Brattleboro, VT: Stephen Greene Press, (1977), First American Edition. quarto, cloth. xli; 151pp. Stephen Greene Press, Fully illustrated in colors. A fine study of this major wood engraver. Printed at the Curwen Press. The descriptive notes on the engravings provide a striking recapitulation of the last 40 years of private..... More
Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Books, 1992, First Edition. large quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (320)pp. Smithsonian Books, With color plate illustrations. A survey history of the book as the conveyer of the intellectual history of man, focusing on the physical object as a work of art. With chapters on Illuminating the..... More
New York: Grolier Club, 2011, First Edition. quarto, pictorial wrappers. (70) pp. Grolier Club, Documents Hollywood's invention of the glamour portrait, showing the leading role played by studio portraits in the film industry's star-making apparatus. The ten sections of the catalogue are each dedicated to a single photographer, star, or..... More
Detroit: Gale Research, 1967, Reprint of 1894 edition. quarto, brown cloth. iv, 592 pp. Gale Research, "A History of these Arts in Europe and America, with Definitions of Technical Terms." This book shows both the present and past conditions of the printer's and bookmaker's arts, with other related matters, in..... More
London: The Wynkyn de Worde Society, (1980), Reprint of the 1967 first edition. octavo, brown cloth. (148). The Wynkyn de Worde Society, From the Foreword: The books written on printing ink history are indeed rare in a technical literature that is itself meagre. Those who engaged in ink-making in earlier..... More
Verlag Arthur Niggli Teufen, (1967), Reprint of the 1967 first edition. quarto, white cloth stamped in black, in dust jacket. 273 pp. Verlag Arthur Niggli Teufen, Text in English French and German. This book is the legacy of Emil Ruder, one of the originator of Swiss Style, famous throughout the..... More
Bryn Mawr: Bryn Mawr College Library, 1983, First Edition. quarto, blue cloth with pictorial label on front cover. 122pp. Bryn Mawr College Library, Sixty-two items listed and described in detail. Each item illustrated. With an additional six full-color plates. Introduction by the donor and an eight-page history of "The Evolution..... More
New York: Dover Publications, (1978), Second edition. octavo, pictorial wrappers. (lxiv), 487pp., followed by a fold-out plate. Dover Publications, From the introduction by the editors, "For most things it is perhaps even now the easiest and pleasantest guide to the essentials of printing." Illustrated with bibliography, full notes, index and..... More
New York: Beil, (1983), First Edition. octavo, plain wrappers in dust jacket. 94pp. Beil, This survey covers the introduction of paper in the first century of the Christian era and the spread of printing from the circulation of Buddhist texts in the eighth century to the high point of woodblock..... More
Cambridge, Mass: M.I.T. Press, (1970), Revised Edition, hardbound issue. duodecimo, wrappers. (143) pp. M.I.T. Press, This is a revised edition of the Typophile Chap Book No. 37 first issued 1960, which was originally based on the idea of the Late Paul A. Bennett and translated by Paul Standard. Designed by..... More
New York: Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill, (1936), First Edition. quarto, tan cloth. (vi), 407 pp. Whittlesey House McGraw-Hill, From the Authors' Preface, "Graphic design, as treated in this book, is that creative endeavor which finds expression through the medium of printing ink. It is the design used in the make-up of..... More
Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982, First Edition. quarto, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. x, (298)pp. Library of Congress, With drawings by Margaret R. Brown. With full color photographic plates of bookbindings. Corners bumped, binding lightly worn from use, still a nice clean copy. More
Rochester, NY: The Press of the Good Mountain, (1971), First Edition. octavo, printed and blind stamped heavy paper wrappers. (20)pp., stapled. The Press of the Good Mountain, The Frederic W. Goudy Distinguised Lecture in Typography for 1971. Printed at the School of Printing, Rochester Institute of Technology. As new... More
New York: The Century Co., 1900, First Edition. octavo, brown cloth with maroon cloth spine label. T.e.g. 403 pp. The Century Co., The first in De Vinne's useful The Practice of Typography series. Extensively illustrated. Presentation copy inscribed and signed by De Vinne on the preliminary page, "To Mr W...... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912, First Edition. large octavo, full tan leather, in matching slipcase. vi, [1], 214 pp. Houghton Mifflin Company, Full tan leather binding with four raised bands at spine, blind embossed titling to both cover boards and spine, elegant squares within squares in blind tooling on front..... More
New York: Peter Smith, 1933, Reprint of the 1907 edition. octavo, full tan leather, in matching slipcase. vii, 201 pp. Peter Smith, Full leather binding in tan leather with four raised bands at spine, bliind embossed titling to both cover boards and spine, elegant design from figures 77 & 78..... More
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Northampton, Massachusetts: Hampshire Typothetae, 1978, Limited to 250 copies. 13 7/8" x 4 1/2" single sheet printed on one side. Hampshire Typothetae, This portrait, printed from the block, was engraved by Barry Moser for Hampshire Typothetae and printed by Harold McGrath for the participants in the 19th American A.C.R.L. Rare..... More
July, 1898, 15 3/4" x 11 3/8"; image 13 1/8" x 8 7/8" "Les Maitres De L'Affiche (Masters Of The Poster) prints are a series of 256 color lithographs published in Paris during The Belle Epoque. This collection is one of the most prestigious and influential art publications in history..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1903, New Edition. octavo, original grey-green cloth stamped in gilt and black on front cover and gilt on the spine. xx, 216pp. Chapman and Hall, Many of the plates are full-page. Pencil name on front endpaper, off-setting to free endpapers as is customary with this period..... More
London: Zaehnsdorf, Ltd, 1952, First Edition. small octavo, original printed heavy paper wrappers. (16)pp., stapled. Zaehnsdorf, Ltd, With wood engravings by Gwendolen Raverat and photographic illustrations of completed bindings. Zaehnsdorf's address on the front wrapper and inside front wrapper have been neatly marked out in ink. Calling card of Anthony..... More
(Northampton, MA: Hampshire Typothetae, 1976), First Edition. 16mo, one sheet of hand-made paper 6 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches, folded once. (4)pp. Hampshire Typothetae, Portrait of Morris laid in. "This portrait of William Morris is printed on a very rare Japanese vellum, Shizuoka. It was engraved for Pennyroyal Press's Men..... More
Chicago: American Library Association, (1972), First Editionm. quarto, pictorial heavy paper wrappers. (22), (204)pp. American Library Association, With drawings by Aldren A. Watson. A classic text. With chapters on Cleaning the Bindings, Removing the Original Spine, Resewing, Headbanding, Rebacking, Straightening Warped Boards, Repairing Corners and so much more. Extensively illustrated..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1922, First Edition. large octavo, original black cloth. xxxii, 276; (xxx), (310)pp. Harvard University Press, Two volumes. Extensively illustrated and with two folding plates. The seminal work on the subject. "The text supplies a survey of the development of movable type designs from their invention through..... More
Privately Printed, no date, Reprint. Plimpton Press, brown boards and calf spine. (vi), (14) pp. Privately Printed, Very minor scuffing to spine ends, no wear, corners sharp, contents clean. Very fine. More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1967), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (x), 117 pp. University of Toronto Press, This publication is for those who are concerned with the identification of wood samples and the fibre constituents of paper and paper products. Illustrated. Former owner's name and address rubber stamp on..... More