Meriden, CT: The Kelsey Press Company, n.d. (circa 1925). 8vo. self paper wrappers. unpaginated. Catalogue of products offered by the Kelsey Press Company. Introduction of the company on inside front wrapper. Includes equipment, type faces, borders, ornaments, and other items. READ MORE about DO YOUR OWN PRINTING
Price: $37.50 Order nr. 128395
Miami, FL: General Printing Equipment & Supply, n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 120 pages. Index, overview of equipment offered. Also includes type specimens. Black and white illustrations. Covers lightly worn. READ MORE about SUPPLIES AND EQUIPMENT FOR COMPOSTION LETTERPRESS OFFSET BINDERY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 134925
San Francisco: The Filmer Brothers Press, n.d. 8vo. cloth. 99 pages. A selection of Linotype, Hand Type and Ludlow type faces. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about IN SELECTING A TYPE FACE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 46939
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Co., (1941). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 67 pages. An example of the work of the Linotype.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE READABILITY OF TYPE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 19208
N.P. n.p., n.d. 8vo. paper wrappers. (8) pages. Reprinted from the May 1967 issue of the AM Varityper News. With two facsimiles of early specimens.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRINTING TYPES
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4799
N.P. Dawsons of Pall Mall, (1974). 4to. cloth. xiv, 400 pages. Reprint of the second edition, revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. (Hart no.99). Many illustrations. READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 28288
London: Faber and Faber, (1952). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 400 pages. New edition, revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. (Hart no. 99). Many illustrations. Tape repair to jacket in corner. Bookplate. READ MORE about HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE...
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 73410
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, (1981). small 4to. leatherette covered boards, dust jacket. vi, 410 pages. A handbook about computer-controlled Cathode Ray Tube typesetting. Samples of popular typefaces are shown from 6 to 36 point; Helvetica and Times Roman, due to their popularity in modern typesetting, are shown from 6 to 50 point. Includes introduction and Rules. Dust jacket chipped, faded on spine. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about CRT TYPESETTING HANDBOOK
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 45036
New York: Frederick C. Beil, (1983). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages. First U.S. edition. 700 illustrated typeface specimens. The book consists of two parts, Text and Decorative typefaces. Near fine. READ MORE about ROOKLEDGE'S INTERNATIONAL TYPEFINDER, THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK OF TYPEFA CE RECOGNITION AND SELECTION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 18688
(TDR)
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 368 pages. (TDR). "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the works since 2010, has more than..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 108705
(TDR)
With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Paperback. 368 pages. (TDR) With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann. "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE
Price: $24.95 Order nr. 108706
2 volumes.
New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2004. small 4to. unbound sheets. 1152 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination of printing techniques from the late-seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. Using selected readings from printers' manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon's Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward's Practical Printing, 1900 - Gabriel..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND THE IRON HANDPRESS
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 76433
SHOWN BY COURTESY OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES' SERVICE COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK.
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College, 1948. broadside (21 x 18 1/4 inches). SHOWN BY COURTESY OF ADVERTISING AGENCIES' SERVICE COMPANY, INC., NEW YORK. Descriptions of the 15 exhibition boards accompanied by two examples of Schiller's type pictures. Fold marks. READ MORE about AN EXHIBIT OF MACHINE-AGE ART: THE TYPE PICTURES OF ALBERT SCHILLER
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 105834
the Type Pictures of Albert Schiller which were produced ... and are here presented...
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America, Inc., 1948. broadside (23 3/4 x 18 1/2 inches). the Type Pictures of Albert Schiller which were produced ... and are here presented. One in a series of posters which accompanied the exhibition. Parts VI to VIII by Schiller are printed here and have accompanying illustrations. Fold mark. READ MORE about INTER-AGENCY SUMMER EXHIBITS OF MACHINE-AGE ART
Price: $70.00 Order nr. 105833
London: Printing Historical Society, (1990). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Facsimile of this early specimen book. With introduction by James Mosley. Contains about 156 ornaments. READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF STEREOTYPE ORNAMENTS 1825
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 35478
Volume XI, Number 8, June 1948.
(Atlanta: Higgins-McArthur Company), 1948. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 32 pages. Volume XI, Number 8, June 1948. Many examples of type from Higgins-McArthur. Covers lightly soiled with minor damage and wear to extremities. READ MORE about SEZ HIGGINS=MCARTHUR NUMBER FOR ADVERTISING TYPOGRAPHY AND CALLIGRAPHY
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 102459
Madison, WI: Silver Buckle Press, 2008. 8" x 4" loose sheets. 6 samples. Handprinted set of wood type specimen cards from the Silver Buckle Press. These specimens show six major styles of wood type in the collection: Antique, Gothic, Tuscan, Clarendon, Roman and Script faces. Each type is identified on the back of the card. The specimens in Wood Type Sampler were designed and printed by students on staff at the Silver Buckle Press. Cards..... READ MORE about WOOD TYPE SAMPLER
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 102511
Wilmington: Wilmington Arts Commission, 1987. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 70 pages. Preface by Daniel S. Frawley, Mayor, Foreword by John Stephens Crawford, Chairperson of the Delaware Humanities Forum followed by a map and text describing the sculpture work in Wilmington. Photographs by Leigh Frederick. READ MORE about OUTDOOR SCULPTURE IN WILMINGTON
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67031
Leiden: Ter Lugt Press, 1983. folio. stiff paper wrappers. 23 pages. Limited to only 108 copies. With a facsimile of this specimen broadside. Prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about THE LEIDEN 'AFDRUCKSEL' A TYPE SPECIMEN OF THE PRESS OF WILLEM SILVIUS IN ITS LAST DAYS (1582), A...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 78881
(Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1980). 12mo. text loosely laid in portfolio. unpaginated. A portfolio of type specimens from the 1980 workshop of the STA. Includes a descriptive brochure by Mary Underwood, listing of credits, and a number of specimen sheets of various fonts. READ MORE about TYPE WORKSHOP
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 115493
Sheffield: Stephenson Blake, n.d. (circa 1950). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Each page contains examples of the uses of different type faces. The front cover indicates that this booklet was for the American market. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about A NOTE ABOUT A TYPEFOUNDRY AND THIS BOOKLET
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 24808
N.P. (but NY): n.p. (but Tideline Press), n.d. broadside (14 3/4 in. x 10 1/2 in.). A type specimen of capitals at the bottom, along with & and !, as well as capitals artistically arranged, interspersed with a quote by Seastone above. "For those of us for whom the world of letters is a powerfully real experience the encounter of thought in words and words on paper in ways that justify our passionate life of..... READ MORE about FOR THOSE OF US FOR WHOM THE WORLD OF LETTERS IS A POWERFULLY REAL EXPERIENCE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 100582
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, (1992). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 157+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, introduction, chronology, bibliography, photographic credits, index. 116 illustrations, including 53 color plates. Dust jacket sunned at edges. READ MORE about LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 125739
London: Gordon Graser Gallery, (1988). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 96 pages. Through the perspective of sixty years of close ties to the world of design and technology, Tracy describes the typographic scene. The first group of essays discusses the growth of typography, particularly the developments of the 1920's and 30's. He later goes on to discuss the role of the typographer and the two basic methods of typographic arrangement. Well illustrated. Fine copy.Loosely inserted in..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC SCENE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 33857
Basel: Holbein-Verlag, 1946. small 4to. boards, paper spine label, dust jacket. 18, (2) pages of text followed by 70 full page plates, colophon. First edition. Traces the history of the development of type styles from cave printing up to 1924. A classic book in the field. Jacket toned with some ink lines on front cover. READ MORE about GESCHICHTE DER SCHRIFT IN BILDERN
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 24567
