TYPE AND TYPEFACES.
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. 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. A good copy in good dust jacket. 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..... READ MORE about TYPE AND TYPEFACES
Price: $9.95 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. Covers slightly bowed, minor soiling to covers. READ MORE about TYPES OF TYPEFACES AND HOW TO RECOGNIZE THEM
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 21978
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
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, 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
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Dublin: National Print Museum, 2010. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 236 pages. with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as..... READ MORE about IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 104562
with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet
Dublin: National Print Museum, 2010. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 236 pages. with a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures -Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I - as well as scholars such..... READ MORE about IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 104563
Chicago: privately printed, 1935. orange wrappers. 7 pages. One of 200 copies. Fine. Reprinted from the Ben Franklin Monthly, 1922.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about DIDOT FAMILY TYPEFOUNDERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 11140
Chicago: privately printed, 1932. 4to. paper self wrappers. 8 pages with 8 figures. First separate edition. Covers soiled, else a very good copy. READ MORE about TYPES AND TYPEFOUNDING IN GERMANY: THE WORK OF CHRISTIAN EGENOLFF AND HIS SUCCESSORS IN THE...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 11571
Pelham, NY: Bridgman Pub. (1927). 8vo. library buckram. 64 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket. Exlibrary copy with markings. Boards heavily rubbed. Introduction by Frederic Goudy. READ MORE about TYPE DESIGN, AN ESSAY ON AMERICAN TYPE DESIGN WITH SPECIMENS OF THE OUTSTANDING TYPES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 124824
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1988. 17.5 x 23.5 inches. folded broadsheet. Printed in black on one side only. A facsimile of the first newspaper page composed on a commercial Linotype. Although printed by offset lithography, the parts composed by the Linotype can still be visibly distinguished from the hand-set type because of a single wrong-font bold face apostrophe. This appears in only three of the stories (see Schlesinger: Ottmar Mergenthaler, Inventor of the..... READ MORE about NEW-YORK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1886
Price: $4.00 Order nr. 24085
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1946. 4to. self paper wrappers. (16) pages. A booklet presenting ten of the most popular Linotype faces, and discussing the details which distinguish them. A fine copy. With a handy center spread for a quick comparison of all ten fonts, and a chart on the back cover showing four weights of the Bodoni type family. READ MORE about SOME BRIEF NOTES ON TYPE DESIGN
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 47898
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America, (1965). tall 8vo. cloth. xv, 134, index. Over 1000 display faces are presented. Minor soiling to covers. An excellent guide for someone interested in the styles of types that have been developed. READ MORE about A.T.A. TYPE COMPARISON BOOK
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 44306
N.P. Advertising Typographers Association of America, (1965). tall 8vo. cloth. xv, 134, index. Over 1000 display faces are presented. Near fine condition. An excellent guide for someone interested in the styles of types that have been developed. READ MORE about A.T.A. TYPE COMPARISON BOOK
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 9649
Berlin, Germany: Druk Editions, 2018. 4to. paper-covered boards, illustrated endpapers. 320 pages. Reprint edition of the 2004 first edition. Acknowledgments, table of contents, introduction, bibliography, indices of names and typefaces, credits. A study of typefaces and letterforms developed by Dutch designers. Includes a historical overview of printing in the Netherlands from the 15th century, but focuses on the 20th century. Considers individual designers, as well as centers of activity such as The Hague and Arnhem..... READ MORE about DUTCH TYPE
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 135575
Milwaukee: ABCDarium, 1987. miniature book (3.8 x 5.3 cm). cloth, title stamped on spine and front board. unpaginated, accordion folded. Limited to 38 numbered copies (Bradbury, ABCDarium, 1). Commemorates the 50th anniversary of Legend, designed by F.H.E. Schneidler, published in 1937 by Bauer Types. Miniature bookplate of Kathryn Rickard on front pastedown. READ MORE about ECCE LITTERA, VOL. 1
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 116519
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Company, n.d. miniature (2.25 x 4.125 in.). envelope, folded sheet, type sample. (4) pages. The accompanying folded sheet bears a reproduction of the typeface, enlarged 10 times. Lacking the type specimen with the Lord's Prayer, else very good. READ MORE about THE LORD'S PRAYER TYPE, CAST FROM A MATRIX ORIGINALLY ENGRAVED BY LANSTON
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 51996
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $60.00 Order nr. 118159
(Overland Park, KS): Scott Free Press & Papermill, 1987. miniature book (6.0 x 4.9 cm). stiff paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by publisher Duane C. Scott (Bradbury, Scott Free Press 5). Samples of type faces used by Scott. Covers are printed on paper handmade by the press. Small label of private collector in corner of back free endpaper. READ MORE about ORIENTAL SAYINGS: AN EXERCISE IN USING SMALL TYPES
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 118456
Skokie, IL: Black Cat Press, (1976). miniature book (5.2 x 6.9 cm). quarter leather, paper-covered boards. 27, (5) pages. Limited to 249 copies. (Bradbury, Black Cat Press 44). Foreword by the author. Whimsical alliterative treatment of the letters of the alphabet, each letter in a different typeface. Index of typefaces. READ MORE about ALPHABETUM ZANIUM
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 118454
(Sudbury, MA: Kurbel Books, 1984). miniature book (6 x 6 cm). embroidered cloth covers with small metal dog attached to a ribbon as a bookmarker. Printed accordian style with 21 leaves. Limited to 200 numbered copies (Bradbury, Kurbel 4). Art by E. Helene Sherman, Layout by Robert E. Massmann and frontispiece portrait by Fred G. Moynlhan, Jr. Ten stages in this dog's life as told in illustrated pictures with hand-colored numbers. This special edition of..... READ MORE about BEAU-BEAU'S 1 2 3
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 117169
Wichita, KS: Oak Park Press, 1988. miniature book (7.5 x 6.0 cm). cloth, title gilt-stamped on spine and front cover, decorated endpapers. unpaginated. Limited to 200 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon (Bradbury, Oak Park 7). An alphabetical overview of type faces, with illustrations. Introductory comments by the author. READ MORE about B IS FOR BROADWAY: ABC'S FOR PRINTERS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 118437