Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1968. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 134 pages. First edition. Talks about the William Morris effect on Scandinavia during the turn of the century. READ MORE about SCANDINAVIAN BOOKMAKING IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Price: $7.00 Order nr. 34611
London: Dawsons, (1974). 8vo. cloth. viii, 198, 12 pages and 15 plates. Reprint of the 1921-1922 Oxford University Press edition. Part of the addenda is a complete descriptive bibliography of the press. READ MORE about THE DANIEL PRESS, MEMORIALS OF C.H.O. DANIEL WITH ADDENDA AND CORRIGENDA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 15176
Kobenhavn: Den Danske Forlaeggerforening, (1954;1955;1962;1964;1965;1966;1967;1968. large 8vo. paper wrappers. Variously paginated. 17 issues of the Danish publication Det Danske Bogmarked. This publication is largely a bibliography of newly published Danish titles but contains short essays on book-related topics as well. Includes two commemorative issues celebrating the Danske Forlaeggerforening's 100th and 125th anniversaries. Illustrated in black-and-white. In Danish. READ MORE about DET DANSKE BOGMARKED
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 61903
(London): Faber & Faber, 1975. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 154 pages. Reprint of the 1973 first edition. A look through a designer's eyes at the main methods of graphic reproduction in use twenty-five years ago. "The book's aim is deliberately limited to the provision of facts" about production. Chapters on The Scope of Graphics Today, Printing and Printers, Words into Print, Pictures into Print, Graphics Not on Paper, and Functional Considerations. With 125 illustrations. Glossary..... READ MORE about GRAPHICS, DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 64084
(London): Faber & Faber, 1975. 8vo. cloth. 154 pages. Reprint of the 1973 first edition. A look through a designer's eyes at the main methods of graphic reproduction in use twenty-five years ago. "The book's aim is deliberately limited to the provision of facts" about production. Chapters on The Scope of Graphics Today, Printing and Printers, Words into Print, Pictures into Print, Graphics Not on Paper, and Functional Considerations. With 125 illustrations. Glossary. READ MORE about GRAPHICS, DESIGN INTO PRODUCTION
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 78401
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: $10.00 Order nr. 16315
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. Minor rubbing. Bookplate. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 19876
London: Ernest Benn Ltd., (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 401 pages. First English 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. Jacket faded and rubbed. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 53219
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966). 8vo. cloth. 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. Ink inscription on free endpaper. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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2 volumes.
New York: The Typophiles, 1968. 12mo. cloth, slipcase. viii,87+(1); (viii),173,(3) pages. 2 volumes. Limited to 500 copies. Chap Book no.XLVII. Slipcase faded along edges. READ MORE about THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, TOGETHER WITH A LIST OF DEVINNE'S WRITINGS, HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE CENTURY...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 2109
New York: Privately printed, 1915. tall 8vo. cloth-backed boards, top edge gilt. (x), 112 pages. First edition. Issued as a tribute to DeVinne the year after his death. Contains a biography by Bullen, various addresses by John Clyde Oswald, Robert Underwood Johnson and Walter Gilliss and a bibliography of the writings of DeVinne. Rubbed along edges. Original dust jacket chipped with loss on spine. READ MORE about THEODORE LOW DEVINNE, PRINTER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 2110
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. 6 x 9 inches. paperback. 112 pages. First edition. A fine copy. Foreword by Matthew Carter, followed by a detailed checklist of over 160 items on show at the Grolier Club, February 19 - April 26, 2014. Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was one of the most important American figures of the 19th century book world and the exhibition honors him on the centenary of his death. De Vinne..... READ MORE about THE DEAN OF AMERICAN PRINTERS: THEODORE LOW DE VINNE AND THE ART PRESERVATIVE OF ALL ARTS
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 120090
Newark: University of Delaware, (1931). 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. 143 pages. B1-4670. Seventh series. With a one page prefatory note by the editor, Ezra B. Crooks. Article by H. Clay Reed on "Lincoln's Compensated Emancipation Plan and its relation to Delaware", Joseph Sidney Gould on "Three Decades of Delaware's Manufacturers" and other articles by Delaware faculty on non-Delaware related subjects. Remnants of paper label on front cover. READ MORE about DELAWARE NOTES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67275
Leipzig: Buch-und Bibliothekswesen, 1962. 4to. cloth. xxiv, 402 pages of text followed by plates of illustrations. Nineteen chapters concerning German books written as part of this Festschrift. READ MORE about DEUTSCHE BUCHEREI, 1912-1962 FESTSCHRIFT ZUM FÜNFZIGJÄHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER DEUTSCHEN...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 2099
N.P. Diamant Typographic Service, n.d. (1953). 16mo. boards. 30 pages. Limited to 1000 copies. The Eighth book in the Diamant Classics series. A compilation of writings by Diamant published as a tribute on his death. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIA
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 16155
Chicago: The Lakeside Press, (1977). 8vo. cloth. xvi, 110, (2) pages. First edition. History of this Chicago printing house. Near fine. READ MORE about TO BE A GOOD PRINTER, OUR FOUR COMMITMENTS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 24371
Washington: AIGA, 1949. 8vo. paper wrappers. 35 pages. Biographical comments by this book designer. READ MORE about NOTES ALONG THE TYPOGRAPHIC WAY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 2177
(South Pasadena, CA: Ward Ritchie, 1933). 8vo. Tan printed wrappers. 60, (1) pages. First edition printed by Ward Ritchie in an edition of 125 unnumbered copies. Some chipping around the top edge of the wrappers. Minor fading to spine. Else a fine copy. A catalogue of 166 items. Very scarce. READ MORE about DOVES BOOKS FROM THE PRESS & BINDERY OF T.J. COBDEN-SANDERSON WITH MEMORABILIA OF THE MAN...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 136652
Hammersmith: Doves Press, The, 1906, 1910. 8vo. original limp vellum, custom slipcase. 260, (1); 373, (1) pages. First edition (first part, one of 300 copies on paper; second part, one of 250 copies on paper). From the library of bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003). Spine of Part Two lightly age darkened. Some discoloration to vellum, as usual. Housed in a finely-crafted custom cloth slipcase with leather fore-edges to protect both..... READ MORE about FAUST EINE TRAGOEDIE VON GOETHE (PARTS ONE AND TWO
Price: $2,250.00 Order nr. 136907
New Castle, DE: The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, 2002. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages. First edition. Fine in near fine jacket. This highly-researched work is the most authoritative account of the first and most famous private press of the 20th century - The Doves Press. Starting its operation in the wake of William Morris, the Doves Press became a major influence in the development of modern book design. Marianne Tidcombe reveals..... READ MORE about THE DOVES PRESS
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 72642
N.P. n.p., n.d. 12mo. paper wrappers. 13+(1) pages. A small booklet which tells the story of the growth of the Linotype Company. READ MORE about LIKE JOYOUS TRUMPETERS IN A BELFRY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 57330
Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist..... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 45937
Los Angeles: Occidental College, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 37 pages. Illustrated. READ MORE about A LONDONER'S VIEW OF THREE LOS ANGELES PRINTER FRIENDS AND THEIR WORK: GRANT DAHLSTRON, SAUL...
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37935
(New York: Pace University Press), 2010. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 314 pages. Volume 13 of the Journal of the Early Book Society annual. Articles include The Romanz Psalter in England and Northern France in the Twelfth Century: Production, Mise-en-page, and Circulation by Geoff Rector; What's in a Paraph? A New Methodology and Its Implications for the Auchinleck Manuscript, by Helen Marshall; The Paper Stocks of the Beryn Scribe by Daniel W. Mosser; An Unpublished Lollard..... READ MORE about JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTING HISTORY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 137030
(New York: Pace University Press), 2011. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 330 pages. Volume 14 of the Journal of the Early Book Society annual. Articles include Compilation and Contemplation: Beholding Thomas Hoccleve's Series in Oxford, bodleian Library, MS Selden supra 53, by David Watt; Julian of Norwich in the Fifteenth Century: The Material Record, Maternal Devotion, and London, Westminster Cathedral Treasury MS 4 by Vickie Larsen; Caxton's Exemplar for The Chronicles of England? by Daniel Wakelin..... READ MORE about JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY FOR THE STUDY OF MANUSCRIPTS AND PRINTING HISTORY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 137031
