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Brooklyn: Intertype Company, (1970), large octavo, flexible boards. 92 pp. Intertype Company, Title and publication date penned on paper and taped to spine. Contents clean and unmarked. More
Brooklyn: Intertype Company, (1970), large octavo, flexible boards. 92 pp. Intertype Company, Title and publication date penned on paper and taped to spine. Contents clean and unmarked. More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Yale University Press, 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..... More
New York: Continental Typefounders Association, Inc., circa 1930, 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" one sheet folded once to form (4) pp. Continental Typefounders Association, Inc., Salmon color heavy stock printed in black and silver. An announcement from Melbert Cary, "to tell you that I am starting on my regular round..... More
London: Cassell & Co., (1953), First Edition, Limited to 1,000 numbered copies. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. T.e.g. xv, (224) pp. Cassell & Co., Printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type at the University Press, Cambridge. Foreword by Walter Shewring. "A Record of All Eric Gill's Writings & Illustrations with a...... More
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2012, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 104 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Historical Types begins in 1454 with Gutenberg's experiments with moveable type and reaches as far as the Fine Press movement at the beginning of the twentieth century. Every historical example shown in..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2013, First Edition. octavo, boards and cloth. 216 pp. David R. Godine, The book and type designer Frederic Warde is remembered today chiefly for his collaboration with Stanley Morison, for producing the singular typeface Arrighi, and for being, briefly, the husband of Beatrice, Monotype's charismatic publicity..... More
(New York): American Printing History Association, (1998), First Edition, one of 600 copies printed. octavo, blue cloth. 176, (4) pages plus 38 plates. American Printing History Association, Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed letterpress, with 38 plates by offset lithography, at the Stinehour Press. A fascinating survey of American "private..... More
Rochester: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2005, First Edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (x), (70)pp. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, As printing from movable type was perfected in the fifteenth century, the mysteries of its practice were guarded by a privileged few. The rapid spread of the new art depended on..... More
London: British Library, 2004, First Edition, wrappers issue. large quarto, pictorial wrappers. 1,152 pp. British Library, 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..... More
Arnheim: van Loghum Slaterus, 1966, First Edition. large octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 415 pp. van Loghum Slaterus, Text in Dutch. Contents include: I The resources. (intaglio printing, planographic printing, letter and its shapes, letterpress printing, etc.). II The goal. (proportions of the book, proofs, co-productions and books on foreign..... More
Typefoundry Asterdam, (1956), quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. (20) pp. Typefoundry Asterdam, The last page consists of an In Memoriam of the font designer, Walter H. McKay, who died a few days after the introduction of Columbia. The back pocket holds eight samples using Columbia typeface. Very fine. More
New York: Scribner and Welford, 1887, First American Edition. octavo, original brown cloth stamped and lettered in gilt. T.e.g. viii, 312pp. Scribner and Welford, Translated and Enlarged by Edward C. Bigmore. With 118 illustrations of facsimiles of early typography, printers' marks, copies of book illustrations, and specimens of bindings. "This..... More
Boston: David R. Godine [et. al.], (1976), First printing of this edition. oblong small octavo, brown cloth in original acetate wrapper. unpaginated [75] pp. David R. Godine [et. al.], With a Memoir by Fritz Kredel and a Preface by Warren Chappell. A facsimile of the 24 alphabets in Das ABC..... More
New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, (2002), First Edition. folio, boards in dust jacket. 388 pp. Delano Greenidge Editions, 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..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2004, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. (80) pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2005, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 60 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2006, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 72 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Simon Brett..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2006, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 72 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Crispen Elsted..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2008, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 64 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Crispen Elsted..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2008, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 64 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Crispen Elsted..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2009, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. (64) pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Jan Elsted..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2010, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 64 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Sebastian Carter..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2010, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. (72)pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Sebastian Carter, Simon..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 1998, First Edition. quarto, plain wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 36 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Rigby Graham, Dennis Hall..... More
Fine Press Book Association, 2011, First Edition. quarto, plain heavy paper wrappers in printed dust wrapper. 64 pp. Fine Press Book Association, Aimed to be a "support group" for fine presses, this journal presents lists of recent publications and interesting articles and book reviews. Illustrated. With articles by Stephen Chambers..... More