Typography
Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts. New Series 18.
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
George W. Jones: Printer Laureate.
West New York, NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2005, First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 128pp. Mark Batty Publisher, 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..... More
Typographic Design in France.
Chicago: Privately Printed, 1934, First Separate Edition. Limited to 200 copies. octavo, wrappers. 7pp. Privately Printed, More
Monotype Ehrhardt. Series 453. (Cover title).
(London): William Clowes & Sons, no date, circa 1970, small quarto, printed wrappers, stapled. 16 pp. William Clowes & Sons, "An Addition to the Range of the Type Faces Used by William Clowes & Sons Ltd, London and Beccles." With alphabets and examples of pages set in Ehrhardt. Top of..... More
Books and Printing. A Treasury for Typophiles.
Cleveland: World, (1951), First Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. (xvi), 419pp. World, A classic collection of essays on typography featuring the major typographers and bibliographers of this century on their specialties: Wroth on American types, McKerrow on early English long "s", Will Ransom on the Private Press, and Bennett..... More
Typologia. Studies in Type Design & Type Making.
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1977), Reprint of the 1940 edition. octavo, printed wrappers. xviii, (172)pp. University of California Press, From Goudy's Preface, "Typologia presents more or less graphically my work in type design and describes my own methods of type production..." Illustrated. Spine faded, else fine. More
Creative Characters. A collection of interviews with type designers originally published as e-mail newsletters from MyFonts. Volume 1.
BIS Publishers, (2010), First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 191 pp. BIS Publishers, Creative Characters is a collection of in-depth interviews with the most influential typeface designers in the business as well as up-and-coming young guns, who discuss the motives and methods behind type. The list of designers includes Jim Parkinson, Underware..... More
On Stone. The Art and Use of Typography on the Personal Computer.
San Francisco: Bedford Arts, (1991), First Edition. folio, wrappers. 112pp. Bedford Arts, "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..... More
The Typographic Scene.
London: Gordon Fraser, (1988), First Edition. octavo, brown cloth in dust jacket. (96)pp. Gordon Fraser, Observations of the typographic scene from the perspective of sixty years of close involvement with the design and technology of the printed word. Illustrated. Very fine in a very fine, clean dust jacket. More
J. L. Frazier's Specimen Review. An Example.
Mason City, (IA): Cedar Creek Press, 1992, First Separate Edition. octavo, printed heavy paper wrappers. (8)pp., stapled. Cedar Creek Press, With a Preface by Alexander S. Lawson. A reprint of one of the many critiques of sample types sent for review to The Inland Printer. Printed for distribution at the..... More
The American Zimmer.
Athens, GA: The Press of the Nightowl, (1984), First Edition Limited to 420 copies. large octavo, printed paper wrappers. (24)pp. The Press of the Nightowl, Hand-printed and bound by Dwight Agner at The Press of the Nightowl. A few tiny dings to wrappers, otherwise a fine, clean copy. More
Typographic Years. A Printer's Journey Through a Half Century 1925-1975.
New York: Beil, (1982), First Edition. octavo, 153pp. Beil, 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..... More
Stanley Morison: A Portrait.
London: Trustees British Museum, 1971, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 64pp. Trustees British Museum, 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..... More
True to Type.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2000, First Edition. octavo, blue cloth dust jacket. (xvi), 216pp. Oak Knoll Press, 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..... More
Rookledge's International Handbook of Type Designers: A Biographical Directory. Edited by Phil Baines and Gordon Rookledge.
Sarema Press (Publishers), 1991, First Edition. small octavo, black boards in dust jacket. vi, 209pp. Sarema Press (Publishers), 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..... More
Effective Typography and Economy. Reproducing a Speech made before Atlanta Printers.
Offprint from "The Southern Printer", 1932, quarto, single sheet folded once to make (4)pp. Limited to 300 copies. More