(Rochester, NY: Melbert B. Cary Graphic Arts Printing Collection, 1980, octavo, printed wrappers, stapled. (60) pp. Melbert B. Cary Graphic Arts Printing Collection, Includes 32 Unrecorded Books Designed by Bruce Rogers while at The Riverside Press, 1896 - 1914. Illustrated. Very fine. 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
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
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
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2013, First Edition. quarto, cloth in dust jacket. 208 pp. Oak Knoll Press, Founded by Will Carter in 1924, the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge, England, established itself as one of the leading letterpress workshops in the decades after the Second World War. Will was..... 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
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2017, First Edition. quarto, pattern boards and cloth. xii, 276 pp. Oak Knoll Press, George Macy started the Limited Editions Club with backing from investors in the heyday of the stock market of 1929. After enlisting founding subscribers and collaborators and preparing the initial..... 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
(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
(London): The British Library, 2008, First Edition. quarto, maroon boards in pictorial dust jacket. xii, 292pp. The British Library, Illustrated with photographs. This is the first in-depth study on the role of British publishing in 1939-45, an aspect of the World War Two that other books have not covered in..... 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
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 Press, 2007, First Edition. octavo, decorated wrappers. 48pp. RIT, Cary Graphic Arts Press, “Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly,”—a quote from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables—aptly describes the lifework of two principal figures in contemporary graphic arts: Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. The Zapfs’ 50-year relationship with Rochester..... More