Forest Park, IL: Acorn Press, (1962). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, front wrapper gilt-stamped. (vi), 29, (3) pages. Limited to 350 copies. Type faces available at the Acorn Press. Foreword and explanation. Indexed. Wrappers faded. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 114780
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
(Harper Woods, Michigan: The Adagio Press), n.d. large 12mo. stiff paper wrapper. unpaginated. Not in Tanner and Alstrom. Bahr's thoughts on the purpose of Adagio Press, influenced by Daniel Berkeley Updike's PRINTING TYPES. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 94189
Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, The, 2018. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 466 pages. Pablo Alvarez offers the first complete English translation of Alonso Víctor de Paredes Institucion, y origen del arte de la imprenta, y reglas generales para los componedores [Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors]. This 96-page printing manual set and printed by Paredes himself was issued in Madrid around 1680. It opens with an introductory digression... READ MORE
Price: $100.00 other currencies Order nr. 133686
Baltimore: Maran Printing Services, 1975. 4to. cloth. (xiv), 245 pages. First edition, limited to 500 copies. The definitive bibliography to-date of American type specimen books. Includes historical accounts of each company, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and illustrations. Lacks jacket. READ MORE
Price: $40.00 other currencies Order nr. 11232
With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman.
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1994. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages. With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librarians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the... READ MORE
Price: $49.95 other currencies Order nr. 40614
New York, NY: Walker and Company, (1971). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 208 pages. Acknowledgments, table of contents, preface, bibliography, index. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Dust jacket chipped at bottom edge. READ MORE
Price: $8.00 other currencies Order nr. 125403
New York, NY: Whitney Library of Design, (1988). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 224 pages. Revised edition. Revised and edited by Philippe Garner. Table of contents, biographical sketch of Battersby by Garner, introduction, bibliography, index. Frontispiece. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Covers a wide range of decorative arts. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 125602
Meriden, CT: Bayberry Hill Press, 1975. 4to. quarter cloth, marbled paper-covered boards, paper spine and front cover labels. (iv), 27+(1) pages. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by author on colophon. Poem by J. Johnson on title. A reflection on the demise of the typographer and the compositor with the onslaught of "Cold Type" and the computer. Illustrated. Complimentary gift card laid in. READ MORE
Price: $85.00 other currencies Order nr. 128500
Nevada City, CA: Harold Berliner's Typefoundry, (1982). large 8vo. paper wrappers. 31+(1) pages. Catalogue of typographical ornament. READ MORE
Price: $30.00 other currencies Order nr. 51732
The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography.
San Francisco: Fine Print, 1989. 4to. stiff paper wrappers. (viii), 148 pages. The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography. First edition. An anthology of the most interesting and informative articles published in Fine Print under the title "On Type." Covers a wide range of topics from the sixteenth century to the present day. READ MORE
Price: $15.00 other currencies Order nr. 24490
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. quarter morocco with Japanese cloth sides, leather spine label. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time. Private typecasting is entirely different. A.... READ MORE
Price: $350.00 other currencies Order nr. 100094
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2008. small 4to. unbound signatures. 194 pages. First edition, limited to 150 numbered copies; this copy is not numbered and consists of unbound signatures for the book. The private press has been with us in one form or another for 200 years or more. The equipment for a small private press was inexpensive, required little space and almost anyone could learn to do basic printing in a short time... READ MORE
Price: $325.00 other currencies Order nr. 120691
Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. Broadside (11 3/4 by 8 inches). Prospectus for Henricus de Nova Villa, So Long, Hot-metal Men: The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book. READ MORE
Price: $10.00 other currencies Order nr. 126564
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
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
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
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
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
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
San Francisco, CA: Book Club of California, 2016. small 4to. paper-covered boards, paper spine label, paper covered slipcase. 138 pages. Limited to 300 signed and numbered copies. Includes the prospectus. Roughly fifteen years after Gutenberg printed the first substantial book in Mainz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on the humanistic calligraphy of the Renaissance, an even and infinitely various set... READ MORE
Price: $150.00 other currencies Order nr. 129681
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
(New York, NY: Carlos Lopez Press, 1950). 8vo. stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label. (8) pages. Excerpts from Calkins's The Book and Job Print. Initial and colophon designed by Ceil Smith Thayer. Tipped-in portrait of Calkins on front free endpaper. Wrappers lightly sunned. READ MORE
Price: $20.00 other currencies Order nr. 122219
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
Price: $39.95 other currencies Order nr. 52752
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1989). 4to. paper over boards, dust jacket. 159 pages. First edition. The author provides a critical analysis of 24 modern typographic designers. Covers many different styles including classicism, modernism, expressionism and post-modernism. Also contains a descriptive list of individuals, movements, developments, etc. in typographic design. Well-illustrated. READ MORE
Price: $25.00 other currencies Order nr. 24453
