Paris: Éditions du Chene, 1949. 4to. parchment covers, dust jacket. 120 pages. Reprint of the 1943 first edition. With many tipped-in plates in full color. One of the more important books on illuminated lettering. Jacket chipped and soiled with tears. Covers slightly bowed. Name in ink along top edge of front free endpaper. READ MORE about LETTRE ORNEE, DANS LES MANUSCRITS DU XVIIIe
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 43754
Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, 1903. large 12mo. cloth. (vii), 153, (7) pages. Second edition. Explores the history of writing from antiquity to the middle ages. With 37 illustrations, a bibliography. Issued as part of the series Aus Natur und Geisteswelt: Sammlung wissenschaftlich-gemeinverstandlicher Darstellungen aus allen gebieten des Wissens. READ MORE about SCHRIFT-UND BUCHWESEN IN ALTER UND NEUER ZEIT
Price: $8.00 Order nr. 59661
N.P. n.p., (1975). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 12 pages. Limited to 50 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and has a presentation from Wolpe to the binder Kurt Londerberg written in. Study of this 16th century Frenchman who wrote the first English writing book. READ MORE about PRELIMINARY NOTES FROM A STUDY OF THE LIFE & WORK OF JOHN DE BEAUCHESNE
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 17163
London: Henry G. Bohn, 1846. 4to. later half leather over cloth. xviii, 99 pages and 30 plates. The Eighth edition, the first edition appeared in 1776. (Bonacini 2058) with additional plates and preliminary text. A guide to the contractions and abbreviations found in old English court hand principally written for the use of lawyers in searching old documents. This book also gives ancient place names in Great Britain and Ireland and an alphabetical table of... READ MORE about COURT HAND RESTORED; OR, THE STUDENT'S ASSISTANT IN READING OLD DEEDS, CHARTERS, RECORDS, &C
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 109200
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 365 pages. First edition, second printing. From the very scarce first printing in English done in Israel. This work is one of the most definitive books written on the origin and development of the Hebrew Script. Breaking through almost all fences within which Hebrew paleography has been confined, this work starts at the beginning, forges through the Second Temple period, and deals with all... READ MORE about THE BOOK OF HEBREW SCRIPT: HISTORY, PALAEOGRAPHY, SCRIPT STYLES, CALLIGRAPHY & DESIGN
Price: $69.95 Order nr. 71692
London: Sotheby & Co., 1975. 4to. boards. 96 pages followed by 41 plates. Auction catalogue of this magnificent collection of 34 manuscripts dating from the earliest times to the 16th century. Prices realized loosely inserted. READ MORE about CATALOGUE OF THE CELEBRATED LIBRARY - ABBEY 9TH
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 172
Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1980. oblong 8vo. cloth-backed boards, paper spine label. (18) pages. Limited to 125 copies printed by Wesley B. Tanner at the Arif Press on dampened T. Edmonds paper. The 25th book of the press. Reprints part of Johnston's text from FORMAL PENMANSHIP AND OTHER PAPERS. With calligraphy by Barbara Wiley Bash. READ MORE about FORMAL PENMANSHIP DEFINED BY THE THING
Price: $42.50 save 20% $34.00 Order nr. 11919
Cologny-Geneve: Foundation Martin Bodmer, 1977. 8vo. paper-covered boards. 104, (2) pages. First edition. List of autographed manuscripts from the collection of Martin Bodmer at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. Separated into British writers, American writers, Miscellanea, and John Augustine Daly. Several facsimile of manuscripts interspersed. Indexed. READ MORE about ENGLISH AND AMERICAN AUTOGRAPHS IN THE BODMERIANA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 56044
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. cloth. x, 316 pages. First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Inside hinges cracked. READ MORE about MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 96628
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. cloth, paper spine label. x, 316 pages. First edition. There are seventeen illustrations reproducing letters of Thackeray, Sterne, Bronte, Tennyson, Johnson, Pope, Scott, Darwin and others. Covers age darkened and with small crack along front hinge at top. READ MORE about MEDITATIONS OF AN AUTOGRAPH COLLECTOR
Price: $12.00 Order nr. 119612
2 volumes.
New York: Dover, 1981. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiii,129 pages and 129 plates; ix, 130 pages and 130 plates, 263-311 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Reproductions of manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library with accompanying text for each plate that concentrates on the historical aspects of the document. Covers slightly soiled. Presentation on free endpaper from Charles Ryskamp "For Hans (Kraus) - with my warmest regard and deep gratiute, Charles 13.v.81." READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES I, FROM 800-1800 AND SERIES II, FROM 1800-1914
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 155
2 volumes.
New York: Dover, 1981. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xiii,129 pages and 129 plates; ix, 130 pages and 130 plates, 263-311 pages. 2 volumes. First edition. Reproductions of manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library with accompanying text for each plate that concentrates on the historical aspects of the document. Light wear along edges. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES I, FROM 800-1800 AND SERIES II, FROM 1800-1914
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 102678
New York: Dover, (1981). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 311 pages. First edition. Reproductions of manuscripts from the Pierpont Morgan Library with accompanying text for each plate that concentrates on the historical aspects of the document. Checklist by Herbert Cahoon. Introduction by Charles Ryskamp. READ MORE about BRITISH LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS SERIES II, FROM 1800-1914
Price: $5.00 Order nr. 64529
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
Sponsored by The Guild of Book Workers.
New York: The Guild of Book Workers, (1959). 8vo. paper wrappers. (28) pages. Sponsored by The Guild of Book Workers. One page introduction by Laura Young. Contains descriptions of the books in the exhibition, incluindg 24 black-and-white photographs. Covers soiled. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF HAND BOOKBINDING, CASEMAKING, RESTORATION CALLIGRAPHY & ILLUMINATION, AND...
Price: $24.00 Order nr. 11966
N.P. n.p., n.d., but 1994. 4to. Loose in portfolio. Six prints of scripts, signed "94 Briom." READ MORE about BRIOM SCRIPT: SIX UNNUMBERED PRINTS
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 121552
Boston: Bates & Guild, 1921. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 214, (3) pages. First printing of this new edition. The lettering examples are from all centuries. Minor chipping along edges of jacket. READ MORE about LETTERS & LETTERING, A TREATISE WITH 200 EXAMPLES
Price: $35.00 save 20% $28.00 Order nr. 110260
Zurich: Hellmut Schumann, n.d. large 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 38 pages, followed by 10 pages of plates. A sale catalogue, Number 511 of this firm. Sixty-nine items, all fully described, including books on calligraphy, sample leaves, specimens of ornamental book letters and more. Priced in Swiss Francs. READ MORE about THE ART OF ORNAMENT AND WRITING: WRITING MASTER BOOKS
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 47894
New York: Society of Scribes, 1978. 8vo. spiral bound with stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. Only the 1978 calander. The week's schedule appears on one side with a sample of fine writing on the other: some are quotations or passages, some are simply alphabets. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHER'S ENGAGEMENT CALENDAR
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 79666
Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1970. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. Well-illustrated. Describes 104 items. READ MORE about THE CALLIGRAPHIC STATEMENT, AN EXHIBITION OF WESTERN AND EASTERN CALLIGRAPHY AND PAINTING FROM...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 6234
Removed from Denis Diderot's ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES ARTS ET METIERS.
Paris: Diderot, 177? 4to. self paper wrappers, remnants of binding on spine. 17 pages of text followed by 25 folio plates. Removed from Denis Diderot's ENCYCLOPEDIE OU DICTIONNAIRE RAISONNE DES ARTS ET METIERS. St. Bride Catalogue p.161; Bonacini no.321. The complete section of Diderot that concerning writing. READ MORE about CARACTERES ET ALPHABETS DE LANGUES MORTES ET VIVANTES
Price: $450.00 Order nr. 57454
(Los Angeles: Prince Stern Sloan), n.d. square 4to. printed paper-covered boards with tray holding brush set and inks. Book and brush/paint set still in shrink wrap. From the back cover: " The first 48 pages of the book offer an introduction to this beautiful subject with clear, full-color illustrations. The last 32 pages are of fine quality Chinese paper with which to begin Chinese painting." Quite attractive. READ MORE about CHINESE BRUSH PAINTING
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 91358
12 volumes.
London, England: Society of Scribes and Illuminators, 1922-68. various. stiff paper wrappers. variously paginated. 12 volumes. A collection of items published by the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, London. Includes ten exhibition catalogues, a 1943 membership list, and the library list and rules. From the collection of Dorothy Hutton who was often mentioned as an exhibitor in the exhibition catalogues. Many items with lightly soiled covers and chipped at edges. Many with pencil and ink... READ MORE about Collection of publications of the Society of Scribes and Illuminators
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 124218
London: Trefoil Publications, (1990). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 168 pages. First paperback edition. A catalogue which is a selection of work which represents the calligraphy and lettering of 124 scribes and letterers from 12 countries. The examples represent works on paper, vellum, fabric, slate, stone and glass and are done with brush, pen and chisel, with illustrations in color and black and white. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY, MODERN SCRIBES AND LETTERING ARTISTS II
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 60524
London: Trefoil Books, (1986). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 168 pages. First U.S. edition. A catalogue which is a selection of work which represents the calligraphy and lettering of 124 scribes and letterers from 12 countries. The examples represent works on paper, vellum, fabric, slate, stone and glass and are done with brush, pen and chisel, with illustrations in color and black-and-white. Spine very faded. READ MORE about CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY, MODERN SCRIBES AND LETTERING ARTISTS II
Price: $17.00 Order nr. 120875
