TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages. Paperback edition. Some rubbing to covers. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 47018
Type Specimens
TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. later quarter black cloth with simulated red leather and with original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 142 pages. Second edition. In later binding. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 118144
TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 142 pages. Second edition of his TYPES OF TYPEFACES which was originally published in 1968. Covers soiled. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 23747
TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages. This is the second edition of a good introductory, practical, and comprehensive book for beginners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chapters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become... READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 47017
TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages. Second edition of his Types of Typefaceswhich was originally published in 1968. Jacket wrinkled along top. READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $26.00 other currencies Order nr. 128604
TYPES OF TYPEFACES AND HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEM.
New York: Sterling Publishing Co., (1968). 4to. cloth. 132 pages. Reprint of the 1967 first edition. READ MORE about TYPES OF TYPEFACES AND HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEM
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 21978
O PÍSMU ÚVOD K POZNÁNÍ, VYTVARNÉ KRASY PÍSMA.
Prague: Naseho Smeru, 1924. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 33, (11) pages. Text in Czech. Introduction to the Artistic Beauty of Font. Illustrations of print fonts. Louda was editor of Ceskoslovensky Kreslir in the 1930s. Illustrated, with five color plates. Two samples tipped in. Wrappers lightly tanned. Slight tear to back wrapper at top edge. READ MORE about O PÍSMU ÚVOD K POZNÁNÍ, VYTVARNÉ KRASY PÍSMA
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 107598
ÆTHELWOLD ETC.
New York, NY: Editions Schlechter, 2013. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. Trade edition. Out of print since 2010, Æthelwold Etc. is now available in meticulous facsimile, comprising the complete standard edition of the original as well as the diary of ink colors that accompanied the deluxe edition. Photographed at a very high resolution by 42-Line in Oakland, California, every line, impression, and paper fiber of the original edition is reproduced with remarkable clarity. 750... READ MORE about ÆTHELWOLD ETC
Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 118739
VICTORIAN TYPEFACES IN DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND.
Melbourne: The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand, 1981. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 25+(1), and 32 pages of printing materials. The Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Occasional Publication No.2. The list of printing materials reproduced in these pages shows the range of typefaces held by the printer Matthews, Baxter & Co. of Dowling Street, Dunedin, sometime in the mid-1880s. This study characterizes that stock and traces the process of its formation... READ MORE about VICTORIAN TYPEFACES IN DUNEDIN, NEW ZEALAND
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 64848
THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62 pages. An illustrated history of the society, featuring some of its more noteworthy collections. Black and white illustrations throughout. Matrices once in the possession of Benjamin Franklin illustrated on the wrappers. READ MORE about THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 114549
IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER.
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Dublin: National Print Museum, 2010. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 236 pages. with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as... READ MORE about IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER
Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 104562
IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER.
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Dublin: National Print Museum, 2010. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 236 pages. with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as scholars such... READ MORE about IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER
Price: $35.00 other currencies Order nr. 104563
MODERN DESIGN FOR MODERN NEWSPAPERS.
Washington: n.p., 1940. 4to. stapled stiff paper wrappers. 10 pages. First separate edition, reprinted from the Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Convention, American Society of Newspaper Editors. Reproduced from typescript. READ MORE about MODERN DESIGN FOR MODERN NEWSPAPERS
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 96095
PRESENT AND FUTURE, TRENDS IN TYPEFACES AND LAYOUTS.
Chicago: Privately printed, 1939. 4to. self paper wrappers. (8) pages. First separate edition, reprinted from the 1939 Year Book of the Chicago Typographical Union. READ MORE about PRESENT AND FUTURE, TRENDS IN TYPEFACES AND LAYOUTS
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 96093
A NOTE REGARDING SCRIPT TYPES.
New York: Press of Ars Typographica, 1925. tall 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Well illustrated discussion of this type specimen form from its beginning in the 17th century up through the 19th century. Intended as a review of Stanley Morison's article on Script Types that had appeared in the Fleuron, No.4. Small tear along paper covering of hinge at bottom. READ MORE about A NOTE REGARDING SCRIPT TYPES
Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 17102
ARTIST'S PROOF: BRIEF HISTORY, TYPE SPECIMEN AND CHECKLIST OF THE MEADOW PRESS.
San Francisco, CA: Meadow Press, 1990. 4to. text loosely laid in portfolio. 23, (3) pages. Limited to 100 copies. Introduction, brief history of the Meadow Press, table of contents, Type specimens used by the press. Errata and corrigenda. Printed on recto only. READ MORE about ARTIST'S PROOF: BRIEF HISTORY, TYPE SPECIMEN AND CHECKLIST OF THE MEADOW PRESS
Price: $135.00 other currencies Order nr. 132847
NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. 17.5 x 23.5 inches. folded broadsheet. Printed in black on one side only. A facsimile of the first newspaper page composed on a commercial Linotype. Although printed by offset lithography, the parts composed by the Linotype can still be visibly distinguished from the hand-set type because of a single wrong-font bold face apostrophe. This appears in only three of the stories (see Schlesinger: Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the Linotype, pp. 113-116). READ MORE about NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 24085
GRAPHIC ARTS.
Bloomington: Mcknight Publishing Company, 1978. square 4to. paper-covered boards. iv, 92 pages. First edition. A textbook for graphic arts, and basic industrial arts. Illustrated and indexed. Ex-library copy with markings. READ MORE about GRAPHIC ARTS
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 59348
ECCE LITTERA, VOL. 1.
Milwaukee: ABCDarium, 1987. miniature book (3.8 x 5.3 cm). cloth, title stamped on spine and front board. unpaginated, accordion folded. Limited to 38 numbered copies (Bradbury, ABCDarium, 1). Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Legend, designed by F.H.E. Schneidler, published in 1937 by Bauer Types. Miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown. READ MORE about ECCE LITTERA, VOL. 1
Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 116519
A LITTLE BLACK BOOK.
Marcham: The Alembic Press, 1995. miniature book (7.2 x 6 cm). sewn in eight sections with a Coptic binding in heavy textured black boards. 63 pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies. Printed by hand by Claire Bolton at her Alembic Press. A type specimen book demonstrating the collection of blackletter faces in the Alembic Press archives. Printed in black and red. READ MORE about A LITTLE BLACK BOOK
Price: $125.00 other currencies Order nr. 41892
ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES.
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 118159
ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES.
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. Small label of private collector in corner of back free endpaper. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 118456
ALPHABETUM ZANIUM.
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1976). miniature book (5.2 x 6.9 cm). quarter leather, paper-covered boards. 27, (5) pages. Limited to 249 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 44). Foreword by the author. Whimsical alliterative treatment of the letters of the alphabet, each letter in a different typeface. Index of typefaces. READ MORE about ALPHABETUM ZANIUM
Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 118454
BEAU-BEAU'S 1 2 3.
(Sudbury, MA: Kurbel Books, 1984). miniature book (6 x 6 cm). embroidered cloth covers with small metal dog attached to a ribbon as a bookmarker. Printed accordian style with 21 leaves. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury, Kurbel 4). Art by E. Helene Sherman, Layout by Robert E. Massmann and frontispiece portrait by Fred G. Moynlhan, Jr. Ten stages in this dog's life as told in illustrated pictures with hand-colored numbers. This special edition of... READ MORE about BEAU-BEAU'S 1 2 3
Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 117169
A NEW ALPHABET DESIGNED BY BAXTER SPERRY.
Galt, CA: Laurel Hill Press, 1980. miniature book (7.0 x 5.6 cm). cloth, decoration stamped on front board. unpaginated. Limited to 30 numbered copies (Bradbury, Laurel Hill 2). Introductory comments. The author's first attempt at type design, with the designs illustrated. With miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown. READ MORE about A NEW ALPHABET DESIGNED BY BAXTER SPERRY
Price: $70.00 other currencies Order nr. 117513