Cambridge: n.p., 1925. 8vo. paper wrappers. 16 pages. Reprinted from BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYS; A TRIBUTE TO WILBERFORCE EAMES. Inscribed by Wroth on the front cover. READ MORE about THE FIRST WORK WITH AMERICAN TYPES
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 5138
Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press, (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, front wrapper gilt-stamped. (vi), 29, (3) pages. Limited to 350 copies. Type faces available at the Acorn Press. Foreword and explanation. Indexed. Wrappers faded. READ MORE about ONE LINE SPECIMEN BOOK
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 114780
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 6.7 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 312 pages. The Greek Editions of Aldus Manutius and his Greek Collaborators was first published in Greek in 2015, in order to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the death of the Venetian printer. A succinct introduction on the pioneers of Renaissance humanism in Crete is followed by a thorough presentation of the graphic aspect of Aldus's Greek editions, that is, initials..... READ MORE about THE GREEK EDITIONS OF ALDUS MANUTIUS AND HIS GREEK COLLABORATORS
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 127162
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2018. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 466 pages. Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors]. This 96-page printing manual set and printed by Paredes himself was issued in Madrid around 1680. It opens with an introductory digression on..... READ MORE about ALONSO VÍCTOR DE PAREDES’ INSTITUTION, AND ORIGIN OF THE ART OF PRINTING, AND GENERAL RULES...
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 133686
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007. 9.5 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Much has changed in the last 40 years, not least the teaching of typography and the means by which it is created. Because..... READ MORE about TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 95866
Frankfurt am Main: Bauerschen Giesserei, 1962. 34 x 27 inches. large broadside. This large broadside was issued by the Bauer Type Foundry to celebrate their 125th anniversary. It pictures a large tree done in black ink against a gray background with each of the important type faces in the company's history pictured in blocks placed on the branches of the tree. The blocks are printed in various colors with the example of the type face..... READ MORE about DIE STAMMBAUM DER SCHRIFT
Price: $350.00 Order nr. 36606
New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1983. 4to. cloth. xi,iii-liii,100,28-40,(3) pages. Reprint of the two important bibliographical pieces with a new introduction. Includes reproductions of the original fold-out plates and retains the Stanley Morison introduction (See Appleton 139). READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BY ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH PRINTERS AND FOUNDERS,...
Price: $200.00 Order nr. 570
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. Broadside (11 3/4 by 8 inches). Prospectus for Henricus de Nova Villa, So Long, Hot-metal Men: The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book. READ MORE about PROSPECTUS FOR SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 126564
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 Order nr. 18838
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper covered slipcase. 138 pages. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Includes the prospectus. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set..... READ MORE about THE NOBLEST ROMAN: A HISTORY OF THE CENTAUR TYPES OF BRUCE ROGERS
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 129681
Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1993. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 68 pages. With special articles by Tom Taylor giving a survey of American typefounders, a look at the private collection of Travis Beck, a description of the Barrois collection of printing ephemera and a history of the Providence Public Library by Philip J. Weimerskirch. READ MORE about BOOKWAYS. 7
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 43040
Rochester, MN: Doomsday Press, 1961. 12mo. paper wrappers. (vi), 36+(3) pages. Limited to 400 copies printed for the Typophiles as Monograph 66. READ MORE about THE COLLECTANEA TYPOGRAPHICA OF HENRY LEWIS BULLEN 1857-1938 IN THE INLAND PRINTER, 1918-1924,...
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 19866
N.P. n.p., (1995). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Written in German. Reprinted from "Typografische Monatsblätter", Heft I, 1995, here bound separately. With various type specimens and some black-and-white plates throughout. READ MORE about COLUMBUS
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 101413
N.P. n.p., n.d. (circa 1992). 4to. self paper wrappers. 8 pages. Written in German. Reprinted from the "Typografische Monatsblätter", a Swiss periodical on typography which Caflisch has contributed many articles to. Contains various type specimens throughout this essay. READ MORE about STONE PRINT
Price: $17.50 Order nr. 101411
(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 Order nr. 122219
(Zurich, Switzerland: Graphis Press Corp. 1995). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 217, (5) pages. Table of contents, publisher's remarks, foreword by Carnase, preface by Gorkin. Depictions of eighteen noteworthy type faces. READ MORE about TYPE: THE BEST IN DIGITAL CLASSIC TEXT FONTS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 122975
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, (1987). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. Describes the careers of the great type designers of this century - Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Morison, etc. Well illustrated. Fine condition. READ MORE about TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 62292
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 Order nr. 94532
Manchester and London: University Press and Bernard Quaritch, and Sherratt and Hughes, 1909. 8vo. quarter vellum, cloth-covered boards. 35, (9) pages. Facsimile of William Caxton's original printing reproduced here as a book. Part of the John Rylands facsimile series. This book consists of an oration delivered by Russell on the occasion of his embassy in February 1470 to invest Charles the Bold with the Order of the Garter. Contains a new historical introduction by Henry..... READ MORE about PROPOSITIO JOHANNIS RUSSELL PRINTED BY WILLIAM CAXTON CIRCA A.D. 1476. REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 59209
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 Order nr. 60687
Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1905. small 4to. later cloth. xxiv, 340, (4) pages. First edition. (St. Bride Cat. p.184). Preface by Jules Claretie followed by a history of the beginning of printing in France and histories of the two famous French printers, L'Imprimerie Nationale and Hotel de Rohan. Printed in different type faces to demonstrate types available and profusely illustrated with decorations, vignettes and other designs in various colors. READ MORE about DÉBUTS DE L'IMPRIMERIE EN FRANCE, L'IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE, L'HÔTEL DE ROHAN
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 22254
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s..... READ MORE about MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 96669
New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2006. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 272 pages. Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 91843
New York, NY: A. Colish, n.d. 4to. cloth, loose leaf, paper cover label. unpaginated. Introductory comments. With chart of proof marks. Includes rules and borders. Two-page typescript history of the Erwin Wasey firm laid in. Covers spotted and soiled. Rubbed and scuffed at edges. Leaves of text tanned at edges. Previous owner's (Erwin Wasey) bookplate inside front cover. READ MORE about THE COLISH BOOK OF TYPES SHOWING A COLLECTION OF MODERN PRINTING TYPES SUITABLE FOR HIGH-GRADE...
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 125225
With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald.
Toronto and New Castle, Delaware: Coach House Press with Sheridan College and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 9 x 11.25. hardcover cloth with wrap-around paper cover label, DVD in pocket in back. 130 pages numbered from the half title. With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald. "These letters document the immense skill that was required to take a letter from a drawing to a piece of type." - Jon Bath, SHARP News..... READ MORE about EPISTLES TO THE TORONTONIANS. WITH ARTICLES FROM CANADIAN PRINTER & PUBLISHER
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 126777
