T.J. Lyons Antique Type Collection: Twenty Typefaces Selected from the Distinguished Type Library of the T.J. Lyons Press of Boston by T.J. Lyons (Firm) - 1967

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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London, England: Rivington and Booker, 1836-01-01. First Edition. Leather Bound. Good+. First edition, 1836. Good+. 1/2 green leather with red leather label and marbled boards. 483 pages of debate with 78 page supplement and and a 9 page reprinting of a submission to the Bath Journal - in rear. Light dampstain at top edge, which penetrates and stains, without damaging the top 1/4" edge of the front pages, title page, and a few other pages of the text. Subjects of these Protestant Catholic Debates: "The Rule of Faith" and "The Sacrifice of the Mass" (see note below). Signed on the inside of the endpaper "F. C. Husenbeth 1836. The title page of the Supplement is also so signed. This is almost certainly the Catholic priest and writer, Frederick Charles Husenbeth. Husenbeth had no particular liking for religious institutes, and was quite opposed to the new forms of devotion. Between the years 1823 and 1849 forty-nine works written or edited by him appeared in London,… Read More

New York/North Miami: TypoGraphics Communications, Inc./Visual Graphics Corporation, 1967. 24; 22; 19 pp. 24 x 25 cm. Illustrated stiff paper wrappers, published between 1967 and c. 1970. Slight bumps along head of front cover of Volume II, with a light crease along fore-edge of cover. Interiors of all three volumes are clean and unmarked. Bindings all sound, although with some rusting to staples. Quite uncommon on the market, these three booklets each feature 20 different typefaces from the antique type collection of T.J. Lyons. Each booklet is printed and illustrated in 2-3 colors, and according to the third volume, "has proven to be a motivation inspiring more diversified design in the hep world of the 1970's". Although they do not bear his ownership marks, these three volumes were previously owned by printer Bernhard J. Kress, who was vice president of the McGraw-Phillips (PhilMac) Printing Company of New York, and also appears to have worked for TypoGraphics Communications, who… Read More