Brussel: Bibliotheek Albert I, 1966. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 88 pages. An excellent exhibition catalogue with full descriptions of 149 items and an essay by Morison entitled "Grondberginselen van de boekdrukkunst" (Appleton 351). Covers show some age darkening with spots in the corner of front wrapper. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON EN DE TYPOGRAFISCHE TRADITIE
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 37458
Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Albert, 1966. small 4to. paper wrappers. 88 pages. An excellent exhibition catalogue with full descriptions of 149 items and an essay by Morison entitled "Les Premiers Principes de la Typographie." (Appleton 351). Covers age darkened with some spotting. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON ET LA TRADITION TYPOGRAPHIQUE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 7196
New York: Macmillan, 1936. 12mo. cloth. 29 pages. First authorized edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Covers with minor soiling. Else a near fine copy. READ MORE about FIRST PRINCIPLES OF TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4556
London: Ernest Benn Limited, (1960). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 254 pages. Fourth revised edition. (Appleton no.35). The "Student's Edition." Near fine in price-clipped dust jacket. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about FOUR CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTING TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTH-TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF PRESSES...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35803
New York: Barnes & Noble, (1960). 8vo. paper-covered boards, dust jacket. 254 pages. Fourth revised edition. (Appleton no.35). Known as the Student's Edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. READ MORE about FOUR CENTURIES OF FINE PRINTING TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TWO EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF PRESSES...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11674
With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter.
Bishop's Stortford: Elkin Mathews Ltd., (1959). 4to. blue paper wrappers, stapled with paper cover label. pp.(51)-57. With additions and Corrections to the Original Handlist by John Carter. Reprinted from Motif 3 and published by the Shenval Press Ltd. (Appleton no.212). Issued on the 70th birthday of Morison. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, A SECOND HANDLIST, 1950-1959
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 4564
London: The Monotype Corp. (1968). 4to. paper wrappers. 32 pages. First edition (Appleton no.363). Being the entire issue of volume 43, No.3, for Autumn 1968 of the Monotype Recorder. Illustrations of Morison's design including a number in color. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, 1889-1967
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 4584
London: Lund Humphries, (1971). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 184 pages. First edition. (Appleton no.374). Biography of Morison including his time at the Fleuron, the Penrose Annual, The Times, etc. Many illustrations. Corners slightly bumped. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, HIS TYPOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 4585
New York: Hastings House, (1971). 4to. cloth. 184 pages. First U.S. edition. (Appleton no.374). Biography of Morison including his time at the Fleuron, the Penrose Annual, The Times, etc. Many illustrations. Covers rubbed with scratch on front cover. Lacks dust jacket. READ MORE about STANLEY MORISON, HIS TYPOGRAPHIC ACHIEVEMENT
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 128930
London: The Medici Society and the Fleuron, 1923. 4to. cloth-backed boards, paper cover label. xiv, 103 pages. First edition, limited to 750 copies. (Appleton 17). Lacking the dust jacket. Exlibrary with markings. Shaken. Front hinge starting. Printed by The Riccardi Press. Illustrations of 26 faces with explanatory text accompanying each. Becoming a scarce book. READ MORE about ON TYPE FACES, EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF TYPE FOR THE PRINTING OF BOOKS WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 18323
Oxford: Printed for the Typophiles at the University Press, 1951. small 8vo. cloth. 49, (3) pages. Reprinting of the first edition which was limited to only 100 copies; the 26th chap book, limited to 475 copies. A fine copy. History of the Fell type and reproductions of some of the type and ornaments. READ MORE about THE ROMAN ITALIC & BLACK LETTER BEQUEATHED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BY DR. JOHN FELL
Price: $90.00 Order nr. 12800
London: The Fleuron, 1926. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. (viii), 70, (2) pages. First edition. (Appleton p.50). Spine slightly faded. Corner of paper spine label chipped off. Foxing. READ MORE about TYPE DESIGNS OF THE PAST AND PRESENT WITH UPWARDS OF SIXTY ILLUSTRATIONS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 121392
London: Theodore Brun, (1949). 8vo. original full tan leather, top edge gilt. 106 pages. First printing of The Typographic Arts and The Art of Printing in one volume. Limited to 250 numbered copies and in full leather binding as issued. Contains 32 illustrations. Leather scuffed along top of front and back hinges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 13308
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950. tall 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 106 pages. First U.S. edition. Reprints The Typographic Artsand The Art of Printing. (Appleton no.148c). With information on William Morris throughout. Jacket has pieces missing along edges. READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS, TWO LECTURES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 128441
1960. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp.159-172. In The Newberry Library Bulletin, Vol.V, No.5, August 1960. Short biography. (Appleton no.342). READ MORE about "THE WORK OF STANLEY MORISON."
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 4570
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Occasional Publication No. 14. Corrected and updated supplement to Berry and Johnson's bibliography of British type specimen books. Gives locations, an appendix of printer's specimen books and a chronological list of specimens. A valuable supplement. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11740
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Occasional Publication No. 14. Corrected and updated supplement to Berry and Johnson's bibliography of British type specimen books. Gives locations, an appendix of printer's specimen books and a chronological list of specimens. A valuable supplement. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 136924
London: The Collector Ltd., 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 559-570. An offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1978. Muir's review of the book "Buchkunst und Literatur in Deutschland" by Ernst L. Hauswedell and Christian Voigt. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59715
Oxford: Oxford Polytechnic Press, 1987. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 174 pages. First edition. Contains seven papers presented to the Seventh annual conference on Book Trade History. Includes "The Printers and the Government, 1604-1640" by Sheila Lambert, "English Printers and their Typefaces, 1600-1700" by Derek Nuttall, and "Bertuch: Weimar's Literary Midwife" by Ian Maxted. Illustrated. From the Publishing Pathways series. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF PRINTING FROM 1600
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 26344
Lunenburg: The Stinehour Press, 1953-. 8vo. cloth-backed boards as issued by the publisher. various pagination. Various odd volumes of this periodical in publisher's binding. Includes Volumes, V(4), VI(2), VII, VIII (4), IX(5). Price is per volume. READ MORE about PRINTING & GRAPHIC ARTS (PAGA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 75494
New York: n.p., 1955. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers - hand bound. no pagination. This title was dedicated to Ray Nash by his students on his birthday in 1955. Each page is hand printed by individual students. The book has a variety of wood cuts and prose in crisp black ink. Some wear exists at the heel of the cover and at both ends of the spine. READ MORE about RN. A FRESH APPROACH
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 91537
New York: Times, 1927. small 4to. two toned cloth. (iv), 83 pages. First edition. Near fine. Series 24. The section on illustrations is interesting because of the plates. READ MORE about NEW YORK TIMES TYPOGRAPHICAL STANDARDS
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 9810
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Moscow; Leningrad: Gizlegprom, 1933. 25.4 x 17.5 cm. in original illustrated publisher's wrappers. 216 pages, 1 table. First edition. Illustrated. Wrappers slightly age-toned, a couple of tears of the spine, otherwise a very good, clean cop of this rare book. Written by the Soviet art critics Boris Viazemsky (1899-?) and M. Urlaub, this manual provides detailed information ont he technical design of the newspaper. The book is grounded on the concept that the newspaper design..... READ MORE about TEKHNICHESKOYE OFORMLENIYE GAZETY [i.e.TECHNICAL DESIGN OF A NEWSPAPER
Price: $900.00 Order nr. 138159
Copenhaven: Forening for Boghandvaerk [Association for Book Craft], 1960. small 8vo. paper-covered boards. 112, (4) pages. Basic information on many things: paper, type, title pages, text pages, citations, margins, colophons, types of text (poetry, etc.), illustrations, etc. With bibliography. Backing lightly browned. READ MORE about TYPOGRAFISK ABC FOR BOGVENNER
Price: $9.00 Order nr. 51403
N.P. Parsimony Press, (1993). 8vo. paperback. unpaginated. First edition. Spine faded, else a fine copy. Bound dos-à-dos. Opinions of individuals affected by the advent of desk top publishing. Introduction by the editor. Illustrations.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TYPES BEST REMEMBERED/TYPES BEST FORGOTTEN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 136370
