(Bell, John). Morison, Stanley.

JOHN BELL, 1745-1831, BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, PUBLISHER, TYPEFOUNDER, JOURNALIST, & C.

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 faded, 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 his type specimens. A Century for the..... READ MORE about JOHN BELL, 1745-1831, BOOKSELLER, PRINTER, PUBLISHER, TYPEFOUNDER, JOURNALIST, & C

Price: $250.00  other currencies  Order nr. 34390

Blumenthal, Joseph.

THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 250, (2) pages. Reprint of first edition. A study of the more interesting of American typographers from colonial times to the present. Well-illustrated. Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA

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Blumenthal, Joseph.

THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.

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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Dreyfus, John.

ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY A STUDY OF TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE BROXBOURNE COLLECTION AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. With a Handlist Compiled by David McKitterick.

Cambridge: For the Roxburghe Club, 1982. 4to. cloth. xvi, 119 pages. First edition. A fine copy. The first of these Roxburghe titles to be devoted to printing type. This important study is well-produced and illustrated. The specimens are described in great detail in the bibliography.From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about ASPECTS OF FRENCH EIGHTEENTH CENTURY TYPOGRAPHY A STUDY OF TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE BROXBOURNE...

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(Fournier, Pierre Simon). Hutt, Allen.

FOURNIER, THE COMPLETE TYPOGRAPHER.

Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1972. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 89 pages. First U.S. edition. A biography of Pierre Simon Fournier. Reprints his Caracteres de l'Imprimerie(1742) in facsimile of the original edition. Near fine. READ MORE about FOURNIER, THE COMPLETE TYPOGRAPHER

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Freeman, Arthur.

JULIA ALPINULA, PSEUDO-HEROINE OF HELVETIA: HOW A FORGED RENAISSANCE EPITAPH FOSTERED A NATIONAL MYTH.

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...

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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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(Massachusetts Historical Society). Riley, Stephen T.

THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.

Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1959. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 62 pages. An illustrated history of the society, featuring some of its more noteworthy collections. Black and white illustrations throughout. Matrices once in the possession of Benjamin Franklin illustrated on the wrappers. READ MORE about THE MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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Mosley, James.

BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST.

Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 70 pages. Occasional Publication No. 14. Corrected and updated supplement to Berry and Johnson's bibliography of British type specimen books. Gives locations, an appendix of printer's specimen books and a chronological list of specimens. A valuable supplement. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST

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Muir, Percy.

THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY.

London: The Collector Ltd., 1978. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. pp. 559-570. An offprint from The Book Collector, Vol. 27, No. 4, Winter, 1978. Muir's review of the book "Buchkunst und Literatur in Deutschland" by Ernst L. Hauswedell and Christian Voigt. READ MORE about THE ART OF THE BOOK IN GERMANY

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Sichowsky, Richard Von.

TYPOGRAPHIE UND BIBLIOPHILIE.

Hamburg, Germany: Maximilian-Gesellschaft, 1971. 8vo. paper-covered boards, all edges stained gray. 270, (2) pages. Text in German. Limited to 1400 copies. A collection of essays and speeches selected to celebrate two hundred years of the printing arts. Includes selections by Giambattista Bodoni, William Morris, Stanley Morison, Eric Gill, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Valéry; the selections are printed in different type faces. Also included are separate pages of type samples from various periods and countries. READ MORE about TYPOGRAPHIE UND BIBLIOPHILIE

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Silver, Rollo G.

TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825.

Charlottesville: Univ. Press of Virginia, (1965). 8vo. cloth. xiv, 139, (3) pages. First edition. Illustrated. Excellent guide to early printing and production of type in America. A fine copy. From the private reference library of Dorothy Sloan with a commemorative bookplate loosely inserted. READ MORE about TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA, 1787-1825

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Trattner, Johann Thomas.

ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN RÖSLEIN UND ZIERRATHEN WELCHE SICH IN DER K.K. HOFSCHRIFTGIESSEREY.

Vienna: Herbert Reichner, 1927. small 4to. boards, paper spine label. (ii) pages followed by the 27 page facsimile of the 1760 original edition. Limited to 200 numbered copies, being part of the series entitled Bibliotheca Typographica edited by Reichner. Reproduction of this 1760 book of type ornaments and ornamental arrangements. Covers faded with slight wear at spine ends. Front pastedown and free endpaper foxed. A scarce and interesting facsimile. READ MORE about ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN RÖSLEIN UND ZIERRATHEN WELCHE SICH IN DER K.K. HOFSCHRIFTGIESSEREY

Price: $100.00  other currencies  Order nr. 19784