London: F.C. Avis, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. frontispiece, 104 pages. First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Near fine in near fine jacket. Study of this English punchcutter who worked during the period 1890 to 1914. Some illustrations and facsimiles of his type specimens. READ MORE about EDWARD PHILIP PRINCE, TYPE PUNCHCUTTER
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 15419
A History and a Catalogue.
Stockholm: Norstedt Tryckeri, 1983. 4to. single sheet, folded twice. (4) pages. A History and a Catalogue. NOTE: THIS IS FOR THE PROSPECTUS ONLY. Limited to 1800 copies. Norstedts, the Swedish Royal Printing Office, has a collection of about 20,000 matrices made between 1500 and 1850 by such famous founders as Francois Guyot, Robert Granjon and P.S. Fournier le jeune. In addition to the history of the firm, Axel-Nilsson has reproduced hundreds of specimens by casting..... READ MORE about Prospectus for TYPE STUDIES, THE NORSTEDT COLLECTION OF MATRICES IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY OF THE ROYAL...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 140094
Stockholm: Norstedt Tryckeri, 1983. 4to. paperback. 199 pages. Paperback edition. Prospectus loosely inserted. A near fine unopened copy. Norstedts, the Swedish Royal Printing Office, has a collection of about 20,000 matrices made between 1500 and 1850 by such famous founders as Francois Guyot, Robert Granjon and P.S. Fournier le jeune. In addition to the history of the firm, Axel-Nilsson has reproduced hundreds of specimens by casting new type from the original matrices. An important history..... READ MORE about TYPE STUDIES, THE NORSTEDT COLLECTION OF MATRICES IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY OF THE ROYAL PRINTING...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 143240
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1930. tall 8vo. cloth, leather spine label, dust jacket. xi, 165, (5) pages. First edition, limited to 300 copies, (Appleton 94). Spine rubbed and lightly faded, dust jacket lightly soiled, else near fine. Sections on Bell as bookseller and partner in The Morning Post, The British Letter Foundry (1788-89), and his other publishing ventures. Contains three appendices commenting on Bell's book typography, newspaper typography, his types in the United States and..... READ MORE about JOHN BELL, 1745-1831, BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, PUBLISHER, TYPEFOUNDER, JOURNALIST, & C
Price: $275.00 Order nr. 34390
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 34364
Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. A fine copy. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 45842
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. With a small paper label on the free endpaper calling attention to the fact that this book was printed on Mohawk Superfine Text. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $18.00 Order nr. 105191
Boston: David R. Godine, (1977). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 250, (2) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 124825
(Köln (Cologne), Germany: Taschen, 2010). 4to. cloth. variously paginated. Text in Italian. A fine copy. A 2010 reprint of the 1818 edition of Bodoni's classic Manual of Typography. Edited by Stephan Füssel, who contributed an essay in an accompanying booklet housed in a pouch on the back pastedown. Illustrations of specimens throughout text. The booklet includes a translation into English of the foreword by Bodoni's widow and the preface by Bodoni himself. It also includes..... READ MORE about MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 131420
New York: The Typophiles, 1981. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 66 pages. Limited to 1500 copies. Near fine. Typophiles Chap Book 55.The first accurate printing of this 19th century manuscript. Much of biographical interest. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF TYPEFOUNDING IN THE UNITED STATES EDITED AND ANNOTATED FROM THE HOLOGRAPH...
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 4069
Offert aus Hommes de Lettres. De l'un de l'autre sexe (1), notamment a MM. Les correcteurs, protes, sous-protes, etc.
N.P. Éditions des Cendres, (2004). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 34 pages. Offert aus Hommes de Lettres. De l'un de l'autre sexe (1), notamment a MM. Les correcteurs, protes, sous-protes, etc. Text in French. Limited to an edition of 375 numbered copies printed on Munken Ivoiré. Facsimile of the original published by Didot in 1839. Includes fold-out Cirier illustration from the collection of the Bibliothèque de Reims. Pamphlet with a note from the publisher, a...... READ MORE about L' OEIL TYPOGRAPHIQUE
Price: $22.00 Order nr. 94603
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 Order nr. 96669
From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau
New York: Abbeville Press, (1987). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 256 pages. From the Gothic Revival to Art Nouveau. A survey of the decorative arts from the Victorian to the Edwardian period. Includes over 600 color and black-and-white illustrations of home interiors and furniture. Minor wear to book and jacket. READ MORE about VICTORIAN AND EDWARDIAN DECOR
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 92692
London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 39, (136) pages. Contains historical information on Davison, with 1010 ornaments and woodtypes, as well as 6 jobbing specimens. A near fine copy. READ MORE about WILLIAM DAVISON'S NEW SPECIMEN OF CAST-METAL ORNAMENTS AND WOOD TYPES
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 35833
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. Jacket price-clipped, else fine in near fine jacket. 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. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 16315
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966). 8vo. cloth. xxiii, 401 pages. First U.S. edition, first published in Holland by Thieme in Dutch. Exlibrary with markings. Jacket with tears along edges. 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. READ MORE about BOOK TYPOGRAPHY, 1815-1965 IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98308
Stuttgart: Chr. Belser Verlag, 1960. large 4to. two-toned paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xxvii, not paginated. First edition. Published on the occasion of the 125th anniversary of the publisher "Chr. Belser Verlag." A limited amount of copies were made available on the market. Under the rubric of "Spiritual Fathers of the Occident," this volume presents 100 title pages accompanied by short essay descriptions. In addition to general information on particular title pages, these descriptions contain information..... READ MORE about GEISTIGE VATER DES ABENDLANDES, EINE SAMMLUNG VON HUNDERT BUCHTITELN
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 55706
London, United Kingdom: Bernard Quaritch, 2015. 8vo. paper wrappers. 72 pages. Julia Alpinula is a legendary Swiss heroine, whose pathetic fate in AD 69 inspired popular historians, dramatists, artists, and poets including an infatuated Byron over a period of more than two hundred years. Her very existence, however, was based entirely on a funerary inscription first published in 1588 and ultimately shown to be a humanist forgery. Julia Alpinula is a fully documented account of..... READ MORE about JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 127033
München: Typographischen Gesellschaft, 1991. 8vo. paper wrappers. 30, (6) pages. Speech celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Munich Typographical Society. READ MORE about FESTVORTRAG ZUM 100JAHRIGEN BESTEHEN DER TYPOGRAPHISCHEN GESELLSCHAFT
Price: $14.00 Order nr. 50603
Paris: Henry Babou, (1930). large 8vo. loosely gathered signatures in a paper-covered portfolio, cloth tie. 31, xl leaves of illustration, (3) pages. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. The authors describe the 19th century book. Chapters are devoted to typography and book illustration. Included are 40 plates of illustration. This is the fifth volume in "Les Beaux Livres D'Autrefois" series. Covers lightly rubbed. READ MORE about LES BEAUX LIVRES D'AUTREFOIS. LE XIXEME SIECLE
Price: $36.00 Order nr. 60323
San Francisco: David Magee, 1959. oblong small 4to. cloth- backed decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label. (x) pages followed by 18 leafs of type specimens. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press and signed by both Edwin and Robert Grabhorn (Grabhorn Bibliography 667). Three (3) copies of the prospectus loosely inserted. A fine copy. A commonplace book in which the Grabhorns have taken 18 fonts of 19th century type and..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 17553
San Francisco: David Magee, 1959. oblong small 4to. cloth- backed decorated paper-covered boards. (x) pages followed by 18 leafs of type specimens. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press and signed by both Edwin and Robert Grabhorn (Grabhorn Bibliography 667). Lacking the paper spine label, else a fine copy. A commonplace book in which the Grabhorns have taken 18 fonts of 19th century type and displayed them in a variety..... READ MORE about NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF...
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 143379
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., (1982). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (iv), 91 pages. Taken from Porret's Illustrations Typographiques published in Paris between 1838 and 1842. READ MORE about VICTORIAN SPOT ILLUSTRATIONS, ALPHABETS AND ORNAMENTS FROM PORRET'S TYPE CATALOG
Price: $16.00 Order nr. 106280
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 8vo. cloth-backed gold paper-covered boards. xxx, 201 pages. First edition. (Hart no.20). Foreword by Frederic Goudy. Gress covers "the various periods at which decided changes in the matter of type design or changed tastes in type arrangement took place." Lacking the dust jacket. Wear to the head of the spine. READ MORE about FASHIONS IN AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY 1780 TO 1930 WITH BRIEF ILLUSTRATED STORIES OF THE LIFE AND...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 48002
Basel: Helbing & Lichtenhahn, 1969. 8vo. paper wrappers. (ii), 56 pages, with 5 additional fold-out maps. An overview of publications on the typographical production of maps, with particular attention to the Haas firm. A fine copy. READ MORE about DIE TYPOGRAPHIE IM DIENSTE DER LANDKARTE
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 49363
