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The History of Printing in America; With a biography of printers & an account of newspapers
by Thomas, Isaiah
New York: Weathervane Books, 1975. Reprint. Cloth. Very good/very good. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Top and bottom of spine are creased. DJ has wear at top and bottom of spine. ix-xxi, 650 pp. Reprint of 1970 edition by the Imprint Society. The history of printing and newspapers in the Colonial states, the British colonies, and the British Isles.
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£11.69
The Princeton University Library Chronicle. The Scheide Library
by Various
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976. Volume XXXVII Winter 1976 Number 2. pp. 67 - 172, b/w illustrations. Minor wear, unmarked. [772]. First Edition. Card Covers. Very Good. 235mm. x 155mm.. Book.
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£10.00
Round and About the London Publishing Office of the Cambridge University Press 1902-1953
by Cambridge University Press
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1953. Very informative book on the history of the London office of the Cambridge University Press, looks as if it was specially published for a limited print run with tipped in photographs accompanying the text. 95 pages in very bright clean condition including errata pages and appendix just some light foxing to endpapers NOT inside, many B/w photographs plus very informative text. Original clear plastic type dustwrapper has a few light marks and small tear to top...
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£98.00
Modern Typography & Layout
by McMurtrie, Douglas C
Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 190pp. Many examples of posters, advertisements and book pages, in black, white and red. Limited to 2000 copies. Black cloth. Lightly bumped corners, top and bottom of spine. Owner's signature on front free endpaper. Fascinating samples of the typography of the period with discussion of the art and history of modern typography in the context of modern architecture and fine arts.
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£242.85
Eric Gill the man who loved letters
by [BREWER, ROY.]
London: Frederick Muller Ltd, 1973. First edition, 8vo, 86pp., illus. frontis portrait, illus. and facsimiles of Gill's work; very fine in the jacket. Part of the Ars Typographia Library edited by James Moran. An analytical work on Gill's approach to the problems of typography and his own type designs.
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£27.93
Carinthia, Austrian dominion of the Habsburg dynasty
by Hartmann Schedel . Albrecht Dürer (illustrator)
Anton Koberger, Nuremberg., 1493 Woodcut illustration from sheet 275 of the Nuremberg Chronicle. Historic minor worm holes, virtually unnoticeable. Some very slight foxing. On verso are 37 lines of printed text, including a Lombardic style two-line initial and section title in larger typeface. Mounted on white art boards with blue marbled border. Image 23 x 19 cm. The text includes the following:Nobility & knighthood during the time of Emperor Charlemagne. The Saltzburg bishops. A thief being caught...
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£350.00
OCAP Six Anthology: The Sixth Gathering of Hand Printed Signatures Created by Printmakers for the Fall of 1986
by Ontario College of Art
Toronto: Ontario College of Art Press, 1986. Limited edition of 100. Hardcover. Near fine. Unpaginated. 30 cm. Numerous colour and b&w illustrations. Brown cloth spine with cream paper boards. Blank impressing. Boards a little rubbed. Part 6 of the OCAP volumes. Various signatures produced by different printers, all listed at front. Some truly beautiful (and unusual) work inside.
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£283.32
The book typography of Hermann Zapf: the article which first appeared in Fine Print volume ten, number four, now published in its original version with more illustrations
by Kelly, Jerry
New York: Typophiles, 1984. Edition limited to 480 copies, 8vo, pp. 13, [3]; 12 facsimiles on 4 leaves; original beige printed wrappers; fine. Designed by Jerry Kelly and printed at the Press of A. Colish. A Typophiles Monograph. From the library of Kim Merker.
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£18.62
Reading is to the mind
by Hare, Augustus
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1992. 7½" x 11", letterpress broadside accompanied by relief print by Susan Nees.
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£11.17
On the fritz: living with hot flashes...With explanatory mouse drawings by the author
by Blinn, Carol J
[Easthampton]: Warwick Press, 2010. First edition, 8vo, pp. 36, [6]; 15 color illustrations; original pictorial wrappers; fine. "Illustrated, designed, typeset, and hand sewn into paper wrappers" by Blinn. "The line drawings were originally drawn pen & ink, the watercolored, scanned into an iMac, & carefully cleaned up in photoshop so no hairs would be out of place on the mice." Digitally printed. Laid in is an illustrated bookplate with text, "This book belongs to a hot woman!"
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£55.86
Eleven western presses: an account of how the first printing press came to each of the eleven western states
by Wentz, Roby
Los Angeles: printed for members of the 37th annual convention of the International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1956. Only edition, slim folio, pp. [2], 57, [2]; fine in original black cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; fine. Design and composition by Richard Hoffman and printed letterpress by Walter James and Grimmon McDonald of Cole-Holmquist Press in a limited edition of an unspecified number.
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£37.24
A comp's-eye view of paper
by Wulling, Emerson
La Crosse, 1971. Edition limited to 170 copies, this 1/144 in Nancy M. Storm's paste-paper wrappers; 12mo, pp. [11]; printed in red, black and blue; woodcut vignette on title; fine. Press Preterite no. 123.
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£13.96
Print culture in Renaissance Italy. The editor and the vernacular text 1470-1600
by Richardson, Brian
[Cambridge]: Cambridge University Press, 2004. First paperback edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 265, [6]; purple paper wrappers; light corner bumping, text clean and unmarked, near fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
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£32.58
Matrix 11
by Randle, John, & Rosalind Randle
Andoversford, Gloucestershire: Whittington Press, Winter, 1991. Edition limited to 955 copies, 4to, pp. [6], 207; numerous illustrations throughout, including may tip-ins, some in color, largely of a typographic nature; fine copy in paper-covered boards and dust jacket. Printed at the Whittington Press. Contributions by illustrators, scholars and printers, including Brooke Crutchley, Sebastian Carter, James Mosley, John Dreyfus, and Jan Van Krimpen.
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£107.06
![Caractere. [N° 13] Noel 1957. [Numero Hors-Serie] (Caractere. [No. 13] Noel 1957. [Numero Hors-Serie])](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/796/498/1412498796.0.b.jpg)
Caractere. [N° 13] Noel 1957. [Numero Hors-Serie] (Caractere. [No. 13] Noel 1957. [Numero Hors-Serie])
by Emmanuel Ollive et al
Patterned cream and grey boards. Pictorial dust jacket by Jacques Lagrange; hand-drawn stenciled design to endpapers. Copiously illustrated in both full color and black and white by several different artists with very high quality printing throughout. Signatures have detached from spine but are still intact in 2 sections; these are the first 1/4 and second 3/4 respectively. Small loss to head of dj and light wear (see image). No previous owners' names or other markings. Pages bright and clean. 10 x 12...
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£60.71
![The Book Collector's Packet, Volume 2 (complete in 8 numbers, #13-20], A Monthly Miscellany of Fine Books, Bibliography, Typography and Kindred Literary Matters](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/216/587/1555587216.0.b.jpg)
The Book Collector's Packet, Volume 2 (complete in 8 numbers, #13-20], A Monthly Miscellany of Fine Books, Bibliography, Typography and Kindred Literary Matters
by Johnston, Paul; & Irving Haas (editors)
Woodstock, New York / Chicago: Virginia Fitzwater/Norman W. Forgue (Black Cat Press) Volume 2. Complete in 8 numbers. As New in PERFECT condition but for just a touch of the unavoidable age toning (very minor) SEE OUR PHOTO. These are the original first editions, NOT print on demand or modern reprints. We have multiple sets available as they are publisher's overstock that we acquired decades ago and just rediscovered in our warehouse. They were never issued to anyone and don't have any...
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£78.93
Annales de L'Imprimerie des Alde, ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de Leurs Éditions. Tome I
by RENOUARD, Ant. Aug
Paris: Antoine-Augustin Renouard, 1825. Second Edition. Hardcover. ex library-fair. Vol. I only: 425 p. 25 cm. Red cloth. Light edge wear. Bookplate on front pastedown has marked opposite page. Ex library with blind stamp on title page. Foxing and dampstains.
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£60.71
incipt Roseum memoriale divinorum eloquiorum
by Rosenheim, Petrus de Rosenheim. (1380-1432)
[Köln] : [Southern Germany : n.pr., about 1480-90?] or [Cologne? : n.pr., about 1483] or [Ludwig von Renchen?], 1483 Deutschla, 1480. First Edition. First edition. - First blank almost loose, with backed tear and torn of corner as well as "Rosarium sup(er) bibliam" in old handwriting, flyleaf with purchase note dated 1908, small water stain on the bottom corner in the first half of the work, slightly soiled and tanned. - Wide margined copy from the Wican Free Public Library (blind stamp and bookplate)....
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£12,547.25
Design Typography, Winter 1992: Hatch Show Print
by Typographers International Association
Washington DC, 1992. Winter issues, 1992. Softcover. Near fine. [20 p.]. 30 cm. Colour illustrations. Staplebound.
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£16.19
Gutenberg and the Invention of Printing; an Anniversary Review, with Special Reference to the Gutenberg Bible
by TOMLINSON, Laurence E
Judd & Detweiler, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Very good hardcover. First edition. Lacks slipcase. First edition. Spine browned.
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£28.33
A DICTIONARY OF THE ART OF PRINTING
by Savage, William
Gregg Press Ltd., 1966. hard cover. As New. [London: Gregg Press Ltd. 1966.] Hardcover, no jacket, as issued. viii+815pp. Facsimile reprint of the London 1841 edition. We obtained this copy directly from the publisher, it has never been privately owned. It is in brand new condition. A comprehensive volume, including topics of Composing, Casting Up, Fine Presswork, Galvanism, Imposing, Inking Apparatus, Machines, Newspapers, Paper, Price of Pages, and much more. (cfm)
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£48.57
List of Typefaces
by HACKER, H. LIMITED
London: H. Hacker Limited, 1962. First Edition. This is literally our list of typefaces, and we make no apology for not showing complete alphabets from 6 to 72 point. However for those who might say, 'what is Flash?', a sample setting is included in the form of useful advice, rather than in 'the quick brown fox' tradition of setting... In the hope that this type list will remain on top of the desk rather than buried by less worthy companions, we have included other items of interest. For example, there...
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£29.10
GREAT PRINTS & PRINTMAKERS
by Wechsler, Herman F
New York: Harry N. Abrams. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1967. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to 11" - 13" tall; 244 pages .
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£36.43
A Tally of Types
by Morison, Stanley
Cambridge: The University Press, 1973. New Edition. Hardcover. Orig. cloth and decorated boards. Fine in near fine slipcase. Morison, Stanley. 138 pages. 26.5 x 18 cm. A New Edition with additions by several hands Edited by Brooke Crutchely. Introduction by Stanley Morison revised and amplified by P.M. Handover. Index. Notes, mostly historical and critical regarding the Monotype plan and investment in a series of new type faces unequalled for range and practicability. Limited edition, copy 233 of 300...
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£80.95
