(London): Victoria & Albert Museum and Faber & Faber, (1980), First Edition. octavo, printed wrappers. (100)pp. Victoria & Albert Museum and Faber & Faber, A catalogue for the retrospective exhibition of his work to commemorate his 75th birthday. With 183 items exhibited and described in detail. Numerous illustrations in black..... 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
Norwood, MA: Plimpton Press, 1911, large octavo , maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blind. T.e.g. (xiv), 253, (iv), (83). Plimpton Press, A promotional book for the press displaying a Glossary, Standard Type Faces, Style Manual and with paper samples and samples of nine book covers mounted on heavy card..... More
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
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
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
Cambridge, MA: Harvard College Library, 1990, First Edition. quarto, wrappers. 64pp. Harvard College Library, Illustrated with plates and photographs. With an introduction by Eleanor Garvey. A beautifully produced catalogue in which Harvard's work as a calligrapher, type designer, stonecutter, author and illustrator is chronicled. With "Paragraphs on Life and Letters"..... More
New York: Watson-Guptill, (1989), First Edition. oblong quarto, boards & cloth in dust jacket. 192pp. Watson-Guptill, Aimed at Graphic designers, this book is designed to train the eye in the qualities of type: the specific characteristics of a face, its relationship to other faces and to space. Chapters include Working..... More
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
New York: Abrams, 1990, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 144pp. Abrams, A critical study of this master type designer, who did not draw his first alphabet until he was 30, nor count himself a professional type designer until he was 46. The fiinal chapter includes an annotated list..... More
Boston: Godine, 1998, 36pp. of text and 16pp. of color plates. First Trade Edition. octavo, cloth. Godine, "John Fass and his work at the Hammer Creek Press are practically unknown today except to a small group of devoted cognoscenti. Unlike Rogers, Updike, or Dwiggins, Fass was essentially a private printer..... More
Urbana: Univ of Illinois Press, 1968, First American Edition. octavo, cloth in dust jacket. 134pp. Univ of Illinois Press, With chapters on The Scene about 1900: Morris and Jugend, The Scene about 1 930: Architects and Functionalism, The Scene about 1960: Tradition and Innovation. With a page of Bibliographical Notes..... 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
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
Lunenberg: Meriden-Stinehour Press, (1988), First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. (xxii), 300pp. Meriden-Stinehour Press, Limited to 1,200 numbered copies. Joseph Blumenthal in The Printed Book in America has said of The Stinehour Press that it is "The only fine press in New England with a scholarly staff...and a plant..... More
Koln: Taschen, (1999), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. (176)pp. Taschen, Text in English, German, and French. Starting with a biography of Morris the text follows the author/artist through interests in interior and furniture design, his public commissions, stained glass, tiles, wallpapers, printed textiles, calligraphy and the Kelmscott Press..... More
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000, First Edition, Limited to 250 numbered copies. octavo, linen-backed boards. 82pp., 11 plates. The Grolier Club, Catalogue of an exhibition of the author's extensive collection of works by W. B. Yeats, his father John Butler Yeats, his sisters Lily and Lolly, and his brother..... More
Westerham Kent: Hurtwood Publications Ltd., 1980, First Edition. quarto, tan cloth with profile of Minerva stamped in gilt on front cover in gold dust jacket. (xii), 75pp. Hurtwood Publications Ltd., Foreword by HRH The Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh. This history covers the Society from its beginnings, through the years..... 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
(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
Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, (1986), First Edition. quarto, black cloth in dust jacket. (264) pp. Fachbuchverlag, Text in German. Later printing of an important text. Extensively illustrated covering the fields of typography, calligraphy and lettering. Fine. 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
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
West New York NJ: Mark Batty Publisher, 2003, First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 392pp. Mark Batty Publisher, This is the first of a planned series of hardcover anthologies drawing on the sum and substance of the respected and renowned journal MATRIX, produced for over 20 years by John..... 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