(Bird & Bull Press). Hopkins, Richard L. (editor).

PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY.

Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. unbound signatures. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and consists of unbound signatures for the book. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time... READ MORE about PRIVATE TYPECASTERS, PRESERVING THE CRAFT OF HOT-METAL TYPE INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Price: $325.00 save 20% $260.00  other currencies  Order nr. 120691

(Bodoni).

A PRINTED EXHIBIT OF BODONI TYPE WITH APPROPRIATE ORNAMENTS, BEING THE SECOND OF A SERIES OF BOOKS SHOWING THE MANY BEAUTIFUL TYPES IN THE COMPOSING ROOM OF REDFIELD-KENDRICK-ODELL CO.

New York: Redfield-Kendrick-Odell, (1923). small 4to. boards, paper cover label. (44) pages. Limited to 500 numbered copies. With a frontispiece portrait of Bodoni and a biography sketch by Arthur K. Willyoung. AIGA notice of this book loosely inserted. Head of spine bumped. READ MORE about A PRINTED EXHIBIT OF BODONI TYPE WITH APPROPRIATE ORNAMENTS, BEING THE SECOND OF A SERIES OF...

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 18838

(Buell, Abel). Wroth, Lawrence C.

ABEL BUELL OF CONNECTICUT, SILVERSMITH TYPE FOUNDER & ENGRAVER.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1958. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 102, (2) pages. Revised, enlarged, and well illustrated. First published in a limited edition of 102 copies as the Fifteenth Publication of the Acorn Club of Connecticut in 1926. Jacket heavily foxed along spine and edges. Endpapers and pastedowns foxed from jacket. READ MORE about ABEL BUELL OF CONNECTICUT, SILVERSMITH TYPE FOUNDER & ENGRAVER

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 19980

(Calkins, Ernest Elmo).

CAPS & LOWER CASE.

(New York, NY: Carlos Lopez Press, 1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (8) pages. Excerpts from Calkins's The Book and Job Print. Initial and colophon designed by Ceil Smith Thayer. Tipped-in portrait of Calkins on front free endpaper. Wrappers lightly sunned. READ MORE about CAPS & LOWER CASE

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 122219

(Caslon, William).

PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON.

N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1966. folio. stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items. Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon... READ MORE about PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON

Price: $60.00  other currencies  Order nr. 94532

(Chappell, Warren).

WARREN CHAPPELL.

Charlottesville: Department of Rare Books, University of Virginia Library, 1983. small 8vo. paper wrappers. (15) pages. A keepsake issued on the occasion of an exhibition in the University of Virginia Library of his graphic work: drawings, illustrations, type and designs, February-March 1983. READ MORE about WARREN CHAPPELL

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 60687

(Duensing, Paul Hayden).

DEUTSCHE DRUCKSCHRIFTEN: GERMAN PRINTING TYPES.

Vicksburg, MI: privately printed, 1990. oblong 16mo. cloth, labelus-mi on front cover, decorated slipcase. unpaginated. Limited to 174 copies, 29 specially bound and slip-cased. 140 copies reserved for the American Typecasting Fellowship and the Typecrafters meetings in 1990. This copy is thus. Completed at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing. Title and illustration adapted from a Klingspor Type Foundry specimen issued early in the 20th century. Illustrations of numerous German type specimens... READ MORE about DEUTSCHE DRUCKSCHRIFTEN: GERMAN PRINTING TYPES

Price: $250.00 save 20% $200.00  other currencies  Order nr. 121724

(Farthing Press).

A TYPE OF QUOTE, BOOK I. BEING A COLLECTION OF THE ROMAN TYPE FACES OF THE FARTHING PRESS.

Norfolk: The Farthing Press, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A type specimens book produced by The Farthing Press with common adages and maxims in addition to the standard display of type specimens. Letter dated 20 March '86 signed by Alan J. Fitch & compliments of card laid -in. Large crease on top board and fading on both boards as if shelved next to smaller books. READ MORE about A TYPE OF QUOTE, BOOK I. BEING A COLLECTION OF THE ROMAN TYPE FACES OF THE FARTHING PRESS

Price: $65.00 save 20% $52.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96744

(Gilman).

GILMAN FANFOLD SYSTEMS. FANFOLD, SUPERFOLD, TIEFOLD.

Cleveland: Gilman Printing Co., n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, embossed lettering. Descriptive brochure covering the patented record system developed by this firm. Continuous forms for bookkeeping. Spine broken with covers loose. READ MORE about GILMAN FANFOLD SYSTEMS. FANFOLD, SUPERFOLD, TIEFOLD

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 30908

(Gutenberg, Johannes). Wehmer, Carl.

GUTENBERGS TYPOGRAPHI UND DIE TEIGDRUCKE DES MONOGRAMMISTEN d.

Mainz: Karl Pressler, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 426-484 plus 1 plate. Offprint from Essays in Honour of Victor Scholderer. Considers the presence of Gutenberg typeface in the work of "Monogrammist d"'s prints. Several black-and-white plates; one color plate tipped-in. READ MORE about GUTENBERGS TYPOGRAPHI UND DIE TEIGDRUCKE DES MONOGRAMMISTEN d

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 77018

(Hill & Dale). Mahr, Karl.

PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE.

N.P. Privately Printed, 2000. folio. stiff paper wrappers, plain paper envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages. Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE

Price: $200.00 save 20% $160.00  other currencies  Order nr. 105320

(Incline Press). Moss, Graham.

I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR.

England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR

Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58721

(Jenson, Nicolas).

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON.

Chicago: American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1929. 4to. blind-stamped boards, heavy blue paper wrapper. 15 pages. Limited edition, designed by Douglas McMurtrie. Jacket spotted. READ MORE about LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE LATE NICOLAS JENSON

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 4359