Brill, 2013, First Edition. octavo, boards in dust jacket. 1,020 pp. Brill, When compiling the short-title catalogue of books printed in the sixteenth-century northern Netherlands from 1541 to 1600, Paul Valkema Blouw was confronted with a large number of ‘problem cases’, such as anonymously and/or surreptitiously printed editions, fictitious printers... More

Toronto: (1980 - 1989), small octavo, printed wrappers. From the first Editorial by Paul Forage, "The Devil's Artisan has been founded for the purpose of presenting to Canadian readers information on the craft of printing and bookmaking, on bibliographic and historic matters, and on communicative, sociological, and technical subjects related... More

Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. quarto, Fabriano paper and vellum spine. 24 pp. Cary Graphic Arts Press, Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in... More

Rochester, NY: RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2016, First Edition, Limited to 325 copies. large oblong octavo, boards with vellum spine. 60 pp. RIT Cary Graphic Arts Collection , With an Introduction by David Pankow. Foreword by Steven Galbraith. This new book – Manuale Calligraphicum – was conceived as a.... More

(New York: Harbor Press), no date, circa 1930, First Edition. duodecimo, pictorial wrappers, sewn. (8) pp. Harbor Press), Blue-green wrappers printed in a deeper blue-green ink and featuring the Harbor Press iconic seahorse printed in a deep pink ink. All 8 pages contain examples of borders. Laid in is a.... More

Zurich, Switzerland: Typographische Monatsblätter, February, 1935, quarto, printed wrappers. 33-68 pp. Typographische Monatsblätter , The second issue of 1935. Contributions by Jan Tschicold and others. Wrappers a bit sunned but with no chipping. More

Davenport, IA: St. Ambrose University, (1991), Second edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (xii), 310pp. St. Ambrose University, 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... More

New Haven: (Yale University Press), 1939, First Edition. octavo, spiral bound in a blue cloth case. partially paginated, approx. 280 pp. (Yale University Press), The first half consists of Specimens of Book Fonts, Specimens of Job Fonts, Initial Letters, Bold Face Fonts and more, and ends with Title Fonts of... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924, First Trade Edition. small octavo, pattern boards and tan cloth. (10), (72)pp. Harvard University Press, Chapters discuss On the Planning of Printing, Style in the Use of Type, and The Seven Champions of Typography. Illustrated. Signed on the front endpaper by the founder of The... More

(Birmingham): The Kynoch Press, 1964, First Edition. quarto, cream boards in dust jacket. 165 pp. The Kynoch Press, An anthology with contributions by James Mosley, Berthold Wolpe, Beatrice Warde, Alfred Fairbank, Walter Tracy and others. Printed on a wide variety of papers and typefaces. Fold-out title page, as are a.... More

London: Royal College of Art, (1969), Second Edition, Revised. quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. 107 pp. Royal College of Art, "...a report prepared as part of a programme of research into the readability of print in information publishing, sponsored bu the International Publishing Corporation, and first published in June... More

Toronto; New Castle: Coach House Press; Oak Knoll Press, 2015, First Edition. quarto, cloth. 130 pp., with DVD. Coach House Press; Oak Knoll Press, Illustrated in color. Carl Dair (1912-1967) received a year grant from the Royal Society of Canada to apprentice at the famous Enschede type foundry in 1956... More

New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2018, First Edition. large octavo, boards in dust jacket. 200 pp. Oak Knoll Press, This book, by typographic scholar Hendrik Vervliet, is a survey of the life and work of the sixteenth-century letter-cutter Robert Granjon (1513-1590). With his contemporary Claude Garamont, he is considered... More