N.P. Westvaco, (1968). 4to. 16 folders loosely inserted in a cloth box. Sixteen designers each contributed a section to this book to express their thoughts on book design. Included are Joseph Blumenthal, Giovanni Mardersteig, Hermann Zapf, Jan Tschichold, Georg Trump, Leonard Baskin, Bert Clarke and many others. Beautifully illustrated. Fine in a near fine box. READ MORE about HOMAGE TO THE BOOK
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 24210
(Blackhill, United Kingdom): Corvus Works, 2020. small folio. single broadside. Reprinted in an edition of 40 numbered and signed copies by the printer, Christopher Wakeling. The famous type specimen of 1592, the first know sheet, displayed the range of types collected by Christian Egenolff and his heirs showing work by Garamond, Granjon, Haultin and Sabon. The specimen is one the reference sources used by Jan Tschichold when designing the Sabon typeface in the mid 1960s..... READ MORE about EGENOLFF & BERNER
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 136789
With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald.
Toronto and New Castle, Delaware: Coach House Press with Sheridan College and Oak Knoll Press, 2015. 9 x 11.25. hardcover cloth with wrap-around paper cover label, DVD in pocket in back. 130 pages numbered from the half title. With an introduction by William Ross and notes by Rod McDonald. "These letters document the immense skill that was required to take a letter from a drawing to a piece of type." - Jon Bath, SHARP News..... READ MORE about EPISTLES TO THE TORONTONIANS. WITH ARTICLES FROM CANADIAN PRINTER & PUBLISHER
Price: $75.00 Order nr. 126777
(New York): Ex Libris, n.d. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. unpaginated. Ex Libris catalogue 7. Collection of items focusing on architecture, Art Nouveau, photography, Russian Avant-garde, surrealism, Jan Tschichold and Hendrik Theodoor Wijdeveld. 1336 entries with selected bibliography and index. Black and white illustrations. Wrappers bent at edges and lightly soiled. READ MORE about MAJOR MOVEMENTS OF 20TH CENTURY ART III
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 109083
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1999. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 96 pages. First edition; Noted English typographer, Ruari McLean discusses the evolution of typography as an art form. Looking at the work of other well known typographers in England, Europe and America, the author examines the development of typography, starting in the 17th century with Moxon's Mechanick Exercises and progresses to the work of Jan Tschichold and his contemporaries. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate..... READ MORE about HOW TYPOGRAPHY HAPPENS
Price: $40.00 Order nr. 56807
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, (1972). oblong 4to. paper covered boards, paper cover label, slipcase. 56, followed by 24 plates, (2) pages. Parts adapted from the author's previous books of 1940, 1943, and 1947. Plates printed in Switzerland. A treatise on calligraphy and painting of the Ten Bamboo Studio, including discussion of Chinese writing and ink, seals, woodcuts and two-colour prints, and a great deal of general and technical information on the subject of Chinese..... READ MORE about CHINESE COLOR PRINTS FROM THE TEN BAMBOO STUDIO
Price: $100.00 Order nr. 125268
London: Faber & Faber, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 94 pages. First edition, translated from the German by Ruari McLean. A landmark book in typographic design in which Tschichold advanced his ideas on asymmetric typography. He later recognized that there were two approaches to design problems and asymmetric was not necessarily the best. Well illustrated with some in color. Jacket shows minor soiling and light fading to the spine. READ MORE about ASYMMETRIC TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 5228
New York: Reinhold, (1967). 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 94 pages. First U.S. edition, translated from the German by Ruari McLean. A landmark book in typographic design in which Tschichold advanced his ideas on asymmetric typography. He later recognized that there were two approaches to design problems and asymmetric was not necessarily the best. Jacket soiled with the text on the spine of the dust jacket faded. READ MORE about ASYMMETRIC TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $85.00 Order nr. 4887
Basel, Switzerland: Der Papierhandelsgesellschaft Bucherer, Kurrus & Co., (1959). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 30, (2) pages. Text in German. (TschicholdLeben und Werk 286). Table of contents, bibliography. Illustrations. A study of Chinese and Japanese color woodcut printing. Wrappers sunned at spine edge. READ MORE about DER CHINESISCHE UND DER JAPANISCH MEHRFARBIGE HOLZTAFEDRUCK, TECHNISCH
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 121727
(New York, NY): Princeton Architectural Press, (1997). small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 128 pages. First edition. Table of contents, chronology of Tschichold's life, bibliography, index. Covers lightly soiled, gift inscription on front endpaper.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about JAN TSCHICHOLD: A LIFE IN TYPOGRAPHY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 120859
Boston: David Godine, (1975). small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 160 pages. First U.S. edition. A well-illustrated and detailed examination of this European typographer's work. Presentation from the author on the half-title. Jacket is price clipped. Some foxing. READ MORE about JAN TSCHICHOLD: TYPOGRAPHER
Price: $65.00 Order nr. 123560
Basel: Bucherer, Kurrus & Co., (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Text in German. Limited edition of 1600. Discuss proportion in the publication of books and the sizing of pages. 18 diagrams and bibliography included. Janson-Antiqua type on Basingwerk Presentation by the author to F. Mayer on front free endpaper. Advertising brochure laid in. READ MORE about WILLKÜRFREIE MASSVERHÄLTNISSE DER BUCHSEITE UND DES SATZPIEGELS
Price: $125.00 Order nr. 109651
Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1989. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 200, (2) pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 103). Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Thoughts on Wood" by Robert Gibbings, "Notes on the Printing Methods of the Golden Cockerel Press" by A. C. Cooper, "Jan Tschichold and Chinese Woodblock Printing" by..... READ MORE about MATRIX 09
Price: $150.00 Order nr. 27804
Manor Farm: The Whittington Press, 1989. small 4to. quarter leather with marbled paper by Colleen Gryspeerdt over boards. With a reproduction of a "Letter to Colette'' bound in cloth backed boards, all enclosed in a slipcase. (viii), 166, (2) pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 105 special copies bound thus and containing a bound reproduction of a "Letter to Colette." (Butcher 92).Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations..... READ MORE about MATRIX 09
Price: $650.00 Order nr. 27805
Manor Farm, Andoversford, Gloucestershire, England: The Whittington Press, 1989. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers, custom clamshell box with gilt lettering on spine. (viii), 200, (2) pages. Limited to 925 copies of which this is one of the 820 copies of the trade edition bound thus. (Butcher 103). Table of contents. Filled with tipped in plates and other illustrations. This year's articles include "Thoughts on Wood" by Robert Gibbings, "Notes on the Printing Methods of the..... READ MORE about MATRIX 09: A REVIEW FOR PRINTERS AND BIBLIOPHILES
Price: $112.50 Order nr. 129290
Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1998. 4to. paper-covered limp boards, dust jacket. (vi), 236, (2) pages, with many additional pages of plates and other materials. Limited to 825, including 745 in "stiff covers" (limp boards). Some contents of this issue: Ruari McLean on Jan Tschichold, WM Erik Voss on LA Type, David McKitterick on The Fanfare Press (with type specimens), "Bruce Rogers and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Michael Johnson, "Researching the Revival of the..... READ MORE about MATRIX 18
Price: $105.00 Order nr. 54205
