London: Hazell Watson & Viney Ltd., 1939. tall 8vo. cloth. xiv, 224 pages and 19 plates and 17 engravings. First edition. Tells primarily the story of the growth of a printing business during a 100 year period. With the bookplate and pencil signature of Gavin Bridson. READ MORE about A CENTURY IN PRINT, THE STORY OF HAZELL'S 1839-1939
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 98618
Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117
Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 2008. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 162 pages. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society Volume 117. The topic of this new book from the American Antiquarian Society is printing in New England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. More specifically, the author focuses on three printers who were active during that period: Nathaniel Coverly, Sr.; Nathaniel Coverly, Jr.; and Joseph White. Through a close examination of..... READ MORE about PRINTERS OF BALLADS, BOOKS, AND NEWSPAPERS: BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND CHECKLISTS FOR NATHANIEL...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100615
Charlottesville, VA: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1953. small 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 155+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 300 mimeographed copies. This list of 523 entries is limited to printed books and pamphlets, with the exception of a few handbills and broadsides, bearing the imprint of a Lexington printer, publisher, or bookseller, and to those bearing no imprint, that were probably issued by Lexington presses. Also included are..... READ MORE about A PRELIMINARY CHECKLIST OF LEXINGTON, KY., IMPRINTS 1821-1850
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 74416
Gezeichnet und auf Stein radirt von Eugen Klimsch. Heft 1. Bound together with DEVISEN VIGNETTEN UND ALLEGORIEN FÜR DECORATIONSMALER, GRAVEURE, LITHOGRAPHEN, ETC. entworfen und gezeichnet von F.C. Klimsch. Heft 1. Klimsch & Co. Frankfurt a/M. 1864.
Frankfurt a/M. Kunst-Verlag Klimsch & Co., n.d. (circa 1868). large 4to. later cloth. (ii), 12 plates; (ii), 72 plates. Gezeichnet und auf Stein radirt von Eugen Klimsch. Heft 1. Bound together with DEVISEN VIGNETTEN UND ALLEGORIEN FÜR DECORATIONSMALER, GRAVEURE, LITHOGRAPHEN, ETC. entworfen und gezeichnet von F.C. Klimsch. Heft 1. Klimsch & Co. Frankfurt a/M. 1864. Written in German. Title page and 12 plates with Putti-style infants. Eugen Klimsch was the son of Ferdinand Karl Klimsch..... READ MORE about KINDERGRUPPEN
Price: $750.00 Order nr. 100361
(Budapest): Corvina Kiadó, (1979). 4to. cloth with printers' ornament stamped on front cover and title on spine. 66, (58) pages. History of the important Kner family of printer-publishers of Gyoma, Hungary, covering the years 1882-1944. Extensive black-and-white illustrations, 71 lavish pages in color. Includes many company printers' marks and several plates of elaborate bindings. In Hungarian. READ MORE about A KNER CSALÁD ÉS A MAGYAR KÖNYVMUVÉSZET 1882-1944
Price: $43.00 Order nr. 73983
Stuttgart: Gerbruder Kroner, 1883. 4to. original green cloth stamped in gilt, all edges stained red. viii, 279 pages. First edition. Illustrated throughout text, including a number of well produced full-page plates. History of the development of Koenig's printing press with much information on the man. Cloth rubbed on hinges with some damaged spots on spine. Has been recased at one point. Text in German. READ MORE about FRIEDRICH KOENIG UND DIE ERFINDUNG DER SCHNELLPRESSE EIN BIOGRAPHISCHES DENTMAL
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 54646
N.P. (North Central Publishing Co., 1958). small 4to. marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 29, (3) pages. First edition, limited to 1000 numbered copies. Illustrated including a large foldout facsimile of a poster. Covers rubbed. READ MORE about FRAGMENTS OF EARLY PRINTING, BEING AN ACCOUNT OF BOOK, JOB & ORNAMENTAL PRINTING, AND EVERY...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24841
New York: J.J. Little and Ives, 1938. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xii, 120 pages. First edition. With a number of interesting illustrations of equipment used during this early period. READ MORE about THE ERA OF CHARLES MAHON, THIRD EARL OF STANHOPE, STEREOTYPER 1750 - 1825
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4388
New York: J.J. Little and Ives, 1938. 8vo. cloth-backed boards. xii, 120 pages. First edition. With a number of interesting illustrations of equipment used during this early period. Ink ownership inscription. READ MORE about THE ERA OF CHARLES MAHON, THIRD EARL OF STANHOPE, STEREOTYPER 1750 - 1825
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 42242
New York: n.p., 1936. 8vo. boards. 169 pages. First edition. A classic book in the field and an essential reference book. Name in ink on front pastedown. READ MORE about HISTORICAL TREATISES, ABSTRACTS & PAPERS ON STEREOTYPING
Price: $6.00 Order nr. 62469
Stockholm: Litografiska Anstalt, 1923. 4to. quarter vellum, paper-covered boards. (14), 169, (3) pages, with 44 additional leaves of plates. A festschrift, limited to 600 copies, for A. Lagrelius, and signed by him under his portrait. Contains five articles: An historical survey of reproduction of illustrations in Sweden, photographic methods, 3-color photography and printing, Swedish cartography in the last half century, and the reproduction of illustrations and modern man. Forty-four plates (mostly of the works of..... READ MORE about BILDREPRODUKTIONEN I SVERIGE FRAN BORJAN AV NITTONDE ARHUNDRADET
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 51246
London: Walton & Maberly, 1859. small 8vo. modern pamphlet holder with extract bound-in. Extracted from The museum of science and art, volume 11, pp. 1-32. With 13 illustrations including some full-page. With the ink signature of Gavin Bridson. Bridson has added a printed title page. READ MORE about THE PRINTING PRESS
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 98499
Tübingen: H.Laupp, (1948). small 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Short essay celebrating 100 years of this German printer. READ MORE about HUNDERT JAHRE H. LAUPP JR. BUCHDRUCKEREI TUBINGEN
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51068
London: Philip Allan, 1922. tall 8vo. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, leather spine label. (xviii), 125, (7) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 275 copies. Introduction by Campbell Dodgson, Keeper of Prints at the British Museum. Careful study of how Pierre Lombart (1613-1682) lifted the horse and rider from Van Dyck's painting of King Charles I. Under an Archway for his famous engraving of Cromwell on Horseback. Illustrated. With a short summary of the..... READ MORE about THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN, PIERRE LOMBART'S ENGRAVING, CHARLES OR CROMWELL?
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 70039
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. A SIGNED COPY BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS LOVELY BOOK "As Young explores in this short but well grounded study, the firm, which was founded in 1862 by Abraham Field and Andrew White Tuer, moved from stationery and lithographic trade work into decorative, fine art and..... READ MORE about FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
Price: $59.95 Order nr. 133460
With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. With an Appreciation of Andrew White Tuer. This book is the first comprehensive (and long-overdue) bibliographic study of the London partnership of Field & Tuer and their publishing imprint, Leadenhall Press (later the Leadenhall Press, Ltd.). Matthew Young makes a convincing argument for Andrew W. Tuer (1838-1900) as one of the most imaginative..... READ MORE about FIELD & TUER, THE LEADENHALL PRESS: A CHECKLIST
Price: $59.95 Order nr. 114944
Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition.
Barre: Imprint Society, 1970. thick 8vo. cloth, slipcase. xxii, 650, (2) pages. Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition. Reprint, with rearrangements, of the second edition of 1876 (Leaf Book - Chalmers 155). Limited to 1950 numbered copies. With an original leaf from the 1810 first edition tipped-in. Tape repair to one edge of slipcase. First five pages have the name of a former owner stamped in ink along the edge. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS & AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 28159
Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition.
Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1970. thick 8vo. cloth, slipcase. xxii, 650, (2) pages. Edited by Marcus A. McCorison from the Second Edition. Reprint, with rearrangements, of the second edition of 1876. (S-K for binding references; Leaf Book - Chalmers 155). Limited to 1950 numbered copies. With an original page from the first edition of 1810 tipped-in. Near fine. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF PRINTING IN AMERICA, WITH A BIOGRAPHY OF PRINTERS & AN ACCOUNT OF NEWSPAPERS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 89611
Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. 4to. half leather over marbled paper-covered boards. 64 pages. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. With three actual specimens inserted. An important history of the first commercially successful means of reproducing the printed page. Well-printed by this private press. Corners of covers are stained. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF VICTORIAN LITHOGRAPHY, ANASTATIC PRINTING AND PHOTOZINCOGRAPHY
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 5253
(Nottingham/New York): Plough Press / Mark Batty, (2004). 8vo. with 4to. portfolio. half-leather, marbled paper boards, stiff paper portfolio, all in slipcase. (vi), 128 pages. Limited to 45 copies, hand-bound by The Fine Bindery of Wellingborough and containing original samples of George W. Jones' printing. The samples, loosely contained in the separate portfolio, are four leaves from The Canterbury Tales, two leaves from The Georgics of Vergil, two leaves from Two Centuries of Typefounding, one..... READ MORE about GEORGE W. JONES : PRINTER LAUREATE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 86854
La Crosse: Sumac Press, 1967. 12mo. cloth. (24) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 396 copies; designed, set and printed by Emerson G. Wulling at his private press (Leaf Book - Chalmers 149). READ MORE about J. JOHNSON, TYP., ODDMENTS FROM HIS TYPOGRAPHIA, OR THE PRINTERS' INSTRUCTOR, WITH AN ORIGINAL...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4416
Paris: Firmin Didot Freres, 1855-73. 8vo. contemporary quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards. x, 440 pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 428). Has two folding plates and numerous figures in the text. Detailed descriptions of composition and includes work on the printing press, functions of the overseer, stereotype, electrotype and setting type in foreign languages. With 26 wood-engravings and various tables. Ex-library with markings. Covers worn with covers detached. The "Table Synoptique" between pages..... READ MORE about GUIDE PRATIQUE DU COMPOSITEUR D'IMPRIMERIE TYPOGRAPHE
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 40529
Paris: Ch. Lorilleux & Cie. 1896. 4to. modern quarter calf, marbled paper-covered boards. xxiv, 358 pages. Twenty-eight plates, some in color, and many illustrations in the text. Originally published in 12 parts; here bound together. Some internal spotting. Contains information regarding the history of lithography, chromolithography, photogravure, and zincography. Illustrations focus on both art work reproductions and handwritten documents and manuscripts. READ MORE about LA LITHOGRAPHIE FRANÇAISE DE 1796 À 1896 ET LES ARTS QUI S'Y RATTACHENT; MANUEL PRATIQUE...
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 99477
Frankfurt am Main: August Osterrieth, 1956. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 49, (3) pages. First edition. 125 years of the printing firm August Osterrieth are marked by this commemorative publication. They begin their story in the 18th century with Samuel Friedrich Osterrieth. llustrated with images of the Osterrieth family, the various company locations, and factory operations. In German. Small tear at top right edge of cover. READ MORE about SCHWARZ UND BUNT
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 63299
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
