New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1994. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages. Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. A brand new copy. With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at..... READ MORE about TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS

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Stockholm: Norstedt Tryckeri, 1983. 4to. cloth. 199 pages. Limited to 1800 copies. A near fine 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 of typefounding..... READ MORE about TYPE STUDIES, THE NORSTEDT COLLECTION OF MATRICES IN THE TYPEFOUNDRY OF THE ROYAL PRINTING...

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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

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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

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(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

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Berlin: H. Berthold, 1960. large 8vo. paper-covered boards with paper spine and cover labels. 108+(1) pages. Printed in an edition limited to 500 numbered copies. Spine with a touch of fading, minor wear to spine ends, else a tight and bright copy. Chapters examine the life and work of important eighteenth-century German printers and typesetters Josef von Kurzböck, Johann Prillwitz, Johann Friedrich Unger and J.G. Walbaum. Illustrated with facsimiles of printed pages and samples of..... READ MORE about DIE WALBAUM-SCHRIFTEN UND IHRE VORLÄUFER, EINE SCHRIFTSTUDIE

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Zusammengestellt von Dorothea Buchmann.
Darmstadt: Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, 1981. 4to. cloth, paper spine label. 238 pages. Zusammengestellt von Dorothea Buchmann. First edition. A fine copy. Features thousands of various vignettes from type specimen books from 1830 to 1870. READ MORE about VIGNETTEN & TYPOGRAPHISCHER SCHMUCK AUS SCHRIFTMUSTERBÜCHERN ZWISCHEN 1830 UND 1870

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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