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The Measure of Typography (Vol. I only of 2): The History of Typography
by Provincial Paper, Limited
Toronto, nd. 1950s. Softcover. Very good. Unpaginated. 28 cm. Some b&w illustrations. Stapled. Some soiling to covers. A little discolouration around spine. Includes `Selection of Type Families and Ornament` by A. J. Casson, among other articles.
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£20.23
THE PRINTING ART QUARTERLY (Volume 66, Number 4) The Quarterly of Printing & Advertising Production.
Chicago and New York: Dartnell Publications Inc., 1937. hardcover. Very good. Folio, (approx. 10 1/4" wide by 13 1/4" tall) glossy pictorial covers, 120 pages, spiral-bound. Very Good condition. 071202B
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£38.85
Collects from the Book of Common Prayer.
by [Printed and Bound by H.D. and H.G. Webb at Caradoc Bedford Park Chiswick]
Caradoc Press, London, 1901 350 copies printed, (108) printed pages. Printed in black & red with wood-engraved borders, initials and decorations, on Batchelor's Kelmscott hand-made paper with silk ribbon marker. Ink inscription on front free end paper ("Kenneth Loveless F.S.A. Hoxton, 16.vi.1962"). 12 x 14 cm. Original full vellum, lettered in gold on backstrip & Press device in gold on upper cover , uncut pages, top edges gilt (a light overall patina from handling). Kenneth...
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£250.00
An apology for the true Christian divinity, as the same is held forth, and preached, by the people, called in scorn, Quakers ... The sixth edition in English
by Barclay, Robert
Newport: James Franklin, 1729. First American edition of Barclay's seminal treatise, 8vo, pp. [12], 524 (i.e. 574), [32]; full contemporary and probably original paneled calf, spine with a number of hairline cracks, extremities rubbed and worn, corners showing, joints tender with gaps, title page slightly miscreased, but all in all a good, unrestored copy in a Rhode Island binding. One of the first ten pieces of printing done in Rhode Island, and exclusive of almanacs and broadsides, just the fifth (the...
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£2,326.74
THE AMERICAN PRINTER. Vol 81, No. 10. November 20, 1925
by O'Neill, Matthew J
NY: American Printer Inc., 1925. Quarto. 80 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Perfect bound paperback. VG, covers lightly soiled, bottom corner creased, minor edgewear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.
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£20.23
Letter forms. Formes de caracteres. Forme typografiche. Formas tipograficas. Buchstabenformen.
by Lambert, Frederick W
London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1968 191 printed pages. Introduction in five languages. 150 complete alphabets. Red decorative endpapers. Vintage Foyles bookshop label on paste-down endpaper. 25 x 27.5 cm. Original black cloth with gilt and grey lettering along spine and on upper cover. Corners very slightly bumped. Original printed dustwrapper, torn at spine with bottom 5 cm missing, & with other creases and minor tears. Fred Lambert is an English designer for Letraset, as well as a lecturer at the London...
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£100.00
Archiv für Druck und Papier, Buchgewerbe, Graphik, Werbung. Internationale graphische Fachzeitschrift. Zweisprachige Ausgabe. Archives for printing paper and kindred trades. International Printing Journal in two languages
by Buch- u. Druckgewerbe-Vlg:
Buch- u. Druckgewerbe-Vlg, 1958. Very Good. 4°, Leinen. Text in Deutsch und Englisch Buch ist in einem sehr guten Zustand, grüner Leineneinband mit schwarzem Rückenschild, Einband leicht berieben, Papier in sehr guetm Zustand.
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£21.69
PRINTING OF TO-DAY. AN ILLUSTRATED SURVEY OF POST-WAR TYPOGRAPHY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES
by Simon, Oliver and Julius Rodenberg. [Itro Aldous Huxley]
Peter Davies Limited/ Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; Sound volume with brief aging and light sunning to spine. Illustrations [color and b/w] & Type Faces. .
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£19.79
Der Druckspiegel: Ein Archiv für deutsches und internationales grafisches Schaffen
by Der Druckspiegel:
Stuttgart, Otto Blersch Verlag, 1966. Very Good. 4°, Leinen. Jahrgang 1966 : Mit zahlreichen, teils farbigen typographischen Beilagen - Grüner Leinen Einband mit goldgeprägtem Titel und Rückentitel; Einband minimal lagerspurig; Papier innen leicht bzw teils papierbedingt etwas stärker altersbedingt nachgedunkelt und sehr gut erhalten; Schönes Exemplar des druckgeschichtlich bedeutenden Periodikums
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£52.87
Botica General de los Remedios Esperimentados Sonoma, 1838. Translation by Maria Lopez de Lowter; Introduction by Viola Lockhart Warren
by (CALIFORNIA)
Los Angeles: The Ward Ritchie Press For the Friends of the UCLA Library. Good. 1954. Softcover. 26 pp.; 8vo; printed, stapled blue wrappers. Scuff to front cover; stip of light tanning across front endpaper; ownership ticket of Ed Ainsworth affixed to lower edge inside front cover. The Botica General . . . was one of twelve twelve books printed by the Zamorano press during its twelve years of service to the Mexican Government. .
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£60.70
Liber librorum
[Stockholm: Royal Library, 1955. 41 (of 42) printed specimens of biblical text from different printers in 15 countries, from single leaves to 8-p. pamphlets, 12mo to folio, on varying papers and in assorted fonts, all fine in publisher's large portfolio of half linen over paper-covered boards. Among the printers and designers: Joseph Blumenthal, D. Stempal, Hermann Zapf, Jan Van Krimpen, Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Jan Tschichold, Grant Dahlstrom, Bruce Rogers, Ward Ritchie, and Frank Kacmarcik of St. Paul,...
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£186.14
A bibliography of printing with notes and illustrations
by BIGMORE, E.C. and C.W.H. WYMAN., comps
New York: Philip C. Duschnes, 1945. 3 volumes in two, facsimile reproduction of the 1884 edition, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, 449; [2], vii, [1], 412, [2], vi, [2], 115, [1]; illustrated throughout; original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, 2 leaves chipped at margins (not affecting text), else very good with original prospectus laid in.
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£83.76
The Yellow Barn Press: a history and bibliography
by Walsdorf, Jack
Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 2001. First edition, one of 175 copies (this, no. 19); folio, pp. 140; 22 color plates, 58 illustrations, many of them John DePol's wood engravings, text in 14-point Perpetua, an Eric Gill design; quarter black Oasis goat skin with a DePol pattern paper over boards, leather spine label, cloth clamshell box; fine. Original bifoliate prospectus with 2 tipped-in photographs laid in. From the library of Kim Merker. Neil Shaver began his Yellow Barn Press in Council...
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£465.35
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherrimis que sunt occasio salutis
by Gérard de Vliederhoven (ƒl end of the14th -early15th centuries) and to Dionysius Carthusiensis
Cologne: Quentell, 1492. This copy has rubrication on the first few pages with a very nice Lombard initial at the beginning of the text. Quarto. 19 X 14 cm Signatures: a-g⁶ [Lacks leaves g 3.4; GW notes: "In einem Teil der Aufl. fehlt das Doppelbl. g3.4, dessen Ausfall keine merkliche Störung des Textes bedeutet."] ["In part of the edition the double sheet g3.4 is missing, the failure of which does not mean any noticeable disturbance of the text.]. Accipies Woodcut" used by Quentell; depicting St...
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£11,330.20
Art and Publicity :
by Jones, Sydney R.:
London, The Studio Limited, 1925. First Edition : . Very Good. 4°, Leinen. Fine Printing and Design : Reich illustrierter Band der Studio Limited London zu Grafik und Design der 1920er Jahre - Dekorativer blauer Leinen Einband mit goldgeprägtem Titel, Rückentitel und reicher, geprägter Deckel-Ornamentik; Einband leicht - hinterer Deckel etwas stärker - lagerspurig; Kapitale bestoßen; Kopfgoldschnitt; Papier innen altersbedingt leicht, die Tafelseiten nur gering nachgedunkelt und sehr gut erhalten
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£74.83
PRINT; America's Graphic Design Magazine
New York: RC Publications, 1994. Perfect bound magazine. Light shelfwear; soft crease to cover. Very good.. 132pp., plus covers. Graphic design and arts magazine illustrated throughout in color and b/w. Features include: Mapbacks: High End of a Low Art, by Steven Heller (on Dell paperbacks' famous back cover series). A Logo of Their Own, by Pamela A. Ivinski (major-league baseball team logos). After Mao: Chinese Graphic Design Today, by Min Wang and Xiao Hong Shen. The Signs of Tiananmen Square, by...
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£14.57
Anwendungsvorschriften Indigosole im Druck- und Klotzartikel (und) Anwendungsvorschriften I. Teil (2. Auflage)
by DURAND & HUGUENIN AG:
DURAND & HUGUENIN AG, 1936. einer von zwei. Very Good. 8° leinen. inklusive von / Nachträgen Buch ist in einem guten Zustand, Leineneinband mit Titelprägung in weiss auf dem Deckel, Einband berieben and Kapitalen, Gelenken und Ecken, Deckel durch Gebrauch gebogen, Eigentumstempel auf Vorsatz und Titel, Die sieben Nachträge sind in der vorgefertigten Version eingebunden und ebenfalls gestempelt, Papier des Hauptteils in sehr gutem sauberem Zustand.
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£19.09
The Penrose Annual: A Review of the Graphic Arts (Volume 54)
by DELAFONS, ALLAN (ED)
1960. . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. QUARTO. - Previous owner's Ex-Libris sticker to front free endpaper - Board covers unevenly toned, faded and marked - Spine ends rubbed and bumped - Corners a little bumped and chipped - Edges of text block unevenly toned and foxed - Spine tanned and faded w/ some brown glue residue - Endpapers and Content toned throughout - Book ow/ solid, clean and tight - xi/120/60 pages
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£30.00
An Easie and Familiar Method Whereby to Judge the Effects Depending on Eclipses, Either of the Sun or Moon
by [Charles II] Lilly, William
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, and H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corn-Hill, 1652. First edition. 4to, 18x13cm, [2], 36pp. Incomplete. A-E4, lacking pgs 37-44. Paper boards sewn in red and gold floral patterned silk with metallic rickrack trim. Armorial Plate of Charles II attached to front board, sewn in under inner flap. Loose front endpaper, loose title, and then remainder of signatures, including rear endpaper, attached to each other with remnants of an old spine, and laid in. Old stab...
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£606.98
THE AMERICAN PRINTER. Vol 80, No. 1. January 5, 1925
by Oswald, John Clyde
NY: Oswald Publishing, 1925. Quarto. 80 pp; numerous b/w illustrations. Perfect bound paperback. VG, covers lightly soiled, minor edgewear.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good.
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£20.23
Österreichisches Jahrbuch für Exlibris und Gebrauchsgraphik 1926
by Österreichische Exlibris-Gesellschaft [Hrsg.]:
Wien. Österreichische Exlibris-Gesellschaft, 1926. Very Good. 4°, Halbleinen. Redigiert von Dr. Hans Ankwicz-Kleehoven Einband (möglicherweise nachgebunden) leicht berieben und bestoßen, mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel auf Lederschild. Roter Kopffarbschnitt. Seiten altersgemäß nachgedunkelt. Insgesamt in einem sher guten Zustand.
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£34.70
The Type Louse
by Out of Sorts Pres and Letter Foundery
Larchmont, NY, 1974. 250 copies. Booklet. Fine. [12 p.]. 16 cm. Booklet with built-in dustjacket. Reprinted from A Treasury of American Folklore ed. by B. A. Botkin and published by Crown Publishers.
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£20.23
Europa in al zijn Heerlijkheid geschetst door Gerard Keller Deel IV
by Keller Gerard:
Rotterdam Jacs. G. Robbers., 1880. Band 4, vierde deel. Very Good. 4°, Leinen. Met staal- en houtgravuren naar oorspronkelijke teekeningen. Buch ist in sehr gutem Zustand. Blauer Leineneinband mit Titelprägung in Gold, Deckel mit Titelprägung und historisierenden Elemenenten, Kapitale angerissen, Ecken stark berieben, Einband lose, Bindung fest, Titelseite mit Stockflecken, Papier in altersgemäßen Zustand.
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£32.10
![De tesseris Hospitalitatis Liber singualris, In quo hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur. Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi 1670. 12mo, engraved frontispiece by F. Bloteling, engraved vignette on title, 9 engraved plates (2 folding) illustrations in the text, index at end, [12], 227, [25] pp. [Bound with:-] TOMASININ (Jac Philippi) Episcopi Æmoniensis Titvs Livivs Patvinvs](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/804/588/725588804.0.b.jpg)
De tesseris Hospitalitatis Liber singualris, In quo hospitii universum, apud veteres potissimum, expenditur. Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi 1670. 12mo, engraved frontispiece by F. Bloteling, engraved vignette on title, 9 engraved plates (2 folding) illustrations in the text, index at end, [12], 227, [25] pp. [Bound with:-] TOMASININ (Jac Philippi) Episcopi Æmoniensis Titvs Livivs Patvinvs
by TOMASININ (Jac Philippi)
Amstelodami, Sumptibus Andreæ Frissi., 1670. engraved vignette on title, 2 folding plates, index at end,125, [17]pp. Two works in one, 12mo, bookplate of Revd., Geo., Innes, College, Warwick. contemporary calf, upper cover detached, lower joint a little wormed, gilt title and date on spine.
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£268.75
The First Century of Printmaking 1400-1500 A Catalogue Compiled By Elizabeth Mongan and Carl O. Schniewind An Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago January 30-March 2 1941
by MONGAN, Elizabeth, Carl O.Schniewind
Chicago: Lakeside Press, 1941. Softcover. Good. Exhibition. Paperback in Good Condition, covers browned and stained, spine browned, spine ends rubbed.
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£16.19
