(Bookbinding).

CATALOGUE DE TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE IMPRIMÉS ENTRE LES ANNÉES 1803 - 1848, CLASSIQUES, TEXTES ORIGINAUX, LIVRES ILLUSTRÉS, TRÈS BELLES RELIURES.

Paris: S.A. Georg, Libraires, 1929. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 64, (3) pages. Bookseller's catalogue spotlighting works that were printed using new techniques in typography, illustration and binding that gained favor during the Romantic Era. Listed chronologically, 82 entries describe bindings in detail and cite information about illustrations therein. Handsomely printed with 82 plates, two in color. Separate indexes for works, authors and illustrators. Printed by A. Lahure. Library bookplate on inside front cover..... READ MORE about CATALOGUE DE TRÈS BEAUX LIVRES DE L'ÉPOQUE ROMANTIQUE IMPRIMÉS ENTRE LES ANNÉES 1803 - 1848,...

Price: $45.00  other currencies  Order nr. 64104

Bringhurst, Robert and Peter Rutledge Koch, et al.

CARVING THE ELEMENTS: A COMPANION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF PARMENIDES.

Berkeley: Editions Koch, 2004. 6 x 9 inches. Paperback. 138 pages. First edition. This companion piece to The Fragments of Parmenides reveals the "blood, sweat and tears" the creators put into their original book. Carving the Elements tells the detailed story of the making of The Fragments of Parmenides, a grandiose book project meticulously crafted by: master letterpress printer Peter Koch; poet, translator and typographer Robert Bringhurst; punchcutter, type designer, typefounder and poet Dan Carr;..... READ MORE about CARVING THE ELEMENTS: A COMPANION TO THE FRAGMENTS OF PARMENIDES

Price: $30.00  other currencies  Order nr. 78258

(Brunner, Vratislav Hugo). Kybalova, Ludmila.

TVURCE CESKÉ KNIHY V.H. BRUNNER.

Soupis Knizní Grafiky: Bozena Polívková
Prague: Ceskoslovenských výtvarntých umelcü, 1961. 8vo. cloth, title stamped on spine, VHB design stamped on front board, dust jacket. 138, (6) pages. Soupis Knizní Grafiky: Bozena Polívková. Text in Czech. No. 3 in "Czech Books" series. Study of the book illustrations of Vratislav Hugo Brunner (1886-1928). Pastedowns and endpapers decorated. Frontispiece. Introductory essay. Chronological catalogue of Brunner's work. Black and white and color illustrations. Bibliography, index and listing of illustrations. Dust jacket slightly worn at..... READ MORE about TVURCE CESKÉ KNIHY V.H. BRUNNER

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 107590

(Calligraphy). Stan Knight.

HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller, (2009). 4to. hardcover, dust jacket. 112 pages. Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. The craft of calligraphy has a 2000-year history in the Western world. Up to the time of the Renaissance, calligraphy was the only means of preserving literature, and so, it played a vital role in the spread of learning, culture, and religion. Historical scripts were not rigidly-fixed "styles;" they represented the..... READ MORE about HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE

Price: $39.95  other currencies  Order nr. 52752

(Chambers, Bert C.).

A EXHIBITION OF ADVERSITING MATERIAL CREATED BY BERT C. CHAMBERS FOR THE STRATHMORE PAPER COMPANY, WEST SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

West Springfield, MA: Strathmore Paper Company, n.d. (circa 1957). oblong 16mo. stiff paper wrappers. Not paginated. Biographical sketch followed by illustrations of his design work with facing text page. READ MORE about A EXHIBITION OF ADVERSITING MATERIAL CREATED BY BERT C. CHAMBERS FOR THE STRATHMORE PAPER...

Price: $25.00  other currencies  Order nr. 118969

Clouse, Doug.

MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s..... READ MORE about MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 96669

Craig, James.

DESIGNING WITH TYPE, A BASIC COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY.

Edited by Susan E. Meyer.
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, (1981). 4to. boards, spiral bound. (ix), 176 pages. Edited by Susan E. Meyer. Reprint of the 1980 revised edition with a new introduction to the phototypesetting process. A good introductory manual to the subject. READ MORE about DESIGNING WITH TYPE, A BASIC COURSE IN TYPOGRAPHY

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 104981

(David, Ismar).

DANIEL 3, FROM THE HOLY BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION.

Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, Christmas 1954. 8vo. cloth, slipcase. (12) pages printed French fold. Limited to 1250 numbered copies issued as a Christmas book by World. Illustrated in red by Ismar David and typography by Jos. Trautwein. Signed by David. READ MORE about DANIEL 3, FROM THE HOLY BIBLE, KING JAMES VERSION

Price: $65.00  other currencies  Order nr. 39696

Day, Kenneth (editor).

BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 401 pages. First U.S. edition, first published in Holland by Thieme in Dutch. Various authors discuss book typography for different countries including Handover on British Book Typography and James Wells on Typography in the U.S. 192 pages of illustrations. Minor rubbing. Bookplate. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Price: $17.50  other currencies  Order nr. 19876

Day, Kenneth (editor).

BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

London: Ernest Benn Ltd., (1966). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xxiii, 401 pages. First English edition, first published in Holland by Thieme in Dutch. Various authors discuss book typography for different countries including Handover on British Book Typography and James Wells on Typography in the U.S. 192 pages of illustrations. Jacket faded and rubbed. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Price: $15.00  other currencies  Order nr. 53219

(De Vinne, Theodore). Tichenor, Irene.

NO ART WITHOUT CRAFT, THE LIFE OF THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, PRINTER.

Boston: David R. Godine, (2005). 8vo. cloth with dust jacket. (vi), xi,(i), 329 +1 pages. First edition. This is new full scale biography of Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914), which explores the life of a seminal figure in the history of American printing. His masterly printing of wood engravings, together with his obsession with presswork, tight composition, and typefaces, gained him and his firm an international reputation and made De Vinne a rich man. His..... READ MORE about NO ART WITHOUT CRAFT, THE LIFE OF THEODORE LOW DE VINNE, PRINTER

Price: $10.00  other currencies  Order nr. 88858

(Dov Press). Rand, Harry.

THE CLOUDS.

Washington, D.C. Dov Press, 1996. 4to. gray cloth with darker gray morocco spine printed in palladium, publisher's slipcase. (iv), 31, (3) pages. Limited to 55 numbered copies, this is one of 25 regular signed copies. With ten original lithographs by Elaine Kurtz. Eight full-page lithographs handpulled by Judith Solodkin in collaboration with the artist at Solo Impressions, New York, with two double-page images of approximately 14" x 20"; many images required multiple plates and the..... READ MORE about THE CLOUDS

Price: $1,250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 61409

Dreyfus, John.

INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION.

Boston: David R. Godine, (1995). 8vo. cloth. x, 339 +(1) pages. First edition. A compilation of writings on many aspects of printing and book design, chosen by the author. The topics are varied, and include eighteenth-& nineteenth-century studies, private presses, type design and manufacture, exhibitions and speculations. In an interesting chapter on twentieth-century typographers, the author discusses Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Bruce Rogers and several other well known printers. Illustrated with photographs and facsimiles. Handlist..... READ MORE about INTO PRINT, SELECTED WRITINGS ON PRINTING HISTORY, TYPOGRAPHY AND BOOK PRODUCTION

Price: $50.00  other currencies  Order nr. 45937