(Farthing Press).

A TYPE OF QUOTE, BOOK I. BEING A COLLECTION OF THE ROMAN TYPE FACES OF THE FARTHING PRESS.

Norfolk: The Farthing Press, 1985. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. A type specimens book produced by The Farthing Press with common adages and maxims in addition to the standard display of type specimens. Letter dated 20 March '86 signed by Alan J. Fitch & compliments of card laid -in. Large crease on top board and fading on both boards as if shelved next to smaller books. READ MORE about A TYPE OF QUOTE, BOOK I. BEING A COLLECTION OF THE ROMAN TYPE FACES OF THE FARTHING PRESS

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96744

Frazier, J.L.

TYPE LORE, POPULAR FONTS OF TODAY, THEIR ORIGIN AND USE. THE HISTORY O F THE ART OF TYPOGRAPHY SUCCINCTLY RELATED FOR PRACTICAL MEN.

Chicago: Privately printed, 1925. tall 8vo. cloth- backed boards. 114 pages. First edition. Fifteen chapters devoted to the development of different type faces. Illustrated. Fine copy. READ MORE about TYPE LORE, POPULAR FONTS OF TODAY, THEIR ORIGIN AND USE. THE HISTORY O F THE ART OF TYPOGRAPHY...

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 27951

Garfield, Simon.

JUST MY TYPE: A BOOK ABOUT FONTS.

(London): Profile Books, (2010). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 352 pages. A book of stories about type faces, their origins and employment. Table of contents, introduction, bibliography, acknowledgements, index. Black and white illustrations throughout. Fine condition. READ MORE about JUST MY TYPE: A BOOK ABOUT FONTS

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 112222

(Gilman).

GILMAN FANFOLD SYSTEMS. FANFOLD, SUPERFOLD, TIEFOLD.

Cleveland: Gilman Printing Co., n.d. 4to. stiff paper wrappers, embossed lettering. Descriptive brochure covering the patented record system developed by this firm. Continuous forms for bookkeeping. Spine broken with covers loose. READ MORE about GILMAN FANFOLD SYSTEMS. FANFOLD, SUPERFOLD, TIEFOLD

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 30908

Grafton, Carol Belanger (editor).

VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETS AND ORNAMENTS FROM PORRET'S TYPE CATALOG.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1982). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 91 pages. Taken from Porret's Illustrations Typographiques published in Paris between 1838 and 1842. READ MORE about VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETS AND ORNAMENTS FROM PORRET'S TYPE CATALOG

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 106280

Haley, Allan.

ABC'S OF TYPE.

New York: Watson-Guptill, (1990). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. First edition. Describes and analyses twenty of today's most popular typefaces covering characteristics, background, and considerations for use. Illustrated with examples of design and the complete roman and italic alphabet of each face. READ MORE about ABC'S OF TYPE

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 31363

Hess, Sol.

PRINTING TYPES, THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT.

New York: Diamant Typographic Series, 1947. 16mo. boards. 42, (4) pages. The Fifth item of the "Diamant Classics" series on printing. Limited to 650 copies. Cracked along hinges with tape repair. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

Price: $20.00  other currencies  Order nr. 116320

(Hill & Dale). Mahr, Karl.

PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE.

N.P. Privately Printed, 2000. folio. stiff paper wrappers, mailing envelope. (ii), 10, (4) pages. Limited to an edition of 130 (from another copy sold by Oak Knoll). The text for this edition was translated and set by hand at the Private Press and Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing in Athens. GA. All the press and production work was performed by Richard Hopkins' Hill & Dale Press and Typefoundry in Terra Alta, WV. The English text... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR BIRTH IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY DEPICTED IN WOODCUT AND VERSE

Price: $225.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104929

(House of Type).

TYPOGRAFIKS 2.

Baltimore, MD: The House of Type, 1978. 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 28, (2) pages. A selection of quotations about typefaces and typography set in a number of typefaces. Includes a listing of different typefaces used in the text. READ MORE about TYPOGRAFIKS 2

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118881

Hupp, Otto.

EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457.

Munich: Nationale Verlagsanstalt, 1898. 4to. quarter leather with paste paper-covered boards and leather spine label, original stiff paper wrappers bound-in. 30; 98; 142 pages. Three volumes bound together. The second and third volumes are entitled Gutenbergs ersten Drucke and Zum Streit um das Missale speciale Constantiense, respectively. Three monographs of Hupp's analysis of the Missale Speciale, which he discovered in 1880. Each subsequent volume corrects the conjectures set forth in earlier issues and offers new... READ MORE about EIN MISSALE SPECIALE VORLÄUFER DES PSALTERIUMS VON 1457

Price: $300.00  other currencies  Order nr. 77014

(Incline Press). Moss, Graham.

I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR.

England: Incline Press, 1999. 16mo. paper wrappers. 10, (2) pages. An extract from a talk given to the Typophiles, New York in 1999. A discussion on buying second hand type. Illustrated with letters of the alphabet. READ MORE about I AM NOT A TYPE COLLECTOR

Price: $35.00  other currencies  Order nr. 58721

Isaac, Frank.

" ELIZABETHAN ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPES."

London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, 1933. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers; top edge cut, other edges uncut. pp. 212-228. An article in Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, New Series, Vol. XIV, No. 2. With facsimiles of items cited by the author. Other articles focusing on printing and publishing in Tudor and Stuart England. Edges slightly worn and wrappers lightly tanned. Unopened. READ MORE about " ELIZABETHAN ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPES."

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 110065