With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's First Type Specimen, 1788.
Portland, ME: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1939. 8vo. cloth, paper cover label. 25 pages. With a Type-facsimile of John Bell's First Type Specimen, 1788. First edition, limited to 250 copies. A near fine copy. Keepsake #8. Prospectus loosely inserted. READ MORE about JOHN BELL TYPE ITS LOSS AND REDISCOVERY
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 98
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 about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 34364
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
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 45842
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 about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $15.00 Order nr. 64775
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
Price: $22.50 Order nr. 105191
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 about THE PRINTED BOOK IN AMERICA
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 124825
San Francisco: Simpson Paper Co., 1989. small 4to. stiff paper wrappers. 29 pages. Issued by this paper company as a gift booklet. Printed on different kinds of paper in different colors. Fine condition. READ MORE about THE LIFE AND TYPE OF GIAMBATTISTA BODONI
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New York: The Typophiles, 1981. 12mo. stiff paper wrappers. xii, 66 pages. Limited to 1500 copies. Near fine. Typophiles Chap Book 55.The first accurate printing of this 19th century manuscript. Much of biographical interest. READ MORE about THE HISTORY OF TYPEFOUNDING IN THE UNITED STATES EDITED AND ANNOTATED FROM THE HOLOGRAPH...
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N.P. Pickering Press, 1982. 24" x 15" Single broadside sheet, folded once. Object size: 18 x 9.25 inches. Advertises multiple sessions to be held during the Book Arts Workshop. Features: Lecture Series with presentations by James Fraser, Walter Goldwater, David Godine, Joe Kubert, Renee Weber, and Fulton MacArthur. The Typography and the Handpress, taught by Leonard Seastone; Hand Binding Techniques Introductory Course, taught by Jeffrey Rigby; Wood Engraving taught by John DePol; and Hand Composition..... READ MORE about FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON UNIVERSITY INVITES YOU TO ATTEND ITS FIRST SECOND ANNUAL BOOK ARTS WORKSHOP
Price: $50.00 Order nr. 138120
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...
Price: $240.00 Order nr. 14063
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 about GEISTIGE VATER DES ABENDLANDES, EINE SAMMLUNG VON HUNDERT BUCHTITELN
Price: $45.00 Order nr. 55706
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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London: Frederick Muller Ltd., 1972. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xiv, 89 pages. First edition. A biography of Pierre Simon Fournier. Reprints his CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE (1742) in facsimile of the original edition. Near fine.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about FOURNIER, THE COMPLETE TYPOGRAPHER
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New York: Privately Printed, 1925. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 11 pages. Library stamp on front cover, else a fine copy with the inserted A Specimen of Printing Types Belonging to Benjamin Franklin Bache's Printing Office (Philadelphia), 4p. 47cm (folded). The additional broadside specimen is ripped in half, but all is present. READ MORE about BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, TYPEFOUNDER, A NOTE TO ACCOMPANY A FACSIMILE REPRODUCTION OF THE TYPE SPECIMEN...
Price: $20.00 Order nr. 4143
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...
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 127033
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1931. 8vo. cloth-backed gold paper-covered boards. 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." Lacking the dust jacket. Wear to the head of the spine. READ MORE about FASHIONS IN AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHY 1780 TO 1930 WITH BRIEF ILLUSTRATED STORIES OF THE LIFE AND...
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 48002
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
Price: $35.00 Order nr. 95868
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
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 114549
Chicago: privately printed, 1935. orange wrappers. 7 pages. One of 200 copies. Fine. Reprinted from the Ben Franklin Monthly, 1922.Loosely inserted in a commorative bookplate of William Sihler. READ MORE about DIDOT FAMILY TYPEFOUNDERS
Price: $30.00 Order nr. 11140
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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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. From the Thomas M. Whitehead Collection of Books About Books. READ MORE about BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831; A HAND-LIST
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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
Price: $25.00 Order nr. 59715
N.P. n.p., n.d. small 4to. loose leaves printed on heavy paper and enclosed in mailing envelope addressed to Arvind Patel. 4 pages of text and 8 plates. A reprint of this section of Diderot's The Encyclopedia of Trades, Paris, 18th century, with an English translation. Handwritten information on outside of envelope attributes this work to David Peat. READ MORE about PRINTING TYPES FOUNDRY, PRECEDED BY THE ENGRAVING OF PUNCHES, THE TWO ARTS INCLUDE EIGHT PLATES
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Wilmington: Wilmington Arts Commission, 1987. square 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. x, 70 pages. Preface by Daniel S. Frawley, Mayor, Foreword by John Stephens Crawford, Chairperson of the Delaware Humanities Forum followed by a map and text describing the sculpture work in Wilmington. Photographs by Leigh Frederick. READ MORE about OUTDOOR SCULPTURE IN WILMINGTON
Price: $10.00 Order nr. 67031
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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