr. and printed by George C. Montgomery. Contains illustrations by Fritz Kredel. A scholarly work, handsomely printed. Crack along top hinge of slipcase. Spine slightly faded. READ MORE about GUTENBERG AND THE STRASBOURG DOCUMENTS OF 1439; AN INTERPRETATION
Price: $140.00 Order nr. 14485
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
(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
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
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
London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1962. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. An exhibition catalogue depicting 28 different marks. Fine condition. READ MORE about EARLY PRINTERS' MARKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4707
