Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1956. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 54, (2) pages. Study of these early type founders with illustrations. Kleiner Druck no.62. READ MORE about DIE JENAER SCHRIFTGIESSER SEIT DEM JAHRE 1557
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 30788
New York: Design Press, 1992. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 254 pages. First edition. Fine condition. An introduction to the principles of type and lettering for anyone who uses, or designs the written word, from desktop publishers to graphic designers and calligraphers. It covers basic elements of design, optical illusions in lettering, letter, word, and line spacing and several more topics. Illustrated and indexed. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate..... READ MORE about HANDBOOK OF TYPE AND LETTERING
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 58651
Boston: Beacon Press, (1971). 8vo. paper wrappers. (viii), 119+(1) pages. Reprint of first paperback edition. A guide to recognition and identification of the meaning of type. Spine faded. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, AN INTRODUCTION
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 50451
New York: Japan Society, 1927. 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label. 84, (2) pages. Overview of the fine and performing arts in Japan. Tipped-in frontispiece. Bibliography organized by subject. Front board decorated with Buddhist motif. Pencilled inscriptions on back pastedown. Slight tanning throughout text. READ MORE about THE ART OF JAPAN
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 108830
New York, NY: The Typophiles, 2003. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 31+(1) pages. Typophiles Monograph New Series #20. Known throughout the world of typography, Abe Lerner was a highly respected and talented typographer/book designer with links to the likes of the great Bruce Rogers. With a meticulous eye for detail and clean design, he was constantly working on new projects. With a career that landed him as the Director of Design and Production at Macmillan..... READ MORE about ABE LERNER 1908-2002
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 94392
Boston: The Stetson Press, (1914). small 8vo. boards. 31+(1) pages. With many two color reproductions. READ MORE about HOW TO MAKE TYPE TALK, THE RELATION OF TYPOGRAPHY TO VOICE MODULATION. BASIC PRINCIPLES AS...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 22819
London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1978). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. Divided into two sections: the first deals with the influences in art and design that have shaped modern typography, the second gives practical instructions. Uncommon title. Very good copy.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHY: DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 19652
London: Barrie & Jenkins, (1978). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First edition. Divided into two sections: the first deals with the influences in art and design that have shaped modern typography, the second gives practical instructions. Uncommon title. Some foxing of top edge. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHY: DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 121378
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1978). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 144 pages. First U.S. edition. Divided into two sections: the first deals with the influences in art and design that have shaped modern typography, the second gives practical instructions. Fine condition. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHY: DESIGN AND PRACTICE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 123257
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 Order nr. 47018
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 Order nr. 47017
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 Order nr. 128604
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 Order nr. 21978
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 Order nr. 107598
London: W. Adlard and J. Browne, 1770. 8vo. later half leather with marbled paper-covered boards, leather spine label, gilt ruling on spine. Frontispiece; (xii), 502, (4) pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 447). The practical instructions are the best part of the book. In addition to the Caslon type specimens there are 23 pages of flowers and other types of ornaments. Pages 133-168 are a Caslon specimen of type faces with foreign types, music..... READ MORE about CONCISE HISTORY OF THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING WITH PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS TO THE TRADE...
Price: $1,250.00 Order nr. 2224
Frankfurt am Main: Firma Ludwig & Mayer, (1935). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper envelope. (9) pages. First edition. A speech delivered to Franz Moritz on the occasion of his 50th year with the typefoundry Ludwig & Mayer. Richard Ludwig extols his employee's service. In German. Light foxing to covers. Small tears on envelope. READ MORE about ANSPRACHE AN HERRN FRANZ LAVER MORITZ ANLÄßLICH DER FEIER SEINES FÜNFZIGJÄHRIGEN JUBILÄUMS...
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 63200
New York: Marble Hill Press, (1965). 4to. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. 22, (2) pages. A keepsake edition, limited to 100 copies for private distribution. A reprint of a paper read before The Society of Arts in London, April 16, 1890, taken from the Vol. I, No. 3, 1920 issue of "Ars Tyographica." Printed by George Sas from handset De Roos and Jessen types in black, with margin titles in ochre. Sewn into a pale green..... READ MORE about OLD & NEW FASHIONS IN TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 47122
New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2019. 4to. marbled paper covered boards, cloth spine, custom slipcase bound with a lid and a folding "lip" unpaginated. Beautifully printed by hand by Russell Maret in an edition of 80 copies, 60 copies of which are hand number with five being Artist's Proof copies. This copy is thus, being labeled 'AP2'. The Plates were printed on a Brand New etching press manufactured by Conrad Machine Co; The Argument on..... READ MORE about CHARACTER TRAITS
Price: $9,000.00 Order nr. 133724
Artless Lemur, Number One
New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2021. tall 8vo. stapled wrappers. (28) pages. Artless Lemur, Number One. Xerox printed by Russell Maret in an edition of 250 unnumbered copies. From the artist's website: Printers typically have refined and considered opinions about their favorite typefaces, block materials, papers, and presses, but those same printers, myself included, often incline to head scratching when asked about ink. When I set up my first shop, I used Van Son inks..... READ MORE about INKS PRINTERS USE
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 136766
New York, NY: Russell Maret, 2016. 4to. quarter goatskin, paper covered boards, clamshell box. unpaginated. One of 100 numbered copies. Accompanied by the prospectus. Ornamental Digressions was handset and printed by Russell Maret in his Pinwheel Ornaments, which were engraved and cast by Ed Rayher at Swamp Press and Letterfoundry. The texts are set in Gudrun Zapf von Hesse's Diotima, with titling in Hermann Zapf's Michelangelo, both of which were cast by Rainer Gerstenberg in..... READ MORE about ORNAMENTAL DIGRESSIONS
Price: $1,500.00 Order nr. 129139
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 Order nr. 118739
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 Order nr. 64848
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 Order nr. 114549
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2019. 7.5 x 10.75 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. "The texts of the three lectures are given with a plethora of well-reproduced visual aids: almost every manuscript, piece of printed matter or artefact that Walker referred to is illustrated close to the reference, from a wide variety of sources." - Sebastian Carter, Journal of the Printing Historical Society Sir Emery Walker (1851-1933) was a leading figure of the..... READ MORE about PRINTING FOR BOOK PRODUCTION: EMERY WALKER'S THREE LECTURES FOR THE SANDARS READERSHIP IN...
Price: $95.00 Order nr. 131955
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1993. 4to. paperback. 398 pages. Second, revised edition. Discover 1,600 classical as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive tributes to the history of printing and metal types. This edition of American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century contains 300 more typefaces in a clean, attractive format. This well-organized work captures the rapidly disappearing traditions and legacy that metal-type printing has left behind. Much of this..... READ MORE about AMERICAN METAL TYPEFACES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Price: $500.00 Order nr. 105261
