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
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
Caledonia: Italimuse, 1963. 4to. paper wrappers. Introduction by P.W. Filby. 100 plates. From the library of John Carter, bearing his autograph signature and occasional markings throughout. Loosely inserted is a cutting of Carter's review from the Times Literary Supplement in which the exhibition is described as "the most ambitious, if concise, account yet offered of the development of penmanship in the United States." Very light soiling to covers. READ MORE about CALLIGRAPHY & HANDWRITING IN AMERICA, 1710-1962 ASSEMBLED AND SHOWN BY THE PEABODY INSTITUTE...
Price: $55.00 Order nr. 59626
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
With text by George L. Harding, Roby Wentz, and Ray Nash.
Los Angeles: The Zamorano Club, 1974. small 4to. cloth. (xviii) page followed by 7 leaves of facsimile. With text by George L. Harding, Roby Wentz, and Ray Nash. Limited to 250 copies printed by Ward Ritchie for the Zamorano Club. A facsimile of this early 19th century copybook prepared by Zamorano for his friend Don Ignacio Coronel, Los Angeles' first school teacher. READ MORE about A COPYBOOK FROM THE HAND OF AGUSTIN V. ZAMORANO
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 33053
Baltimore: Peabody Institute Library, 1959. 4to. stapled paper wrappers. 28 leaves. Reproduced from typesript. No illustrations but much of interest in the textual comments. Worn along edges. READ MORE about AN EXHIBITION OF CALLIGRAPHY & ILLUMINATION
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 17096
London: The Society of Scribes and Illumators, 1956. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Exhibition of 137 calligraphic works sponsored by the Society, October-November 1956. List of officers and members. Advertisements. Cockerell designed and produced the marbled paper covers. Wrappers lightly soiled. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF CALLIGRAPHY LETTERING & ILLUMINATING, 1956
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 115352
London, England: Architectural Association, 1936. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 15+(1) pages. Foreword by C.H. St. J. Hornby, list of exhibitors. Black and white frontispiece. Covers soiled; light spotty soiling in text. READ MORE about EXHIBITION OF PRESENT-DAY CALLIGRAPHY AND ILLUMINATION ORGANISED BY THE SOCIETY OF SCRIBES AND...
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 125697
New York: Society of Scribes, 1986. large 8vo. paper wrappers. 40 pages. Accompanies an exhibition of fine calligraphy. Reproduces many fine works from the exhibit. READ MORE about FACULTY EXHIBIT, INNOVATIONS '86
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 51048
France: n.p., n.d., but circa 1840. oblong 4to. leather, marbled endpapers. (32) pages. Text in French. A collection of French calligraphy. 32 leaves, one blank, some highlighted in gold. Some leaves signed either by Martha Kingdon or Virginie Riballiere. Includes four maps, nicely rendered, and one portrait, thought to be of either Kingdon or Riballiere. Printed on recto only. Covers rubbed and scuffed. Some leaves chipped at edges. READ MORE about Fine French Calligraphic Manuscript
Price: $2,000.00 Order nr. 132293
Boston, MA: Carter, Hendee and Co., 1833. 8vo. original cloth, paper spine label. xvi, 186 pages. Table of contents, journal of proceedings. The August 1832 meeting of the American Institute of Instruction, which met in Boston. Includes "A Prize Essay on Penmanship." Introductory discourse by Francis C. Gray. Lectures by George Ticknor, George Hayward, Walter B. Johnson, John Pierpont, B.B. Foster, A.B. Alcott, and Asa Rand. Foster's essay is on the teaching of penmanship (pp... READ MORE about THE INTRODUCTORY DISCOURSE AND THE LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF...
Price: $325.00 Order nr. 121712
(St. Paul): Ampersand Publications, (1984). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 111 pages. First edition. Exhibition staged by the Society of Scribes and the Colleagues of Calligraphy. Filled with illustrations of the work of modern calligraphers. With biographical notes on modern practioners. Large piece of front cover of jacket missing. READ MORE about LETTERING ARTS IN THE 80'S
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 8419
Norman, OK: Calligraphy Review Editions, 1990. 8vo. paper wrappers. 118, (2) pages. Illustrated exhibition catalogue; reproduces at least one work from each participating artist. READ MORE about LETTERS, LINES, IMAGES, INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY CALLIGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 51764
