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. A SIGNED COPY BY THE AUTHOR OF THIS LOVELY BOOK 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..... READ MORE about MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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Bartram, Alan.

TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY.

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

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(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

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Coakley, J.F.

THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2006. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 272 pages. Syriac, a dialect of the ancient Aramaic language, has a remarkable Christian literature spanning a thousand years from the fourth to the thirteenth century, including important versions of the Bible. It remains the liturgical language of several churches in the Middle East, India, and the west, and 'Modern Syriac' is a vernacular still in use..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHY OF SYRIAC: A HISTORICAL CATALOGUE OF PRINTING TYPES, 1537-1958

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Danforth Jr., Ted.

PIETRO BEMBO: 'FOSTER FATHER' OF THE MODERN BOOK.

New York: The Typophiles, 2003. 6 x 9.5 inches. paperback. 33+(1) pages. Typophile Monograph - New Series, Number 18. 500 years ago, with the publication of a small octavo Virgil, the modern printed book emerged due to Venetian printer Aldo Manuzio (Aldus). Previous to this, the printing press had been seen primarily as a means of mechanically reproducing manuscript books. It was Pietro Bembo (1470-1547) who gave Aldus the idea for the small format of..... READ MORE about PIETRO BEMBO: 'FOSTER FATHER' OF THE MODERN BOOK

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(Goudy, Frederic W.). Goudy, Frederic W.

GOUDY'S TYPE DESIGNS, HIS STORY AND SPECIMENS.

New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, 1978. small 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 285+(1) pages. This book is not only Goudy's autobiography, but it is the most complete record to date of his typographic contribution, which has had a major worldwide effect. First published in 1946 as one of the Typophile Chapbooks XIII and XIV, entitled A HALF-CENTURY OF TYPE DESIGN AND TYPOGRAPHY, this second edition is available as the student and professional typographer's working tool, as..... READ MORE about GOUDY'S TYPE DESIGNS, HIS STORY AND SPECIMENS

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Hudson, Graham.

THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2008. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. First edition. Ephemera has been collected for many years, but only recently has it become widely accepted as material for academic study. This is the first book to discuss ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, production process and period have affected the changing appearance of billheads, trade cards, flyers..... READ MORE about THE DESIGN AND PRINTING OF EPHEMERA IN BRITAIN AND AMERICA, 1720-1920

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Myers, Robin, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote (editors).

PUBLISHING THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS 1500-2000.

New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2012. 6 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 224 pages. Next in the Publishing Pathways series, Publishing the Fine and Applied Arts examines aspects of the relationship between the business of print and the practice of art and design across five centuries. Leading specialists explore the role played by the book trade in the diffusion of artistic and architectural theory, fashion, and practice..... READ MORE about PUBLISHING THE FINE AND APPLIED ARTS 1500-2000

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Rosendorf, Theodore.

THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE.

(TDR) With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009. 5.5 x 8.5 inches. Hardcover. 152 pages. (TDR) With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton. First edition, later printing. The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is comprised of a thousand facts on the form of Latin-based writing systems. The book includes the following four main sections: Terms - Definitions of format, measurements, practice, standards, tools, and industry lingo; Glyphs -The list of standard ISO and extended Latin characters, symbols..... READ MORE about THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE

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Rosendorf, Theodore.

THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE.

(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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Swenson, May.

A BASIN OF EGGS.

(New Haven, CT): Yale University, 1982. broadside (17 x 12 inches). Limited to 50 numbered copies. A Bibliographical Press Poetry Broadside issued by the library. Broadside of the poem A Basin of Eggs by May Swenson printed on hand-made paper for the occasion of the Bollingen Prize Reading which she won in 1981. May Swenson was an American poet and playwright with much of her work being devoted to children. READ MORE about A BASIN OF EGGS

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Updike, Daniel Berkeley.

PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE.

2 volumes in one.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. 6.5 x 9 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 1,088 pages. 2 volumes in one. Third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. This extraordinary work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons they contain for today's designers. The original two-volume set has been..... READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE

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Young, Matthew McLennan.

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINTERS' INTERNATIONAL SPECIMEN EXCHANGE.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2012. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. "Matthew Young's book showcases over 80 specimens (full size and in color), and gives a detailed account of the behind-the-scenes machinations that affected the course of the Specimen Exchange.... If you are interested in the history of graphic design, Young's book is a wonderful account of a lesser-known part of the story. It's handsome and lucidly presented and worth..... READ MORE about THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PRINTERS' INTERNATIONAL SPECIMEN EXCHANGE

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