Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1903, Limited to 425 numbered copies. duodecimo, rose boards with printed paper spine label. xxxvi, 137, [3] pp. Houghton Mifflin, Translated into English verse by Curtis Hidden Page. Designed by Bruce Rogers. The Work of Bruce Rogers, 101. A solid copy of a book most often found..... More
London: Printing News Limited, Winter, 1958-1959, Vol. I, No. 4. quarto, printed heavy stock wrappers. 72 pp. Printing News Limited, Includes "My Life with Paper" by Dard Hunter and a lengthy In Memoriam for Jan van Krimpen. Light bump to top and bottom of spine, else a fine, clean copy..... More
Los Angeles: University of California Press, (2000), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 240pp. University of California Press, This book represents the first account in the English language of the emergence of German graphic design between 1890 and 1945. This study examines a time in German design history marked..... More
Washington, D.C. Library of Congress, 1987, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. vii, (70)pp. Library of Congress, Limited to 1,500 copies. Part of the Engelhard series sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Originally presented on October 2, 1985 as an Engelhard Lecture on the Book. Ward..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 1896, First Edition, Limited to 385 copies. quarto, three-quarter green morocco and boards stamped with the printer's device. 344 pp. The Grolier Club, "The foremost name in Victorian book design is that of the Chiswick Press...The Imprint was first used in 1811 by its founder..... More
(Boston: Society of Printers, 1957), First Edition, Society of Printers issue. large quarto, printed wrappers with WAD stamped in gilt on front, stitched. (16) pp. Society of Printers, Copies were also printed for AIGA. A collection of photographs of Dwiggins with captions of Hollister. Edges of wrappers slightly faded... More
Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, (1987), First Edition. quarto, blue cloth in dust jacket. 254 pp. Society of Typographic Arts, Since 1948 Herman Zapf has designed 175 alphabets for hand composition, and digital laser systems. Alphabets such as Palatino, Melior and Optima are standards of fine letter design. All of..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2014, First Edition. octavo, wrappers. 112 pp. The Grolier Club, Foreword by Matthew Carter, followed by a detailed checklist of over 160 items on show at the Grolier Club, February 19 - April 26, 2014. Theodore Low De Vinne (1828-1914) was one of the most..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983, Third Edition. octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), (392) pp. Yale University Press, A new edition of this now classic work is long overdue, and, with the filmsetting revolution almost complete, it has been possible to write it. The processes and methods of..... More
(Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel AG, 1958), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers, stitched. 16 pp. D. Stempel AG, A short, closed tear to the top of front wrapper, short tears at top and bottom of spine fold. A near fine, clean copy of this scarce Zapf pamphlet. More
(New York): Kelly Winterton Press, (2019), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. (368) pp. Kelly Winterton Press, Calligrapher, type designer, and typographer Hermann Zapf towers over twentieth century lettering arts. Over a 70 year career, he designed more than 200 typefaces, many of which have become a part..... More
London: Lund Humphries, (1971), First Edition. quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. 184pp. Lund Humphries, 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 conssiders among other matters Morison's..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1966), First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. xxiv, (408)pp. University of Chicago Press, 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..... More
Zurich, Switzerland: Typographische Monatsblätter, December, 1934, quarto, printed wrappers. 387-403 pp. Typographische Monatsblätter , The twelfth issue of 1934. Dime-size chip from upper right corners, a few other very small chips to wrappers. 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: Peter Davies Limited, 1928, First Edition. folio, boards and cloth. (176)pp. Peter Davies Limited, Editor's Note: "The specimens in this book have been selected not so much to represent every publisher, printer and illustrator of distinction in each country, but rather to endeavour (within a necessarily limited compass) to..... More
London: Signature, 1954, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers in original tissue outer wrapper. (66)pp. Signature, Printed at The Curwen Press. Articles and reviews by Brian Robb, Denys Sutton, "To Oliver Simon" by Edmund Blunden, "Horace Hart and The University Press, Oxford 1883-1915" by Charles Batey, and more. With..... More
London: Signature, 1953, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers in original tissue outer wrapper. (58)pp. Signature, Printed at The Curwen Press. Articles and reviews by Victor Scholderer, "The Shifting Scene. Five Journeys. Printer and Illustratores", by Oliver Simon, "Nicolas de Stael" by Denys Sutton, "The Achievement of Bulmer and..... More
London: Signature, 1952, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers in original tissue outer wrapper. (62)pp. Signature, Printed at The Curwen Press. Articles and reviews by Brian Robb, Desmond Flower, "The Printing of Shakespear's Plays" by Antony Sampson, "A New Light on Caxton and Colard Mansion". Well and beautifully illustrated..... More
London: Signature, 1950, First Edition. quarto, printed heavy paper wrappers in original tissue outer wrapper. (54)pp. Signature, Printed at The Curwen Press. Articles on "Brian Robb" by Edward Ardizzone, H. P. Schmoller and John Piper. Printed in black and red. Well and beautifuuly illustrated. A very fine, clean copy... More
(Boston): David R. Godine, (2016), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 120 pp. David R. Godine, Roughly fifteen years after Gutenburg printed the first book in Maintz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized as among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on..... More
Boston: David R. Godine, 2015, First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 280 pp. David R. Godine, A lavishly illustrated biography of the great printer Bodoni, vividly describing his work, life, and times while justifying his reputation as the "prince of typographers". This is the first English-language biography of the..... More
Ann Arbor: The Legacy Press, 2015, First Trade Edition. tall octavo, patterned boards and cloth with printed spine label. 168 pp. The Legacy Press, Beginning in the 1950s, the American master of wood engraving, John DePol (1913–2004), cut small endgrain blocks featuring subjects from Nature, the Heavens, the Book Arts..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923, Reprint. octavo, patterned paper boards and tan linen with printed spie label. 304 pp. Alfred A. Knopf, An interpretative history showing the various tendencies of the time as expressed in books and pictures. With chapters on Fin de Siecle 1890-1900, The Decadence, Oscar Wilde..... More
(Rochester, NY: Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, no date [circa 2000]), small octavo, unbound, as issued. (16) pp. Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection, "The illustrations shown on the preceding pages were all selected from the John Fass archives in the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts..... More