The Deluxe Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $275 value) for free. Retail $1,650, now $1,375!
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF Publishers BV, 2004-2013. small 4to. leather, publisher's slipcase. 374, 364, 608, 532, 624, 216 pages. The Deluxe Set - Order all five volumes of The History of the Library in Western Civilization series at one time and get the Index volume (a $275 value) for free. Retail $1,650, now $1,375! This is the deluxe full-leather edition, limited to 100 copies.six-volume series addressing the unique..... READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF THE LIBRARY IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION - THE COMPLETE SET

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 5.75 x 8 inches. cloth spine over paper-covered boards. 144 pages, 17 tipped-in marbling swatches. "Interested novices search for historical and instructional books on [marbling], which inevitably leads to Richard J. Wolfe, the person who has dedicated his life to the preservation of marbling knowledge. Josef Halfer and the Revival of the Art of Marbling Paper is Wolfe's final gift to the book history and marbling communities." -Amy..... READ MORE about JOSEF HALFER AND THE REVIVAL OF THE ART OF MARBLING PAPER

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New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and V&A Publishing, 2018. 8.75 x 12 inches. cloth, dust jacket. xx, 396 pages, with folding floor plan of the Crystal Palace in pocket at rear. "...an impressive work of scholarship with beautiful visuals that will appeal to anyone interested in early photography... Hamber's splendid book may be regarded for generations as the authoritative account of photography at the 1851 Great Exhibition. Scholars of photographic history will..... READ MORE about PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE 1851 GREAT EXHIBITION

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.375 x 10.5 inches. Cloth with dust jacket. 208 pages. "This work skillfully demonstrates that the aura of unsurpassed quality around the work of Harold and Meriden was both hard earned and richly deserved.... a handsome book that alludes in choice of type, layout, printing quality, and binding to a Meriden Gravure publication." - Paul M. Wright, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America "Throughout its nearly century-long..... READ MORE about IN THE SERVICE OF SCHOLARSHIP: HAROLD HUGO & THE MERIDEN GRAVURE COMPANY

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2017. 7.25 x 10.5 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. "A fascinating and detailed account of the shared goal of these different Shakespearian publishers, alongside an analysis of how printing technology shaped their ability to carry out this mission." - Katherine Scheil, PBSA "This is a scholarly as well as readable account of the efforts of five publishers in the years 1838 to 1864 to bring Shakespeare to the..... READ MORE about STEAM-DRIVEN SHAKESPEARE OR MAKING GOOD BOOKS CHEAP: FIVE VICTORIAN ILLUSTRATED EDITIONS

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2018. 7.5 x 10 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 200 pages. "For anyone interested in Granjon and sixteenth-century type-founding, this is an excellent place to start. A concise and clear biography, several themed lists and indexes, and a series of well-printed facsimiles, provide the essential underpinning for such study, while committed readers will also need to have beside them the earlier and more specialist work by Vervliet and others." -..... READ MORE about ROBERT GRANJON, LETTER-CUTTER, 1513-1590: AN OEUVRE-CATALOGUE

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover with dust jacket. 104 pages. "The photography in Historical Types is excellent. The commentary on each type identifies its salient features with expert skill. The result is an anthology that can be put into the hands of a lettering artist or a printer, in the confident expectation that both would learn what gives letterforms in print their distinctive character." - Nicolas Barker "A..... READ MORE about HISTORICAL TYPES FROM GUTENBERG TO ASHENDENE

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(TDR) With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Paperback. 368 pages. (TDR) With a Foreword by Erik Spiekermann. "A functional, comprehensive, postmodern approach... This reference source places clearly written, succinct explanations at the reader's fingertips." - Miriam, Kahn, SHARP News The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is an encyclopedic reference guide of typographic terms and classification with definitions of form and usage for Latin based writing systems. The second edition, in the..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE

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New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2016. 8.27 x 11.69 inches. paperback. 128 pages. "Spellerberg has become an important new authority on implements designed to do controlled damage to paper. In the process, he's turned what most people thought they knew about these objects, particularly about page turners, on its head." - Ben Marks, Collector's Weekly "The book is illustrated with paper-knives and paper-folders of every design... There are cutters in the form of a...... READ MORE about READING & WRITING ACCESSORIES: A STUDY OF PAPER-KNIVES, PAPER FOLDERS, LETTER OPENERS AND...

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