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
London: Penny Magazine, printed by William Clowes, 1833. tall 8vo. paper wrappers. variously paginated. Contains the four monthly supplements of the Penny Magazine describing the Commerical History of the Penny Magazine. Light foxing throughout, else a fine collection of the four parts concerning printing history. The issues these were taken from were No. 96 (August 31-September 30, 1833), No. 101 (September 30-October 31, 1833), No. 107 (October 31-November 30, 1833), and No. 112 (November 30-December..... READ MORE about MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT OF THE PENNY MAGAZINE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE....
Price: $300.00 Order nr. 34339
Berkeley: Poltroon Press, (1992). 12mo. stiff paper wrappers, cord-tied. (16) pages. Limited to 200 copies printed as a Keepsake for the Monotype Conference held in Cambridge, MA. A fine copy. Composed, illustrated and printed by Alastair Johnston at his Poltroon Press. Has a section entitled "Some Curious Specimens of Nineteenth-Century Types."From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about RECOLLECTIONS OF A COUNTRY PRINTING OFFICE
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 87644
High Wycomb: University Microfilms Limited, (1965). large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers with a paper cover label. vii, 101 pages. A dissertation reproduced from microfilm by Georgia Mansbridge, friend of Bruce Rogers. She writes about his career and personal life from the eighteen hundreds till his death in 1957. READ MORE about BRUCE ROGERS, AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHER
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 56903
London: Printing Historical Society, (1990). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Facsimile of this early specimen book. With introduction by James Mosley. Contains about 156 ornaments. READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF STEREOTYPE ORNAMENTS 1825
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 35478
Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, (1965). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 139, (3) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Excellent guide to early printing and production of type in America. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4843
London: B. Crosby and Co., 1808. thick 8vo. contemporary half calf stamped in gilt. xviii, 530, (48) pages. Enlarged edition of the sixth English printer's grammar which was first published in 1755. (Appleton p.67; St. Bride Cat. p.870; Bigmore & Wyman III,403). Containing a Concise History of the Art, with the Improvements in the Practice of Printing, for the last Fifty Years. With a history of printing mostly taken from Moxon and Luckcombe with the..... READ MORE about THE PRINTER'S GRAMMAR; OR, INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF PRINTING
Price: $1,000.00 Order nr. 30686
New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, (1992). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 157+(1) pages. Table of contents, acknowledgments, introduction, chronology, bibliography, photographic credits, index. 116 illustrations, including 53 color plates. Dust jacket sunned at edges. READ MORE about LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 125739
Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1847. 4to. original publisher's printed paper covered boards. (iv), 65 pages. First edition. (Audin 14, Updike II, p.327, Burke 596). Presents typographic specimens from the Imprimerie Royale in more than thirty languages, including ancient Egyptian, Chinese, Armenian, Syriac, Arabic, Mongol, Tibetan, Russian, Runic, Anglo-Saxon, German (Fraktur), Javanese, and Gujarati. The two-page comparative table of Roman types shows those used by the Press from 1640 to 1846, with one font attributed to Garamont..... READ MORE about NOTICE SUR LES TYPES ÉTRANGERS DU SPÉCIMEN DE L'IMPRIMERIE ROYALE
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 109513
N.P. American Type Founders, (circa 1909). 4to. original cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards. 250 pages. Spine has been rebacked with new cloth. Title page loose yet present. Some pages starting to separate. Corners rubbed down. New gutters. Issued shortly before the famous ATF Line Type Catalogue as text on the inside front cover states that the prices in this catalogue were superceded by the recently issued Line Type Catalogue. Copyright notice states 1900 but a number..... READ MORE about INITIALS, HEAD AND TAILPIECES, EMBELLISHMENTS AND ORNAMENTATIONS FOR THE PRINTER AND PUBLISHER
Price: $400.00 Order nr. 11726
New York: George Bruce's Son & Company, (1977). oblong 12mo. paper wrappers. (16) pages. Facsimile edition of this specimen book with a two page introductory history by Duensing. A fine copy. READ MORE about BRUCE'S PENMAN SCRIPTS HANDSOMEST, BEST, CHEAPEST
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4303
Volume 1
Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009. 4to. cloth. 360 pages. Volume 1. A fine copy. Vol 1: This exuberant selection of typographic fonts and styles traces the modern evolution of the printed letter, reproducing pages from exquisitely designed catalogs showing type specimens in roman, italic, bold, semi-bold, narrow, and broad fonts. Also included are borders, ornaments, initial letters and decorations, and many spectacular examples of their use. Victorian fonts, spectacular in their complexity, are accorded a prominent..... READ MORE about A VISUAL HISTORY OF TYPEFACES AND GRAPHIC STYLES, VOLUME 1. 1628-1900
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 109837
New York: George Bruce's Son & Co., 1878. 4to. modern quarter leather over pebbled cloth-covered boards with leather tips, title in gilt on spine, five raised bands. 168 pages. This text first appeared in 1876 in thick 8vo. published by DeVinne. (Bigmore & Wyman I, 167). It is here reissued as a type specimen book by the type founder, George Bruce's Son. Illustrated with many facsimiles of early types and woodcuts. An important book in..... READ MORE about INVENTION OF PRINTING, A COLLECTION OF FACTS AND OPINIONS DESC RIPTIVE OF EARLY PRINTS AND...
Price: $175.00 Order nr. 24195
A Facsimile with an Introduction and Notes by David Chambers.
London: Printing Historical Society, 1986. 8vo. cloth. 18 pages followed by the facsimile. A Facsimile with an Introduction and Notes by David Chambers. Limited to 1500 numbered copies of which 500 are for sale. This specimen book was the last to be prepared by Fry before the sale of his foundry to William Thorowgood. Only one original copy is known to exist. Includes some foldout sheets. Bookplate on free endpaper.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate..... READ MORE about SPECIMEN OF MODERN PRINTING TYPES BY EDMUND FRY, 1828
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 19333
Cincinnati: Oscar H. Harpel, 1870. 8vo. original gilt stamped cloth, all edges stained red. Frontispiece; (ii), 252, (18) pages. First and only printing. (Bigmore and Wyman I, 306). Harpel lists many important facts necessary for the running of a successful printing business and includes a history of printing. The most important feature of this book is the full color plates, some printed and some done by lithography. Contains folded plates, tipped-in specimens, and other examples..... READ MORE about HARPEL'S TYPOGRAPH OR BOOK OF SPECIMENS CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS AND A...
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 46847
Cincinnati: Oscar H. Harpel, 1870. 8vo. original gilt stamped cloth, all edges stained red. Frontispiece; (ii), 252, (18) pages. First and only printing. (Bigmore and Wyman I, 306). Professionally re-backed, as is usually the case. The first eleven leaves, including the frontispiece and title page, have been expertly repaired by binder / conservator Jamie Kamph (New Jersey). Minor rubbing to covers, corners, and spine. Half-title in facsimile. Harpel lists many important facts necessary for the..... READ MORE about HARPEL'S TYPOGRAPH OR BOOK OF SPECIMENS CONTAINING USEFUL INFORMATION, SUGGESTIONS AND A...
Price: $1,850.00 Order nr. 106067
Philadelphia: MacKellar, Smiths and Jordan, (1997). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (ii), 54 pages. A very scarce reprint of part of the MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan catalogue issued July 1869. A near fine copy. Includes typefaces offered by the company, corners, borders, other ornaments and musical scores. Publisher's preface to this printing by David Peat notes that the MacKellar firm was a descendant of Binny and Ronaldson, the first successful typefounder in the United States, established..... READ MORE about SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BORDERS, CUTS, RULES &c
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 109559
(Washington, D.C.): Library of Congress, n.d. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated, but 11+(1) pages. Issued for an exhibit at the Library of Congress, with a checklist of exhibited presses with proprietary types, from 1891 to World War II. Includes type specimens from the Ashendene, Caradoc, Doves, Eragny, Kelmscott, Gregynog, Grabhorn, Spiral, Village, and Cranach Presses, etc. Fine condition. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about PRIVATE PRESSES WITH PROPRIETARY TYPES
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 63856
Mladá Boleslav: (Hejda & Zbroj), 1939. 4to. clamshell box, label, text loosely inserted. 140, (2) pages. (Arno Sáñka IV, 5475). Text in Czech. Preface by Antonina Dolenský. Designed by Josefa Mrkvicky. History of Czech typography, focusing on the 15th to the 17th centuries. Frontispiece depicting text of Chronicles of Troy, one of the earliest known printed works in Czech. Black and white illustrations throughout. Includes index of printers and endnotes. Publisher's announcement laid in. Clamshell..... READ MORE about Z DEJIN CÉSKEHO KNIHTISK ARSTVÍ
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 107573
