Stockholm: Lindfors Bokforlag, (1937). thick small 4to. cloth with leather spine labels. xi, 571 pages. Massive study of modern aspects of book production written by a series of authors including chapters by Hugo Lagerstrom and Bror Zachrisson. Many illustrations throughout text. Includes a section of paper specimens. Labels faded. READ MORE about BOKTRYCKARKONST, HANTVERKETS BOK
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 32944
London: Birrell & Garnett, 1972. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xii, 108 pages. Reprint issued by Tony Appleton of the 1922 first edition, limited to 500 numbered copies. A useful reference book for the study of type specimens. Well preserved. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF I. TYPEFOUNDERS' SPECIMENS, II. BOOKS PRINTED IN FOUNTS OF HISTORIC IMPORTANCE, III....
Price: $28.00 Order nr. 2914
3 volumes.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, n.d. (but 1986). small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 81; 80; 131 pages. 3 volumes. A three part catalogue (97, 98, 99) on the history of printing issued by Oak Knoll Books to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the invention of the linotype in 1886. Includes many books from the library of the Bowker Publishing Co. (Melcher collection). READ MORE about HISTORY & TECHNIQUE OF PRINTING
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 65628
N.P. n.p., n.d. small 4to. loose leaves printed on heavy paper and enclosed in mailing envelope addressed to Arvind Patel. 4 pages of text and 8 plates. A reprint of this section of Diderot's The Encyclopedia of Trades, Paris, 18th century, with an English translation. Handwritten information on outside of envelope attributes this work to David Peat. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES FOUNDRY, PRECEDED BY THE ENGRAVING OF PUNCHES, THE TWO ARTS INCLUDE EIGHT PLATES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 107500
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. With a calligraphic presentation from Richard Ellis to John Anderson on the front pastedown and a wonderful page inscription by Ellis to Anderson wishing him success upon his move to California. Nice association item. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE...
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 4803
London: Faber and Faber, (1952). 4to. cloth. xiv, 400 pages. New edition, revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. (Hart no. 99). Many illustrations. Lacking dust jacket. Minor shelfwear and spotting to covers. Minor shelfwear. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 4819
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
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. Jacket chipped and externally tape repaired. Small private ownership label in corner of free endpaper. READ MORE about A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES WITH NOTES, HISTORICAL AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ON THE...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 96342
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. 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. Tears in back cover of jacket. READ MORE about ROOKLEDGE'S INTERNATIONAL TYPEFINDER, THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK OF TYPEFA CE RECOGNITION AND SELECTION
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 18688
(TDR)
With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 152 pages. (TDR) With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton. First edition, later printing. The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is comprised of a thousand facts on the form of Latin-based writing systems. The book includes the following four main sections: Terms - Definitions of format, measurements, practice, standards, tools, and industry lingo; Glyphs -The list of standard ISO and extended Latin characters, symbols..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 96672
(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
New York: JCH Graphics, (1986). 4to. heavy paper covers, plastic spiral binding. unpaginated. Second edition. Type faces offered by JCH. Introduction, copyfitting chart and reference guide. Arranged alphabetically. READ MORE about THE TYPE REFERENCE GUIDE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 109737
Boston: Shambhala, 1991. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 183+(1) pages. First US edition. A compilation of 130 rare alphabets, signs, monograms, and logos from the eighteenth century to the present. With reproductions from Arts et Métiers Graphiques, the important pre-war prining magazine. Includes chapters on lettering by hand, French religious and political trademarks, Mecanno alphabets, and an homage to American typefounders. A beautifully designed resource book for typographers and graphic designers. READ MORE about ALPHABETS & OTHER SIGNS
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 74560
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
Frankfurt: D. Stempel, 1969. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. 20, (2) pages. Essay analyzing a new sans-serif type face designed by Hans Ed. Meyer. READ MORE about FORMANALYSE UND DOKUMENTATION EINER SERIFENLOSEN LINEARSCHRIFT AUF NEU ER BASIS: SYNTAX-ANTIQUA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 50949
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
(Claremont, CA: Serif, 1995). small 4to., paper wrappers. 64 pages. 8 illustrated articles including ones by John Randle and Robert Bringhurst. READ MORE about SERIF, THE MAGAZINE OF TYPE & TYPOGRAPHY. NUMBER 3
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 123570
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
Chicago: Sherwin Beach Press, 2011. 4to. black cloth boards with illustrated vertical paper title band; exposed sewn spine binding. vi, 58 pages. Limited to 75 numbered copies. Signed by the author on colophon page. A study of Morris Fuller Benton (1872-1948), chief type designer of the American Type Founders Company, focusing on analysis of the typefaces he designed as a means of understanding his work and life. Frontispiece wood engraving of Benton by Carl Montford..... READ MORE about SEARCHING FOR MORRIS FULLER BENTON: DISCOVERING THE DESIGNER THROUGH HIS TYPEFACES
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 112257
Hamburg, Germany: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1971. 8vo. paper-covered boards, all edges stained gray. 270, (2) pages. Text in German. Limited to 1400 copies. A collection of essays and speeches selected to celebrate two hundred years of the printing arts. Includes selections by Giambattista Bodoni, William Morris, Stanley Morison, Eric Gill, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Valéry; the selections are printed in different type faces. Also included are separate pages of type samples from various periods and countries. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIE UND BIBLIOPHILIE
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 126341
