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(ad lib Press). Hopkinson, Francis.

PLAN FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE ART OF PAPER WAR.

Richmond, VA: ad lib Press, 1990. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (16) pages. Reprint of the 1787 printing that occured in the American Musuem. Limited to 155 numbered copies; this copy is out of series. An article discussing American type faces and American type. Silver, in his THE AMERICAN PRINTER, p.146, says "In an essay printed in 1787 ... (Hopkinson) proposed an improvement in the art of printing, so as to make it expressive not only... READ MORE

Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 105321

Anthoensen, Fred.

JOHN BELL TYPE ITS LOSS AND REDISCOVERY.

With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's first Type Specimen, 1788.
Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press (But Printed by The Meriden Gravure Co. in 1965 for the Heritage of the Graphic Arts). 1939. 8vo. paper wrappers. 20, (8) pages. With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's first Type Specimen, 1788. Limited to 250 copies. READ MORE

Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 97

(Baskerville, John). Pardoe, F.E.

JOHN BASKERVILLE OF BIRMINGHAM LETTER-FOUNDER & PRINTER.

London: Frederick Muller, 1975. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 181 pages. First edition. A biography of the printer; color frontispiece. Part of the Ars Typographica series. Fine condition. READ MORE

Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 363

Berry, W. Turner and A.F. Johnson.

CATALOGUE OF SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES BY ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH PRINTERS AND FOUNDERS, 1665-1830. Including the Authors' Supplement in Signature (1952) and With a New Introduction by James Mosely.

New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1983. 4to. cloth. xi,iii-liii,100,28-40,(3) pages. Reprint of the two important bibliographical pieces with a new introduction. Includes reproductions of the original fold-out plates and retains the Stanley Morison introduction (See Appleton 139). READ MORE

Price: $200.00 other currencies Order nr. 570

Bjorkbom, Carl.

DET GAMLA TRYCKERIET, ETT TRYCKERI PA 1500-TALET, ETT FRANSKT LANDSOR.

N.P. (Stockholm?): "Bibliophiles" (i.e. Society of B...?), n.d (c1960). 12mo. sewn, stiff paper wrappers. 79 pages. Limited to 700 copies. Three articles by Björkbom, previously published elsewhere. The "printing shop of the 1500's" is that of C. PLantin. No.10 in the "Bibliophile's Miniature Series." READ MORE

Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 52925

Blumenthal, Joseph.

THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA.

Hanover, NH: Dartmouth College Library, (1989). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 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. READ MORE

Price: $50.00 other currencies Order nr. 34364

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. READ MORE

Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 45842

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. Jacket spine faded; chipped around edges. READ MORE

Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 64775

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

Price: $22.50 other currencies Order nr. 105191

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. Presentation on half-title "Inscribed for Mike McCurdy, Joe Blumenthal." READ MORE

Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 114825

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. Presentation on half-title "For Jean Peters - with great respect inscribed with pleasure, Joseph Blumenthal, March / '78." Loosely inserted is a A.L.s and a postcard written by Blumenthal to Peters along with a photograph showing Blumenthal, Rocky Stinehour and Ben Lieberman. READ MORE

Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 123246

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. READ MORE

Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 124825

(Bodini). Giani, Giampiero.

SAGGIO DI BIBLIOGRAFIA BODONIANA.

(Milan, Italy): Conchiglia, 1946. 8vo. cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped, top edge cut, other edges uncut. (vii), 47, (27) pages. Text in Italian. Number "18" of an unspecifed number of copies. Published on the occasion of an exhibition in Milan, November 1946. Color and black and white illustrations, including two tipped-in. Presentation from the author on front free endpaper. Soiling on front cover. Slight rubbing and scuffing at edges. Light tanning at edges of text. READ MORE

Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 126622

Bodoni, Giambattista.

MANUALE TIPOGRAFICO DEL CAVALIERE GIAMBATTISTA BODONI.

2 volumes.
London: The Holland Press, 1960. 4to. decorated paper cover boards, paper spine labels. lxxii, 267; (iv), 279 pages. 2 volumes. One of 500 copies. An exact facsimile of the famous Bodoni specimen book - manual originally printed in Parma by the Presso la Vedova in 1818. While lacking the slipcase, this two volume set is in near-pristine condition. READ MORE

Price: $350.00 other currencies Order nr. 126922

Bruce, David.

THE HISTORY OF TYPEFOUNDING IN THE UNITED STATES EDITED AND ANNOTATED FROM THE HOLOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT BY JAMES ECKMAN.

New York: The Typophiles, 1981. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 66 pages. Limited to 1500 copies. Typophiles Chap Book 55.The first accurate printing of this 19th century manuscript. Much of biographical interest. READ MORE

Price: $7.00 other currencies Order nr. 4069

(Buell, Abel). Wroth, Lawrence C.

ABEL BUELL OF CONNECTICUT, SILVERSMITH TYPE FOUNDER & ENGRAVER.

Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1958. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 102, (2) pages. Revised, enlarged, and well illustrated. First published in a limited edition of 102 copies as the Fifteenth Publication of the Acorn Club of Connecticut in 1926. Jacket heavily foxed along spine and edges. Endpapers and pastedowns foxed from jacket. READ MORE

Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 19980

(Caslon, William).

PORTFOLIO TO COMMEMORATE THE TWO-HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF WILLIAM CASLON.

N.P. Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1966. folio. stiff paper portfolio holding seven Caslon-related items. Contains: A portrait of Caslon, wood engraving by David Gentleman, Type Specimen sheet - collotype facsimile, Notes on the 1734 Specimen by James Mosely, Specimen of Cason Old Face which includes a photograph of a selection of the original steel punches cut by William Caslon, The Chiswell Street Foundry facsimile reproduced from the Universal Magazine 1750, a folder for Letraset Caslon... READ MORE

Price: $60.00 other currencies Order nr. 94532

(Caslon, William).

WILLIAM CASLON, 1692-1766.

London: The Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1967. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (4) pages. Printed in the US by Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, for the Wynkyn de Worde Society. READ MORE

Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 17926

Finsterer-Suber, Gerda.

GEISTIGE VATER DES ABENDLANDES, EINE SAMMLUNG VON HUNDERT BUCHTITELN.

Stuttgart: Chr. Belser Verlag, 1960. large 4to. two-toned paper-covered boards, dust jacket, slipcase. 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... READ MORE

Price: $45.00 other currencies Order nr. 55706

(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. READ MORE

Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 4117

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

Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 127033

Gress, Edmund G.

FASHIONS IN AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY 1780 TO 1930 WITH BRIEF ILLUSTRATED STORIES OF THE LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN SEVEN PERIODS.

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 8vo. cloth-backed gold paper-covered boards, dust jacket. xxx, 201 pages. First edition. (Hart no.20). Foreword by Frederic Goudy. Gress covers "the various periods at which decided changes in the matter of type design or changed tastes in type arrangement took place." Very interesting gold dust jacket printed in black. Jacket chipped with small pieces missing along edges. READ MORE

Price: $55.00 other currencies Order nr. 16151

(Haas, Robert). Fraser, James H (editor).

ROBERT HAAS, PRINTING, CALLIGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHY. AN EXHIBITION MAY 13-SEPTEMBER 1, 1984.

With an introduction by Hermann Zapf, Appreciation by Paul Standard, and Catalogue by Renee Weber.
Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University, (1984). small 4to. printed paper wrappers. 64 pages. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf, Appreciation by Paul Standard, and Catalogue by Renee Weber. First edition. Well-illustrated exhibition catalogue including many illustrations in color. READ MORE

Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 27862

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

Price: $65.00 other currencies Order nr. 95868

Janssen, Frans A., editor.

THE EARLIEST DUTCH IMPOSITION MANUAL.

A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014. 8.5 x 11 inches. hardcover. 210 pages. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar Vanderstraelen. Although "imposition manuals" -- instructions on the proper layout of typeset pages for the press -- have always been useful tools of the printing trade, surviving examples are rare. The present volume has been reproduced from a unique manuscript in the collection of the Grolier Club Library. Entitled Overslag-Boek, zeer nuttig... READ MORE

Price: $75.00 other currencies Order nr. 121734

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