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1.             ANDEL, Jaroslav. Avant-Garde Page Design. 1900-1950. New York : Delano Greenidge Editions, (2002), folio, boards in dust jacket. 388 pp. First Edition. A chronicle defining the contributions to the history of twentieth-century page design by artists, architects, filmmakers and designers who participated in the major art movements of the age: Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, Dadism, Constructivism, Surrealism. Here is the work of more than 250 well-known and lesser known figures whose innovations changed the face of modern page design: Max Bill, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Les Corbusier, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, Theo van Doesburg, Walter Gropius, John Heartfield, Alekandr Rodchenko, Man Ray, Lazlo Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, Jan Tschichold and Hans Richter. A comprehensive presentation of innovative and revolutionary artists and publications that gave form to the modern page. Text in English, French and German. Extensively illustrated in black and white and in color. Very fine. (12570) $60.00

2.             BARKER, Nicolas. Form and Meaning in the History of the Book. London : British Library, 2003, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. 521pp. First Edition. Nicolas Barker, OBE, FBA has made many distinguished contributions to the study of the book over the past forty years. In celebration of his seventieth birthday the British Library is publishing a selection of his occasional essays that show the range of his interests in a number of related fields: books and texts, books and people, typography and early printing, the history of the book, bookselling, and forgery. None of these essays has previously been reprinted and collectively they offer a series of authoritative insights into fascinating and complex questions raised by various aspects of the book as physical and cultural artifact. The collection is prefaced by an Introduction by Alan Bell, former librarian of the London Library. New. (11880) $93.00

3.             BARNARD, John, D. F. McKenzie, Assisted by Maureen Bell. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain . Volume IV, 1557-1695. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. 920pp. First Edition. This volume focuses on the time between the incorporation of the Stationers' Company in 1557 and the lapsing of the Licensing Act in 1695. Thirty-eight chapters reveal how printed texts interacted with oral and manuscript cultures during a period of religious divisions and civil war. They examine literary works and the developing mass market in almanacs, chapbooks and news. The business of print and the relationship of London to the provinces and the Continent is also explained. Contributors: John Barnard, Patrick Collinson, Arnold Hunt, Alexandra Walsham, Ian Green, Kate Peters, Harold Love, Peter Beal, Mary Chan, Julian Roberts, Graham Parry, David McKitterick, Nicolas Barker, Laurence Worms, Michael Brennan, Adrian Johns, Mark Greengrass, Elisabeth Leedham-Green, James P. Carley, John Pitcher, Joad Raymond, Paul Hammond, Nigel Smith, Maureen Bell, B. J. McMullin, J. H. Baker, R. C. Simmons, Lynette Hunter, Carolyn Nelson, Matthew Seccombe, D. F. McKenzie, James Raven, John Bidwell, Mirjam M. Foot, Randall Anderson, Peter Campbell, T. A. Birrell, Jonquil Bevan, Robert Welch, Philip Henry Jones, Paul Hoftijzer, Hugh Amory, Michael Treadwell, C. Y. Ferdinand. 32 half-tones, 7 graphs, 4 figures. Very fine. New. (12703) $170.00

4.             BARTRAM, Alan. 500 Years of Book Design. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2001, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. First Edition. What decisions lie behind the way a book is designed? How are readers of books helped or hindered by the choices that a designer, publisher, or printer has made in presenting an author's text to its intended audience? Are there any lessons we can learn from a study of the books that have been produced in previous centuries? In this generously illustrated volume, Alan Bartram, a distinguished book designer and typographer, answers many of these questions and provides his personal view of some of the successes and failures of his predecessors. He looks with fresh eyes at a varied range of books published in western Europe and America in the last half- millennium, concerning himself in particular with readability, function, and clarification of meaning. He also discusses how different elements of text, decoration, and illustration were combined in the layout of the printed page, and he comments on whether the resultant design is successful. New. (11016) $35.00

5.             BARTRAM, Alan. Bauhaus, Modernism and the Illustrated Book. ( New Haven ):: Yale University Press, 2004, quarto, grey boards in dust jacket. 159pp. First American Edition. This authoritative book explores the influence of the Bauhaus and modernism on typography and book design. Distinguished book designer and author Alan Bartram examines work by such key figures as Max Bill, F. T. Marinetti, El Lissitzky, Moholy-Nagy, Jan Tschichold, and Paul Rand. All of the carefully chosen examples--some of which have not been previously reproduced--clearly demonstrate the modernist revolution that took place in graphic design. Extensively illustrated. Very fine in very fine jacket. New. (13299) $35.00

6.             BARTRAM, Alan. Making Books. Designs in British Publishing Since 1945. London : British Library, 1999, quarto, wrappers in dust jacket. 160pp. First Edition. An analysis of good book design from the perspective of a fifty year history. Extensively illustrated. New. (8942) $39.95

7.             (BASKERVILLE, John). GASKELL, Philip. John Baskerville. A Bibliography. Cambridge : University Press, 1959, quarto, maroon cloth in dust jacket. (xxiv), (72)pp. First Edition. This book is the first full bibliography that lists and describes the complete works of Baskerville. Two main parts with detailed entries: Specimens, Proposals and other Ephemera, and Books. With 12 collotype plates, and a full-size removal facsimile of his last type specimen. Three inch tear in jacket which is taped on verso, with the small booklabel of typographer Jackson Burke. (13847) $115.00

8.             BAUDIN, Fernand. From Mechanical to Cybernetic Exercises. New York : TheTypophiles, 1997, octavo, wrappers. (22)pp. First Edition. Limited to 500 copies. A talk by the author of L'Effet Gutenberg (the Gutenberg Effect) reflecting on the art of not only typography but of the design of the page and, with the introduction of the computer generated design, the passing on of that knowledge and skill. Printed and bound at Golgonooza Letter Foundry & Press. New. (10566) $25.00

9.            BERRY , John D. Contemporary Newspaper Design. Shaping the news in the digital age: typography & image on modern newsprint. West New York : Mark Batty, 2005, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 192pp. First Edition. There has not been a book of this scope about graphic design and graphic design issues, as they apply to today's newspapers, for over a decade. Through in-depth, highly visual essays on the graphic evolution of some of the world's most famous newspapers, this carefully compiled survey examines how both technology and design have radically reshaped the look of the news over the last fifteen years, and continue to do so. This book reviews structure, layout, use of illustrations, and typography, and will be of interest to all those involved in graphic design, newspaper design, and journalism. Extensively illustrated. As new. New. (13037) $65.00

10.           BIRDSALL, Derek. Notes on Book Design. New Haven : Yale University Press, (2004), large quarto, boards. 236pp. First Edition. In a career spanning more than forty years, Derek Birdsall has achieved renown as a leading book designer in Britain . this book presents and discusses nearly fifty books he has designed, showing 360 spreads and covers, all in full color and to scale. The designs range from Penguin paperback covers in the 1960s to a recent complete redesign of The Church of England’s book of Common Worship. Among Birdsall’s projects are award-winning art catalogues, catalogues raisonné on such major artists as Mark Rothko and Georgia O’Keefe, and books on wine, chess, astronomy, architecture, and fine paper. Birdsall discusses and illustrates the process of book design, from brief to deadline (which he calls the designer’s muse). He includes specimen settings of his favorite text faces as well as an innovative metric grid system for designing books. In addition, he lists books he himself has found useful or inspiring. Very fine. New. (13302) $45.00

11.           BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. The Printed Book in America . Hanover : University Press of New England, (1989), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 250pp. Second Printing. From the colonial period up until the present day, Blumenthal touches on many of the prominent publishers, printers, and typographers of their time: William Bradford, Benjamin Franklin, "Colonial Women", Isaiah Thomas, De Vinne, Mosher, Stone & Kimball, Copeland & Day, The Elston Press, Walter Gilliss, D. B. Updike, Bruce Rogers, Goudy, Will Bradley, Dwiggins, Edwin and Robert Grabhorn are just a few of those discussed. With numerous illustrations and a bibliography. Fine. (9) $45.00

12.           BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. Typographic Years. A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century 1925-1975. New York : Beil, (1982), octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. 153pp. First Edition. Printed at The Stinehour Press. For more than fifty years Joseph Blumenthal, the renowned designer-printer, has stimulated concern for the arts of the book in the United States . In this professional autobiography he has written a fascinating account of his life with fine printing - his " search for clarity" from the halcyon days of the 1920's through the 1970' s. With a strong sense of the historical forces that have made printing what it is today, he tells about the development of his Spiral Press, where he succeeded in producing a consistently distinctive style of printing, and the times in which it thrived; about his growing education in the graphic arts; and about the personalities with whom he has carried forward the traditions of bookmaking. With 30 illustrations. As new in flawless dust jacket. (8) $25.00

13.           (BOOK DESIGN). HOLLELEY, Dr. Douglas. Digital Book Design and Publishing. Rochester , NY : Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2001, octavo, wrappers. 316pp. First Edition. This book covers all the essentials of digital bookmaking for photographers, artists, designers, and writers who want to move beyond the manuscript to the page. Based on his years of work as a photographer, bookmaker and teacher, Douglas Holleley has developed a clear and considered approach to Digital Book Design and Publishing. The text covers a progression through the process of bookmaking, from a consideration of maquette and materials, through printing and bookbinding, as well as a step-by-step guide to page layout and image processing software. A rich and varied selection of full-color reproductions from historical and contemporary illustrated books and artists' books places digital books in a historical continuum. With chapters on The Nature of the Book; The Process of Design; Typography; Setting Up; The Page Layout Program; Scanning; Correcting Images; Alternative Methods of Acquiring Images; Printing the Book; Printing Substrates and Materials; Binding the Book; Computers, Copyright and the Law. With a Bibliography and Glossary. Illustrated. New. (10762) $39.95

14.           (BOOK DESIGN). TIESSEN, Wolfgang. Serving Author and Reader. About the Design of my Books. New York : The Typophiles, 1987, octavo, wrappers. (40)pp. First Edition. One of 580 copies printed. Designed by Wolfgang Tiessen. With an editor's note by Abe Lerner. Tiessen's credo followed by examples of his book designs. Very fine. (10594) $25.00

15.           (BRITISH LIBRARY). BARKER, Nicolas, and the Curatorial Staff of The British Library. Treasures of the British Library. New York : Abrams, (1989), large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 272pp. First American Edition. More than three centuries of collecting by one of the world's greatest treasure-houses of books and manuscripts are chronicled in this survey of the outstanding holdings of the British Library. Its fifteen-million-item collection, spanning almost three thousand  years of human creativity, includes some of the world's most famous written works: The Lindisfarne Gospels; a Magna Carta; a Gutenberg Bible; a First Folio of Shakespeare; the Diamond Sutra, the earliest dated printed book; first editions of Chaucer, Gallileo, and Newton. The Library's enormous holdings also include papyri, autograph albums, Oriental material of all kinds, paintings, prints, photographs, and sound recordings. In the text, Barker explores the significance of these treasures and traces the sometimes perilous history of the collections. 330 illustrations, including 140 plates in full color. Name and address on half title. (14301) $50.00

16.           BROWN, Derek. Designing a Book. Bicester: Primrose Hill Press, 2003, octavo, boards in dust jacket. 128pp. First Edition. Written with computer users in mind, this book contains all any computer- owner needs to know about designing his or her own books. This is more than a manual on desktop publishing. Thoroughly illustrated to guide both Pc and Mac software users, geared to the North American and British requirements. Demystifies book design for the novice. 72 illustrations. Derek Brown, founder and co-ordinator of Oblong Creative Ltd., has more than three decades in fine book design and printing. Extensively illustrated. Very fine. New. (12473) $50.00

17.           (CALLIGRAPHY). OSLEY, A. S. (editor). Calligraphy and Palaeography. Essays Presented to Alfred Fairbank on his 70th Birthday. ( London ): Faber & Faber, (1965), quarto, cloth. First Edition. xxiii, (287)pp. A section devoted to palaeography includes original work by Professor B. L. Ullman, and Dr. R. W. Hunt, who writes a fascinating account of a Pliny which once belonged to the scribe Coluccio Salutati. Other essays are devoted to famous writing masters - Arrighi, Mercator, Cocker, Hodgkin and Benjamin Franklin Foster. Also with contributions by John Dreyfus, Paul Standard, Bent Rhode, Philip Hofer, Francis Meynell, Jan Tschichold, Nicolete Gray, Sir Sidney Cockerell Alfred Fairbank and many others. Extensively illustrated. Name, address on front endpaper along with three small stains (glue?). Dust jacket worn at edges and dust soiled at back panel. (13155) $50.00

18.           CARTER, Sebastian. Twentieth Century Type Designers. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, (1995), quarto, black cloth in red pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Second edition. This book serves as an introduction to the concept of typefaces and to some of the personalities who have created them, Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Gill, Morrison, etc., and places them in the context of the enormous changes that have occurred this century in the methods of creating and setting type. This new edition includes an examination of the latest technological developments in the design and composition of type, and introduces the work of a new generation of typographers such as Matthew Carter, Sumner Stone and others. Illustrated in black and white. Very fine. (14345) $35.00

19.           (CASLON, William). BALL, Johnson. William Caslon 1693-1766. The Ancestry, Life and Connections of England 's Foremost Letter-Engraver and Type-Founder. Kineton: The Roundwood Press, 1973, large octavo, green cloth. xxviii, 494pp. First Edition. A definitive biography of this important letter-cutter. It includes an appreciation of Caslon's technical achievement assisted by numerous illustrations and commentary. Name and address on endpaper. Very good. (13319) $45.00

20.           CATICH, Edward M. The Origin of the Serif. Brush Writing & Roman Letters. Davenport , IA : St. Amrose University, (1991), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. Second edition. Edited by Mary W. Gilroy. Illustrated and printed with accents and capitals and headlines in green or rust or both. The serif originated with Roman inscription letters, its history and development here detailed in letter cutting in stone, and the use of the brush in shaping the Roman letterform. The author "questions accepted theories as to the serif's origin, and advances his own theory with skillful reasoning, detailed illustration, and epigraphic proof." Very fine. "Origin of the Serif is a work of Genius." Philip Hofer. New. (11620) $75.00

21.           CAVE, Roderick. The Private Press. New York : R. R. Bowker, 1983, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xvi, 389pp. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Includes chapters on The Origins of the Private Press; The Quasi-Official or Patron's Press; The Scholarly Press; The Press as an Educational Toy; Private Printing and the Bibliomania ( Roxburghe Club, Lee Priory Press, Middle Hill Press, etc.); The Author as Publisher (Charles Viner, William Blake, Ralph Chubb, Morris Cox's Gogmagog Press); Printing as One fo the Fine Arts: William Morris and the Kelmscott Press; After Kelmscott: The Fine Press in Britain (Vale Press, Eragny Press, Ashendene Press, Doves Press, Essex House Press, Caradoc Press): Morris in America (Roycroft Press, Village Press, Blue Sky Press, Elston Press, Hillside Press, et. al. ); Fine Printing on the Contient (Cranach Press; Officina Bodoni; Stamperia Valdonega, and more); Between the Wars in Britain (Nonesuch, Golden Cockerel, Gregynog Presses); Between the Wars in the U.S.A. ( Mountain House Press, Peter Pauper Press, Black Sun Press, Grabhorn Press, Ward Ritchie Press, and more); World War II and the Aftermath in Britain ( Corvinius Press, Dropmore Press, Stanbrook Abbey Press, Rampant Lions Press, etc.); The Contemporary Scene in Britain (Plough Press, Whittington Press, Gwasg Gregynog, Tragara Press, and many more); The United States Today (Gehenna Press, Pennyroyal Press, Cheloniidae, Cummington Press, Perishable Press, Bird & Bull Press, Adagio Press, Allen Press, Arion Press, Plain Wrapper Press, and many, many more); also with chapters on Canadian presses and Australian presses. A final section deals with private press typefaces. New. (6029) $64.95

22.           DANFORTH, Ted, Jr. Pietro Bembo. 'Foster Father' of the Modern Book. New York : The Typophiles, 2003, octavo, printed red wrappers. (38)pp. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. A monograph about Bembo's association with Aldus in the creation of the modern small format book form and the anchor-and-dolphin, the most famous of all printer's marks. Printed by Michael and Winifred Bixler. New.  (13945) $30.00

23.          DE VINNE, Theodore Low. Modern Methods of Book Composition. New York : Oswald Publishing, 1914, octavo, cloth. (xiv), (478)pp. Reprint. Sub-titled: "A Treatise on Type-Setting by Hand and By Machine and On the Proper Arrangement and Imposition of Pages." This volume is intended to supplement Correct Composition which focused on the literary side of type- setting by providing a manual of type-setting, format and imposition and the correct use of linotype machines. Extensively illustrated. Cloth lightly soiled and scuffed. A solid copy. (11582) $45.00

24.           DREYFUS, John. Into Print. Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production. Boston : David R. Godine, (1995), octavo, cloth. x, 340pp. First Edition. First hardcover edition. The author has written or lectured on many different subjects to interest a wide variety of people with different nationalities, interests and backgrounds. Many of these writings, including the text of an unpublished lecture, are presented here. The widely differing subjects have been collected into five separate topics but all were written as by products of his career as a book designer, typographical adviser and organizer. Includes a Handlist of Writings by John Dreyfus and many black and white illustrations. New. (12318) $75.00

25.           DUNCAN, Harry. Doors of Perception. Essays in Book Typography. Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1987, octavo, wrappers. 99pp. Second edition. Originally published in 1983 in a limited edition of 325 copies. "Harry Duncan has made the Cummington Press something for Omaha to boast of and the rest of the world to admire. Not all printers, however, have the gift of vivid and percipient words to explain what they have done, why they have done it, and what they aspire to do. The five essays that make up Doors of Perception do just that." Nicolas Barker, "The Book Collector" Spring, 1984. New. (12060) $16.50

26.           (DWIGGINS, W. A). AGNER, Dwight. The Books of WAD. A Bibliography of the Books designed by W. A. Dwiggins. San Francisco : Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1977, octavo, cloth. (128)pp. Second Edition, Limited to 700 copies. With 28 additional illustrations not in the first edition. New. (5519) $35.00

27.          FIRMAGE, Richard A. The Alphabet Abecedarium. Some Notes on Letters. Boston : Godine, (1993), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), (308)pp. First Edition. Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible, literature, and esoteric, and conventional sources, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the twenty-six letters that comprise one of civilization's greatest inventions, the Roman alphabet. In chapters that are descriptive, illustrative, and diverse, we are shown the history and development of every letter, how its shape evolved, how its characteristics were encoded, and how its history, attributes, and meanings were reflected in myth, literature, science, and religion. Illustrated. With a Select Bibliography and detailed index. Signed by the author. Very fine copy. (9634) $40.00

28.           FIRMAGE, Richard A. The Alphabet Abecedarium. Some Notes on Letters. Boston : Godine, (2000), octavo, wrappers. (xii), (308)pp. First Edition. Second softcover printing. Drawing from mythology, cosmology, history, the Bible, literature, and esoteric, and conventional sources, this book takes the reader on a tour of each of the twenty-six letters that comprise one of civilization's greatest inventions, the Roman alphabet. In chapters that are descriptive, illustrative, and diverse, we are shown the history and development of every letter, how its shape evolved, how its characteristics were encoded, and how its history, attributes, and meanings were reflected in myth, literature, science, and religion. Illustrated. With a Select Bibliography and detailed index. Very fine copy. (12878) $17.95

29.           (GERMAN PRINTING). German Fine Printing 1948-1988. Checklist of an exhibition held at The Grolier Club December 18, 1991 - March 12, 1992 . New York : Grolier Club/Typophiles, 1992, octavo, wrappers. (40)pp. First Edition. One of 1,500 copies printed by letterpress at The Stinehour Press. Designed by Jerry Kelly. "...post-war German typographers like Gotthard de Beauclair, Georg Trump and Hermann Zapf developed a modern and eminently readable style based on new types, high quality materials and craftsmanship, and sound yet innovative arrangement of type." Each designer is given a short biographical introduction followed by descriptions of examples of their work. With several illustrations. A handsome production. New. (10589) $25.00

30.           (GILL, Eric). HARLING, Robert. The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. New York : Typophiles, (1978), octavo, boards in dust jacket. 63pp. First American Edition. Although Eric Gill's greater fame derived from his sculpture, he was also the foremost inscriptional letter-cutter of his time. Under the aegis, first of Robert Gibbings of the Golden Cockerel Press, and later of Stanley Morison of The monotype Corporation, these lettering interests led to his work being commissioned for the design of types for printers and publishers. Two of these types - Gill Sans and Perpetua - became internationally renowned and are extensively used. Numerous illustrations, some fold-out. Very minor foxing, else fine. (13121) $45.00

31.           (GILL, Eric). HOLLIDAY, Peter, (editor). Eric Gill in Ditchling. New Castle , DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2002, octavo, cloth. 96pp. First Edition. In this beautifully written and illustrated book the author focuses on Eric Gill's seventeen creative years in the Sussex village of Ditchling . In three insightful essays by Timothy McCann, Jill Lingen-Watson and Peter Holliday, some of the unique facets of this renaissance man's life and work are explored. Gill is considered among the most talented artist- craftsmen of his age and this work belongs on shelf of typographers, artists, designers and anyone who appreciates his genius. Illustrated. New. (12290) $19.95

32.           (GILL, Eric). The Monotype Recorder Commemorating an Exhibition of Lettering and Type Designs by Eric Gill Held at Monotype House, London in October, 1958. Monotype Corporation, 1958, quarto, printed wrappers. (22)pp. First Edition. An article comprising the entire issue of "The Monotype Recorder," Autumn, 1958, Volume XLI, No. 3. Extensively illustrated. Very fine. (14409) $45.00

33.           (GILL, Eric). SKELTON, Christopher, (editor). Eric Gill: The Engravings. Boston : Godine, (1990), small folio, cloth in dust jacket. 478pp. First Trade Edition, American Issue. "This monumental book, compiled by Gill's nephew, Christopher Skelton, and based on the limited edition, contains Gill's complete oeuvre - from his religious subjects to his erotic fantasies, from his designs for the sumptuous editions of THE FOUR GOSPELS and THE CANTERBURY TALES to his tiny pressmark for the Curwen Press. Most are reproduced in their original dimensions, with examples in both color and black and white." Fine. (43) $75.00

34.           (GILL, Eric). YORKE, Malcolm. Eric Gill. Man of Flesh and Spirit. New York : Universe Books, (1982), octavo, wrappers. 304pp. First American Edition. A fascinating biography of one of the best known and most controversial artists in England between the wars. Numerous illustrations. Very fine. (9805) $17.50

35.           (GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS). CHAMBERS, David and Christopher Sandford. Cock-A-Hoop a sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum being a bibliography of the Godlen Cockerel Press... (Pinner: Private Libraries Association):, no date, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 126pp. First Trade Edition. A bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, September 1949 - December 1961 . With 53 illustrations and with a list of the prospectuses, 1921-1962. A well-annotated and informative bibliography. Very fine copy. (9804) $50.00

36.           (GOUDY, Frederic). BRUCKNER, D.J.R. Frederic Goudy. New York : Abrams, 1990, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 144pp. First Edition. A critical study of this master type designer, who did not draw his first alphabet until he was 30, nor count himself a professional type designer until he was 46. The final chapter includes an annotated list of the more than a hundred Goudy typefaces, each highlighted with quotations from Goudy's theories of design and aesthetics. Illustrated with photographs. (9803) $39.95

38.           GOUDY, Frederic W., (editor). Ars Typographica. A Miscellany of the Printing Art. New York : The Marchbanks Press, Spring, 1920, large quarto, wrappers. (50)pp. First Edition. Volume I, No. 3. A handsome periodical devoted to the art and history of printing. Published and printed by The Marchbanks Press. This issue contains an article on "Old & New Fashions in Typography" by Talbot Baines Reed; Frederic Goudy's "Hand-Press Printing: A Plea for a Lost Craft"; and more. Illustrated. A fine copy, without the chipping that so often afflicts copies. Library rubber-stamp at gutter of front endpaper. (12542) $45.00

39.           GOUDY, Frederic W., (editor). Ars Typographica. A Miscellany of the Printing Art. New York : The Marchbanks Press, Summer, 1918, large quarto, wrappers. (48)pp. First Edition. Volume I, No. 2. A handsome periodical devoted to the art and history of printing. Published and printed by The Marchbanks Press. This issue contains an excerpt from Timperley's encyclopedia on William Bulmer and the Shakespeare Press; Cundall on Thomas Bewick and His Pupils; XVth and XVIth Century Woodcuts; and more. Library rubber-stamp at gutter of front endpaper. A fine copy without tears or chipping. (12543) $45.00

40.           (GOUDY, Frederic W). Twenty Years of the Frederic W. Goudy Award. Rochester , NY : Press of the Good Mountain , 1988, octavo, wrappers. 80pp. First Edition. One of 5000 copies printed. Foreword by Dr. Mark F. Guldin and a preface by Alexander S. Lawson. This work features stipple-drawn portraits and biographies of twenty recipients of RIT's Frederic W. Goudy Award from 1969 to 1988. Zapf, Mardersteig, Chappell, Wolpe, Carter, and Frutiger are among the designers, typographers, and historians honored in this book. Printed by offset lithography in black ink with vermilion accents. New. (10770) $20.00

41.           GOULDEN, Richard J. Ornament Stock of Henry Woodfall 1719-1747: A Preliminary Inventory Illustrated. London : Bibliographical Society, 1988, octavo, wrappers. xi, 85pp. First Edition. Number 3 of the Occasional Papers of the Bibliographical Society. Over 390 illustrations. New. (12217) $15.00

42.           (GROLIER CLUB). Lasting Impressions. The Grolier Club Library. New York : The Grolier Club, 2004, quarto, blue and green cloth in dust jacket. 208pp. First Trade Edition. Published to accompany an exhibition of Grolier Club Library treasures running from May 12 through July 31, 2004 , this is the first detailed illustrated overview ever attempted of the Club's world-renowned collections on the art and history of the book. Preface by William Helfand, and Introduction and History of the Grolier Club Library by Eric Holzenberg. The Catalogue is divided into seven categories: Bibliography, The Book, Writing, Typography, Illustration, Bookbinding, and Exlibris. With 300 illustrations, 200 are in color. New. (14933) $50.00

43.           HOLME, Charles, (editor). The Art of the Book. A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding. London : Studio Editions, (1990), large quarto, boards in dust jacket. 284pp. Reprint. First published in 1914. Chapters on "British Types for Printing Books," by Bernard H. Newdigate; "Fine Bookbinding in England," by Cockerell; "The Art of the Book in Germany"; "The Art of the Book in France"; "The Art of the Book in American, " by William Dana Orcutt; also Austria, Hungary and Sweden book arts. Extensively illustrated. A very nicely done reprint. Fine. (11331) $35.00

44.           (HUNTER, Dard). BAKER, Cathleen A. By His Own Labor. The Biography of Dard Hunter. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2000, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 360pp. First Trade Edition. Dard Hunter (1883-1966) commenced his remarkable career in the book arts as a craftsman and designer in the American Arts & Crafts Movement. In the first decades of the 20th century, Hunter's avant- garde designs were seen in the popular books and decorative arts produced by Elbert Hubbard's Roycrofters. Despite the success of his modern designs, Hunter became intrigued by the ancient handcrafts of papermaking, typefounding, and letterpress printing. An anachronism among colleagues, Hunter remained true to his philosophy to make books by hand, striving for the highest craft standards. Hunter was also a world renowned scholar and author. His writings form the cornerstone of our knowledge about paper history, technology, and materials, and he is the author of the classic reference Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. In order to gather firsthand knowledge about the making of paper, Hunter traveled the world between the two world wars collecting tools, equipment, raw materials, and paper specimens. Dard Hunter was a unique blend of craftsman and scholar - a mixture he regarded as essential to the understanding and appreciation of the book arts. Hunter's legacy is manifest in the revival of hand papermaking in this country, and he remains an inspiration to all who are involved in the creation of handmade objects. With seventy-six pages of color and black & white illustrations, printed by the Stinehour Press. New. (9913) $49.95

45.           HUTNER, Martin and Jerry Kelly. A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. ( Jaffrey , NH ): David R. Godine, 2004, large quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. (lxii), 110pp. Revised Edition. From the Foreword, "This survey includes only books printed from the greco-roman alphabets in Europe and America...We have, however, considered the book as a whole - with all the elements - from typography and paper through presswork and binding - taken into account...On the following pages are some of the most beautiful, finely printed books produced during the twentieth century arranged in chronological order." Each of the one hundred books chosen is represented with an illustration and a commentary as to why it was included. New. (13297) $45.00

46.           ISAAC, Peter. William Davison's New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types... London : Printing Historical Society, (1990), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (40)pp. of text followed by specimen book. "...introduced with an account of his activities as Pharmacist and Printer in Alnwick, 1780-1858." Working first with a printer named Catnach, Davison became known as one of the most enterprising printers in northern England during the early nineteenth century. With a Checklist of the 111 books bearing the Davison imprint, and reproductions of the 1100 cast metal ornaments from his specimen book. Fine. (12673) $45.00

47.           KAHAN, Basil. Ottmar Mergenthaler. The Man and his Machine. New Castle , Del : Oak Knoll Press, (2000), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 264pp. First Edition. Illustrated. The story of the man and his invention, the Linotype machine which "made it possible to eliminate the laborious hand setting of lead type by allowing one linotype operator to do the work of a half dozen typographers. " New. (8941) $55.00

48.           MACRAKIS, Michael S. Greek Letters: From Tablets to Pixels. New Castle , Delaware : Oak Knoll Press, (1996), large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xxvii), 325pp. First Edition. Written by some of the foremost typographic and book history scholars in the world such as Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Nicolas Barker and Nicolas Panayotakis, these essays bring to life the rich history and development of the Greek letterform: its role in the history of the printed word and civilization, the urgent need for quality modern fonts and the challenge faced by the current and future realm of Greek type design. New. (3603) $49.95

49.           MacROBERT, T. M. Printed Books. A short introduction to fine topography. London : Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1957, large quarto, printed gray wrappers. (11)pp., illustrations unpaginated. First Edition. Examples of fine typography from the 15th century to the 20th century: Ratdolt, Aldus Manutius, de Coline, Baskerville, Bodoni, Pickering , Kelmscott, Doves, etc. Forty-six black and white illustrations. Fine. (14741) $25.00

50.           McLEAN, Ruari. True to Type. New Castle , DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2000, quarto, blue cloth dust jacket. (xvi), 216pp. First Edition. A typographical autobiography of the author as a book and magazine designer who played a central role in British graphic design from the 1940s to the 1980s, who edited and designed Motif (1958-67) and who wrote the Manual of Typography published by Thames and Hudson in 1980. Illustrated in black and white. New. (14392) $39.95

51.           McLEAN, Rurari. Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing. London : Faber & Faber, (1972), quarto, cloth. xii, 241pp. Second edition, revised and enlarged from the first edition of 1963. Illustrated. Focusing on the publishers Pickering and Whittingham, McLean traces the development of typography and color printing in the English novel and gift book of the nineteenth century. Chromolithography and color printing of wood- blocks, book design and styles in publishers' bindings are fully described and illustrated. The index lists artists, printers, binders processes and typefaces in separate listings. Very fine in very fine jacket. (14922) $135.00

52.           McMURTRIE, Douglas C. The Book. The Story of Printing & Bookmaking. New York : Oxford University Press, (1967), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xxx, 676pp. Ninth printing of the third revised edition "under present title." Illustrated. First published as The Golden Book in 1927, McMurtrie expanded and revised that work into this book in the late 'thirties. It has become a classic general history of the development of printing, with specific chapters on woodcut illustrations, early book decoration, printer' s marks, typography's golden age, the spread of printing in America , and ending with an examination f modern fine printing, binding and book design. With an extensive bibliography and index. Wear to edges of jacket which has been reinforced on the verso, small booklabel on front free endpaper. Water stain apparent on spine of jacket. (9001) $85.00

53.           McMURTRIE, Douglas C. The Book. The Story of Printing & Bookmaking. New York : Dorset, (1989), quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. xxx, 676pp. Reprint. Illustrated. First published as The Golden Book in 1927, McMurtrie expanded and revised that work into this book in the late 'thirties. It has become a classic general history of the development of printing, with specific chapters on woodcut illustrations, early book decoration, printer' s marks, typography's golden age, the spread of printing in America , and ending with an examination f modern fine printing, binding and book design. With an extensive bibliography and index. Fine. (12873) $45.00

54.           McMURTRIE, Douglas C., (editor). Ars Typographica. Westport : Greenwood Reprint Corporation, (1970), quarto, gray cloth. (56)pp., 410pp., (130)pp. First printing of this edition. "The Art of the Book" reprints of periodicals on the history of books and printing. 3 Vols. in 2 complete books. Vol. I: Numbers 1-3 (1918-1920), Number 4 (1934). Vols. II and III: (1925-26). Both volumes illustrated in black and white with tipped in two-page example, in type and color, of advertisement in Volume I. Includes articles on the Kelmscott Press, Aldus Manutius, typography, various private presses, Chinese origins of movable type, script types, papermaking, reviews of contemporary books about books, and much more. Name and address on each half title, else fine. (14323) $85.00

55.           McMURTRIE, Douglas C., (editor and publisher). Ars Typographica. Vol. II, Number 1, July, 1925. New York : Douglas C. McMurtrie, 1925, tall quarto, printed wrappers. 96pp., unpaginated. First Edition. This volume contains chapters on The Chinese Origins of Movable Types, Early Sea-Presses, and Abstracts & Reviews. Cover design is a reproduction of the border units used by Philippe Pigouchet in his "Heures a l'usage de Rome " printed in 1498 and his mark in the center of the cover is reproduced from "Heures a l'usage d'Amiens" issued about 1500. With black and white illustrations of Printers' Marks used in the 15th century with special reference to a 20th century mark. Wrappers lightly dust soiled. else fine. (14580) $45.00

56.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. The Earliest use of Type Ornament? Chicago : Privately Printed, 1933, octavo, wrappers. (3)pp. First Separate Edition. Limited to 250 copies. (9796) $10.00

57.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. The Economy of Replacing Obsolete Typefaces. octavo, in dust jacket. Offprint from "The Artist & Advertiser", 1932, quarto, one sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. Illustrated. (9798) $7.50

58.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Effective Typography and Economy. Reproducing a Speech made before Atlanta Printers. octavo, in dust jacket. Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. (9797) $6.50

59.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Modern School of Typography and Its Present Status. Toronto : 1934, quarto, one sheet folded once to form (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies reprinted from the "Canadian Printer and Publisher". Illustrated. (9794) $10.00

60.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Modern Typography - Today. Chicago : Privately Printed, 1935, quarto, wrappers. (12)pp. Offprint, Limited to 500 copies. Illustrated. (9788) $15.00

61.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Notes on Typographic Trends. New York : Privately Printed, 1935, octavo, wrappers. Single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Illustrated. (9790) $12.50

62.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Typographic Design in France . Chicago : Privately Printed, 1934, octavo, wrappers. 7pp. First Separate Edition. Limited to 200 copies. (9791) $12.50

63.           McMURTRIE, Dougls C. Upper and lower case Pays. Chicago : Privately Printed, 1934, octavo, wrappers. 4pp. First Separate Edition. Limited to 200 copies. Illustrated. (9793) $12.50

64.           (MERKER, K. K.). BERGER, Sidney . Printing and the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study. New York : The Grolier Club, 1997, quarto, printed wrappers. xviii, 142pp., 18 illustrations. First Edition, Limited to 400 copies. A comprehensive, detailed bibliography of the eminent printer and designer, with Merker's personal commentary on each title. Published to accompany the exhibition, K. K. Merker: Serving the Muse, Stone Wall Press and Windhover Press, 1956-1996. Printed at the Stinehour Press. (13290) $40.00

65.           MORISON, Stanley. Grondbeginselen Der Typografie. Amsterdam : De Buitenkant, 1983, small 8vo, stiff wrappers in dust jacket. 120pp. Dutch reprint of Morison's First Principles of Typography. Frontispiece portrait of Morison. Very fine. (10965) $17.50

66.           MORISON, Stanley. Letter Forms. Typographic and Scriptorial. Two Essays on Their Classification, History and Bibliography. New York : The Typophiles, 1968, small 8vo, cloth. (xvi), 167pp. First Printing of this edition. With an Introductory Note by John Dreyfus and Recollections of Stanley Morison by Beatrice Warde. Dreyfus explains that these essays have appeared only once before in original, limited editions. The first was commissioned to inaugurate a series of type- specimen facsimiles, duplicating all pre-1800 designs of known origin and the second focuses on Italian scripts of the XV and the XVI centuries as illustrated in contemporary printed writing books. Illustrated. Spine very slightly faded, else fine. (10992) $50.00

67.           MORISON, Stanley and Holbrook Jackson. A Brief Survey of Printing History and Practice. New York : Knopf, 1923, octavo, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 87pp. Third printing. A narrative history of printing from its earliest days through the designs of Bruce Rogers. Illustrated with sample typefaces and facsimiles of title pages. Bookplate. Corners scuffed, dust jacket worn. (11351) $50.00

68.           (MORISON, Stanley). BARKER, Nicolas. Stanley Morison. Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1972, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 566pp. First American Edition. Illustrated. Barker has written an account of Morison's Life with a rare degree of insight into his complex and fascinating character. Several short tears in jacket, former owner's name on front endpaper. (11565) $30.00

69.           (MORISON, Stanley). JONES, Herbert. Stanley Morison Displayed. An Examination of His Early Typographic Work. London : Frederick Muller, 1976, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 127pp. First Edition. Jones concentrates his study on the 1920's when the work Morison did was the most basic and varied in character - the years when he rose from an amateur to a professional. Chapters deal with his work with printer's ornaments, papers and patterns. Victor Gollancz, book design, the printing trade and much more. With nearly 100 illustrations. Foreword by Sir William Emrys Williams. Name and address on front endpaper, very minor woiling to jacket, else fine. (7506) $35.00

70.           (MORISON, Stanley). MORAN, James. Stanley Morison: His Typographic Achievement. London : Lund Humphries, (1971), quarto, boards in dust jacket. 184pp. First Edition. Appleton 374. With numerous illustrations printed in colors. Moran endeavors to assess Morison's contribution objectively against the background of typographical developments both in the United States and Britain, and it considers among other matters Morison's role in the launching of the famous Gollancz book jackets, his editorship of "The Times Literary Supplement," his relationship with "The Times," and his friendship with Lord Beaverbrook. Fine copy. (4325) $65.00

71.           (MORISON, Stanley). Stanley Morison: A Portrait. London : Trustees British Museum , 1971, quarto, wrappers. 64pp. First Edition. Catalogue of the exhibition held in the King's Library, British Museum , 8 July - 3 October 1971 . Illustrated in the text and with 14pp. of plates at end. Wrappers printed overall with the SM monogram design by Reynolds Stone. Very fine copy. (4263) $25.00

72.           (MORRIS, William). PETERSON, William S. The Kelmscott Press. A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure. Univ of California Press, 1991, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xiv, (372)pp. First Edition. A well researched history drawing on a wide range of unpublished letters and diaries. The first book-length account of the press to be published since 1924. Extensively illustrated and handsomely printed. With three appendices: A. Checklist of the Kelmscott Press Books; B. Emery Walker's 18 88 Lecture; C. 'Kelmscott Press Expenses.' A very fine copy. (12799) $85.00

73.           (MOSLEY, James). TUOHY, Steven. James Mosley, Librarian, St Bride Printing Library, London . A Checklist of the Published Writings 1958-95. Cambridge : Rampant Lions Press, (1995), octavo, wrappers. 30pp. First Edition. Limited to 240 copies. Includes two essays by James Mosley. Published to commemorate the Centenary of the opening of the St Bride Printing Library on 20 November 1895 . Illustrated. With (4)pp. additions and corrections list laid in. Printed in Baskeerville on Hahnemuhle laid paper by The Rampant Lions Press. Very fine. New. (11651) $45.00

74.           (PICKERING, William). KELLY, Jerry. A Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering 1820-1853. Pomona , NY : The Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004, octavo, blue boards and black cloth. (128)pp. First Edition, Limited to approximately 165 copies, Edition C. With essays by Joseph Blumenthal and Arthur Warren. William Pickering was both a rare book dealer and a publisher of of notable authors: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Izaak Walton, John Donne, William Blake, Immanuel Kant and many others. His illustrated publications are particularly fascinating, including the eccentric edition of Euclid and sumptuous hand-colored volumes of Henry Shaw - pages from both of which are reproduced in full color in this book. Pickering 's design collaborations with the printer Charles Whittingham have influenced many of the later nineteenth- and twentieth-century book designers. This edition contains four tipped-in leaves from original Pickering publications. It also includes fifty-eight plates, plus three illustrations in the text with numerous borders and vignettes throughout. A very handsome book. (13286) $125.00

75.           (PLANTIN, Christopher). HARVARD, Stephen. Ornamental Initials. The Woodcut Initials of Christopher Plantin. New York : American Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum , 1974, large quarto, patterned boards and cloth in pictorial dust jacket. (xiv), 26pp., illustrations unpaginated. First Edition. This catalogue is a comprehensive showing of the ornamental initials owned or used by Plantin. Among the topics covered in this volume are the methods and materials associated with the production of woodcut initials, and the artists and craftsmen who can be identified with them through the Museum archives, the First Alphabets, the Polyglot Bible, and the Last Years. The catalogue is divided into three sections based on the styles of lettering of the various alphabets: roman, lettre tourne, and lettre cadeau. Fifty-eight different series of initials are reproduced in their original size with many shown in facsimile pages of Plantinian books. Six halftone plates are included to show the woodblocks themselves. A very fine, clean copy. (14490) $125.00

76.           (PRINTERS' ORNAMENTS). REILLY, Elizabeth Carroll. A Dictionary of Colonial American Printers' Ornaments and Illustrations. A Tribute to Aldren Porter Johnson. Worcester : American Antiquarian Society, 1975, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. xxxvi, 515pp. First Edition. The text reproduces in actual size the more than 2000 relief-cut ornaments and illustrations used by American printers from 1640 to 1776. Each ornament and illustration is accompanied by a listing of the names and locations of the printers who used it. Bibliographical references drawn primarily from Charles Evans's American Bibliography and Roger P. Bristol' s Supplement to Charles Evans' American Bibliography note the imprint containing the first appearance of each ornament or illustration in each year of its use. A most important reference tool. A fine copy in a fine, clean, price-clipped jacket. (14925) $110.00

77.           (PRINTING). BIGMORE, E. C. and C. W. H. Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 2001, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 1,070pp. Reprint of the 1880- 1886 edition, this edition enlarged with a much-needed index. Extensively illustrated. For over one hundred years, Bigmore and Wyman has remained the most comprehensive bibliography of printing. This standard work on the history of printing is an essential reference tool for all those interested in the book and its history. "This is the classic bibliography of printing, and none can fail to consult it notwithstanding later developments and modern scholarship." Robin Myers, The British Book Trade, p. 248. New. (10840) $85.00

78.           (PRINTING). The Times Literary Supplement Printing Number. ( London ),: Oct 13, 1927 , quarto, wrappers. (64)pp. With nine chapters: Modern Typography, Text and Illustration, The Beautiful Book, Continental Trade Printing, Commercial Printing, Types for English Books, On Bindings, Book Illustration, American Low-cost Volumes. Illustrated. Also of interest are the numerous ads by printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, and papermakers. Wear to wrappers. (10916) $35.00

79.           (PRINTING TRADES). LAUSE, Mark A. Some Degree of Power. From Hired Hand to Union Craftsman in the preindustrial American Printing Trades, 1778-1815. Fayetteville : Univ of Arkansas Press, 1991, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. x, (262)pp. First Edition. Illustrated. Contains chapters on "The Eighteenth-Century Anglo-American Printing Trades," "The Organization of the Typographical Societies," "More Humble Followers: The Deferential Citizenship of Union Printers," and more. With two appendices: "A Directory of Known Participants in Early American Associations & Combinations of Journeymen Printers Prior to 1816" and " Clandestine Labor Organizations in early American History." Very fine copy. (9766) $32.00

80.           (RAMPANT LIONS PRESS). CARTER, Sebastian. Miscellany 2. (Over): Rampant Lions Press, 1998, octavo, boards & cloth. 52 leaves. First Edition, Limited to 225 numbered copies. "This ' Miscellany 2,' like the first one, is a mixture of completed and projected work, and some pieces done just for the fun of it." A wonderful sample book demonstrating the style of type and illustration typical of The Rampant Lions Press. At end is a (4)pp. checklist of books printed at the Rampant Lions Press 1988-1997. (5784) $165.00

81.           (RAMPANT LIONS PRESS). Portfolio Two. projects, backward glances and jeux d'esprit put together by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge , 1974. Cambridge : Rampant Lions Press, 1974, quarto, broadsides laid into blue card portfolio. First Edition, Limited to 500 copies. Photographs of examples of Will Carter's slate carvings printed by The Stellar Press. Twenty-five items, in a wide variety of settings. Portfolio lightly faded at spine. (13422) $75.00

82.           RAND, Paul. Paul Rand: A Designer's Art. New Haven : Yale University Press, (2000), large octavo, printed wrappers. 239pp. Revised Edition. This book brings together many of Rand 's best essays on design and a wide selection of hi graphic work from the thirties to the present. Each of the essays is illustrated with examples of Rand 's work - posters, book jackets, corporate trademarks, packaging, etc. "Of all the designers who affected me when I was growing up, Paul Rand has remained the most consistently rewarding for me. His unrelenting demand for excellence is the benchmark for all practitioners. In a profession that is constantly pulled toward the banal, the trivial, and the predictable, the history of his accomplishment keeps us honest."--Milton Glaser. Very fine. New. (13301) $30.00

83.           REED, Talbot Baines. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries. London : Faber and Faber, (1952), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xiv), 400pp. Revised and enlarged by A. F. Johnson. With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. First published in 1887, Johnson evaluates Reed's classic history for those chapters that remain unchanged and adds valuable additions from newer research on this massive subject. Johnson acknowledges help and contributions from Morison, Pollard and other bibliographers of his generation. With a lengthy "List of Principal Authorities Consulted" and a detailed index. Extensively illustrated including a fold-out frontispiece. Book very fine, jacket with a few small chips and short tears at edges. (13103) $125.00

84.           RITCHIE, Ward. Francois-Louis Schmied. Artist, Engraver, Printer. Some Memories. Tucson : Univ of Arizona , (1976), octavo, wrappers. vi, (42)pp. First Edition. Limited to 750 copies. Ritchie apprenticed to the French master in 1930. The bibliography of Schmeid's work was prepared by Ritchie from his notes and personal collection. New. (10095) $20.00

85.           (ROGERS, Bruce). BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters 1870-1957. Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1989, quarto, burgundy cloth with gilt stamped spine. (xx), 215pp. First Edition. Foreword by John Dreyfus. This definitive account of Rogers and his books includes chapters on his early years; the Riverside Press; designing the Centaur type; the affluent decade of the 1920's; the years spent in England ; and his many designs for the Limited Editions Club. Blumenthal, in The Printed Book in America , calls Rogers , "the first great artist-typographer - the forebear of the many typographic designers who have made books for publishing houses and printing establishments since his time." The text includes a selection from Rogers ' correspondence and each of the books discussed is illustrated. Sixty-four pages of illustrations many in two colors.  Name and address on front endpaper, light foxing to edges of text block. Prospectus laid in. (14078) $75.00

86.           (ROGERS, Bruce). BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. Bruce Rogers: A Life in Letters 1870-1957. Austin : W. Thomas Taylor, 1989, quarto, burgundy wrappers. (xx), 215pp. First Edition. Foreword by John Dreyfus. This definitive account of Rogers and his books includes chapters on his early years; the Riverside Press; designing the Centaur type; the affluent decade of the 1920's; the years spent in England ; and his many designs for the Limited Editions Club. Blumenthal, in The Printed Book in America , calls Rogers , "the first great artist-typographer - the forebear of the many typographic designers who have made books for publishing houses and printing establishments since his time." The text includes a selection from Rogers ' correspondence and each of the books discussed is illustrated. Sixty-four pages of illustrations many in two colors.  Very fine copy. (14106) $65.00

87.          (ROGERS, Bruce). MANSBRIDGE, Georgia. Bruce Rogers: American Typographer. New York : The Typophiles, 1997, octavo, cloth. 112pp. First Trade Edition. Written over thirty years ago but not previously published, this book on his life and career is based on original sources: interviews with Rogers and his friends and acquaintances, letters to and from Rogers , and published materials by and about him. This is a unique addition to our knowledge of Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), one of America 's greatest typographers and book designer. The book is written in a lucid, objective yet personal style. The text includes lists of letters and interviews and an excellent bibliography. The book was composed by Bruce Mansbridge (the author's son) in association with Jerry Kelly. It was printed by offset lithography at the Stinehour shop on Mohawk Superfine Soft White Eggshell Text. Typophile Chap Book Number One. New. (10570) $85.00

88.           (ROGERS, Bruce). WARDE, Frederic. Bruce Rogers, Designer of Books. With a List of Books Printed Under Mr. Rogers Supervision. Cambridge : Harvard Univ Press, 1925, octavo, cloth. (vi), (78)pp. First Edition. An interesting history of Rogers' first years as a free lance book designer working for Riverside, Mosher, Harvard and his entry for the 1921 Grolier competition. Bookplate, light wear to top and bottom of spine. Newspaper clippings pertaining to Rogers laid in which has caused some offsetting to endpapers. (10878) $65.00

89.          ROTA , Anthony. Apart from the Text. (Pinner): Private Libraries Association, 1998, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 253pp. First Edition. From the Introduction: "This book is intended to be an exploration of what the physical appearance of nineteenth and twentieth century books can teach us, not only about the history of publishing but also about economic and social history and the career of authorship. It examines changes in binding styles from boards through cloth to paperbacks, noting trends in design, and studying the inception and subsequent virtual extinction of pictorial cloth bindings. It follows the evolution of the dust jacket form simple protective wrapping to elaborate artifact. Changes in publishing practice come under review, as do the effects of two world wars on book production...The intention of the book is to give readers and collectors an insight into bibliographical matters, which will not only be of help in textual, critical and biographical study, but above all will give them added pleasure as they take a book from the shelf and open it - even before they begin to read..." With chapters on The Book trade, Words into Type, Paper, Design, Book Bindings, Book-jackets, Book Illustration, The ' Three-Decker', Part-Issues and Serials, and Series Publishing & the Yellow- Back. Illustrated. Very fine copy. (5652) $35.00

90.           RUMMONDS, Richard-Gabriel. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress. Two volumes. London : British Library, 2004, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 1, 152 pp. First Edition. An encyclopedic examination of early printing techniques, from the early fifteenth-century wooden presses, to their culmination with the nineteenth- century iron presses. Gabriel Rummonds, one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century, has distilled a half millennium's worth of printer's wisdom and manuals into this very readable and important history of the iron handpress and the intrepid men who worked it. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive bibliography on the subject ever printed, this two volue, monumental work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Foreword by Stephen O. Saxe. New. (12794) $150.00

91.           SCHREIBER, Fred. Simon de Colines: An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of his Press, 1520-1546. Salt Lake City ,: Brigham Young Univ Library, 1995, quarto, cloth. 320pp. First Trade Edition, one of 650 copies. With an Introduction by Jeanne Veyrin-Forrer. "Based on a unique collection at Brigham Young University assembled by the distinguished bookseller and scholar Fred Schreiber, this illustrated catalogue describes 230 editions published by the first true French Renaissance printer, Simon de Colines, active in Paris from 1520 to 1546. With the help of the finest French book decorators and type designers - artists such as Geoffrey Tory, Oronce Fine, and Claude Garamond - Colines virtually transformed the French book by wresting it from its medieval constraints and traditions. He accomplished this, in part, by copying from Aldus Manutius the small, handy format, which in turn allowed him to publish reasonably priced "pocket" classics affordable by students, and by popularizing italic and cursive types in France . Colines's typographic innovations were eventually to be refined further by his successors in Paris, notably his stepson Robert Estienne, who apprenticed under him...The books described in this catalogue represent approximately one-third of Simon de Colines's total production during the quarter century of his career. In forming this collection one objective was to select examples from every year of his production, from 1520 to 1546 , so that the natural progression of his art could be adequately observed and studied. An even more important objective was to include examples of all the typographic material at Colines's disposal, in the form not only New. (7452) $150.00

92.           SIMON, Oliver. Printer and Playground. An Autobiography. London : Faber and Faber, (1956), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xv), 156pp. First Edition. Simon records his work at The Curwen Press, editing "The Fleuron" and the pre-war series of "Signature." The book is illustrated with portraits, letters in facsimile, typographical examples and the work of different artists of the inter-war period. Book fine, dust jacket lightly dust soiled, and price clipped. (7518) $55.00

93.           SIMON, Oliver. Printer and Playground. An Autobiography. London : Faber and Faber, (1956), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xv), 156pp. First Edition. Simon records his work at The Curwen Press, editing "The Fleuron" and the pre-war series of "Signature." The book is illustrated with portraits, letters in facsimile, typographical examples and the work of different artists of the inter-war period. Book fine, dust jacket lightly dust soiled, name and address on front endpaper. (14071) $45.00

94.          SOUTHALL, Richard. Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century. Manufacturing and Design Methods. London : British Library, 2005, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 256pp. First Edition. This book traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution. It takes a theoretical view of its topic rather than a simple narrative approach. With 150 illustrations. Very fine. New. (13644) $59.95

95.           (STONE, Reynolds). Reynolds Stone 1909-1979. An Exhibition held in the Library of the Victoria and Albert Museum from 21 July to 31 October 1982 . ( London ): Victoria & Albert Museum , (1982), octavo, wrappers. 84pp. First Edition. The 1,005 item catalogue of the exhibit is preceded by "An Autobiographical Essay" and "A Note on Wood Engraving" by Reynolds Stone. Illustrated. Very fine copy. (9761) $20.00

96.           TWYMAN, Michael. Printing 1770-1970. An Illustrated History of Its Development and Uses in England . ( London ): The British Library, (1998), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 285pp. Second Edition. With a new foreword by Ruari McLean. "This volume issued on the occasion of the publisher's [Eyre and Spottiswoode] bicentenary, is reminiscent of John Lewis's _Print Ephemera_, to whom the author owns himself indebted. The development of printing is traced through two centuries, in relation to periodical and jobbing, rather than to book printing. The narrative part of the work gives a brief background of the industry, and describes the growth of techniques and of printing technology and design, interspersed with illustrations. The second part consists of illustration, largely drawn from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, concentrated on the themes of ceremony, rural life, transport, wars and exhibitions." Robin Myers, The British Book Trade, p. 253, commenting on the first edition of 1970. Illustrated with 880 black and white and 42 color illustrations. New. (6025) $95.00

97.           (TYPE FOUNDING). WROTH, Lawrence C. Abel Buell of Connecticut . Silversmith, Type Founder & Engraver. Middletown , (CT): Wesleyan Univ Press, 1958, octavo, black cloth in dust jacket. xiv, 102pp. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Illustrated and with three folding plates. A story of Yankee skill, ingenuity and inventiveness. A very fine copy in dust jacket. (11703) $65.00

98.           (TYPECASTING). REHAK, Theo. Practical Typecasting. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 1993, octavo, cloth. 240 pp. First Edition. Section One covers typecasting machines and techniques and contains chapters on the basic principles of casting type and the hand mold, pivotal casting machines, monotype display machines, the Thompson caster, and foundry automatics. Section Two deals with the service crafts and contains chapters on finishing type, maintenance of equipment, matrix engineering, the Benton engraver, the Gorton engraver, electros, making matrices from type, and design guidelines. 46 illustrations. Very fine copy. (11944) $64.95

99.           (TYPEFOUNDING). BRUCE, David. History of Typefounding in the United States . New York : The Typophiles, 1981, octavo, wrappers. 64pp. Edited and annotated from the holograph manuscript by James Eckmann. A reproduction of Mr. Bruce's anecdotal account of the history of American typefounding through the 1880's. The preface recounts the history of Bruce' s manuscript as an important link in the early twentieth-century research of Henry Lewis Bullen and Douglas C. McMurtrie. Laborious annotations by James Eckmann provide excellent context for the transcribed document. New. (12063) $25.00

100.         (TYPEFOUNDING). BRUCE, David. History of Typefounding in the United States . New York : The Typophiles, 1981, octavo, wrappers. 64pp. Edited and annotated from the holograph manuscript by James Eckmann. A reproduction of Mr. Bruce's anecdotal account of the history of American typefounding through the 1880's. The preface recounts the history of Bruce' s manuscript as an important link in the early twentieth-century research of Henry Lewis Bullen and Douglas C. McMurtrie. Laborious annotations by James Eckmann provide excellent context for the transcribed document. Wrappers dust soiled, name and address on front endpaper. Very fine copy. (14265) $15.00

101.         (TYPEFOUNDING). BRUCE, David. History of Typefounding in the United States . New York : The Typophiles, 1981, octavo, wrappers. 64pp. Edited and annotated from the holograph manuscript by James Eckmann. A reproduction of Mr. Bruce's anecdotal account of the history of American typefounding through the 1880's. The preface recounts the history of Bruce' s manuscript as an important link in the early twentieth-century research of Henry Lewis Bullen and Douglas C. McMurtrie. Laborious annotations by James Eckmann provide excellent context for the transcribed document. Name and address on front endpaper, light dust soiling to wrappers. (14478) $15.00

102.         (TYPOGRAPHY). ANNENBERG, Maurice. Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs. New Castle : Oak Knoll Press, 1994, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 286pp. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. TYPE FOUNDRIES contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll's edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City , has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe's personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman. New. (9888) $49.95

103.         (TYPOGRAPHY). The Art of Type Specimen in the Twentieth Century. An exhibition held at ITC Center 1 March - 21 May 1993 . New York : The Typophiles, 1993, octavo, wrappers. (64)pp. First Edition. Limited to 1,100 copies of which this is one of 500 copies with the imprint of The International Typeface Corporation. With essays on Twentieth Century Type Specimens by David Pankow and John Dreyfus. The 125 items displayed are given brief description with 24 of them represented by 1 or more illustrations. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at The Stinehour Press. New. (10569) $25.00

104.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BAIN, Peter and Paul Shaw. Blackletter. Type and National Identity. New York : Princeton Architectural, 1998, small quarto, wrappers. (80)pp. Second printing. Catalogue from the Cooper Union exhibit. "Blackletter type, also known as Fraktur or German Gothic, originated with Gutenberg's moveable type, and was based on the contemporary calligraphy of that time. From the sixteenth century on, it shared the spotlight with roman type in German-speaking countries and was even adopted for the printing of Martin Luther's writings. Yet by the twentieth century it was increasingly spurned by both commercial artists, who embraced roman type for its classical associations, and modernist designers, who championed sanserif type for its universal and democratic qualities. At the close of the Second World War, the identification of blackletter with failed Nazi ideology was inescapable, this effectively ending the four-hundred-year tradition of blackletter as a distinctive national script. The essays in Blackletter investigate the rise and fall of blackletter type, examining its uses and cultural significance at various points throughout history, including the Reformation, the Weimar Republic , the Nazi regime, and the post-Berlin Wall period. This title, illustrated with numerous color examples of blackletter typefaces and their implementation, is a necessity for anyone interested in the history of type." 123 two-color illustrations. New. (7758) $19.95

105.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BARTRAM, Alan. Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2005, large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 160pp. First Edition. In the early decades of the twentieth century, European artists, poets, and designers called for the destruction of outdated assumptions about vision and language. Numerous manifestos resulted, demanding new artistic forms. None of these manifestos was more aggressive and poetic, or wider in scope than Filippo Tomasso Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto of 1909. Painting, sculpture, literature, architecture, theatre, cinema, and music were all caught up in its net. Typography—until then a distant relative in the arts—also played a major role in Marinetti’s program. Written by leading design scholar Alan Bartram, this fascinating book examines the rise and evolution of the Futurists’ approach to typography and graphic design, placing it within the context of contemporary artistic and literary movements. The volume features examples of some eighty Futurist books or other designs for print, many of them relatively unknown or previously unpublished, accompanied by new translations of over twenty of the featured texts. Bartram illuminates the complicated meanings of the Futurist designers’ graphic works in order to provide a new understanding of their extraordinary and influential visual language. With 100 black and white and 36 color illustrations. New. New. (14571) $45.00

106.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Bert Clarke. Typographer. A. Colish, 1987, large octavo, printed wrappers. 84pp. First Edition. A catalogue of an exhibition of selected works at the New York Public Library with an introduction by John Dreyfus and catalogue notes by Mr. Clarke. Bert Clarke has had a long and distinguished career as a book designer, beginning in Baltimore in 1935. The decoration here reproduces four colophons most often associated with his work: Clarke & Way, The Thistle Press; The Limited Editions Club; The Bollingen Foundation; and A. Colish, where he worked from 1970 to his retirement in 1986. Forty-three of his books are described in this catalogue, and each is illustrated. The catalogue was also designed by Mr. Clarke. Two small spots on front cover, else fine. (14403) $15.00

107.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BINNS, Betty. Better Type. New York : Watson-Guptill, (1989), oblong 4to, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. First Edition. Aimed at Graphic designers, this book is designed to train the eye in the qualities of type: the specific characteristics of a face, its relationship to other faces and to space. Chapters include Working Vocabulary, Legibility, Line Spacing and Type Color, Spacing questions, Justification, etc. Notes and text appear in the extreme left of the verso and facing recto in an interesting and readable presentation. Includes a brief bibliography. Very fine copy. (9718) $30.00

108.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BLACKWELL, Lewis. 20th Century Type Remix. Corte Madera , CA ;: Gingko Press, quarto, wrappers. 192pp. First Edition. This book is what it says -- a remix of Lewis Blackwell's crtically acclaimed Twentieth-Century Type. Analysing, editing and augmenting his own text and choice of images, Blackwell provides a radically new assessment of the cutting-edge culture of typographic-led design in the late twentieth century. This book challenges the concept of how typographic communication works today, but in doing so strengthen its ties with the traditions of the past. An introductory essay shows how current creative trends are simply part of the continuum of change that can be plotted from the turn of the last century to the turn of the next. Strong illustrated intersection dividers, specially commissioned from leading designers, set the scene for each chapter, or decade, and the space devoted to the 1990s has been substantially expanded. 200 color, 120 b&w illustrations. New. (12183) $39.95

109.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BLACKWELL, Lewis. 20th-Century Type. ( New Haven ):: Yale University Press, (2004), quarto, printed wrappers. (216)pp. Revised Edition. Twentieth-Century Type surveys the significant issues that have shaped the history and evolution of typography and graphic design, showing how current typographic trends are part of a continuously changing movement that can be plotted through the decades. Generously illustrated with over three hundred examples–more than two hundred of which are in color–the book charts significant topics including the arrival of mass-production; the birth of the art director; the appearance of the grid (and its subsequent rejection); the coming of non-print media; and the launch of the Macintosh computer and its ushering in of a new generation of designers enfranchised by digital technology. This revised edition of a fundamental work brings the story up to date with new text and images covering type on screen and, in particular, type for the internet. Combining an assessment of the culture of experimentation in contemporary typographic design alongside a clear presentation of the field’s historical context, the book is an informed and accessible source for all students of design and for designers needing an expert overview of typography. Extensively illustrated. Very fine. New. (13300) $39.95

111.        (TYPOGRAPHY). BURKE, Christopher. Paul Renner: The Art of Typography. New York : Princeton Architectural Pres, 1998, octavo, wrappers in dust jacket. 223pp. First Edition. From the prospectus: "German typographer Paul Renner is best known as the designer of the typeface Futura, which stands as a landmark of modern graphic design. This title is the first study in any language of Renner's typographic career; it details his life and work to reveal the breadth of his accomplishment and influence. Renner was a central figure in the German artistic movements of the 1920s and 1930s, becoming an early and prominent member of the Deutscher Werkbund while creating his first book designs for various Munich-based publishers. As the author of numerous texts such as Typografie als Kunst (Typography as Art) and Die Kunst der Typographie (The Art of Typography) he created a new set of guidelines for balanced book design. Renner taught with Jan Tschichold in the 1930s and was a key participant in the heated ideological and artistic debates of that time. Arrested and dismissed from his post by the Nazis, he eventually emerged as a voice of experience and reason in the postwar years. Throughout this tumultuous period he produced a body of work of the highest distinction. Closely examining the context in which Renner operated, Christopher Burke presents a wealth of hitherto unpublished materials, drawing on primary sources and archival research." With a complete bibliography of Renner's writings. 84 b&w, 33 color illustrations. New. (7753) $35.00

112.         (TYPOGRAPHY). BURNHILL, Peter. Type Spaces. In-house Norms in the Typography of Aldus Manutius. New York : Princeton Architectural Pres, 2003, octavo, wrappers. 144pp. First Edition. An examination of pages of books printed and published by Aldus Manutius in Venice around 1500. By measuring the word-spaces, author Peter Burnhill discerns a system of measurement at work and comes up with a system of dimensions: of type size, of "leading" or line-increment, of line length, and of text area. Burnhill argues that the exceptional figures of Manutius and his punchcutter, Francesco Griffo, used a set of "in-house norms." This system of unified measurement has a rationality that can apply to any process of type design, in any age, and with any system of production, making the book relevant even for contemporary designers. Since the passing of metal type, we have had no clear method of measuring type size and Burnhill's work suggests a new (or very old) approach to measurement in typography. With 150 black and white illustrations. Very fine. New. (12710) $35.00

113.         (TYPOGRAPHY). CARTER, Harry. A View of Early Typography. Up to about 1600. New York : Princeton Architectural, 2002, octavo, wrappers. 208pp. Facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1969. This book has long been regarded as the classic text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focsing on type, the author goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered: the diversity of letterforms ( blackletter, roman, italic, and more); the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages; and the establishment of standards of norms in type design. This is a facsimile of the original edition. 84 b&w illustrations. New. (12177) $35.00

114.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Catalogue of I. Typefounders' Specimens, II. Books Printed in Founts of Historic Importance, III. Works on Typefounding, Printin. London : Birrell & Garnett, 1928, large quarto, boards & cloth. (xii), (108)pp. First Edition. III. Works on Typefounding, Printing & Bibliography. One of 1,750 copies printed. With a 4 page introduction by Graham Pollard. Illustrated. A ground-breaking rare book catalogue. Boards scuffed at edges and with corners bumped. Boards dust soiled. (11682) $150.00

115.         (TYPOGRAPHY). CINAMON, Gerald. Rudolf Koch. Letterer, Type Designer, Teacher. London : British Library, 2000, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 208pp. First Edition. This is an important biography of the life and typographical innovations of Rudolf Koch, one of Germany 's leading typographers in the early decades of the 20th century. Cinamon, a professional book designer and typographer himself, has captured the essence of this unique man by his excellent research and scholarship. His book is well-illustrated and with hundreds of Koch's fonts, typographical designs and his bold use of the woodcut medium. Many illustrations are seen for the first time in an English language book. This critically acclaimed biography belongs in the library of anyone interested in typography, book design and calligraphy. Foreword by Hermann Zapf. New. (9915) $49.95

116.         (TYPOGRAPHY). DAIR, Carl. Design with Type. Toronto : Univ of Toronto Press, (2000), octavo, wrappers. (xii), (164)pp. Reprint. A classic text. A study of typography that starts with the individual letters and proceeds through the word, the line and the mass of text. Extensively illustrated in black and red. New. (9963) $19.95

117.         (TYPOGRAPHY). DAY, Kenneth, (editor). Book Typography 1815-1965. In Europe and the United States of America . Chicago : Univ of Chicago Press, (1966), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxiv, (408)pp. First American Edition. The most authoritative general reference work on printing and typography as related to the book in the 19th and early 20th centuries. With separate essays and plates for each country: Baudin on Belgium, Blanchard and Vox on France, Schauer on Ermany, Handover on Britain, Riva on Italy, Ovink on the Netherlands, Rotzler on Switzerland, and James M. Wells on the United States. Illustrated. Foxing to top edge, shelfwear to jacket. (11667) $65.00

118.         (TYPOGRAPHY). DOWDING, Geoffrey. An Introduction to the History of Printing Types. ( London ): British Library & Oak Knoll, (1998), octavo, boards in dust jacket. (xxiv), (278)p. Reissue. With a new introduction by Alan Bartam. An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day. An Aid to Type Face Identification. Extensively illustrated. "The book is divided into two parts, "Book Types" and "Display Types", and each is treated chronologically and arranged in groups with similar characteristics which are defined and illustrated. Reference is made ot current equivalents. Practically all illustrations have to obtain representative examples. Fully documented notes accompany each typeface and provide the reader with a wealth of material for study, while4 appendixes cover elements of design such as stress and serif." New. (3600) $39.95

119.         (TYPOGRAPHY). European Type Specimen Books; A Bibliography. The Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection. Rochester , NY : Good Mountain , 1977, octavo, wrappers. 32pp. First Edition. Collected loose signatures in paper cover. From the archives: a little- known bibliography of the Cary Collection's European Specimen holdings, ca. 1977. The introduction by former Cary Librarian, John Bidwell, explains that this publication commemorates the Collection's 1977 acquisition of Boboni's Manuale Tipografico, coincidentally purchased to mark the retirement of Professor Alexander Lawson from RIT. The type secimens are cited with full bibliographic data and group by country of origin. Very fine copy. (12065) $25.00

120.         (TYPOGRAPHY). FERGUSON , W. Craig. Pica Roman Type in Elizabethan England . ( Brookfield , VT ): Scolar Press, (1989), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (41), (190)pp. First American Edition. " Ferguson shows how the study of type faces can be used to identify printers and authors of Elizabethan texts. By recognizing certain patterns, both among families of type and among the printers of the period, the careful scholar can often trace a line directly from the printer of a text to its likely author and probable date of printing." Extensively illustrated with facsimiles and useful tables and charts. Fine copy. (3805) $95.00

121.         (TYPOGRAPHY). FRIEDL, Friedrich, Nicolaus Ott and Bernard Stein. Typography. ( New York ): Black Dog & Leventhal, (1998), large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 592 pp. First Edition. The first-ever comprehensive survey of type design and typographers throughout history. Reviews the contribution of over 700 designers, calligraphers, and typographers. Presents over 2,000 typographic designs in full-color and black & white. A few scratches to back of jacket, else very fine. (12018) $65.00

122.         (TYPOGRAPHY). FRY, Edmund. Specimen of Modern Printing Types. London : Printing Historical Society, 1986, octavo, green cloth. Facsimile of the 1828 edition. With an 18 page introduction and notes by David Chambers. Includes fold-out examples. Very fine. (13392) $40.00

123.         (TYPOGRAPHY). GILL, Eric. An Essay on Typography. Boston : Godine, (1988), small 8vo, wrappers. (xx), 133pp. First American Edition of the photo-lithographic reprint of the 1936 edition. First Published in 1931, the 1936 edition was re-set with extensive changes. This edition with a new introduction by Christopher Skelton. "[An Essay on Typography] represents Gill at his best - opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested int he art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information. This manifesto, however, is not only about letters - their form, fit, and function - but also about man's role in an industrial society." New. (9637) $10.95

124.         (TYPOGRAPHY). GOWAN, Al. T. J. Lyons: A Biography and Critical Essay. Boston : Society of Printers, 1987, large octavo, boards. 112pp. First Edition. This chapbook is a tribute to an American phenomenon, T. J. Lyons of Boston , who printed in one small shop at the same location for sixty-two years, using nineteenth-century typefaces almost exclusively, Lyons was one of the first to collect foundry types of the period 1820 to 1890. When Lyons died at age ninety-one, his type collection was documented by Stephen Saxe as the largest in private hands. With color keepsake tipped- in; more than 150 black and white illustrations, including photos and one- line type specimens. As new. (352) $35.00

125.         (TYPOGRAPHY). GUTJAHR, Paul C. Illuminating Letters. Typography and Literary Interpretation. Amherst : Univ of Massachusetts Press, 2001, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 216pp. First Edition. Explores how typography conveys and affects meaning from the Bible to comic books. Extensively illustrated. New. (10757) $34.95

126.         (TYPOGRAPHY). HALEY, Allan. ABC's of Type. New York : Watson-Guptill Publications, (1990), quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 128pp. First Edition. An informative reference guide on twenty of today's most popular typefaces. Haley explains the different characteristics of type designs, pinpointing effective uses for particular typefaces, as well as showing each face discussed in complete roman and italic alphabets and in family listings. Two color throughout with 28 black and white illustrations. Very fine. (14007) $29.95

127.        (TYPOGRAPHY). HELLER, Steven and Louise Fili. Typology. Type Design from the Victorian Era to the Digital Age. San Francisco : Chronicle Books, 1999, octavo, wrappers. 196pp. First Edition. A compendium of typefaces on the market. Organized by historical era and country of origin, each section introduces the culture and aesthetic of the period, discusses how individual styles developed, and offers insights into the artistry of key typographers and foundries. With 300 color images. Very fine. New. (12706) $29.95

128.         (TYPOGRAPHY). An Introduction to the Robinson-Pforzheimer Collection of Old-Fashioned Type. Fonts, Borders, Printers' Ornaments... (New York: New York Public Library, n.d., c. 1960), large broadside folded three times. The Robinson-Pforzheimer Collection of several hundred fonts of old-fashioned type faces was acquired by the late Carl H. Pforheimer from his friend, the late Elrie Robinson, Printer. It was presented to The New York Public Library by the Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc. "Faces shown in the opening folds of this broadside have been taken from the cases at random to illustrate the range and versatility of types and ornaments in the fonts. The center spread shows some of the main kinds of wood and metal display faces in the Collection." Numerous decorative fonts, ornaments and borders printed in black and orange. Very fine. (10547) $12.50

129.         (TYPOGRAPHY). JOHNSTON, Alastair. Alphabets To Order. The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens. London : British Library, 2000, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 222pp. First Edition. Specimen books issued by typefounders to show their styles of type available for sale also revealed a lot about the reading habits, politics, amusements and whimsies of the British and North American founders in the nineteenth century. Combing typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Alastair Johnston presents and discusses hundreds of examples of texts that show the founders' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane. Johnston also traces paths that have since been explored by concrete poets, book artists, dadaists, nonsense poets, performance artists and other marginal users of letterforms. New. (10294) $39.95

130.         (TYPOGRAPHY). KINROSS, Robin. Anthony Froshaug: Typography & Texts/Documents of a Life. Two volumes. New York : Princeton Architectural, 2001, octavo, wrappers. 256 + 272pp. First Edition. These volumes present the work and life of this essential typographer, until now too little known outside the circle of his friends and students. Froshaug was a deep and charismatic thinker-practitioner, whose insights return us to the fundamentals of typography. The book consists of two interacting volumes: the solid record of the work is placed against the contingencies of the life. A traditional monograph is unsettled by an exploration in documentary. 360 b&w illustrations. New. (12178) $75.00

131.         (TYPOGRAPHY). KINROSS, Robin. Unjustified Texts. Perspectives on Typography. New York : Princeton Architectural, octavo, wrappers. 384pp. First Edition. This selection of Robin Kinross' writings, including some previously unpublished, brings his major themes into focus: the unsung virtues of editorial design and information design, the fate of Modernism in the twentieth century, and the virtues of a socially oriented design approach. His out-of-print pamphlet Fellow Readers (1994) is reprinted in full. 50 b& w illustrations. New. (12180) $30.00

132.         (TYPOGRAPHY). KORGER, Hildegard. Handbook of Type and Lettering. ( New York ): Design Press, (1992), quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. 254pp. First American Edition. An English translation of the sixth edition of Korger's Schrift und Schrieben (1986). A practical manual of type and lettering which is concerned both with the design of lettering and type, and the way in which these two elements should be used, alone or in combination. It offers a grammar of design based on the best examples from all periods. (312) $45.00

133.         (TYPOGRAPHY). LANE, John A. Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum . ( London ): The British Library, 2004, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 344pp. First Edition. Annotated descriptions of the specimens to ca. 1850 (mostly from the Low Countries and France ) with preliminary notes on the typefoundries and printing offices. From the dust jacket, "The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, Rosart, Gille, didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century...This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's speciments reports the styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, notes relations with other specimens int he collection and elsewhere, and provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown. With 15 illustrations and 4 facsimile specimen sheets inserted in pocket at back. New. New. (13111) $95.00

134.         (TYPOGRAPHY). LAWSON, Alexander. Anatomy of a Typeface. Boston : Godine, (2002), octavo, wrappers. 428pp. Third Printing. "This is the definitive study of the evolution and classification of typefaces, from black letter to sans serif. Written for the layman, but containing exhaustive historical research, illustrations, drawings and synopses of typefaces, this book is bound to be considered the logical successor to D. B. Updike's classic 'Printing Types.'" Illustrated. New. (11568) $24.95

135.         (TYPOGRAPHY). LIEBERMAN, J. Ben. Type and Typefaces. New Rochelle : Myriade Press, 1978, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 142pp. Second Edition. This is a good introductory and practical as well as comprehensive book for beginners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chapters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become familiar with type. Illustrated. New. (12267) $30.00

136.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Ludlow Typefaces in Newspaper Advertising. [N-6]. Chicago : Ludlow Typograph Co., n.d. (c.1935), small folio, printed wrapper packet. Six newsprint specimens of various Ludlow Types. Also a portrait of Abraham Lincoln from an etching by E. Dunlap. Light wear to edges of wrappers. (10788) $25.00

137.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Ludlow Typefaces in Newspaper Advertising. Presenting the New Ludlow Tempo Family Ultra-Modern Italic and the Bodoni Black. Chicago : Ludlow Typograph Co., n.d. (c.1935), small folio, printed wrapper packet. A type specimen packet with seven newsprint pieces advertising various types. Also three (4pp.) specimen pieces for Old English, Uptra-Mdoern and Stellar. (10787) $30.00

138.         (TYPOGRAPHY). McGREW, Mac. American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century. New Castle , DE : Oak Knoll Press, 1993, large quarto, wrappers. 400pp. Reprint of the second, revised edition. This work covers every known American tyypeface designed and cast in metal during the 20th century. The descriptions of each family of typeface is astonishingly detailed , including information about the designer, foundry and date of issue as well as ranges of sizes and similar designs by other foundries. The history and purposes of the designs are also explained, as well as production problems and individual characteristics. Most of the typefaces and their variants are illustrated in full alphabets, and all have been reproduced from the actual type themselves. Extensive appendices list common pseudonyms, popular imports, antique faces, and ATF, Monotype and Ludlow series numbers. Includes 1600 illustrations. New. (12296) $49.95

139.         (TYPOGRAPHY). McLEAN, Ruari. How Typography Happens. London : British Library, 2000, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 96pp. First Edition. The emergence of the typographer as a professional is examined by one of the best-known names in the field. Ruari McLean has designed hundreds of books for some of the most prominent publishers of this century. This work is based on his Sandars Lectures delivered at Cambridge university in the 1 980s. Looking at the work of well known typographers in England , America , France and Germany , McLean explores the development of typography from the seventeenth century to the present. New. (9916) $39.00

140.         (TYPOGRAPHY). McLEAN, Ruari. Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography. New York : Princeton Architectural Pres, 1997, octavo, wrappers. 128pp. First Edition. German type and book designer Jan Tschichold revolutionized modern typography through his bold, asymmetrical designs and use of sanserif typography, both inspired by the work of the Bauhaus. He proclaimed his new design philosophy through a series of articles and books, including Die neue Typographie, published in Berlin in 1928. His international renown came largely as a result of his redesign of Penguin's entire series of paperback novels just after World War II. Any graphic designer practicing today owes a debt to Tschichold's innovation. Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography offers a concise biography of Tschichold, accompanied by numerous examples of his vast body of work. It serves as an introduction to Tschichold for those who are unfamiliar with his influential style, yet for the experienced designer it is an excellent collection of the wide range of his designs. 30 color, 100 b&w illustrations. New. (7757) $21.95

141.         (TYPOGRAPHY). McLEAN, Ruari. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Typography. ( New York ): Thames and Hudson, (1996), octavo, wrappers. 216pp. Reprint, with corrections. Chapters covering historical outline, studio and equipment, legibility, lettering and calligraphy, letters for printing, methods of composition, paper, cast-off and layout, book design, the parts of a book, jobbing typography, newspaper and magazine typography. Numerous illustrations. New. (10927) $16.95

142.         (TYPOGRAPHY). McMURTRIE, Douglas C. Biographical Notes on J.F. Unger, German Typefounder. New York : Press of ARS Typographica, 1926, octavo, original printed green wrappers. 6pp. First Edition. A short biography of Unger, an artist and distinguished wood engraver, and his printing company and foundry. Small bookplate. Edges of wrappers faded, a clean copy. (14406) $35.00

143.         (TYPOGRAPHY). MILLER, J.Abbott. Dimensional Typography. Words in Space. New York : Princeton Architectural, 2000, octavo, wrappers. 64pp. First Edition. Today's computer technologies have allowed for the creation of new spaces for typographic communication. This collection of drawings, photographs, and typefaces explores some of the ideas that might govern the logic of three-dimensional type. It presents and analyzes letter forms based on both traditional and contemporary typefaces, freely mixing historical references and futuristic aspiration. The author considers the ways in which letters have become three-dimensional in certain genres such as signage, and discusses how typefaces have incorporated the illusion of dimensionality on the printed page. 50b&w illustrations. New. (12181) $19.95

144.         (TYPOGRAPHY). MILLINGTON , Roy . Stephenson Blake. The Last of the Old English Typefounders. ( London ): British Library, 2002, large 8vo, cloth in dust jacket. (xii), 248pp. First Edition. Established in 1818 in the town of Sheffield in Yorkshire , Stephenson Blake Typefounders created a family business that would one day dominate the British typefounding industry. Extensively illustrated. New. (11858) $49.95

145.         (TYPOGRAPHY). MORISON, Stanley. A Tally of Types. Edited by Brooke Crutchley. Boston : Godine, 1998, octavo, wrappers. 144pp. First printing of this edition. "This landmark book, first published in 1953 in a private keepsake edition and later revised and expanded, remains an indispensable reference for students of book design. It presents Stanley Morison at his best: opinionated, eclectic, offering his characteristic blend of erudition and insight. Finally available again after many years, A Tally of Types discusses twenty different faces, many cut under Morison's direct supervision, and most of them now translated into digital settings. This is the real history behind the letters: who first cut them, how they were used (and should be used), and how the modern versions became accessible. Each essay is set in the typeface it discusses, making the book an exciting visual adventure as well as a teaching tool of primary importance. An invaluable aid for modern practitioners and historians alike, this edition contains a new introduction by Mike Parker, former co-director of Typographic Development at the Merganthaler Corporation." New. (6956) $15.95

146.         (TYPOGRAPHY). NORTON, Robert, (editor). A Collection of Observations on Types Best Remembered by Various People Charitably Disposed to an Expatriate Editor. ( London ): Parsimony Press, (1993), octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (174)pp. First Edition. printed dos-a-dos with A Collection of Observations on Types Best Forgotten By Various People Uncharitably Disposed to All Sorts of Different Things. From the dust jacket, "For many hundreds of years the shape of letters was the professional preoccupation of scribes. Then it became the business of type foundries and printers....The advent of desk top publihsing has changed nearly everything to do with typefaces. There are, for example, a million new copies of Microsoft Word sold every month, and each of these copies holds fourteen fonts. This is the first step on the road to what can become a consuming vice; font gathering....In this book we have collected the sometimes light-hearted, sometimes more serious opinions of a number of distinguished people whose livelihood has been very much bound up in the dissemination of the printed word. It makes an enjoyable and iinteresting record of what those in the business of printing and publishing have found to remark on at the beginninig of the last decade of the twentieth century." Contributors include John Lewis, Alastair Johnston, Gunnlaugur S E Briem, John Dreyfus, Hermann Zapf, Matthew Carter, Charles Stephenson, Mark Batty, Sebastian Carter, Max Caflisch, Michael Twyman, Ward Ritchie, and many others. Laid in is the Errata Bookmark. A very fine copy. New. (12470) $40.00

147.         (TYPOGRAPHY). POYNOR, Rick. Typographica. New York : Princeton Architectural, 2001, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 144pp. First Edition. This magazine, brainchild of the founder, editor, designer and renowned typographer Herbert Spencer, had a brief life, a total of 32 issues published between 1949 and 1967. Spencer never intended to turn a profit, so no expenses were spared in the making of the magazine. Different papers, letterpress, tip-ins, and more were all employed in the presentation of an eclectic range of subject matter: Braille, locomotive lettering, sex and typography, typewriter faces, street lettering, matches, and avant- garde poetry all found their way into the magazine. This carefully researched, accessibly written, and beautifully illustrated book pays tribute to the man and the magazine that changed the course of graphic design. 192 color plates, 20b&w illustrations. New. (12176) $50.00

148.         (TYPOGRAPHY). RAFAELI, Ari. Book Typography. ( New Castle , DE ):: Oak Knoll Press, 2005, quarto, boards. 160pp. First Edition. This book examines the essential factors of a well-designed book and considers how maximum quality typography can be achieved by users of present-day technology. Among the topics discussed are attractive and suitable type, word division, punctuation, different styles of footnotes and endnotes, folios and running heads, etc. Illustrated. Very fine. New. (13646) $34.95

149.         (TYPOGRAPHY). RANDLE, John, (introduction). Type & Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. West New York NJ : Mark Batty Publisher, 2003, quarto, boards in dust jacket. 392pp. First Edition. This is the first of a planned series of hardcover anthologies drawing on the sum and substance of the respected and renowned journal MATRIX, produced for over 20 years by John and Rose Randle at The Whittington Press. In this first Matrix anthology the focus is on type and typography. The carefully selected content spans centuries and continents. The list of contributors reads like a veritable "Who's Who" from the world of type and the book arts. Their subject matter is both esoteric and entertaining: Sebastian Carter on the types of Jan van Krimpen; Jan van Krimpen on " Preparing Designs for Monotype Faces"; John Dreyfus on the typographical importance of Maximillian Vox; James Mosley on "Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel Type"; Jerry Kelly examining "The Dust Jacket Designs of Hermann Zapf"; and over 30 more. With over 200 illustrations. To be published April, 2003. New. (11844) $75.00

150.         (TYPOGRAPHY). RE, Peggy. Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter. New York : Princeton Architectural Pres, 2003, large quarto, wrappers. 104pp. First Edition. In a career that has spanned more than forty years, Matthew Carter has designed many of the typefaces that we see every day in and on publications, books, signs, and screens. Carter's celebrated typefaces include Galliard, Mantinia, and Verdana. In 1975, he created the now- pervasive Bell Centennial specifically for use in phone books. Publications including Sports Illustrated, the Daily News, Wired, and the Washington Post, along with cultrual institutions such as the Walker Arts Center and The Victoria - Albert Museum , have all commissioned Carter fonts. Essays discuss the form of his work, his position and use of typographic history, and his technological innovation. All of his fonts are reproduced in full for reference, and illustrations place his designs in context. With 14 black and white illustrations and 24 four color plates. Very fine. New. (12709) $35.00

151.         (TYPOGRAPHY). REINER, Imre. Typo-Graphik. Studien und Versuche. St. Gallen: Verlag Zollikofer & Co., n.d., ca 1950, octavo, boards. (128)pp. Text in German. With chapters on the typographical bookplate, Thomas Bewick, ornament in typography, title page design, and much more. Extensively illustrated. Some soiling to boards, near fine, a solid copy. (11627) $35.00

152.         (TYPOGRAPHY). ROGERS, Bruce. The Centaur Types. (West Lafayette, IN: Purdue Univ Press, 1996), octavo, wrappers. (92)pp. Reprint. A reprint of Rogers ' 1948 publication in which he documents and illustrates his creation of the Centaur typeface. Very fine. (10664) $15.00

153.         (TYPOGRAPHY). ROOKLEDGE, Sarah and Ron Eason. Rookledge's International Handbook of Type Designers: A Biographical Directory. Edited by Phil Baines and Gordon Rookledge. Sarema Press (Publishers), 1991, small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. vi, 209pp. First Edition. One-half page to two page biographies of 175 type designers. Preceding the alphabetical directory, a short essay outlines the main trends in type design. The appendices have two indices by subject and by typeface, and a glossary of technical terms. Illustrated. Very fine. (354) $25.00

154.         (TYPOGRAPHY). RUEGG, Ruedi. Basic Typography: Design with Letters. New York : Van Nostrand Reinhold, (1989), quarto, boards in dust jacket. (174)pp. First American Edition. Illustrated, some in color. Contains corresponding text in German. A handbook examining the basic form of letters as they are produced in modern computer typesetting equipment, and the effect of such techniques on design and layout. A final chapter looks at the work of twelve international designers, including Paul Rand. (314) $35.00

155.        (TYPOGRAPHY). SOUTHALL, Richard. Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century. Manufacturing and Design Techniques. London: The British Library, 2005, octavo, cloth in pictorial dust jacket. 256pp. First Edition. The last years of the 19th century saw the final stages in the transition of type manufacture from a craft to an industrial process, and the first appearance of complex mechanical systems for the composition of text. A hundred years later, text composition used only the simple mechanisms inside laser printers and image-setters, and type manufacture was well on the way to becoming a craft process once again; though now with computer display and software replacing steel punches and copper matrices. This book traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser-image setting and the PostScript revolution. Includes 150 illustrations. New. New. (14383) $59.95

156.         (TYPOGRAPHY). STOLS, A. A. M. The Work of S. D. de Roos. A Contribution to the History of the Rebirth of the Printing Art in the Netherlands . (Cover title). Woodstock, VT: Print, 1947, large 8vo, wrappers. (26)pp. An offprint from "Print" Vol. V, No. 3. Illustrated. S. H. de Roos' major achievement was the designing of eleven new type faces; he was also responsible for the typography of many of athe fiinest books printed in the Netherlands in the twentieth century and designed many of the finest of the publishers' bindings (three illustrated). (10926) $12.50

157.         (TYPOGRAPHY). STONE, Sumner. On Stone. The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, (1991), folio, cloth in dust jacket. 112pp. First Edition. "This book grew out of Stone's observation that very few of us are familiar with the history of typography, nor do we have a formal basis for making decisions about type and design...The three chapters of On Stone address three fundamental needs of type users. The first chapter provides a gounding in the origins and evolution of typography...Chapter 2, the heart of the volume, offers a wide-ranging series of graphic examples of the ways in which type and design can be used in many contexts in books, periodicals, promotional pieces...and so on...In the final chapter, all eighteen members of the Stone type family are exhibited in the style of formal specimens..." Very fine copy. (3814) $34.95

158.         (TYPOGRAPHY). STONE, Sumner. On Stone. The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer. San Francisco: Bedford Arts, (1991), folio, wrappers. 112pp. First Edition. "This book grew out of Stone's observation that very few of us are familiar with the history of typography, nor do we have a formal basis for making decisions about type and design...The three chapters of On Stone address three fundamental needs of type users. The first chapter provides a gounding in the origins and evolution of typography...Chapter 2, the heart of the volume, offers a wide-ranging series of graphic examples of the ways in which type and design can be used in many contexts in books, periodicals, promotional pieces...and so on...In the final chapter, all eighteen members of the Stone type family are exhibited in the style of formal specimens..." Very fine. (3815) $24.95

159.         (TYPOGRAPHY). SUTTON, James and Alan Bartram. Typefaces for Books. London: The British Library, 1990, large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 288pp. First Edition. More than 100 current Monotype and Linotype digitised typefaces are displayed in double page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes, bold, roman, italic, sloped roman, small caps and figures. These pages, together with casting-off tables, will be essential reference material for any book designer. Very fine copy. (7576) $50.00

160.         (TYPOGRAPHY). TRACY, Walter. The Typographic Scene. London: Gordon Fraser, (1988), octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (96)pp. First Edition. Observations of the typographic scene from the perspective of sixty years of close involvement with the design and technology of the printed word. Illustrated. (316) $22.50

161.         (TYPOGRAPHY). Typography 23. The Annual of the Type Directors Club. (New York: HBI, 2002), large quarto, white boards in dust jacket. 288pp. First Edition. Typography 23 is the only annual devoted exclusively to typography and presents the finest work in this field from 2001. The 156 winning designs encompass a wide range of categories, including books, magazines, corporate identities, logotypes, stationery, annual reports, video and web graphics, and posters. This volume also features the results of the Club's fifth annual type design competition with 15 winners. In both categories each winning entry is displayed in full color and accompanied by complete information about designer, client, typography, and more. Statements by Klaus Schmidt and Gary Munch. Includes more than 500 full-color illustrations and an index listing the principal typefaces used and the names of their designers. Very fine. (14364) $30.00

162.         (TYPOGRAPHY). UPDIKE, D.(aniel) B.(erkeley). Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and use. A Study in Survivals. Cambridge: Harvard Univ Pres, 1951, large octavo, maroon cloth. Second Edition (enlarged), second printing. Two volumes. xl, 292pp.; (xx), 326pp. The seminal work on the subject. "The text supplies a survey of the development of movable type designs from their invention through the nineteenth century, in the important countries of Europe , together with some mention of America . These two volumes...are without a doubt the result of the most scholarly research that has been done in the history of the development of printing, and the numerous illustrations have been very carefully selected. The reproductions render it virtually a universal type-specimen book." Hart, Bibliotheca Typographica, #25. Name on endpaper. A very fine, clean set. (12864) $125.00

163.         (TYPOGRAPHY). UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 1,088pp. Third Edition. Extensively enlarged. With over 360 illustrations. The original two volume set has been combined into one. With new introductions by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press and by Martin Hutner. The seminal work on the subject. "The text supplies a survey of the development of movable type designs from their invention through the nineteenth century, in the important countries of Europe, together with some mention of America. These two volumes...are without a doubt the result of the most scholarly research that has been done in the history of the development of printing, and the numerous illustrations have been very carefully selected. The reproductions render it virtually a universal type-specimen book." Hart, Bibliotheca Typographica (referencing the first edition) #25. New. (10835) $85.00

164.         (TYPOGRAPHY). UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types. Their History, Forms, and Use. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, octavo, wrappers. 1,088pp. Third Edition. Extensively enlarged. With over 360 illustrations. With new introductions by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press and by Martin Hutner. The seminal work on the subject. "The text supplies a survey of the development of movable type designs from their invention through the nineteenth century, in the important countries of Europe, together with some mention of America. These two volumes...are without a doubt the result of the most scholarly research that has been done in the history of the development of printing, and the numerous illustrations have been very carefully selected. The reproductions render it virtually a universal type-specimen book." Hart, Bibliotheca Typographica (referencing the first edition) #25. New. (10836) $49.95

165.         (TYPOGRAPHY). The Work of Giovanni Mardersteig with 'Monotype' Faces. London: The Monotype Corp., 1967, octavo, wrappers. 40pp. First Edition. A handsome letterpress-printed booklet that commemorates Mardersteig's 75 th birthday and 40th anniversary of printing activity in Italy. The introduction, by John Dreyfus, provides a concise overview of Mardersteig' s career, concentrating on his relationship with Monotype, beginning with associations with Stanley Morison and Frederic Warde. Sixteen spreads are devoted to reproductions of Mardersteig's book designs using Monotype typefaces that include showings of Dante, Garamond, Bembo, Centaur, and Poliphilus. The two lower corners are lightly bumped, else a fine, clean copy. (12064) $30.00

166.         WALLIS, Lawrence W. George W. Jones: Printer Laureate. West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2005, octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 128pp. First American Edition. This book provides the first extensive review of the life and work of George W. Jones (1860-1942) and fills an important gap in the literature of graphic design and printing history. He was one of the most respected and celebrated fine printers of his generation, producing books for notable publishers such as the Limited Editions Club and the Nonesuch Press. Jones entered the printing industry as an apprentice in 1873, and became an independent printer and publisher in London in 1883. In 1911 he established the venture known famously as the Sign of the Dolphin. Jones was appointed the printing advisor to the Linotype organization in 1921, where he was directly responsible for the creation of a number of distinguished typefaces for linecasting, including Granjon, Estienne, Baskerville,a nd Georgian. Jones spent time in the United States and had close contact with leading contemporaries such as William Rudge, Bruce Rogers, W. A. Dwiggins, and others. With more than 40 illustrations, including 8 pages in color. New. New. (13536) $58.00

167.         ZAPF, Herman. August Rosenberger 1893-1980; A Tribute to one of the Greatest Masters of Punchcutting, an Art Now All but Extinct. Rochester, NY: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 1996, octavo, cloth. 36pp. First Edition. Limited to 75 copies. Printed letterpress by David Pankow and Jerry Kelly. Zapf's recollections of the collaborations with Rosenberger during and after World War II in Germany. Four original leaves accompany this edition: two are from the Japanese paper edition of Feder und Stichel, printed in 1949 by Henrich Egenolf in Frankfort; the other two are from Das Blumen ABC, printed by Otto Bickelhaupt at the private printing office of the Stempel foundry in 1949. All four leaves are signed in pencil by Zapf. (10764) $200.00

168.         (ZAPF, Hermann and Gudrun). PRESTIANNI, John. Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age. An Exhibition in Honor of the Contributions of Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. Corte Madera, CA: Gingko Press, quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 204 pp. First Edition. Over the past 50 years Hermann and Gudrun Zapf have designed some of the modern world's most unique and innovative typefaces. In fact, so ubiquitous is Hermann Zapf's Palatino that it has become a common default font on millions of laser printers around the globe. In honor of the Zapfs, an exhibition which traced the calligraphic evolution of several contemporary Zapf typefaces was held in San Francisco in 2001. This book is the catalog to the exhibition which also features the work of 14 other calligrapher/type designers who have been influenced by the Zapf's work, among them: Robert Slimbach, Alan Blackman, Rick Cusick, Jean Evans. 100 color, 90 b&w illustrations. Very fine copy. (12184) $49.95

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