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130. NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN DESIGNERS AND ENGRAVERS OF TYPE.
Loy, William E. (edited by Alastair M. Johnston and Stephen O. Saxe). New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, 9 x 12 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 164 pages. ISBN 9781584562610. $ 59.95In 1896 William E. Loy, a San Francisco printing equipment salesman and scholar, had the idea of writing a series of profiles of type designers. Loy took a long view of history, and realized that it was important to document the men in the background who created the nineteenth century’s fanciful types, even as the furiously competing type foundries got the credit for introducing them
to the printing trade. His work was serialized in The Inland Printer over the next three years and included biographies, photographs of the artists, and lists of the type they had designed or cut, which Loy had painstakingly compiled through correspondence with the type founders and other craftsmen. Unfortunately, due to the technical limitations of a monthly periodical, it was not possible to show the typefaces mentioned. Finally here is the work as Loy envisioned it, with over 800 illustrations of typefaces designed by the craftsmen he discusses. Here, written by a man who knew many of the designers and engravers, is the behind-the-scenes story: biographies of men—artists, sportsmen, blacksmiths, soldiers, even a game warden—who were the creators of these innovative types. Loy traces their personal stories adding much in-cidental detail about the politics & business practices of the time and the innovations of each of these thirty men. Now, a century later, typographical historians Alastair Johnston and Stephen Saxe have realized Loy’s vision, fully illustrated and annotated. This is one of the first reference books on nineteenth-century American type design, and as such is an important addition to typographical history. [Order No. 96679]
131. VISIONARIES & FANATICS: TYPE DESIGN & THE PRIVATE PRESS. Maret, Russell. Number five of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Berkeley, Cali-fornia: CODEX Foundation, 2010, 5.5 x 7.75 inches, paperback pamphlet. 24 pages. ISBN 9780981791456. $ 25.00Number five of the CODE(X) Monograph Series. Russell Maret explores the future of the private press and the division between the private press and the fine press. The fine printer, often a com-mercial outfit, leaves proportion, legibility, and craftsmanship as secondary principles, where as the private press printer is possessed with an irrepressible need to make books, containing characteristics of iconoclasm and reverence. Richly illustrated with color images, the book was designed by Russell Maret and printed in an edition of 500 copies at Peter Koch Printers. The cover was printed from antique wood and metal types in the Koch collection. [Order No. 107488]
132. BOOK TYPOGRAPHY: A DESIGNER’S MANUAL. Mitchell, Michael and Susan Wightman. Marlborough, Wiltshire: Libanus Press, 2005, 7.25 x 9.25 inches, paperback. 434 pages. ISBN 0948021667. $ 69.95Book Typography: A Designer’s Manual is a comprehensive guide to typography and typeset-ting. Books depend on good design to communicate. Every type of book, from a poetry collec-tion to an encyclopedia, has its own style of communication. This manual describes the prin-ciples of good design, why they exist, and how to put them to practice. Book Typography leads the reader from an understanding of what is a readable text, through the construction of books through all their different forms—novels, illustrated books and complex reference works. The
organization of text and the handling of images are explained in detail. Advice is also given on work progression and print management. Designing books is a visual task and is best demonstrated with visual examples. Book Typography contains over a thousand examples and illustrations showing typographic principles put into practice—from the small-est detail of punctuation to flat plans of entire books. All the samples come from published works and each is labeled with the font used, its size and leading. Additional information and comment is provided in the side notes. Distributed for Libanus Press. Sales Rights: Worldwide except Europe and the UK; available in Europe and the UK from Libanus Press. [Order No. 92771]
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133. Fioretti Del Glorioso Poverello di Cristo.(Ashendene Press) Assisi, Francesco Di I. Chelsea: 1922, 8vo., limp vellum with title stamped in
gold on spine, linen ties, enclosed in later clamshell box. (xii), 240 pages.
$ 2,250Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies. (Ashendene no. XXXI; Franklin p.240). Illustrated with 53 wood engravings by Charles M. Gere. Graily Hewitt designed the initial and dropped initials printed in red and blue. Chapter headings and shoulder notes printed in red. Well preserved copy with all ties intact. [Order No. 49553]
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134. The Noble and Joyous Book Entytled le Morte d’Arthur.(Ashendene Press) Malory, Sir Thomas. Chelsea: 1913, folio, full brown leather, five raised
bands, titling in gilt, cloth clamshell box with leather spine label. xxii, (ii), 300, (2) pages.
$ 7,500Limited to 145 copies printed on hand-made paper and 8 on vellum; this is one of the paper copies (Descrip-tive Bibliography, no.XXVI; Franklin 102). Printed by hand by St. John Hornby. All but three of the illustra-tions were drawn by Charles M. Gere; the other three were drawn by Margaret Gere. Cut on wood by W.H. Hooper and J.B. Swain. The text was taken from Southey’s reprint of 1817 of Caxton’s edition. Reprints Caxton’s foreword. “In this, for the first time, blue was used alternately with red for the large initials. The chapter-headings are all printed in red. For this book Graily Hewitt designed two or three alphabets of fine initials.” Colin Franklin calls this “a marvellous achievement, a glorious book.” Faintly written in the back is the name Leonard Baskin. As typical with this book, the original Brown cowhide binding has been recreated by a later binder (WB) with part of the original spine (lettering) inlaid on spine. Some rubbing along edges; minor fading of covers. Foxing along edges of free endpapers from turn-ins.The later clamshell box is faded. [Order No. 107188]
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135. The Grave of Lost Stories. (Co-Tangent Press) Vollmann, William. (Sacramento): (1993), quarter cloth and decorated paper
covered boards with animal bone fragments on the cover. 10-7/8 x 7-7/8”, steel and grey marble box (tomb) fitted to custom steel hinge by means of a copper sheet riveted to the steel and then crimped
upward to form a pan, marble box-sarcophagus. Animal teeth line the outside.
$ 4,500One of 15 deluxe copies only, 13 of which are for sale, all on Johannot paper, each signed and numbered by the artist/author and binder, from an edition of 200 (185 regular edition). Bound by Ben Pax: The hinge is powder-coated black as is the interior. The front cover is incised with the title, author’s initials and Poe’s dates. The copy number appears in roman numeral on the back cover (this being number 2). Along the fore edge, 13 teeth have been set in handmade silver bezels. The inside covers each have four brass and copper rods (oxidized green). The book itself is bound in boards with linen spine which are “leafed, and variegated and painted in metallic fungoid patterns over which the author has painted a female figure to represent one of the stories (author’s description).” The gessoed boards are copper colored and the female in blue with
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onlays of four small white bones outlining the skeleton. The book lays into the marble box-sar-cophagus. The four illustrations are hand colored by the author who has also made a number of small revisions in the text. Letterpress by Alastair Johnston in Electra and Cochin with display in Caslon, Marbleheart, Rimmed Lith and Astoria at Poltroon Press. title page printed in three colors, guards of black and gold gilt Japanese paper. The story first appeared in THIRTEEN STORIES AND THIRTEEN EPITAPHS in 1991. Voll-mann has been called by The Washington Post, “the most prodigiously talented and historically important American novelist under 35” and by The Los Angeles Times an author of “unique and startling imagination” and Madison Smartt Bell says Vollmann is, “one of the precious few young American writers who can fairly be accused of genius.” [Order No. 61396]
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136. Luke Clennell, Bewick Apprentice, Being Impressions from Original Wood-Blocks.
(Esslemont, David). Newcastle upon Tyne: 1981, large 8vo., full brown morocco with fillets in gilt, foreedge and bottom edge uncut, clamshell box covered with marbled paper and with leather spine
label. xiv, (ii), 29-32, (2) pages (3 gatherings), with 28 additional numbered leaves of plates.
$ 2,250Edition limited to 100 numbered copies; this is one of 25 copies bound thus. 38 wood engravings, mostly by Luke Clennell (1781-1840), the early 19-century wood engraver and painter, with several by Thomas Be-wick (1753-1828). Clennell was Bewick’s apprentice. Printed by David Esslemont from the original wood blocks in the possession of the City Library, Newcastle upon Tyne. With introduction, printer’s notes, list of illustrations, bibliographical note, and a list of books with engravings by Clennell. This special copy was given to Peter C.G. Isaac on on the occasion of his retirement from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the program for his retirement ceremony is laid in. Also present is a special printed note of appreciation for his work on the book trade history in the North of England. Clamshell slightly worn at edges. [Order No. 108941]
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137. The Cote d’Azur Triangle.(Fitzgerald, Vincent & Co.) Kondoleon, Har-ry. New York: 1985, 12 x 14, cloth of vibrant yellow, with title stamped in blue within a red triangle on front cover, housed in black clam-
shell box by Charriere. Not paginated.
$ 4,000Signed, limited edition, one of 125 copies only on Rives BFK, all signed by the author and artist, hand set in Janson, lithographs and etchings pulled by the Printmaking Workshop of Bob Blackburn. Bound by Gerard Charriere. In this play by Harry Kondoleon, “A woman, her husband, and her husband’s lover go up and down the Riviera only to be disappointed by
the Riviera. The dullness of the Cote d’Azur reveals to these Americans the dullness and impossibility of love...they tire of one another and pursue sex part-ners at random until they are attacked and consumed by sea dragons.” Mark Beard’s brilliant illustrations of these “two-dimensional and ironic” charac-ters, in their bathing suits and sunglass-es, in saturated primary colors and his flat presentation, are overwhelming in their impact of the characters’ vapidity. With such illustrations as Greek temple caryatids folding out to reveal the Cote d’Azur and paper doll players, Beard’s art inexpressibly moves the viewer to realize the inevitable crush of the dragon of these pitiable self-centered
creatures. A brilliant mixture of wit and irony with difficult and innovative print-making techniques producing prints with highly unusual textures, especially in the final fold out, which has an effect of great richness and mystery. [Order No. 61433]
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138. Fables of Esope.(Gregynog Press). Translated out of Frensshe into Englysshe by: William Caxton. With engravings
on wood by Agnes Miller Parker. Newtown, Montogomeryshire: 1931, 4to., Welsh natural sheepskin, spine titled in black, a signed binding by the Gregynog Press Bindery, later clamshell cloth box. (viii),
146, (2) pages.
$ 5,000Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 20). Printed in Bembo type on Barcham Green hand-made paper. Contains an engraved title page illustration, 36 wood-engravings in the text by Agnes Miller Parker and wood-engraved initial letters by William MacCance. Some fading of covers along top edge and scuffing of leather at head of spine. Corner bumped. One of the landmark books from this press and the illustrator. [Order No. 107211]
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139. The Revelation of Saint John the Divine.(Gregynog Press). (Wales): 1932, 4to., full hermitage calf, blocked in blind on front cover, top edge sprinkled, slipcase.
(60) pages.
$ 3,500Limited to 250 numbered copies (Harrop 24). Printed in Bembo with Perpetua titling on Japanese vellum. Printing in black and red. With the first three words of the title wood-engraved along with 41 wood-engravings in the text by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Some rubbing of covers. Spine shows fading. Slipcase is broken but present and has part of backstrip missing. [Order No. 107209]
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140. Cyrupaedia: The Institution and Life of Cyrus, the First of That Name, King of Persians.
(Gregynog Press). Eight Bookes Treating of Noble Education, or Princely Exercises, Military Disci-pline, Warlike Stratagems, Preparations & Expeditions. Translated out of the Greek into English, and Conferred with the Latine and French Translations, by Philemon Holland. Newton, Mont.: 1936, 4to., original green oasis decorated with center-and cornerpieces onlaid in red and light green, outlined in
gilt and blocked in gilt decorations of Persian character, five raised bands, gilt paneled spine, top edge gilt. xvii, 321, (3) pages.
$ 4,000Limited to 150 numbered copies. This is one of the 135 bound thus by the Gregynog Bindery and signed at the bottom of the back cover on the turn-in. (Harrop 34). Printed under the direction of Loyd Haberly who provided floriated wood engraved initials. Well preserved copy inserted in clamshell box with matching green quarter leather. [Order No. 107189]
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141. The Circus of Doctor Lao.(Janus Press) Finney, Charles G. (Newark, VT): 1984, 4to., cloth, clamshell box stencil printed.
130 pages.
$ 5,000One of 150 copies signed by the author and by the printer/illustrator, Claire Van Vliet (Ruth Fine, p.39; A Century for a Century 93). From book - “Forty relief prints, mainly etchings, many combined with stencil; geometric typographic ornaments throughout.” Printed on Barcham Green De Wint. The interesting binding for this book was “bound in Johanna Western natural buckram covers, Johanna Western rust Kennet cloth sides, and lined in pale gre-violet Japanese twill.” Prospectus loosely inserted. Well preserved copy. [Order No. 107192]
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142. The Tragedie of King Lear.(Janus Press) Shakespeare, William. Bangor: Theo-
dore Press, 1986, small folio, quarter leather with birch boards in a non-adhesive binding with exposed sewing,
chemise and slipcase. 136, (2) pages.
$ 2,000Printed in an edition limited to 160 signed and numbered copies. Printed with hand-set type at the Theodore Press on light grey paper hand-made especially for this book by Kate MacGregor and Bernie Vinzani. Claire van Vliet’s woodcuts were printed by her at the Janus Press. She also individually decorated the stained birch boards. A superb edition of Lear, with engravings that eloquently convey the pain of the play, in a binding that suits the book perfectly. [Order No. 48131]
The Claire Van Vliet King Lear
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143. Kelmscott Chaucer with a Companion Volume of Burne-Jones Drawings by Duncan Robinson.
(Morris, William) Chaucer, Geoffrey. 2 volumes. London: The Basilisk Press, 1975, folio, decorated cloth covered boards, paper spine label, wooden slipcase. 554, 146 pages.
$ 4,000Limited to 515 numbered copies. Beautiful same-size reproduction of William Morris’s Kelmscott Chaucer. Printed in red and black, with woodblock illustrations, first letter initials, and borders. Fore-edge untrimmed. Top and bottom edge trimmed. Companion volume contains history of the making of the Kelmscott Chaucer, with 85 tipped-in black & white illustrations and plates of Morris, his press, and illustrations of woodblock development to be used in the final 1896 book. Illustrations were drawn by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Binding cover is the ‘Larkspur’ pattern. The ‘Larkspur’ pattern cloth was designed by William Morris in 1874 and for this reproduction printed by Liberty of London. Printed on specially made Lochmill cartridge paper by Duncan Robinson at The Basilisk Press. In fine condition, aside from some scuffs to the wooden slipcase. [Order No. 107179]
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144. The Nonesuch Dickens.(Nonesuch Press) Dickens, Charles. 24 volumes,
the complete set. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-8, 4to, cloth, title gilt-stamped on leather label on spine; top edge gilt, other edges uncut. Variously
paginated.
$ 8,500Limited edition of 877. (John Dreyfus, A History of the Nonesuch Press, cat. no. 108). Waugh, Arthur, Hugh Wal-pole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton (general editors) Designed by Francis Meynell. Printed in Scotland by R. & R. Clark, Ltd., in a version of Martin’s type. Binding
by the Leighton-Straker Bookbinding Co. Paper by the Worthy Paper Company Association of West Springfield. Three volumes contain letters of Dickens, two contain collected papers. The final volume contains an engraved steel plate in clamshell box entitled “Paul Goes Home for the Holidays,” one of the steel plates engraved by H. K. Browne (“Phiz”) for Messrs. Chap-man & Hall, Ltd. Authenticating letter from that firm and a print from the steel plate laid in. Novels, most with frontispieces, include Little Dorrit, Barnaby Rudge, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, Martin Chuzzlewit, Great Expectations and Hard Times (in one volume), Bleak House, Oliver Twist, Our Mutual Friend, A Tale of Two Cities, Dombey and Son, Old Curiosity Shop, Nicholas Nickleby. Also volumes containing American Notes, Sketches by Boz and early minor works, Edwin Drood and Christmas Stories, Christmas books (including A Christmas Carol), and a volume of reprinted pieces. Engraved illustrations by W.L. Colls and A. Alexander and Sons. Two volumes of let-ters indexed. Boards and spines of most volumes soiled, many rubbed and/or faded. Snag on cloth spine of the second volume of the letters. Labels on A Tale of Two Cities and second volume of Collected Papers torn. Some leaves unopened. Text blocks
clean, without foxing. [Order No. 109095]
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145. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
(Shakespeare Head Press) Pollard, A.W. & al. (editors). 8 volumes. Stratford-upon-Avon:
1928, tall 8vo., original cloth-backed blue paper covered boards, wrap-around paper spine
labels.
$ 2,500Limited to 375 numbered copies including eleven on vellum; this is one of the sets on paper (Ran-som 60). With headings and initials drawn in color by Joscelyn V. Gaskin; marginal drawings from the 14th century Ellesmere manuscript, hand-colored. Printed in Caslon Old Face on Batchelor’s Kelmscott handmade paper. “The figures of the Canterbury Pilgrims were finely drawn from the Ellesmere manuscript by Mark H. Liddell for the Globe Edition, and the miniatures were redrawn by Lynton H. Lamb from a four-teenth-century French manuscript, Egerton 881, British Museum.” Armorial bookplate of Harry Eaton Hart in each volume. Beautifully preserved set in special made cloth case with “SH” printed in red on the sides of the slipcase. [Order No. 107226]
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146. Georgics.(Shanty Bay Press) Virgil. Translated by Robert Wells, Illustrated by Walter Bachinski. (Shanty Bay, Ontario): (2007), folio, quarter cloth,
decorated paper-covered boards, cloth slipcase.
$ 2,750Limited to 67 copies of which 60 are for sale. Numbered and signed on the colophon by Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler, the designers, illustrators, and printers of the book. This is the fourth publication of the press. The type is Bembo, printed on Arches Covers. The woodcuts were printed on Kuotani 5. The woodcuts and pochoir illustrations are by Walter Bachinski who also did the stenciling and printing of the illustrations. Janis Butler did the hand com-position, text and color printing. Each section of the book has its own pochoir-illustrated title page and initial letters in pochoir. Each of these sections are paginated separately. There are many full-page woodcuts throughout which enliven the text as well. A beautiful new book. [Order No. 100262]
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147. Matrix, A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. [Vol 1-30], plus Index 1-20. (Whittington Press). 31 volumes, the complete set published to date. Volumes one & two are first
editions. Includes the deluxe edition of the Index to Volumes 1-20. Andoversford: 1981-2012, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers with printed and decorated dust jackets (for first five volumes) and decorat-ed paper-covered boards with printed and decorated dust jackets (for volume six to seventeen).
$ 6,750All 31 volumes are in as-new condition. With limited runs varying from 350 for the first volume to 900 for later volumes. The tenth volume contains an index to the first ten issues. Filled with important articles on all aspects of private printing, historical printing history, book illustration history and all other subjects of inter-est to the book-arts person. Illustrated with color, tipped-in illustrations, foldouts, broadsides, samples, etc. This set contains the original volumes of one and two. Becoming very difficult to find a complete set of this very interesting periodical. Fine set. [Order No. 47602]
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148. Knipton, A Leicestershire Village.
(Whittington Press) O’Connor, John. With thirty-five wood-engravings by the artist. Risbury: (1996),
small folio, quarter Oasis, paper-covered boards. Accompanied by a separate portfolio of eight of the engravings inserted in a cloth-backed paper covered board portfolio. All inserted in a slipcase. (32) pages.
$ 600Limited to 200 numbered copies, of which this is one of the 45 lettered copies to be bound thus and to contain the separate portfolio of engravings. Signed by O’Connor. With the woodcuts printed in different colors. The plates in the separate portfolio are all initialed by O’Connor in pencil. [Order No. 44319]C
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149. THE ALTERED PAGE, SELECTIONS FROM THE RUTH AND MARVIN SACKNER ARCHIVE OF
CONCRETE AND VISUAL POETRY. New York: Center for Book Arts, 1988, small 4to., stiff paper wrappers, flaps on cover open to reveal title, (32) pages. $ 20.00An exhibition of selections from the Ruth and Marvin Sackler Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry was held at the Book Arts Gallery from February 6 to March 26, 1988. The artwork rep-resented in this show breaks the barrier of traditional books, artists books and even the two di-
mensional page. The works of these artists and poets were grouped into the following seven categories of visual/verbal alterations: Hidden Meanings; Canceled; Cut, Torn, Crumpled, Perforated; Fragmented; Layered; Sculpted; Sewn and Woven. Illustrations are in black and white and in color. The introduction by Marvin Sackler describes the collection from which the works were selected and provides the background of several of the projects. [Order No. 103185]
150. JOHN RODKER’S OVID PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. Cloud, Gerald W. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010, 7 x 10 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 152 pages. ISBN 9781584562863. $ 55.00This book is primarily a bibliographical study of all the known works printed and published by John Rodker (1894-1955) at the Ovid Press, London, 1919-1922, and the associated projects connected to his second imprint, the Casanova Society. The Ovid Press’s output was not pro-lific—17 known items were produced—but the nature of the works and the context in which they were created reveals a great deal about both Rodker and several central figures of modernist literature and art, including T.S. Eliot, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Edward Wadsworth. The descriptive bibliography, which follows the introduc-tory matter, includes full collations, detailed, copy-specific notes on each item, institutional locations for Ovid Press publications, and attempts to reconcile the discrepancies between Rod-ker’s colophon statements and the books he actually printed-based on careful analysis of extant copies of Ovid Press titles. The book accounts for a number of unrecorded bibliographical details in these works and clarifies Rodker’s role in the production of Ezra Pound’s “Bel Esprit” and the errata sheets for Joyce’s Ulysses (Egoist Press/John Rodker, 1922). [Order No. 104083]
151. THE BOOK AS A WORK OF ART, THE CRANACH PRESS OF COUNT HARRY KESSLER.
Brinks, John Dieter (editor). Berlin and Williamstown, MA: Triton Verlag and the Chapin Library, Williams College, 2005, 4to., cloth, slipcase. 456 pages. ISBN 3935518669. $ 290.00First edition in English (from the 2004 German edition). The Cranach Press, though located in Germany, was inspired by and became an integral product of the English private press move-ment. Following advice from Emery Walker, new typefaces were drawn by Edward Johnston and cut by Edward Prince and George Friend; then Harry Gage-Cole was called in as pressman
to print the wood-engravings of Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, and Aristide Maillol. Their work is recorded in this lavishly illustrated book. The Book as a Work of Art includes Essays by John Dreyfus, Anne Hyde Greet, Gunnar Kaldewey, J.D. Brinks, Renate Müller-Krumbach, Lindsay Newman, among others, with extensive documentation and a new and illustrated bibliography of the Cranach Press. Designed by Sabine Golde and John Dieter Brinks, in a black slip-case. Distributed for Triton Verlag, Berlin, Germany and Chapin Library of the Williams College, Williamstown, MA. [Order No. 88729]
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152. THE FANFROLICO PRESS: SATYRS, FAUNS AND FINE BOOKS.
Arnold, John. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 2009, 7.25 x 10.75 in., hardcover. 328 pages. ISBN 9780900002977. $ 65.00The book consists of a detailed history of the Press and a full bibliography of its publications and ephemera, tracing the venture from its origins in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1920s, to success in London from 1926, and its final dissolution in 1930. The Press was notable for the literary input of its proprietor Jack Lindsay, working initially with John Kirtley, later with P. R. Stephensen, and finally alone. For the illustrations, it published work by Jack’s father, Nor-
man Lindsay, as well as by Edward Bawden, Hal Collins, Lionel Ellis, and others. Jack Lindsay was responsible for the typographical design (initially with Kirtley) that brought a distinctive style to the books of the Press. This book has been designed by Paul W. Nash, printed by Henry Ling, and bound in blue cloth with a design inspired by a Fanfrolico publication. There are 96 illustrations, including reduced facsimiles of the title pages of the forty-six books published by the Press. Sales Rights: Worldwide except for the UK and Australia. Available in the UK from the Private Libraries Association and in Australia from Kay Craddock. [Order No. 101286]
153. A HISTORY OF THE GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS, 1920-1960.
Cave, Roderick and Sarah Manson. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2003, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 288 pages. ISBN 1584560932. $ 110.00First edition. The Golden Cockerel Press, one of the foremost publishers of illustrated books, was the most important and productive of the English private presses during the period of 1920-1960. This notable work is the first extensive study of the press, based on interviews and the Press’ widely-scattered archives. Richly illustrated with sixteen pages of color illustrations and over 150 black-and-white illustrations, this work delves into the history of the press and discusses and assesses its important private press books. Closely associated with the revival of wood-engraving, the Golden Cockerel Press books were vehicles for the work of such artists as Robert Gibbings, Eric Gill, David Jones, Agnes Miller Parker, Eric Ravilious, John Buckland-Wright and others. Unlike other fine presses that suc-cumbed to the Depression or closed during the Second World War, Golden Cockerel continued to produce outstanding books. The Press’s literary achievement was as significant as its artistic contribution through its publication of original manuscripts by writers such as H.E. Bates, A.E. Coppard and T.E. Lawrence. This work also reveals how the market for fine books was created and sustained, and it provides many insights into other aspects of the British publishing scene. A bibliography of all books printed by the Golden Cockerel Press is included. Sales rights: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Available outside North & South America from The British Library. [Order No. 72643]
154. BOOK ART OBJECT. Jury, David (editor). with a foreword by Peter Koch. Berkeley, California: CO-DEX Foundation, 2008, 9 x 12 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 448 pages. ISBN 9780981791401. $ 150.00Book art object is a record of the first biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium: “The Fate of the Art”, Berkeley, California, 2007. The event showcased contemporary artist book s and fine press and fine art editions produced by some of the worlds most esteemed printers, designers, book artists, and artisans. The book includes transcripts of the following lectures: Sarah Bod-man, Research Fellow, Centre for Fine Print Research, UWE, Bristol: “The hybrid lexicon: an overview of contemporary artists publishing in the UK”; Robert Bringhurst, poet, translator, and typographer: “Spiritual geometry: the book as a work of art”; and Felipe Ehrenberg, artist, Mexi-can diplomat, former publisher of the Beau Geste Press, London: “Cutting and pasting: meta-phor of life.” The volume is superbly illustrated in full color throughout. [Order No. 100395]
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155. THE KELMSCOTT CHAUCER: A CENSUS. Peterson, William S. and Sylvia Holton Peterson. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011, 8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 280 pages. ISBN 9781584562894. $ 95.00According to Sydney Cockerell, the second Secretary of the Kelmscott Press, Morris printed 425 copies of the Chaucer book on paper and thirteen on vellum. This Census locates and describes as many of those books (which are now scattered all over the world) as possible and reconstructs their complicated history of ownership, supplying a narrative of the fortunes of each known copy that came off the press in 1896. New information about unlocated copies, copies that have
been sold by book dealers and auction houses, and the binders who have subsequently rebound many of the copies is also included. Three substantial appendices record the copies sold by Bernard Quaritch (the London bookseller most closely associated with the production of the Chaucer), the mailing list of the Kelmscott Press, and other unpublished contemporary documents. [Order No. 103887]
156. ARTHUR W. RUSHMORE & THE GOLDEN HIND PRESS. Causley, Monroe S. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2005, 8 x 11.5 inches, quarter leather, slipcase. 120 pages. ISBN 9781584561415. $ 150.00First edition, limited to only 160 numbered copies, each one numbered and signed by author. The work is a short biography of Arthur Rushmore and a comprehensive bibliography of his works set by hand for Harper & Brothers and his own Golden Hind Press. This edition was hand set in Monotype and printed on an old Heidelberg press. Tipped in are examples of the unique paste papers produced by the Golden Hind Press along with actual pages from the press’ numerous works. This important edition is quarter-leather bound and gold stamped for the discriminating collector. The bibliography covers all known works designed and/or printed by Rushmore from his early days at Harper & Brothers (1927) to his death in 1955 and a few titles printed by his wife shortly thereafter. This special edition on Rushmore and his place in the American fine press tradition will be appreciated by all enthusiasts of this important genre. [Order No. 79692]
157. THE MARION PRESS, A SURVEY AND A CHECKLIST. Larremore, Thomas A. and Amy Hopkins Larremore. With Incidental Ala-rums, and Excursions Into Collateral Fields. Checklist by Joseph W. Rogers. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1981, 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. xxii, 271 pages. ISBN 0938768042. $ 35.00Reprint of the 1943 first edition which was printed in a very small number. Frank E. Hopkins set up a press in the attic of his “Red House” in Jamaica, New York in 1896 and named it after his daughter Marion. He printed the first announcement of his press a few months after the death of William Morris and continued printing until his own death in 1933. Unlike most of the founders of private presses in the 1890s, who drifted into printing from other fields, Hopkins was already well schooled in the practical aspects of the printing business. Forced to leave col-lege for financial reasons after his father fell ill he found a job working for the De Vinne Press
as a proofreader. The book designs that he subsequently created for De Vinne were among the finest produced by the firm and are generally considered those publications on which De Vinne’s considerable reputation was built. Although Hopkins died in relative obscurity, his works remain as an example of the quality of fine printing in America at the turn of the century. Amy and Thomas Larremore, daughter and son-in-law of Frank E. Hopkins, have written a sensitive, in-depth account of his life including an even-handed evaluation of his typography and design work at the Marion Press. In addition Joseph W. Rogers has compiled a detailed, descriptive, bibliographical checklist of Hopkins work at the Marion Press. [Order No. 1347]
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158. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM MORRIS. LeMire, Eugene D. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Li-brary, 2006, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 448 pages. ISBN 9781584561736. $ 98.00William Morris has been hailed as one of the movers and shakers of the English Arts & Crafts movement in the late 19th century. His genius was multi-faceted. As a designer of Victorian furniture, decorator cloth, wallpaper, stained glass, tapestry and books his immense creativity was self evident. Aside from his commercially successful decorative businesses, which made him a wealthy man, William Morris was a poet, translator and novelist. His world famous Kelm-scott Press made him renowned as a printer and publisher. As a social reformer and founder of a British Socialist movement, Morris also leaves a treasury of early political writings that were
published in many periodicals, newspapers and books. His life was one of frenetic accomplishments, periods of great anxiety and bursts of creative energy. Eugene LeMire has taken the two former bibliographies on Morris, by Forman and Scott, both published in 1897, and completely revised and expanded them. There are now 852 entries in five sections that cover all Morris’s known works. Much additional information has been added such as textual history, collations, technical notes and Morris’s relations with publishers, printers and the significance of the Wise-Forman forgeries. This title has 100 beautiful illustrations. This is the most comprehensive reference on Morris’s works to be published in over a hundred years. Co-published with The British Library. Sales rights: Worldwide except in the UK; available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 88732]
159. THE SILENT SCREAM: POLITICAL AND SOCIAL COMMENT IN BOOKS BY ARTISTS.
Oppen, Monica and Peter Lyssiotis (editors). Petersham: Ant Press, 2011, 8 x 9.5 inches, paperback. 190 pages. ISBN 9780987160652. $ 45.00The Silent Scream: Political and Social Comment in Books by Artists presents not only a companion catalogue to an exhibition held at the Monash University Rare Books Library, but also a journey through some of humanity’s most inhumane and hypocritical moments. The catalogue provides insights into 77 influential books and works presented in book form in the past 90 years. Monica Oppen and Peter Lyssiotis, both practicing artists, lend their unique perspective in the social content and the techniques behind the production of these books. In a field where few books cover such a wide range of work, The Silent Scream both educates and entertains through informed commentary. It focuses on a particular field of ideas: social and political, and on a particular area of book production: books made by artists. With over 200 color illustrations, this book is beautiful and formatted in an original style. Sales rights: Worldwide except Australia. [Order No. 108927]
160. JOHN FULLER & THE SYCAMORE PRESS: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC HISTORY. Roberts, Ryan (compiler and editor). New Castle, Delaware and Oxford: Oak Knoll Press and The Bodleian Library, 2010, 6 x 9 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 160 pages. ISBN 9781584562818. $ 49.95Set up in 1968, John Fuller’s Sycamore Press published some of the most influential and criti-cally acclaimed writers of the past half-century. In addition to a full descriptive bibliography, the book includes an evocative foreword by John Fuller, who wryly describes the trials and tribula-tions of ‘garage’ publishing. In a transcribed interview with the author, John Fuller explains why a pamphlet of poems took almost a year to produce as he experimented with letterpress technol-ogy. Personal reflections by Sycamore Press authors, such as Andrew Motion and Thom Gunn, illuminate the publishing process further and show what a powerful role John Fuller played in the lives of young poets lucky enough to be published by him. While this book is full of enter-taining anecdotes about the hazards of small book publishing, it also provides invaluable advice
for small press printers. Available outside North and South America from The Bodleian Library. [Order No. 104085]
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161. Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine, Bartholomaeus Anglicus, John of Trev-isa, John Tate, Wynkyn de Worde, and de Proprietatibus Rerum.
(Bird & Bull Press) Heaney, Howell, Lotte Hellinga, and Richard Hills. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press, 1992, tall 4to., quarter leather, paper over boards. 40, (22) pages.
$ 2,000Limited to 138 numbered copies, this work was printed at the Bird & Bull Press by Henry Morris using Van Dijck types by M&H Type on Frankfurt mouldmade paper. Three Lions and the Cross of Lorraine, Bartholo-maeus Anglicus, John of Trevisa, John Tate, Wynkyn De Worde, and De Proprietatibus Rerum contains four essays written for this volume, 19 facsimiles of the woodcuts from DE PROPRIETATIBUS RERUM, and an actual leaf, inserted in a mylar folder, taken from a defective copy of DE PRORIETATIBUS RERUM (circa 1495 and printed by Wynkyn de Worde). This book was the first English book printed on paper made in England and the use of Tate’s paper is proudly cited in the epiloque of the actual book. After Tate’s death in 1507, three failed attempts to make paper in England happened during the 16th century but English papermak-ing was not established until John Spilman’s successful mill in 1585. Hills has written about John Tate and his papermill. Such a leaf is rare, for it is highly unlikely another incomplete copy of Bartholomaeus will be on the market again. Henry Morris in his foreword says about this book, “I knew it would probably be the most important work I could ever hope to produce in the field of papermaking history.” Loosely inserted is a printed note from the publisher commenting on the small limitation. [Order No. 36463]
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162. Dard Hunter & Son. (Bird & Bull Press) Hunter II, Dard. N.P. (but Newtown, PA):
Bird & Bull Press, 1998, 4to., quarter black morocco, leather spine label, Japanese cloth-covered boards, cloth-covered clam-shell box with leather spine label. 152, (6) pages, with 30 addi-
tional pages and 6 additional leaves of paper & printing samples, and reproductions.
$ 1,750This fine letterpress work is an edition limited to only 225 numbered copies, of which 180 are pre-subscribed (Leaf Book - Chalmers 215). Henry Morris’ Bird & Bull Press has now published a new Dard Hunter book, which aims to “provide a reasonable taste of the original [The Life Work], sufficient perhaps to appreciate the unstinting quality of the artistry and uncommon skill that was lavished on this work,” and to provide additional material, including some on Dard Hunter II. The introduction by Mr. Morris is followed by Dard Hunter II’s account of the writing of his father’s biography, followed in turn by Dard Hunter III’s short account of the life of Dard II, with color plates. Dard Hunter & Son documents Hunter’s early Roycroft days, studies in Vienna,
stained-glass windows, first paper mill in Marlborough, NY, early watermarks, typefounding experiments, the move to “Mountain House,” brief venture into large-scale hand papermaking, later moulds and watermarks, and his publications. Each topic is complemented by appropriate illustrations. There are three tipped-in-plates with 55 color reproductions of swatches of marbled and paste papers done by Hunter in his Vienna days, three samples (reprintings by Bird & Bull) of 2-color page or cover designs done for the Roycrofters, photos of the Marlborough Mill and a reduced-size reprint of a Dard Hunter poster drawing of the mill, original leaves from various publications, a bound-in sample of paper made by Dard Hunter and two by his son, tipped-in photos of Dard Hunter demonstrating papermaking at MIT in 1946, and a tipped-in facsimile of a page of notes made by Dard Hunter while visiting an English paper mill. The book concludes with a ten-page facsimile of the journal kept by Dard Hunter II while writing the Life Work. In all, there are about seventy individual text il-lustrations or facsimiles, twenty or so tipped-in plates, and sixteen printings or reprintings by the Hunters and print reproductions by Bird & Bull. This work is set in Ehrhardt type and printed on Frankfurt mould made paper at Bird & Bull. The multi-talented Dard Hunter (1883-1966), who eventually settled upon papermaking
and the history of paper as his life’s work, is a person of considerable interest in the recent history of the book arts. Relatively little, however, of a biographical nature has been published about him: chiefly his own autobiography of 1958, and The Life Work of Dard Hunter by his son, Dard Hunter II (1917-1989), itself an impressive work printed in Dard Hunter II’s own type, and produced in a very limited edition in the early 1980s. Also includes a prospectus. [Order No. 53318]
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163. Marbled Papers, Being a Collection of Twenty-Two Contemporary Hand-Marbled Papers, Showing a Variety of Patterns and Special Techniques.
(Bird & Bull Press) Weimann, Christopher. Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1978, 4to., leather spine, boards, leather tips. 63 pages.
$ 750This first edition work (Taylor B12) is limited to 200 numbered copies signed by the author and contains twenty tipped-in specimens. Designed and printed by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, it contains a his-tory of marbling, a chapter on technique, one on materials, descriptions of the samples and a bibliography of the subject. [Order No. 11994]
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164. Die Fortschritte der Marmorierkunst. (Marbling) Halfer, Josef. Stuttgart: Wilhelm Leo, 1891, 8vo., later half red calf with marbled paper covered boards, five raised bands, top edge gilt (a signed binding by Zaehnsdorf). 224 pages with 5 leaves of single mounted marbled paper specimens + 5 leaves each with 6 mounted marbled paper
specimens.
$ 3,500Text in German. Second edition–the first to be illustrated–of this seminal work on marbling by the Budapest based bookbinder and marbler, Josef Halfer. It was first published, without specimen papers, in 1885. “The Halfer system is so important that marbling history is broken at this point, and referred to as pre-Halferian and post-Halferian marbling. The advantages of the Halfer system were two-fold: freed of the laborious prepara-tion of colors, and with standardized colors, marblers could produce more work; and secondly, the use of carragheen size allowed finer detail in marbling” (Easton, Marbling, a History, pp. 78-9). See also R. Wolfe, Marbled Paper, 1990, pp. 124-30. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemo-rative booklabel loosely inserted. With the bookplate of the Zaehnsdorf Company. Tipped-in is a two page A.L.S. written by Richard Leo (see publisher), dated January 26, 1891. Addressed to a Mr. Zaehnsdorf, the A.L.S. expresses Leo’s desire to leave Stuttgart and visit Zaehnsdorf. Rubbed along hinges and soiling along edges. [Order No. 79990]
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165. The Life Work of Dard Hunter, a Progressive Illustrated Assemblage of His Works as Artist, Craftsman, Author, Paper-
maker, and Printer.Hunter, Dard. 2 volumes. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1981, 1983, folio, full native dyed
red Niger sewed on cords, cloth box, leather spine label, both volumes inserted in cloth-covered clam-
shell cases with leather spine labels. (viii),198; (viii),130 pages.
$ 12,500Limited to 150 numbered and signed copies; this is one of the 50 special copies to be bound in full leather and containing extra specimens bound in. Printed on dark cream handmade paper produced by Hodgkinson Mill in Wookey Hole on Dard Hunter’s personally water-
marked laid moulds. The first volume covers Hunter’s early days as a book designer and designer of stain glass windows, pottery, furniture, and his work for the Roycrofters. This volume contains 194 colored and 65 black and white tipped-in illustrations, many of which have been printed to resemble the original. Reproduced in this volume are many of the designs that Hunter produced for the bindings of the Roycroft books and catalogues and also the cover designs for other advertising publica-tions. Volume II describes Hunter’s activities as a pa-permaker and paper historian and con-tains a bibliography of Hunter’s writing.
Accompanied by tipped-in specimens of paper, tipped-in facsimiles of title pages and other work. Dard Hunter Jr. has written a two-page note regarding the produc-tion of this book, a massive job requiring 12 years. The book was printed by hand on dampened paper printed on Washington hand presses. The paper specimens were made using Dard Hunter’s original beater which had to be reconstructed for this project. This surely is one of the landmark books produced in the book-arts field in the 20th century both from a textual and production stand-point. [Order No. 34639]
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166. Papermaking in Indo-China. Hunter, Dard. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1947, 4to., quarter red morocco with a paper cov-ering over the boards that was produced from a woodblock found in China by Hunter. 102, (4) pages.
$ 3,000First edition, limited to 182 numbered copies signed by Hunter of which this is No. 156. Printed on the hand-made paper produced by Hunter at his mill at Lime Rock and printed by hand by Dard Hunter, Jr. This book resulted from studies of papermaking in Tonkin, Indo-China, that were begun in 1934 and continued to just before the outbreak of World War II (See Chapter XI of Hunter’s autobiography). Hunter tells the fascinat-ing story of his exploration of the two papermaking towns outside Hanoi in his autobi-ography. He brought in a photographer from Hanoi to take pictures of the papermakers at work and these are reproduced in the book. Also included are two actual tipped-in specimens brought back by Hunter. Loosely inserted is the four page prospectus to this book printed on hand-made paper and the four page prospectus to Old Papermaking in
China and Japan, Also loosely inserted is the specimen sheet of hand-made paper showing the watermark por-trait of Hunter, and reprints by Hunter of three of the New York Times reviews of his specific books. Presenta-tion by Hunter on free endpaper “For Harold S. Hyde, Dard Hunter.” Some age darkening of spine. [Order No. 108884]
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167. Primitive Papermaking, an Account of a Mexican Sojourn and of a Voyage to the Pacific Islands in Search of Information, Implements, and Specimens Relating to the
Making & Decorating of Bark-Paper.Hunter, Dard. Chillicothe: Mountain House Press, 1927, folio, full vellum with hand-lettered title on front cover and spine, loosely inserted in hand-made box with hand-marbled paper onlays and a vel-
lum hand-lettered title strip. 48 pages.
$ 7,000Limited to 200 numbered and signed copies. (Schlosser 34). With a frontispiece showing Hunter’s Mountain House reproduced from a lithograph executed in 1852, 35 line illus-trations, one of which is in color, 10 pho-tographs, 31 specimens of bark paper and 2 specimens of mulberry bark. This was Hunter’s third book on paper and the first to deal with non-European papermaking. His autobiography (chapter vi) describes the lengthy sea voyage that he took in 1926 to gather material for this book. His itinerary included Tahiti, the Cook Islands, and the Fiji Islands, in which he discov-ered tapa still being produced,
He continued to Tonga where he gathered many samples, and then on to Hawaii. Hunter hand-printed this book in the type that he had designed and cast. Hunter states that though he priced this book at $75.00, a price which he thought exorbitant, “the edition was exhausted with one month. I was still further encouraged.” Peter Franck sent Hunter a letter stating, “What a work of beauty. I think it is the most marvelous book I laid my hands on in all my career as a binder.” Hunter himself considered it his finest work. Dard Hunter (1883-1966), born in Steubenville, Ohio, became interested in the Arts and Crafts style while visiting California. In 1904, he began working for Elbert Hubbard and Roycrofters, designing stain glass windows and title pages. He became interested in papermaking after visiting an exhibit at the London Science Museum in 1911. He built his first paper mill in 1913, then moved to Chillicothe, Ohio, and started a letterpress shop in 1919, naming it the Mountain House Press. He authored 20 books on papermaking over the next 46 years. This special copy was given to the binder Peter Franck (1882-1976) and has the following presentation “To Mr and Mrs Peter Franck, from Dard Hunter, Chillicothe, Ohio, MCMXXVII.” Franck trained for his craft un-der his uncle’s tutelage in Landau, Germany, arriving in the USA in 1907, where he worked for Elbert Hubbard at Roycroft. He subsequently worked for the Caxton Society, established the Oakwood Binders with his friend Sterling Lloyd. He did fine binding for Henry Sikeman and the Bremer Press, and restored fine bindings for the New York Public Library. He established his own bindery in Sherman, Connecticut, then became the primary binder for Dard Hunter. Hunter stated in an article for Print Quarterly, (IV, No. 4, 1946), “Peter Franck ranks high among the foremost binders in the world.” Franck was also a master of the zither. According to Katheleen Baker in her book on Dard Hunter (From His Own Labor), Franck bound several personal copies of Hunter titles for himself in full vellum of which this is an example. Minor smudging of front cover. Prospectus for the book laid in. [Order No. 108860]
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168. PAPER JOURNEY, TRAVELS AMONG THE VILLAGE PAPERMAKERS OF INDIA AND NEPAL.
Macfarlane, Nigel. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1993, 8vo., quarter cloth, paper over boards, leather spine label. 103, (i) pages. ISBN 093876845x. $ 240.00This book is a fascinating and entertaining account of contemporary hand papermaking in India and Nepal. A paper’s origin is an underlying theme of this book, and it is a feature which is visu-ally represented by twenty full-page, tipped-in samples of actual handmade papers from India and Nepal gathered by the author during his visits. These colorful papers provide the reader with a real appreciation of how a sheet of paper contains a message and reveals its own journey on the paper road. A fine book on paper history would not be complete unless it were produced
by Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press. He has designed this book and printed it by letterpress on imported Arches mouldmade paper. Along with the twenty paper samples, this book contains thirty-one black-and-white illustrations, a chronology of papermaking in India and Nepal, and a select bibliography. [Order No. 37908]
169. NEW AND COMPLETE MANUAL ON THE MAKING OF FANCY PAPERS BY M. FICHTENBERG.
Fichtenberg, M. Edited by Richard J. Wolfe. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2010, 5 x 7.25 inches, hardcover. 242 pages. ISBN 9781584562948. $ 85.00Richard Wolfe has translated the book into English, while including a new preface. New and Complete Manual on the Making of Fancy Papers documents the changes and innovations in French marbling and presents the marbling and fancy paper trades of the mid nineteenth century. It contains procedures and processes of manufacturing, particularly of non-marbled papers that had declined. Explaining the origins of the new quasi-marble designs, still seen in a large num-ber of French bookbindings, it also details the precipitation of colors through examination of European and American marbling manuals. This manual describes many steps in the marbling process. It describes the methods of making colors and the preparation of the aluminum serving to give body to the colors including reds and violets, yellows, blues, and greens. It discusses the preparation of hide glue, paste, glue, glazing, polishers, workshops, troughs, papers that are quilted, papers exhibiting the grain of wood, granite papers, printing, varnishing, sealing wax, and a variety of other details. Four pages of color illustrations complete the book. [Order No. 106047]
170. ENGLISH ARTISTS’ PAPER: RENAISSANCE TO REGENCY. Krill, John. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, large 8vo., cloth. 260 pages. ISBN 9781584560555. $ 49.95This comprehensive and well-illustrated work is an invaluable source for anyone interested in prints, drawings, or paper history. The author, John Krill, is the Senior Conservator for Paper at the Winterthur Museum and an international au-thority on paper. He has written a detailed and interesting account of the evolution and types of paper available to artists in England from the Renaissance to the Regency. Mr. Krill’s extensive research goes far beyond the ordinary study of papermaking processes. He delves into the artistic needs for particular types of paper and their textures. First published in 1987, this edition’s text has been extensively revised and expanded with over 100 new illustrations from many of the world’s major museums. Co-published with the Winterthur Museum. [Order No. 64074]
171. WATERMARKS 1600-1650 FOUND IN THE ZEELAND ARCHIVES. Laurentius, Theo and Frans. `t Goy-Houten: HES & DE GRAAF, 2007, 9 x 12.5 inches, cloth. 284 pages. ISBN 9789061940302. $ 645.00With this work the authors are filling a gap which is existing on the research material of watermarks of the seventeenth century. The research for this book is based on the X-ray method developed by Jan van Aken, emeritus professor of dental radiology of the University of Utrecht. This method guarantees a 100% accurate digital image of the watermark. With 675 true size photographs and detailed descriptions. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103210]
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172. WATERMARKS 1650-1700 FOUND IN THE ZEELAND ARCHIVES. Laurentius, Theo and Frans. `t Goy-Houten: HES & DE GRAAF, 2008, 9 x 12.5 inches, cloth. 354 pages. ISBN 9789061941903. $ 980.00This book is based on the ‘Ingekomen Stukken’ (‘Received Pieces’) of the Staten van Zeeland (States of Zeeland), care-fully collected per year and preserved in the Zeeland Archives in Middelburg. In order to reproduce the watermarks in actual size, as was the case in volume 1600-1650, ‘Soft X-ray’ equipment developed by Dr. Jan van Aken (emeritus professor dental radiology of the University of Utrecht) was used. With 1221 black and white and 7 full colour true size photographs and detailed descriptions Watermarks 1650-1700 found in the Zeeland Archives gives together with the first volume (Watermarks 1600-1650 found in the Zeeland Archives) a long awaited overview of the watermarks and the types of paper that where available in The Netherlands in the 17th century. An indispensable tool for all those who are interested in paper, economy, history and art-history. With 1228 illustrations of which 7 full color. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103230]
173. PAPER-MILLS OF BERNE AND THEIR WATERMARKS, 1465-1859 (WITH THE GERMAN ORIGINAL). X.
Lindt, Johann. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1964, thick tall 4to., cloth. xxiii, 203, (3) pages and 178 full-page plates. $ 135.00First edition, limited to 550 numbered copies. Printed in English and German and with 787 watermarks illustrated. With an historical account of the papermills of Berne and the papermills at Laufen and Bassecourt. Volume X published by the Paper Publication Society. [Order No. 70704]
175. PAPER MOULD AND MOULDMAKER. Loeber, E.G. Amsterdam: The Paper Publications Society, 1982, 4to., cloth. xvii, 83 pages. $ 100.00First edition, limited to 500 copies. Covers the development of the paper mould, the handling of the mould, the mouldmaker, the deckle, the wire profile, variants of the European mould and deckle and with sections on studying paper and watermarks. With various appendices. Illustrated. [Order No. 70709]
176. THE MYSTERIOUS MARBLER. With an historical introduction, notes on the English marbling tradition, and thirteen original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, 5.5 x 8 inches, hardcover. 132 pages. ISBN 9781584562696. $ 60.00Limited to 300 copies, reprinted from the scarce Bird & Bull private press edition of 1976. This printing of James Sumner’s 1854 marbling manual includes a new preface by Richard J. Wolfe. A further note on the English marbling tradition and thirteen tipped in original examples of marbled papers by Wolfe have also been added. The expansion of the trade, including new ingredients and methods, created a need for the recording of exact patterns and recipes in order to produce marbling in an efficient and precise manner. Therefore, in the 1850s, printed work on marbling began to appear more readily. One of the first manuals on marbling was published in
1853 by Charles Woolnough, and Sumner’s much smaller pamphlet could be considered a reinforcement to this earlier work. Sumner’s text includes specific information on various types of marbling and precise recipes for their creation. Sumner’s original pamphlet had no exhibit samples attached. Wolfe added thirteen samples of marbled paper that were possibly created by Sumner himself, or by John Hargreaves, his associate, for the 1976 printing. The cover is a facsimile reproduction of an original nineteenth-century English marbled paper in the editor’s collection. [Order No. 103080]
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177. TURNER’S PAPERS, A STUDY OF THE MANUFACTURE, SELECTION AND USE OF HIS DRAWING PAPERS, 1787-1820.
Bower, Peter. London: Tate Gallery, (1990), small 4to., paper wrappers. 135 pages. ISBN 1854370499. $ 19.95Catalogue of an exhibition. This study of the manufacture, selection and use of the papers that Turner worked on during the first half of his career is an introduction to the depths of that knowl-edge and experience. It charts the constantly developing relationship between his often very imaginative techniques and the grounds he worked on. It documents his complex responses to the rapid changes and increasing sophistication of the design and production of papers for artists. The focus in this, the first volume, are the years 1787-1820. [Order No. 54994]
178. WATERMARKS IN PAPER IN HOLLAND, ENGLAND, FRANCE, ETC. IN THE XVII AND XVIII CENTURIES AND THEIR INTERCONNECTION.
Churchill, W.A. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1990, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, cloth. 96 pages text, 432 pages with plates. ISBN 9789060044087. $ 355.00Reprint of the 1935 edition. The extensive introduction contains inter alia an alphabetical list of Dutch papermakers, a list of French paper-makers who worked for the Dutch market, and a list of British paper-makers and mills. At the end, a survey of particulars concerning the watermarks in question. The corpus of the work is systematically arranged according to motives and contains 578 full size reproductions of watermarks. With illustrations and 578 facsimiles of watermarks. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103407]
179. OFF THE DECKLE EDGE. Premchand, Neeta. Bombay: The Ankur Project, 1995, square 8vo., paper-cov-ered boards, dust jacket. 127+(1) pages with 7 bound-in full-page specimens and 107 color photographs. ISBN 0952583119. $ 49.95First edition. The industrialization of papermaking has obscured the traditional ways through which handmade paper is produced. However, Off the Deckle Edge reminds us of the long-standing history of papermaking along with the visual and sensual qualities handmade paper possesses. Premchand marries seven bound-in full-page paper specimens with 107 colorful and exotic photographs in a modernly produced book with beautiful accounts of the people and culture of India. For Premchand and those who enjoy, practice and revere the craft of pa-permaking, the trip of discovery never ends. Off the Deckle Edge also contains a bibliography, a glossary and a touching dedication to Khaddari who encouraged Premchand to produce this book. [Order No. 43946]
180. EDWARD SEYMOUR AND THE FANCY PAPER COMPANY: THE STORY OF A BRITISH MARBLED PAPER MANUFACTURER. Berger, Sidney E. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, 6 x 9 inches, hardcover, quarter leather binding w/ slipcase. 104 pages. ISBN 9781584561897. $ 150.00This book tells the story of Edward Seymour and his firm, The Fancy Paper Company. This company manufactured marbled and other decorated papers for the bookbinding and related industries from about 1919 to 1971. With eighteen illustrations showing their methods and cop-ies of correspondence, and twenty tipped-in, original examples of their many fancy papers, this work is a well-researched text about one of the last English marbled paper manufacturing firms.
Berger shares with his readers the vicissitudes of the company’s fortunes, the personal lives of its owners, and the often touching correspondence he found among its business records. The author also informs us of the salaries, costs of doing business, and the unique demands of bookbinders for the company’s products. The work ends with Edward Seymour’s efforts to keep the company afloat in the early 1970s. [Order No. 90944]
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181. LIKHACHEV’S WATERMARKS, AN ENGLISH-LANGUAGE VERSION. XV.
Simmons, J.S.C. and Be Van Ginneken-Van De Kasteele. Amsterdam: The Pa-per Publications Society, 1994, 4to., cloth. ii,396; 70 pages and 436 plates showing many watermarks. $ 250.00Two volumes. First edition. The last publication of the Paper Publications Society. The original of this monumental work was issued in Russian in only 150 copies. This English language edi-tion has been edited and includes information not in the original edition. 98% of the watermarks described are not Russian watermarks but rather are European watermarks. A number are not in Briquet. [Order No. 70707]
182. TROMONIN’S WATERMARK ALBUM, A FACSIMILE OF THE MOSCOW 1844 EDITION.
Tromonin, Kornilii Yakovlevich. With Additional Materials by S.A. Klepikov. Ed-ited, Translated, and Adapted for Publication in English by J.S.G. Simmons. Hilver-sum: The Paper Publications Society, 1965, 4to., cloth. xv, 62 pages followed by the facsimile of 22 pages and 131 plates containing 1824 reproductions of watermarks. $ 110.00First edition thus, limited to 500 copies. Volume XI in the publications of the Society. [Order No. 70705]
183. PAPER MILLS OF DENMARK & NORWAY AND THEIR WATERMARKS.
Voorn, Henk. Hilversum: The Paper Publications Society, 1959, 4to., parchment-backed decorated paper-covered limp boards. 46 pages followed by plates of water-marks. $ 75.00First edition, limited to 600 copies. Publication of the work of Captain T. Lassen with additional notes by Voorn. [Order No. 70708]
184. DER VOLLKOMMNE PAPIERFÄRBER: THE ACCOMPLISHED PAPER COLORER.
Wolfe, Richard J. (translator). A facsimile reproduction and translation into English of the earliest extant German treatise on paper marbling and decoration, together with an introductory discussion of the earliest specialized literature in Germany on the marbling and decoration of paper (by Richard J. Wolfe). New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 5.25 x 7.5, cloth bound with a cover-paper reproduction of an early German decorated paper. 180 pages. ISBN 9781584562436. $ 60.00This new work, limited to 300 copies of which 275 are for sale, is a facsimile reproduction and translation of an important early German manual on decorated and marbled paper. Following an introduction by Richard Wolfe, the book displays the facsimile on the left page and a parallel translation on the opposing page. In the historical introduction to the facsimile reproduction and his translation of this work, Richard J. Wolfe summarizes the professional literature on marbling and paper coloring that began to appear in Germany at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Der Vollkommne Papierfärber, published around 1823, is the earliest work of its kind that has survived. Wolfe shares his experience with a seemingly unique copy of this rare and seminal treatise that he initially encountered in Leipzig in 1987. He also discusses its relationship to other early perti-nent literature that was published in Germany around the same time, particularly the works on bookbinding and paper coloring produced by Christian Freidrich Gottlob Thon. The story has a somewhat surprising ending. [Order No. 99499]
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185. Collection of medals and tokens issued by printers, booksellers and others in the book arts.
$ 48,000Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press spent many years putting together a collection of medals and tokens related to the book arts. The collection resulted in a number of books published by him: 1988. Morris. First fine silver coinage of the republic of san serriffe; 1989. Morris. Trade tokens of british and american booksellers & bookmakers; 1991. Harris. Art of medal engraving; 1992. William blades. Numismata typographica, the medallic history of printing. ; 1996. Rarities of numismata typographica, four examples of early dutch printer’s’, bookbinders’ & booksellers’ guild medals, cast in sterling silver from original specimens.; 1996. Charles meunier’s plaquette, 1900. La relieuse;
1999. Adams. Indian peace medals of george iii or his majesty’s sometime al lies.; 2001. Weiss. Illustrium imagines incorporating an english translation of nota by roberto weiss; accompanied by a leaf from the first illustrated numismatic book.; 2007. Adams. Comitia americana and related med als, underappreciated monuments to our heritage. A leaf book; 2007. Adams. Magnum opus of joseph florimond loubat and the special keepsake medal 18th cen tury book-related collectible he issued.
His 1989 production on trade tokens involved the full scale production of medals for a selected group of booksellers and for himself as the private press that printed the book. He saved all the original dies and made a spectacular box to house them and added this to his collection.
Bob Fleck purchased this collection in 2002 and added the items he had collected along the same lines. Henry was very methodical about de-scribing the items. He put together a loose leaf binder which included three sections: 1. Medals in Blades(1); 2. Medals in Jehne(2); 3. All oth-ers not in these two references. He then photocopied the important pages in Blades and added photographs of most of the medals to the binder. There are now 457 items in the collection after the addition of Bob’s collection (The items are listed in an Excel spread sheet which can be requested).
Some of the highlights of the collection:
Six Dutch Guild Medals from the 17th Century awarded to printers including one in silver which is very rare.
The Gold token created (one of 5 copies) for his book on the coinage of his mythical San Serriffe - “Gold San Serriffe” 100 Coronas
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A high relief Liveryman’s badge of Stationers’ Company ca. 1780
George Mandl’s “retired Master” badge from Stationers’ Company
The participants, whose tokens are included here, are: Bird & Bull Press, The Book Press, Dawson’s Book Shop, Detering Book Gallery, Enterprise Books, Joseph J. Felcone, Kater-Crafts Bookbinders, George Freder-ick Kolbe/Fine Numismatic Books, G.T. Mandl (English papermakers), Iris Nevins (marbler), and Oak Knoll Books. The tokens (with 9 duplicates), along with a rough flan, were made under the supervision of Meyer Katz at the Unity Mint in Ambler, PA, from dies engraved by Kenneth Douglas at the Green Duck Co., in Olive Branch, MS. The set of 11 tool-steel dies (22 pieces), now coated with a protective lacquer, cost Morris $9800 in 1988, which he considered a bargain. The lot is contained in a box of Honduras mahogany made by Morris from boards he purchased in 1956 to build papermaking molds.
Also included:
William Blades. Numismata Typographica, the Medallic History of Printing. 1992.
Paul Jehne. Über Buchdruck-Medaillen. 1907.
Original Dies for Booksellers Tokens/ Bird & Bull Press. Newtown, PA: Bird & Bull Press (not published), 1988, mahogany box measuring 12 x 9 x 6 inches with inscribed metal plate and token inset on top cover.
A set of original dies and other items involved in the production of Trade Tokens of British and American Booksellers & Bookmakers,” compiled and edited by Henry Morris at the Bird & Bull Press, 1989, in an edition limited to 300 copies.
A 3-page letter hand-written by Morris: “Everything one might want to know about the dies for Booksellers’ Tokens.”
Four rubber molds, and a complete set of the original lead proofs, “which the die-makers submitted prior to striking, like a printer’s proof, but in metal.” [Order No. 105753]
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186. So Long, Hot-Metal Men. The Comprehen-sive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book.
(Bird & Bull Press) de Nova Villa, Henricus. Newtown, PA: 2007, small folio, quarter morocco,
slipcase. (x), 117, (3) pages.
$ 550Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces rang-ing from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, ex-
hibit Morris’s finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisite-ly executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental mate-rial from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. “I’ve seen
many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it” (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types and printed on Frankfurt paper. [Order No. 93138]
187. Annals of Scottish Printing from the Introduction of the Art in 1507 to the Beginning
of the Seventeenth Century. Dickson, Robert and John Philip Edmond. 2 volumes.
Cambridge: Macmillan & Bowes, 1890, 4to., original creme colored paper spine with light green paper covers.
xv,272; (iv),273-530 pages.
$ 850Limited to 600 numbered copies signed by Edmond, of which this is one of the 100 large paper copies bound thus. Includes both a history and bibliographical descriptions of 333 books. Illustrated. Note that the large paper copies have a separate half-title and title page for the second volume. The bookplate of Thomas B. Mosher is included in each volume. Light soil-ing on covers; internally a very fine, unopened copy. [Order No. 96228]
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188. Biblia Sacra.(Gutenberg Bible). 2 volumes. Patterson: Pageant Books, 1961, folio, red cloth as issued. Not pagi-
nated.
$ 5,000Facsimile edition. Printed in an edition limited to 1000 numbered copies of which 996 were for sale. This edition is the first ever printed in the United States. It reproduces a copy considered by authorities to be one of the most beautifully illuminated of the forty-seven copies known to exist. It derives from the Insel Verlag edition which was based on the copy in the Koniglichen Bibliothek in Berlin, and the copy in the Standischen Landesbiblio-thek in Fulda. The text pages have been printed by lithography in red, blue and black. There are also about 100 illuminated pages finely printed by sheet-fed gravure. The paper used is 100 percent rag content made especially for this edition. [Order No. 107040]
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189. Thomas Short and the First Book Printed in Connecticut.
(Leaf Book) Johnson, Foster M. Meriden, CT: Bayberry Hill Press, 1958, 12mo., full leather, dust jacket. (viii), 28, (3) pages.
$ 950Limited to 50 numbered copies, being a Keepsake for the Columbiad Club (Not in Leaf Book - Chalmers). The booklet provides a biography of the printer, Thomas Short, information on the printing history of this 1708 imprint, and a six-page facsimile. Loosely inserted in a pocket is an actual leaf from the “Saybrook Platform” of 1710 taken from Harold Hugo’s defective and broken-up copy. Hugo printed the collotype repro-ductions in this book. Not in bibliography of leaf books (Disbound and Dispersed, distributed by Oak Knoll Press for the Caxton Club). An extremely scarce book. [Order No. 92009]C
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190. The Gilbart Prize Essay on the Adaptation of Recent Discoveries and Inventions in Science and Art to the Purposes of Practical Banking.
Sharp, Granville. London: Groombridge and Sons, 1854, 8vo., modern cloth, rear pastedown used to mount thirteen specimens of red wax seals, top edge gilt, foredge uncut. vii, 356 pages, with 90
illustrations, engravings, and specimens.
$ 4,500Third edition, first illustrated edition. (Bridson & Wakeman B59; Honeyman no.2844; absent from AMEX Coll. Cat.). A fascinating book. J.W. Gilbart, manager of the London and Westminster Bank, offered a prize for the essay that best showed how the articles and inventions shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851 could be put to service in the banking industry. This essay by Granville Sharp won. The first two edi-tions did not include the illustrations and samples. For this third edition, the pub-lisher collected handbills, trade catalogues, flyers, samples, and ephemera from each of the exhibitors and bound them with the essay. This edition thus served as a virtual trade catalogue for the banking indus-try. Among the widely varied specimens are checks, security paper and envelopes,
watermarking techniques, paper samples, banknotes illustrating various engraving techniques, photographic reproductions illustrating procedures to foil counterfeiting of banknotes, seal cutters, and ink specimen sheets filled out by hand, as well as color lithographic illustrations. Also includes catalogues for office machine manu-facturers and materials on bank buildings, interior decoration, plumbing, and security measures. This copy is missing eighteen plates and two are damaged, viz, #3 Perkins’ Bank Note, with combination of difficult en-graving, #3A Ditto “faced” upon Perkins and Co’s patent for the preven-tion of anastatic and photographic forgery, #6 Fisher’s bank note, printed by one impression, #7 Ditto, Bill of Exchange, ditto, #9 Batho’s Wa-ter Colour cheque, “London and Westminster Bank”, #11 Ditto, Water Colour and Copper Plate Cheque, at two impressions, “Harris and Co., Bradford”, #13 Nissen’s Cheques, upon paper tinted in the pulp, #13G-H, & 13J-M Various Lithographic Cheques and Imitations, #14 Portal’s watermark for Bank Notes, by Moulds and Dies, #15 Saunders’ Water-mark, #16 Ditto, #17 Wildes’ Floreated Watermark, #18 Saunders’ Parch-ment Paper for Bank Notes, &c., &c., #89 Horne’s decorations. #13F has the signature cut out, and #51 has the specimen envelope removed. The Honeyman copy was also missing other plates and, indeed, a check of all known copies would probably yield various plates missing in the differ-ent copies as these copies were individually put together from available samples. With the bookplate of Gavin Bridson. Front pastedown rubbed. [Order No. 97806]
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191. TYPE FOUNDRIES OF AMERICA AND THEIR CATALOGS. Annenberg, Maurice. With additions and an introduction by Stephen O. Saxe and an index by Elizabeth K. Lieberman. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1994, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. xviii, 276 pages. ISBN 9781884718069. $ 49.95Reprint of the first edition with an added appendix. Recognized by booksellers, collectors, librar-ians and bibliographers for its great usefulness as the definitive bibliography of American type specimen books. This edition contains an appendix listing 73 type specimen books unknown at the time of the first edition, more than 10 percent of the former total. Type Foundries contains historical accounts of each foundry, a list of their specimen books with size and number of pages
and countless tidbits of fascinating historical and typographical information. Oak Knoll’s edition has been updated and amended by the well-known printing historian, Stephen O. Saxe. He has added eight appendixes to the book, as well as a four-page introduction and a biographical sketch of the author. In addition, one new type foundry, Abraham Riggs of New York City, has been discovered and is described in a separate appendix. There are also listings of the complete type specimen holdings of the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian Institution and Stephen O. Saxe’s personal collection. The appendixes conclude with a list of errata, omissions and duplications in the first edition; and a select bibliography. Also, of the greatest importance, the much-lamented lack of an index has now been corrected through the efforts of Elizabeth Lieberman. [Order No. 40614]
192. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTING. Bigmore, E.C. and C.W.H. Wyman. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, small 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 1070 pages. ISBN 9781584560616. $ 85.00In the long and distinguished history of bibliographical scholarship, few works stand equal to E.C. Bigmore and C.W.H. Wyman’s monumental classic, A Bibliography of Printing. The original three volumes were published from 1880 to 1886 by the famed British bookman and publisher, Bernard Quaritch. Quickly recognized as a treasure house of information on books dealing with publishing and the printing arts, this ground-breaking catalogue quickly established itself as the premier bibliography in its field. A new introduction has been written by Henry Mor-ris of Bird & Bull Press. Beautifully illustrated, with hundreds of original woodcuts depicting portraits, printers’ marks, topographical scenes, and foliated initials graced many of its thousand-plus pages. Unlike many of its unannotated predecessors, Bigmore and Wyman’s analytical descriptions give a unique and strong-willed voice to this well-researched book. The original work contained one major drawback: it lacked a comprehensive index. This edition has corrected this oversight. Reprint of the 1880/82/86 three-volume edition with a comprehensive index. Co-published with The British Library. [Order No. 63624]
193. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WRITER AND PRINTER. Green, James N. & Peter Stallybrass. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & Library Company of Philadelphia & The British Library, 2006, 8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 192 pages. ISBN 9781584561873. $ 49.95Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer begins by focusing on Franklin’s career as a printer, from his apprenticeship to his retirement in 1748, by which time he had created the largest printing business in colonial America. His success as a printer was based not only on his newspaper and the popular almanacs he published but also on his own writings, first for his brother’s press in Boston and then for his own press in Philadelphia. Most of his early writing took the form of
compiling and editing, as in the case of the proverbs that he collected from a variety of sources for his Poor Richard’s Al-manack and reused for The Way to Wealth, his most frequently reprinted work. Much of what we know about Franklin as a writer and printer comes from his autobiography, the focus of the last part of this book. Left unfinished at his death in 1790, the autobiography was known to the world for nearly eighty years only in translations, fragments, paraphrases, and, in English, from re-translations of a 1791 French translation. The posthumous publishing histories of the autobi-ography and of The Way to Wealth illuminate the transformation of Benjamin Franklin from a youthful printer into the most famous American writer of the eighteenth century. Co-Published with the Library Company of Philadelphia and The British Library. [Order No. 90643]
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194. PRINTING PLACES: LOCATIONS OF BOOK PRODUC-TION & DISTRIBUTION SINCE 1500.
Hinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors). New Castle, DE and London, UK: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2005, 5.75 x 8.25 inches, cloth. 222 pages. ISBN 9781584561651. $ 45.00This seventh Print Networks volume is a collection of essays presented at the 2002 Conference on the History of the Book Trade. The theme reinforces the importance of studying specific lo-cal factors alongside the wider picture of printing history. As with the other volumes in the Print Networks series, the scope of these scholarly essays is wide-ranging: the book trade in Britain, including links with the former colonies, in early modern and modern times. This collection
of essays clearly reflects the book-trade history and is a lively engagement with other historical approaches: cultural, social, economic and intellectual. Edited by John Hinks and Catherine Armstrong to noted scholars in this field. Co-published with the British Library. Available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 88192]
195. WORLDS OF PRINT: DIVERSITY IN THE BOOK TRADE. Hinks, John and Catherine Armstrong (editors). New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, 8vo., hardcover, dust jacket. 254 pages. ISBN 9781584561910. $ 45.00The infinite variety of people and places touched by the British book trade is the focus of this eighth volume in the Print Networks series. These papers—by established book historians and younger scholars—reflect the complex networks that existed between book trade people in the British Isles and the wider colonial world, focusing on those involved in the creation of the book, from author to agent, publisher to printer, bookseller to reader. The broad chronology cov-ered here allows scholars of book history to observe thematic developments. Topics range from Scotland’s earliest printers to late twentieth-century global marketing strategies, also exploring books in and about central America, New Zealand, Australia, Elgin, Northampton, and East Kent, among other diverse locations. These essays demonstrate what the connections between book trade practitioners locally and internationally can tell us about the significance of print. They accomplish this by analyzing the lives of the men and women who cre-ated and lived in these fascinating ‘worlds of print.’ Co-published with The British Library. Available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 90945]
196. FROM COMPOSITORS TO COLLECTORS: ESSAYS ON BOOK-TRADE HISTORY.
Hinks, John and Matthew Day (editors). New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2012, 6 x 9 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 400 pages. ISBN 9781584563013. $ 75.00The essays in this collection trace texts from their creation and printing through to their publica-tion, dissemination, and collection. In doing so, they show how production processes change texts and how collectors subsequently appropriate them for their own ends. By examining the di-verse activities of those involved in both textual creation and collection over a long period, these essays highlight both continuities and changes in the book trade. Taken together, this collection offers considerable new insights into many facets of the book trade, ranging from creation to
consumption. The “compositors” section covers everything from The Mayor of Quinborough, published in 1661, to My Name is Salma, published in 2007. Essays on “collectors” include Dr. James Fraser, Titus Wheatcroft, Sir Walter Scott, the USA Armed Services, and more. The book is illustrated throughout in black and white. Available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 105524]
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197. THE MIGHTY ENGINE: THE PRINTING PRESS AND ITS IMPACT.
Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay (editors). New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000, 8vo., Hardback printed covers. 218 pages. ISBN 9781584560241. $ 39.95This fourth volume in the Print Networks series salutes the impact of the printing press. Taken from the proceedings of the Seventeenth Seminar on the British Book Trade held in Aberyst-wyth in July 1999, this collection of scholarly essays reminds us how authorities have tried for centuries to control the printed matter coming off the mighty engine, as well as the distribution of the material. Eighteen essays written from such authorities as: John Turner, Barry McKay, John Hinks, John R. Turner, David J. Shaw, Sarah Gray, David Stoker, Stacey Gee, Iain Beavan, Audrey Cooper, Diana Dixon, Margaret Cooper, Brenda Scragg, Philip Henry Jones, Richard
Suggett, Chris Baggs and Rheinallt Llwyd. Illustrated. Co-published with St. Paul’s Bibliographies. [Order No. 59394]
198. LETTERPRESS PRINTING, A MANUAL FOR MODERN FINE PRESS PRINTERS.
Maravelas, Paul. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, tall 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. 220 pages. ISBN 9781584561743. $ 24.95First edition. Letterpress Printing is the comprehensive source book for beginning and interme-diate letterpress printers. Using clear explanations of technical terms and more than 80 illustra-tions, the manual describes presses, ink, paper, press operation, type and photopolymer plates. The book shows how to set up and run small and large platen presses, and Vandercook and Challenge-style hand cylinder presses. One chapter provides details about presses recommended by the author; another chapter explains how to equip and arrange a new letterpress shop. Also discussed is how to plan and design projects, how to move presses and equipment, and how to use lead and solvents safely. A discussion of recent trends helps the reader to understand the niche now occupied by the letterpress process and the techniques used by its practitioners. Includes one glossary of terms relating to paper, and another glossary of terms relating to printing. This is an up to date work for students and fine press printers wishing to sharpen their skills. Co-published by The British Library. [Order No. 88733]
199. AMERICAN METAL TYPEFACES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. McGrew, Mac. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1993, 9 x 12 inches, pa-perback. 398 pages. ISBN 9780938768395. $ 65.00Reprint of the second, revised edition. Discover 1,600 classical as well as bizarre typefaces in one of the most massive tributes to the history of printing and metal types. This edition of Ameri-can Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century contains 300 more typefaces in a clean, attractive format. This well-organized work captures the rapidly disappearing traditions and legacy that metal-type printing has left behind. Much of this information has been lost by the passage of time, and its preservation in this book is essential for anyone studying typefaces, typography, and its history. Structured by alphabetically-listed type families, these typefaces and their vari-ant forms are shown in full alphabets—upper and lower case with numerals and punctuation. The specimens themselves are cleanly reproduced from metal types for maximum clarity. The
text is detailed and informative, not only identifying the designer, foundry, and date of issue but also the range of sizes and closely similar designs by other founders. The history, aims, and purpose behind many of these typefaces are also described, along with production problems encountered and individual characteristics. Additional information includes extensive appendices listing common pseudonyms, popular imports, and antique faces, plus American Typefound-ers, Monotype, and Ludlow series numbers. The indexes provide easy access to typeface names as well as names of designers, punch cutters, matrix engravers, and other tradesman. The history of metal types and printing, now forever preserved, has long affected the spread of human civilization. Oak Knoll Press is proud to offer this work to generations of graphic designers, typographers, printing and graphic arts enthusiasts all over the world. [Order No. 34980]
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200. NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND THE IRON HANDPRESS.
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. 2 volumes. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2004, small 4to., unbound sheets. 1152 pages. ISBN 1-58456-100-9. $ 55.00First edition. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress is encyclopedic in its examination of print-ing techniques from the late-seventeenth century through the nineteenth century. Using selected readings from printers’ manuals—beginning with Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John Southward’s Practical Printing, 1900—Gabriel Rummonds has distilled over two hundred years of print-ers’ wisdom into this very readable and important work on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century. This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the twentieth-century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, engravings and photo-graphs, and the most comprehensive annotated bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work stands alone in the annals of printing history. Co-published with The British Library. Set of unbound sheets suit-able for binding (sewn and glued signatures without a case). [Order No. 76433]
201. PRINTING ON THE IRON HANDPRESS. Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel. New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 1998, tall 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 496 pages. ISBN 9781884718397. $ 75.00First edition. This is the definitive printing manual for printing students, contemporary print-ers and printing historians. A master printer, Richard-Gabriel Rummonds has written a work destined to become a standard text on the art of fine printing. Students, printers, and printing historians will find this new book gratifying, enlightening and extremely instructive. Filling the need for a systematic, step-by-step manual for using this time-honored piece of equipment, this award winning printer and author presents how to print on the iron handpress in comprehensive and thorough detail. Rummonds lays out this manual by covering all the materials involved and step-by-step, the vari-ous different ways to achieve the same result—to make a distinct, substantial and evenly-inked impression on damp paper. Realizing that there is more than one way to print, the author concentrates on methods that can be repeated with a reasonable amount of success and dependability as well as serving as a point of departure for experimentation. With a Foreword by Harry Duncan, over 400 illustrations and technical drawings by George Laws, and 35 photographs of famous, well-known, historical and contemporary fine printers at their presses. End materials include an extensive glos-sary, bibliography, and a list of suppliers. Sales Rights: Available outside the UK from Oak Knoll Books. Available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 48848]
202. PRINTER’S TYPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Southall, Richard. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2005, 7 x 10 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages. ISBN 9781584561552. $ 65.00First edition. The last years of the nineteenth century saw the final stages in the transition of type manufacture from a craft to an industrial process, and the first appearance of complex mechani-cal systems for the composition of text. A hundred years later, text composition used only the simple mechanisms inside laser printers and image-setters, and type manufacture was well on the way to becoming a craft process once again; though now with computer displays and software replacing steel punches and copper matrices. Printer’s Type in the Twentieth Century traces the
evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution. The book takes a theoretical view of its topic, rather than a simple nar-rative approach. It is intended for readers interested in recent typographic history, and the relationships between design methods and production technologies in type manufacture. Contains 150 illustrations. Co-published with The British Library. Sales Rights: North & South America only; available elsewhere from The British Library. [Order No. 79701]
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203. PRINTERS’ & PUBLISHERS’ MARKS IN BOOKS FOR THE GREEK WORLD (1494-1821).
Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and HES & DE GRAAF, 2009, 8.75 x 12.25 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 254 pages. ISBN 9781584562702. $ 125.00This book contains reproductions of the printers and publishers marks of all those—both Greeks and non-Greeks—who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typog-raphy until just before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. The marks are illustrated and described in all their variant forms, complete with bibliographical references, identifications, a general index, and an index of printers and printing houses. They are shown at
actual size and presented chronologically. Includes a brief message to the reader by the author, as well as an extensive and detailed introduction. Available in Europe from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 102238]
204. FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF PRINTING. Steinberg, S.H. New edition, revised by John Trevitt. London & New Castle, Dela-ware: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, (2001), 8vo., cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages. ISBN 9781884718199. $ 45.00New edition, entirely re-set and containing over one hundred new illustrations. Five Hundred Years of Printing describes the pivotal role that printing has played in the development of hu-man civilization. This work covers the history of printing with movable types through several periods. Five Hundred Years also traces the close relationship between printing and culture over many years and also discusses topics like censorship, bestsellers, popular series, and the connec-tion between printing and education, language and literature. This edition, revised and updated by John Trevitt, takes into account the huge technological changes that the printing industry has experienced in the last two decades. [Order No. 43776]
205. A CATALOGUE OF NINETEENTH CENTURY PRINTING PRESSES. Sterne, Harold E. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 272 pages. ISBN 9781584560470. $ 75.00From presses similar to Gutenberg’s wine press to the mechanical marvels of the 1890s, this visually remarkable work contains the largest collection of printing equipment illustrations and advertisements to date. A careful study of the more than 480 rare woodcuts and engravings of Hand, Cylinder, Platen, Lever, Lithographic, and Rotary presses will reveal the subtle and major changes each manufacturer made to enhance his machine’s productivity and printing qual-ity. Never before has the printing or publishing historian had such a comprehensive resource at his disposal. This work truly captures the engineering technology of a bygone age. The author has spent 30 years gathering and compiling this information, a true labor of love. This second, expanded edition has over 150 new illustrations. [Order No. 61915]
206. PRINTING TYPES, THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE. Updike, Daniel Berkeley. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, 6.5 x 9 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 1,088 pages. ISBN 9781584560562. $ 85.00Third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. This extraordinary work ex-plores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons they contain for today’s designers. The original two-volume set has been combined into one book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. Updike’s well-written text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these illustrations, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. Co-published with The British Library. [Order No. 63429]
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207. Bibliotheca Americana, Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island.
(Brown, John Carter). 7 volumes. Millwood: Kraus Reprint Co., 1975, tall 8vo., cloth.
$ 700Seven volumes. An invaluable Americana reference set. The complete set of this bibliography is composed of the following volumes. Thousands of collations are given. 1). EARLIEST BOOKS TO THOSE DATED 1674. x,511; (viii),552; (iv),310 pages. Reprint of the third and last edition originally printed over the period 1919 to 1931. 2). BOOKS PRINTED 1675-1700. Providence: Brown University Library, 1973, 4to., cloth. xxxi, 484 pages. Third and best edition adding to the material published in the period 1875-1882. 3). PART III. 1701-1800. Two volumes. N.P.: Kraus Reprint Co., 1963, tall 8vo., cloth. (iv),iv,446; (vi),554 pages. Reprint of the first edition first published in 1870 and 1871. 4). SHORT TITLE LIST OF ADDITIONS, BOOKS PRINTED 1471-1700. (vi),67 pages. Providence: Brown University Press, 1973. [Order No. 1046]
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208. A Browning Library, a Catalogue of Printed Books Manuscripts and Autograph Letters by Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
(Browning) Wise, Thomas J. London: Privately printed for Wise, 1929, 4to., red cloth, beveled edges, top edge gilt, others uncut. xxxii, 126, (2) pages.
$ 500Limited to 162 copies. Presentation on free endpaper “For Ralph Straus with all regards from Thos. J. Wise”. Well illustrated. Wise provides a note up front concerning the reproduction of a marble bust of Robert Brown-ing sculpted by Robert’s son. Also of interest are Wise’s memories of his encounters with Browning. During one such occassion, he claims to have witnessed Browning destroying his personal letters and books in a fire. Printed by the Dunedin Press, Edinburgh. Straus (1882-1950) was an English novelist and biographer who wrote on Dickens, printing, bookselling, etc. Bookplate of Phiroze K. Randeria. Notes in pencil in the mar-gins. Spine slightly faded. [Order No. 23762]
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209. Bibliotheca Hibernicana: Or a Descriptive Catalogue of a Select Irish Library, Collected for the Right Hon. Robert Peel.
(Mason, William Shaw). Dublin: Printed by W. Fold and Son, 1823, 8vo., original boards. (iv), v, (iii), 51+(1) pages.
$ 2,200Limited to only fifty copies. An annotated catalogue of 125 books relating to Ireland printed from 1584 to 1820 under the broad headings of Antiquities, History, Biography, Topography, Statistical Surveys, Tourists, and Finance. Inscribed by the author on the half-title to the legal writer and antiquary Henry Joseph Monck Mason Esq., dated December 1825. Boards soiled and worn, back strip chipped and worn away, missing por-tion at heel. Bookplate on front pastedown, small institutional release stamp on title page (both Long Island Historical Society). Occasional finger soiling. Marginal damp stain toward the end. Second front blank has short tear with no loss. [Order No. 96420]
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210. Greece and the Levant, the Catalogue of the Henry Myron Blackmer Collection of Books and Manuscripts.
Navari, Leonora. London: Maggs Bros., 1989, folio, cloth. (xxiii), 424, xvi plates, 425-447 pages.
$ 2,850Limited to 300 copies. Catalogue of Henry Myron Blackmer’s collection of books and manuscripts related to Greece and the lands of the Eastern Mediterranean. Preface by Christopher Gibbs and Leonora Navari. With 1,947 listings, sixteen color plates and an index. Bumping to bottom corners and spine ends. Slight fading to spine and covers at top. Spine label removed. [Order No. 104094]
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211. AFRO-AMERICANA, 1553-1906: A CATALOG OF THE HOLDINGS OF THE LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA
AND THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA. With an Introduction by Edwin Wolf. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover. 920 pages. ISBN 9781584562368. $ 175.00Second, expanded edition. In 1969, the Library Company of Philadelphia joined the Historical Society of Pennsylvania to mount a major exhibition of their holdings, entitled Negro History: 1553—1906. In 1973, on the heels of that exhibition, the two organizations published their holdings in the still-standard bibliography, Afro-Americana: 1553—1906, itemizing over 13,000
printed works and nearly 5,000 manuscript entries. Afro-Americana helped identify the two libraries as major resources for African American studies, helping to solidify African-American history in academic and popular culture. This ex-panded, second edition by Oak Knoll Press, to include upwards of 2,500 additions since the catalogue’s 1973 publica-tion, preserves and extends the legacy of this landmark work. [Order No. 96663]
212. PRINCIPLES OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION. Bowers, Fredson. With a new introduction by G. Thomas Tanselle. Winchester and New Castle, Delaware: St Paul’s Bibliographies and Oak Knoll Press, (2005), thick 8vo., stiff paper wrappers. xvi, 505 pages. ISBN 9781884718007. $ 39.95Reprint of the first edition. One of the indisputable classics of 20th-century scholarship, Bow-ers’s work is one of the standard guides on the subject, providing a comprehensive manual for the description of printed books as physical objects. Although there has been much activity in descriptive bibliography since then, Principles still holds its place as the central book to which those engaged in bibliographical work continually return. [Order No. 40520]
213. A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY. Gaskell, Philip. New Castle, Delaware & Winchester: Oak Knoll Press & St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 2009, 6 x 9 inches, paperback. 462 pages. ISBN 9781884718137. $ 39.95Reprint of the 1995 Oak Knoll edition. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the textual problems of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, and, although McKerrow covered the period up to 1800, he did not describe the technology of the machine-press period. Gaskell incorporates work done since McKerrow’s day on the history of the printing technology of the hand-press period, and he breaks new ground by providing a general description of the printing practices of the machine-press period. He describes the hand-printed book, press-work, pat-terns of production, plates, and more. In addition, he examines bibliographical applications,
reference bibliography, and the process of book production. Little has been previously published about the techniques and routines of nineteenth- and twentieth-century book production, making this book essential to students of literature, scholars, printing historians, librarians, and book lovers. [Order No. 42436]
214. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. Blanck, Jacob. 9 volumes, the complete set. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2003, small 4to., cloth. thousands of pages. ISBN 9781584561095. $ 975.00Reprint of the complete set with a new introduction by Michael Winship. A necessary reference set for any student of American literature. This set is being brought back in print with the permission of the Bibliographical Society of America. [Order No. 74077]
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215. THE RIVERS OF AMERICA: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Fitzgerald, Carol. 2 volumes. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, 6 x 9 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 1,002 pages. ISBN 9781584560326. $ 125.00This remarkable, well-researched bibliography is the most comprehensive work ever pub-lished on the historical series of books called The Rivers of America. This important series of sixty-five titles was published from 1937 to 1974, and most have been reprinted, some of them many times. Each book focused on one of the nation’s major rivers or river systems and captured its spirit, folklore and history as never before. Carol Fitzgerald has written a very readable, two-volume work that goes far beyond the dry reference work of most bibliogra-phies. She includes insightful biographies of the series’ sixty authors, fifty-three illustrators and eight editors. Each original dust jacket is depicted in the text and some are illustrated in
full color in the plate section. The Rivers of America is an excellent reference source for the subject and a fascinating read for anyone in love with the lore of this nation’s first highways. This work presents complete bibliographical de-scriptions of the nearly 400 printings of the 65 titles that make up the series. Co-published with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. [Order No. 61955]
216. ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Grissom, C. Edgar. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011, 8.5 x 11 inch-es, hardcover, dust jacket. 644 pages, plus 112 on DVD. ISBN 9781584562788. $ 225.00Edgar Grissom’s Ernest Hemingway: A Descriptive Bibliography can succinctly be described as the culmination of all previous endeavors in Hemingway bibliography. Grissom corrects the work of previous bibliographers, adding numerous editions and printings to the periods they covered and addressing the years 1975-2009, which had previously been left untouched. This is the only bibliography of Hemingway to classify edition, printing, issue, and state, and provide a classical bibliographical description. It is the only text that provides and describes every printing of every edition, as well as a comprehensive list of the parent editions of the primary works. The bibliography is gener-ously illustrated with title pages and copyright pages throughout the text. Accompanying the printed volume is a DVD-ROM with more than 2,000 color illustrations, including more than 50 images of Hemingway’s signature from 1908 to 1960. These include dust jackets, covers, and spines, allowing for accurate comparison and identification of nearly all of Hemingway’s work. The DVD-ROM also includes more than 112 pages of additional text. [Order No. 102275]
217. THE DARK PAGE: BOOKS THAT INSPIRED AMERICAN FILM NOIR, 1940-1949.
Johnson, Kevin. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2007, 9 x 12 inches, cloth with dust jacket. 384 pages. ISBN 9781584562177. $ 95.00First edition, second printing. Kevin Johnson has paired his obsessions with film and litera-ture to illuminate even the murkiest connections. Identifying every 1940s American film noir with a published literary source, The Dark Page provides concise but fact-filled accounts of the authors, books and filmmakers that came together-often in unlikely combinations-to create a unique and cherished period in film history. Complete with carefully researched and detailed bibliographical points for the first editions, The Dark Page is a highly entertaining resource that cuts across several disciplines, bringing the films and their literary sources into sharper focus for both the specialist and the casual reader. This is the first volume in a projected series that will cover the entire film noir cycle. Assuming the author escapes the gunplay that is almost sure to
result from his revealing these long-held secrets of the rare book trade, the second volume will encompass American films noir between 1950-1965, and the third will explore the even more obscure world of British and European films noir. [Order No. 98426]
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218. RUDYARD KIPLING: A BIBLIOGRAPHY. Richards, David Alan. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 504 pages, plus 446 on CD-ROM. ISBN 9781584562429. $ 195.00This new bibliography of Kipling is the first to appear in fifty years and the first to incorporate modern standards of collation, binding cloth description, publication dates and prices, and dust jacket description. It describes 480 first editions, authorized and unauthorized, appearing as books, pamphlets, leaflets, and broadsides from 1881 through 2008, a dozen of which were not noted by prior bibliographers. It also includes books with contributions from Kipling, titles con-
taining prefaces, introductory letters and forewords by Kipling, and titles first printing his private letters. These contents are present in one substantial volume containing the primary entries, grayscale images of bindings and title pages, and indices. The second “volume,” containing all the other classified sections, is on the enclosed CD-ROM, along with color images of bindings and title pages. Available in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 96675]
219. THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CLEMENT CLARKE MOORE’S IMMORTAL POEM.
Marshall, Nancy H. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 324 pages. ISBN 9781584560715. $ 75.00This bibliography is the first comprehensive work ever undertaken to document the publica-tion history of the most famous work in all Christmas literature. With more than 1,000 entries including 144 color illustrations of historic first editions, this book is a collector’s dream. Mrs. Marshall has spent a lifetime collecting and organizing the works listed in this extraordinary bibliography. Seven detailed indexes, an historical essay describing the St. Nicholas legend, Clement Moore, and the origin of the poem make this an essential reference tool for collectors of Christmas memorabilia. [Order No. 69264]
220. SMALL BOOKS FOR THE COMMON MAN: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Meriton, John (editor) with the assistance of Carlo Dumontet. New Castle, Dela-ware, and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2010, 7 x 10 inches, hardcover. 1,008 pages. ISBN 9781584562542. $ 115.00First edition. Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Ex-amples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. Co-published with The British Library. [Order No. 99759]
221. ARTHUR MILLER: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Crandell, George W. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011, 8.5 x 11 inch-es, hardcover, dust jacket. 256 pages, CD-ROM. ISBN 9781584562887. $ 195.00Arthur Miller: A Descriptive Bibliography traces the publishing career of this great American dramatist by chronicling the publication of his books, collections of plays, stories, and essays. Organized into eight sections, the bibliography lists or describes separate publications, collected editions, first-appearance contributions to books, pamphlets, occasional publications, first ap-pearances in magazines and newspapers, translations, publications in braille, music, and dust jacket blurbs. First English and American editions are described in full, providing descriptions or images of the title page, copyright page, binding, and dust jacket. Descriptions of the first editions also include details about the size and collation of books, pagination, contents, publication, and printing. The bibliography also includes a comprehensive index and a CD-ROM containing title pages and color images. [Order No. 104818]
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222. PIONEERS IN BIBLIOGRAPHY. Myers, Robin. New Castle, Delaware and Winchester: Oak Knoll Press and St. Paul’s Bibliographies, 1996, 8vo., paper over boards. 117 pages. ISBN 9781884718304. $ 30.00Reprint of the first edition. As the written output of European culture has continued to expand and diversify, the need to establish controls of the materials has also increased. The listing, description and analysis of texts, whether in manu-script or print, have engaged a long series of individuals in what can only be described as a heroic struggle. These individuals are the subject of the essays in this book, which reveal that all those researching the byways of book trade history, from the library cataloguers of medieval times to the dedicated scholar-librarians and historians of the recent past, can truly be said to have been “pioneers in bibliography.” [Order No. 45674]
223. PRINTED COOKBOOKS IN EUROPE, 1470-1700: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF EARLY MODERN CULINARY LITERATURE.
Notaker, Henry. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & HES & DE GRAAF, 2010, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 416 pages. ISBN 9781584562535. $ 125.00First edition. This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks pub-lished in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fourteen different languages. Some household encyclopedias with culinary sections have also been included. Many of the editions described have never before been listed in modern bibli-ographies. The bibliography gives the full title and physical description of each work. Annota-tions provide details about contents, biographical data about authors and publishers, information about the sources of the recipes, translations, and plagiarisms. A historical introduction analyzes
the development of the cookbook as a genre during the first two centuries of printing, with reference to authorship, publishing history, didactic methods, culinary processes, and differences in gender. Available in Europe from our co-publisher, HES & DE GRAAF. [Order No. 96680]
224. CHRISTINA ROSSETTI: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY. Ives, Maura. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2011, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 380 pages. ISBN 9781584562917. $ 95.00As the first descriptive bibliography of Christina Rossetti, this book documents the full range of Rossetti’s publication history, taking into account her books as well as her appearances in anthologies, periodicals, and hymnals, musical settings, and selected translations, ephemera, and Rossettiana. In addition to identifying a number of new publications, this bibliography provides a full account of the American printings of Rossetti’s poetry collections, records a number of manuscript corrections or additions discovered in copies examined, and pays special attention to musical settings of her work. A substantial introduction provides an overview of her publish-ing history, identifies the bibliography’s major findings, and explains the bibliography’s format and terminology. A comprehensive index of poems allows readers to trace publication of poems across all sections of the bibliography. An index of prose and a general index are also included. The bibliography is illustrated with a 16-page insert of color plates. [Order No. 104081]
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225. JOHN UPDIKE: A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY MATERIALS, 1948-2007.
De Bellis, Jack & Michael Broomfield. With “Foreword to my own Bibliog-raphy” by John Updike and a CD Supplement. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2007, 8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 624 pages (plus 359 pages on CD-ROM). ISBN 9781584561958. $ 195.00First edition. John Updike is internationally renowned for his novels, short stories, poems, es-says and criticism. He has won two Pulitzers, the National Book Award, the American Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and many other prizes. Updike wrote a “Fore-word to My Own Bibliography” especially for this book. This definitive guide to materials by
and about this prolific American author consists of a printed first volume and a second volume on CD (a first for Oak Knoll Press). The A and B sections of Volume I, concerning separately printed works by Updike and books to which he has contributed, are superb examples of descriptive bibliography. The printed volume also features over 500 gray-scale images of book covers, jackets, broadsides, and many seldom seen items. It includes comprehensive listings of Updike’s short fiction, poems, articles, essays, and reviews, as well as extensive documentation of letters, speeches, dramatic works, manuscripts, interviews, and blurbs. Volume II contains entries for material about Updike and his work (reviews, commentary, and theses), several appendices (media appearances, work read by others, works in translation, exhibits and catalogs), and full-color versions of images appearing in the printed volume. John Updike: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, 1948-2007 provides an indispensable guide to Updike’s work and commentary about it. [Order No. 92254]
226. A CATALOGUE OF THE JUNIUS SPENCER MORGAN COLLECTION OF VIRGIL IN THE PRINCETON
UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Kallendorf, Craig. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, 8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 544 pages. ISBN 9781584562634. $ 95.00The Junius Spencer Morgan collection at Princeton University consists of over 700 titles (to-taling around 900 volumes) of editions of the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC), in Latin and in various vernacular languages. Technically the collection includes items ranging from the first printed edition (Rome, 1469) to the present, but the focus is strongly on material published in the early modern period. This collection was formed by Junius Spencer Morgan, the nephew of the financier J. P. Morgan. Morgan’s interest in Virgil was undoubtedly encouraged during his student days at Princeton and reflects his efforts to obtain the best copies he could find of items noteworthy for their scholarship, their illustrations, or their place in pub-lishing history. The result is one of the largest collections of early printed editions of Virgil in the world, a collection whose balance and integrity make it the proper beginning place for research in this field. Given Virgil’s central place in western education during the early centuries of printing, the catalogue of the Morgan collection should be of interest to art historians, cultural historians, and historians of education as well as classicists and specialists in printing history and the history of the book. This handsomely-produced volume includes close to fifty full-page color illustrations from the collection. [Order No. 100481]
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227. Harpel’s Typograph or Book of Specimens Containing Useful Information, Suggestions and a
Collection of Examples of Letterpress Job Print Ar-ranged for the Assistance of Master Printers, Ama-
teurs, Apprentices, and Others. Harpel, Oscar H. Cincinnati: Oscar H. Harpel, 1870, 8vo., original gilt stamped cloth, all edges stained red. Frontis-
piece; (ii), 252, (18) pages.
$ 2,500First and only printing. (Bigmore and Wyman I, 306). Harpel lists many important facts necessary for the running of a success-ful printing business and includes a history of printing. The most important feature of this book is the full color plates, some printed and some done by lithography. Contains folded plates, tipped-in specimens, and other examples of color work. Each page is printed within colored borders and with a different design and color. A landmark book in the history of American printing. Seven plates with eleven wood-engravings; one plate composition in “Stigma-typie”; and fourteen inserted leaves of fancy jobbing specimens, some color printed (four printed on enameled paper). This copy has been recased with original cloth spine laid down on newer cloth and new endpapers. One plate in facsimile (spread page plate in color of the Re-publican Printing and Engraving Co. between pages 208 and 209). [Order No. 46847]
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228. Album per l’Esposizione di Belle Arti e Mestieri in Savona. Didicato al Cavaliere Tommaso Bongiorni. Luogotenente-Colonnelo Comandante Il Corpo
Monschettieri. Reci(usione) Militare. Savona: Tip. della Reci(usione)
Militare, 1864, folio, contemporary green morocco with covers with gilt fillet and corner ornaments, gilt center ornament. 32 unnumbered leaves printed on
rectos only.
$ 5,000Text in Italian. Each page framed by beautifully color printed ornaments and borders. The printing itself is par-tially done in various colors on different backgrounds. See Fumagalli, Lexicon typographicum p. 387 (for Savona where printing started in 1474). A magnificent Italian type specimen issued by the Military Printing Department of Savona to celebrate the opening of an art exhibition there. Printed on fine paper. A scarce book with no copies located by WorldCat, COPAC, ICCU (2900 Italian libraries). Edges bumped, with one edge severly bumped. Some spotting on cover. [Order No. 105547]
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229. Schriften-Probe. Spamersche. 2 volumes. Leipzig: Spamersche Buchdruckerei, 1929, 1928, thick 8vo., original gray
cloth stamped in silver with designs in blue, red and gilt. l,725; xx,413+(1) pages.
$ 1,250Text in German. A wonderful display of type faces accompanied by rules and initial letters often printed in dif-ferent colors. The first volume describes foundry type, monotype, examples of typography and music printing. The second volume is devoted to advertising type, ornaments and other decorations. Very fine set. [Order No. 36587]
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230. Specimen of the Chinese Type Belonging to the Chinese Mission of the Board of Foreign Missions
of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Macao: Presbyterian Mission Press, 1844, 8vo., original printed
and decorated paper wrappers. (iii)-v; (6)-41 pages.
$ 3,500Text in English and Chinese. Samples of Chinese type specimens produced by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Chruch in the USA. Chartered in 1812, the Board was seeking entry into China to propagate Protestant Christianity. Certainly one of the earliest collections of modern Chinese type specimens. In 1812, the Chinese government had made printing books on the Christian religion a capital offense in China; thus, missionary organizations worked in peripheral areas to print and distribute such works. In 1815, Robert Morrison, sent to Asia under the aegis of the Lon-don Missioniary Society, began publication of his Dictionary and a Chinese edition of the New Testament. However, his works had a “foreign look” about them, according to K.T. Wu, “The Develop-ment of Typography in China during the Nineteenth Century,” in The Library Quarterly, 22:3, July 1952, 288-301. Soon thereafter,
Paris type founder and student of Chinese philosophy Marcellin Legrand began the “first systematic attempt to produce an extensive font of Chinese type by means of matrices.” (Wu, 293-4). The Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the USA ordered a complete set from Legrand in 1836, sending it to the Presbyterian mission in Macao. Legrand’s method divided the Chinese characters into whole and di-vided classes, subdividing the divided classes into horizontal and perpendicular. The Macao mission also set up a case arrangement “which was prepared by the lamented Mr. Dyer.” Samuel Dyer (1804-43) was sent to the Orient by the London Missionary Society, arriving at Penang in 1827. See Ibrahaim bin Ismail, “Samuel Dyer and His Contributions to Chinese Typography,” The Library Quarterly, 54:2, April 1964, 157-169. With the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing (ending the Opi-um War in 1843) and the Chinese Edict of Toleration of 1844, China was more open to Christian missionary work and distribution of lit-erature. This work was published to assist “workmen in the printing office” needing “a correct printed list of all the characters.” To our knowledge, it is the first recorded type specimen book demonstrating Chinese foundry type and giving instructions on how to use it.
Includes introductory remarks, a “plan of the office,” specimens of Chinese characters including radicals, whole characters, and perpen-diculars. Specimen text, in Chinese and English.
Inscribed in ink on front wrapper “Rev R Anderson Boston” and, in different hand, “Library of the A.B.C.F.M.” (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions). Rufus Anderson (1796-1880) was the General Secretary of the board from 1832 through the mid-1860’s and was himself a missionary, serving in the Pacific and the Orient. He was also author of History of the Mission of the American Board of Com-missioners for Foreign Missions to the Sandwich Islands (Boston: Congregational Publishing Board, 1872). A scarce item with only five copies noted by WorldCat. Wrappers slightly torn at edges. [Order No. 109178]
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231. Specimen Book of the University Press John Wilson and Son (Incorporated) Containing Sample Pages from Certain Characteristic Books Manufactured by Them
and also Samples of the Various Stock, Book, and Job Faces, Foreign and Music Type, Head and Tail Pieces Initial Letters, etc.
University Press. Cambridge: The University Press, (1900), oblong 4to., cloth, title and logo gilt-stamped on front board, title gilt-stamped on spine. xii, 228, (2) pages.
$ 1,350Type specimens offered by the press. Frontispiece, photograph of the press’s plant. Includes a historical sketch, dating its beginnings to 1639, when Joseph Glover of London engaged the services of printer Stephen Day. Although Glover died enroute to Massachusetts, Rev. Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard, provided oversight of the press’s operations. In 1879, John Wilson and Charles Wentworth became proprietors, adding to it the firm John Wilson & Son. Facsimile title page of a 1640 Psalm book included, along with black and white illustrations of a 1661 New Testament and the first press in America included. Index. Some examples of the work of Will Bradley. Boards soiled and scuffed at edges. Recased with original spine laid down on newer cloth. New endpapers. Old library stamp in corner of a few pages. Very scarce book. [Order No. 109185]
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232. Catalogue Van Loey-Nouri. Van Loey-Nouri. (Brussels): Van Loey-Nouri, n.d., circa 1897,
4to, later cloth; title gilt-stamped on leather label on spine, marbled pastedown and endpapers. unpaginated.
$ 1,500Text in French. Type faces offered for sale by the Van Loey-Nouri firm of Brussels. Illustrated descriptions of printshop furniture, tools, and presses. Also includes borders, ornaments, decorations, coats of arms, Christian religious symbols and various other symbols. Some pages with different colored type. Some light foxing. Page with notes in ink laid in. [Order No. 109209]
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233. Spécimen de la Fonderie Typographique Van Loey-Nouri. Van Loey-Nouri. Bruxelles: Van Loey-Nouri, n.d. (circa 1930), 4to., original quarter leather over
cloth. (x), 36, 307 pages.
$ 1,250Text in French. Well produced specimen catalogue including some two-color work. Specimens include Car-acteres de Texte, de Fantasie, Machine a Ecrire, Filets, and other ornaments. Leather worn along hinges with partially split at bottom of front hinge. Internally fine. [Order No. 36850]
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234. TYPEFORMS: A HISTORY. Bartram, Alan. New Castle, Delaware and London: Oak Knoll Press and The British Library, 2007, 9.5 x 10 inches, cloth, dust jacket. 128 pages. ISBN 9781584562221. $ 55.00First edition. This book is the long-awaited successor to the classic An Atlas of Typeforms, the great visually-led history of type that Alan Bartram and James Sutton produced in 1968. Nearly 75 different types are shown in their original metal forms, just as they were in the Atlas of Typeforms. But an entirely new feature is the author’s attempt to place the types in their historical context. By including photographs of contemporary inscriptions on buildings
and monuments, Alan Bartram explores the relationship between printed and architectural letterforms and their paral-lel course from the Renaissance until Victorian times. In this book, Alan Bartram educates us in these critical areas. Co-published with The British Library. Sales rights: North and South America; available elsewhere from The British Library [Order No. 95866]
235. MACKELLAR, SMITHS & JORDAN: TYPOGRAPHIC TASTEMAKERS OF THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY.
Clouse, Doug. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 8.5 x 11 inches, Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. ISBN 9781584562320. $ 65.00First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nine-teenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business con-ditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. Extensive busi-ness records of the firm exist, as do scores of type specimen books and promotional publications of the foundry. All of these have been used extensively by the author. The scores of typefaces illustrated and described are considered as the ever-changing output of a corporation, with lesser emphasis on the individual creators of each typeface. At the turn of the twentieth century, taste turned away from the florid, ornamented style of the earlier decades. Mr. Clouse has shown in this well-written study that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MS&J’s patented typefaces is extremely helpful. [Order No. 96669]
236. PRINTING FOR KINGDOM, EMPIRE, AND REPUBLIC: TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE IMPRIMERIE NATIONALE.
Fletcher, H. George (editor). New York: The Grolier Club, 2011, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, hardcover. 118 pages. ISBN 9781605830377. $ 95.00This volume was produced to accompany an exhibition held at the Grolier Club from December 6, 2011 to February 4, 2012, on the French national typographic and printing establishment, the Imprimerie Nationale, arguably the most important printing house in Europe. The catalogue tells the story of the Imprimerie Nationale, from the royal printers established by François I in 1538, to the Imprimerie Royale created by Cardinal Richelieu in 1640, through many generations of development, marked often by artistic innovation and wide cultural influence, but sometimes by distress and neglect, to triumphant survival in the present day. Printing for Kingdom, Em-pire, and Republic contains a foreword by Jack Lang, two separate prefaces by Dider Trutt and
Eugene S. Flamm, and an introduction by H. George Fletcher. It includes historical essays by Isabelle de Conihout, Annie Parent-Charon, and James Mosley and discusses topics such as humanism and typography, Pierre Moreau (Mas-ter Scribe and Printer), the Romain du Roi (a type made for the Royal Printing-House of Louis XIV) and more. An annotated checklist of the items on display at the exhibition is followed by the essays. Beautifully illustrated, the book contains five pages of color plates, four plates in collotypes, illustrations of typefaces, and more. [Order No. 108805]
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237. THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK. Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. With a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001, small 4to., paperback. 576 pages. ISBN 9781884718144. $ 49.95Paperback edition. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1979. The breadth of this work is remarkable. Encyclopedia contains almost 4,000 terms and definitions used in bookbinding, printing, paper-making and the book trade. Biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders and biblio-philes are included as well as precise notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations, customs of the trade and other related information. This work aims at providing “a reference companion to be constantly available during the study or
processes of bookmaking” and is particularly essential for the “bibliophile, apprentice printer and binder, publisher, bookseller, papermaker or librarian.” However, all those involved in the profession or study of books and publishing will find this book indispensable. Encyclopedia is equipped with five appendices, showing type specimens, Latin place names used in the imprints of early-printed books, surveys of contemporary private presses, illustrations of proof cor-rection symbols and a list of the works consulted in the preparation of this book. [Order No. 42510]
238. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING. EDITED BY PERCY H. MUIR.
Johnson, A.F. Amsterdam: HES & DE GRAAF, 1970, small folio, cloth. xi, 489 pages. ISBN 9789061949503. $ 340.00Forty extensive essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. Emphasis is on the six-teenth century. A very beautifully produced book: Designed by Giovanni Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Val-donega, Verona. With numerous plates and illustrations. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103257]
239. ENGLISH MUSIC PRINTING, 1553-1700. Krummel, D.W. London: The Bibliographical Society, 1975, 4to., cloth. xii, 188 pages. ISBN 019217885. $ 40.00First edition. This study examines the printing of music in Britain from the sixteenth and sev-enteenth centuries, with chapters on music patents, Psalm books, part books, song books, and broadsides. It includes many black-and-white illustrations, a chronological synopsis, a bibliog-raphy, and an index. Distributed for the Bibliographical Society, London. [Order No. 60367]
240. TYPE AND TYPEFACES. Lieberman, J. Ben. New Rochelle: The Myriade Press, (1978), 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 142 pages. ISBN 0918142016. $ 30.00This is the second edition of a good introductory, practical, and comprehensive book for begin-ners who want to learn about the history of type, typefounding and typefaces. Twenty-five chap-ters cover subjects such as how and why typefaces are different, fifteen great inventions behind typefaces, classifying type, choosing type, and the practical problems of identifying type plus what to do when you have become familiar with type. This work is a great place to begin when one wants to start studying the printed word and working with printing and type. Lieberman also
includes informative and interesting historical information covering the more specific aspects of the printed word in “The 15 Great Inventions Behind Our Typefaces,” which describe the inventions of the book, small letters, silent read-ing, printing, typefaces, roman type, true type design, numbers, mechanized type production, the type family, evocative printing, the Typorama, cold type, and the possible reinvention of the alphabet. Distributed by Oak Knoll Press. [Order No. 47017]
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241. IRISH TYPE DESIGN: A HISTORY OF PRINTING TYPES IN THE IRISH CHARACTER.
McGuinne, Dermot. With a foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. Dublin: Nation-al Print Museum, 2010, 7.5 x 9.5 inches, hardcover, dust jacket. 236 pages. ISBN 9780954379957. $ 55.00Second edition. The designing of special type for printing Irish language texts began in the late sixteenth century and lasted into our own day, attracting the attention of many leading political and religious figures Elizabeth I; Irish Franciscans in exile on the Continent; and at one point even Napoleon I—as well as scholars such as John O’Donovan, Eugene Curry, George Petri and
John Henry Newman. More recently, internationally renowned designers Stanley Morison, Victor Hammer, and Eric Gill have made significant contributions to Irish type design. Irish typography came after the demise of the late Graceo-Roman uncials and semi-uncials, preceded by late Gothic, Roman, Italic, and Greek types. It was considered a ‘sacred’ script for the purpose of studying Scripture. Dermot McGuinne’s book is the most comprehensive published on this subject and has become a standard work of reference. It contains more than 150 illustrations of Irish types spanning over four centuries. McGuinne covers Irish types including Queen Elizabeth’s Irish type, the Rome Irish type, the Paris and Parker types, and others. Throughout eleven chapters, McGuinne provides a comprehensive account of every Irish font in its cultural, religious, and political context. This expanded second edition also includes a new foreword by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet and a new chapter on Louvain Irish type. Available outside North and South America from the National Print Museum, Dublin. [Order No. 104562]
242. HAMILTON WOOD TYPE: A HISTORY IN HEADLINES. Moran, Bill, et al. St. Paul, MS: Blinc Publishing, 2004, 8.5 x 8.5, stiff paper wrappers. 65 pages. ISBN 0972392718. $ 20.00Hamilton began producing type in 1880 and within 20 years became the largest provider in the United States. The Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum is the only museum dedicated to the preservation, study, production and printing of wood type. With 1.5 million pieces of wood type and more than 1,000 styles and sizes of patterns, Hamilton’s collection is one of the premier wood type collections in the world. In honor of the Museum’s fifth anni-versary, Blinc Publishing was commissioned to produce a 65 page book outlining the history of the Hamilton Wood Type Company, the importance of wood type to the growth of printing world-wide, and the role the Museum plays in the education of today’s design professionals. The book includes a foreword by Jim Sherraden and five chapters on the history of Hamilton as a company and a museum. Well illustrated in full color. Cover is letterpress printed. Dis-tributed for the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum. [Order No. 99663]
243. AMERICAN PROPRIETARY TYPEFACES. Pankow, David (editor). New York: American Printing History Association, 1998, 8vo., cloth. 176, (4) pages followed by 38 plates. $ 50.00This book is a fascinating survey of typefaces developed in America after 1892 and intended for composition in metal for the use of an individual or press. It includes essays by the following: Susan Otis Thompson on American Arts & Crafts typefaces, Martin Hutner on the Merrymount Press, Herbert Johnson on Bruce Rogers’s Centaur type, Cathleen Baker on Dard Hunter’s type-faces, Mark Argetsinger on Frederic Warde, Stanley Morison, and the Arrighi type, Jerry Kelly on Joseph Blumenthal’s Spiral (Emerson) type, Dwight Anger on Frederic Goudy’s Kaatskill type, W. Gay Reading on Victor Hammer’s Uncial Types, John Kristensen on experimental types of W.A. Dwiggins, and Paul Hayden Duensing on contemporary private types. Limited to 600 regular edition copies set in Monotype Centaur and Bembo with text printed letterpress and the illustrations printed by offset lithography at The Stinehour Press. Designed by Jerry Kelly. Includes 66 illustrations at the end of the book. [Order No. 97457]
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244. A HISTORY & BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GIUNTI (JUNTA) PRINTING FAMILY IN SPAIN 1526-1628
Pettas, William. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, 8.5 x 11 inches, cloth, hardcover. 1086 pages. ISBN 9781584561477. $ 195.00This monumental work opens with a 170 page history of the Giunti publishing family that cov-ers their achievements in Italy, Spain and France from 1489 to 1628. As the great rivals of the Aldine Press, the Giunti aggressively captured large portions of the lucrative governmental and Church’s printing business. From their base in Florence and Venice, family members set up printing presses in Burgos, Salamanca, Madrid, Valladolid, Lerma and Lyons. In Spain they
became printers to the most powerful king in the world and established “The Imprenta Real,” changing their name to “Junta.” The comprehensive, 700 page bibliography of the books they published while in Spain is annotated with more than 148 wood cuts of their ornate title page art, imprints, and other identifying ornaments. The text also features the genealogical charts of the family, library holdings, and a documentary chronology. [Order No. 77561]
245. SAINT BRIDE FOUNDATION CATALOGUE OF THE TECHNICAL REFER-ENCE LIBRARY OF WORKS ON PRINTING AND THE ALLIED ARTS.
Petty, R.A. (Mansfield Centre: Martino Publishing Co., n.d. but 1999), thick 8vo., cloth. (vi), xvi, 999 pages. ISBN 1578981352. $ 110.00Reprint of the first and only edition of this excellent printing reference tool which was published in London in 1919 by Saint Bride Library. Prefatory essays by John Southward and F.W.T. Lange. A welcome reprint of a very scarce and important reference work. [Order No. 55444]
246. THE TYPE SPECIMEN OF JACQUES-FRANÇOIS ROSART. Rosart, Jacques-François. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1973, 8vo, paper covered boards. 82 pages followed by facsimile. ISBN 9789063000103. $ 115.00Fine facsimile of the ‘Epreuve des caracteres, Qui se gravent & fondent dans la nouvelle fonderie de Jacques-François Rosart’. Deuxième Edition augmentée. Bruxelles, 1768. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103260]
247. ALPHABETS TO ORDER: LITERATURE OF 19TH-CENTURY TYPEFOUNDERS’ SPECIMENS.
Johnston, Alastair. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2000, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 222 pages. ISBN 9781584560098. $ 39.95This work explores the literature of nineteenth century typefounders Catalogues. Combining ty-pographic scholarship and literary criticism, Alastair Johnston presents and discusses hundreds of examples of texts that show British and North American founders’ interests and preoccupa-tions with letter forms. Co-published with The British Library. Illustrated with many type specimens. [Order No. 60132]
248. SIXTEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING TYPES OF THE LOW COUNTRIES. WITH A FOREWORD BY HARRY CARTER.
Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. Amsterdam: HES & DE GRAAF, 1968, 4to., cloth. xxv, 366 pages. ISBN 9789061948599. $ 450.00This pioneer work is an annotated catalogue, illustrated with specimens of the types made during the sixteenth century in the area now covered by the Netherlands and Belgium. The influence of the sixteenth-century typecutters was con-siderable; in fact, many of their type faces, described in this book, were to be found in English printing offices of those days and even much later. With 267 facsimile-illustrations depicting 147 type specimens. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103261]
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249. FRENCH RENAISSANCE PRINTING TYPES: A CONSPECTUS.
Vervliet, Hendrik D.L. New Castle, Delaware, and London: Oak Knoll Press, The Bibliographical Society, and The Printing Historical Society, 2010, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, Hardcover. 472 pages. ISBN 9781584562719. $ 120.00This conspectus aims at surveying exhaustively and regardless of aesthetics, all Roman, Ital-ic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type de-
signers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence. The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describ-ing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use. Available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society. [Order No. 103920]
250. BRUCE ROGERS: AMERICAN TYPOGRAPHER. Mansbridge, Georgia. New York: The Typophiles, 1997, small 8vo., cloth. xiii, 95, (3) pages. $ 85.00Limited to 500 copies. Chap Book, New Series, Number One. Short biography of Bruce Rogers (1870-1957), a reprint of the 1965 Master’s Thesis by Mansbridge, who was acquainted with Mr. Rogers during the last decade or so of his life. (Facing the title page is a photo of the author and Mr. Rogers.) There is no discussion of books designed by Mr. Rogers, but a concluding chapter quotes various comments, positive and negative, by others on the work of Rogers. Concludes with notes, primary and secondary bibliographies (not updated since the original publication). Printed at the Stinehour Press. Bruce Rogers’ colophon device is gilt-stamped on the front cover. Distributed for the Typophiles by Oak Knoll Press. [Order No. 61160]
251. THE TYPOGRAPHIC DESK REFERENCE (TDR).Rosendorf, Theodore. With a Foreword by Ellen Lupton. New Castle, Dela-ware: Oak Knoll Press, 2009, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, Hardcover. 152 pages. ISBN 9781584562313. $ 45.00First edition. The Typographic Desk Reference (aka TDR) is comprised of a thousand facts on the form of Latin-based writing systems. The book includes the following four main sections: Terms—Definitions of format, measurements, practice, standards, tools, and industry lingo; Glyphs–The list of standard ISO and extended Latin characters, symbols, diacritics, marks, and various forms of typographic furniture; Anatomy & Form—Letter stroke parts and the variations of impression and space used in Latin-based writing systems; and Classification & Specimens—An historical line with examples of form from blackletter to contemporary sans serif types. Designed for quick consultation, entries are concise and factual, making it handy for the desk. Its foreword is written by Ellen Lupton. [Order No. 96672]
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252. Nuovo Libro di Caratteri Diversi de Scrittura Formata, e Corsiva Perfetta. Ad Uso Prattico e Moderno...Ed Intagliatti da de Berey in Pariggi.
Pitois, Giuseppe Aureglio. Torino: Reycends & Guiberts, (c. 1722), oblong folio, contemporary blue wrappers. 26 engraved leaves (of 28).
$ 1,500Text in Italian. A manual by Italian writing master Pitois. One of a number of his works produced in Turin by Reycends Brothers and the book/mapseller firm Guibert. At the beginning of the 18th century, the Rome-Venice hegemony in penmanship was waning, due to growing French influence in calligraphy. This slant towards French taste is revealed in the “Moderno” of the title, and the fact that most of the twenty-six leaves are marked as engraved in Paris by artist Claude-Auguste de Berey. From 1690 to 1730 de Berey, or Berey, engraved the plates for several well-known French works on calligraphy. All the firm’s writing manuals printed at this time were engraved in Paris (Barker, p. 147). Two leaves lacking. Soiled, margins chipped, old fold at center. [Order No. 65216]
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253. Heures Nouvelles Dediees à Madame la Dauphine.
Senault, Louis. Paris: chez l’Autheur, n.d (1680’s), 8vo., full 19th-century polished calf with gilt panels, red morocco label (a signed binding by de Haas with his label). (iv), 260
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$ 2,250A calligraphic book of hours “dedicated” to Marie Anne Chris-tine Victoire de Bauirre [Bavaria] (d.1690), the daughter-in-law of Louis XIV, written and engraved by Louis Senault (fl. 1660’s-1680’s) between 1680 (date of the lady’s marriage to the Dauphin) and 1690. Senault produced different versions of books of hours dedicated to various members of French royalty. This copy does not correspond exactly to any reference which
we have found. It has some similar-ity to Bonacini no. 1689 and OCLC 26677688, both of which are perhaps for an earlier version. The missing page number (p. 47 omitted), however, is noted only for a much later work (1740) using Senault’s plates but bear-ing a different title. The book is print-ed from engraved plates, with each page written in a clear cursive (with headers and highlights sometimes in other styles) inside a simple border of double rules. The decorative scheme is more elaborate, generally combining floral elements and calligraphy, with some geometric elements or landscape vignettes. The title page and the eight subtitle pages have more ornate flo-ral borders or subdivisions within the double rules, generally surrounding a calligraphic center panel. The groups of prayers usually begin with a flo-ral or landscape headpiece, followed
by some calligraphic flourishing, and an illuminated first initial consisting of a Roman capital over a square background of floral or geometric design, or a landscape vignette. Similarly constructed but smaller initials also appear at the beginnings of individual prayers: no two initials are the same. Sections frequent-ly conclude with flourishes, and strings of calligraphic fleurons, each unique, appear throughout the text. Some headpieces and some backgrounds of initials incorporate landscape engravings which seem rather faint, as if made from worn plates. Other landscapes are clearly printed, as is all of the other matter. Joints repaired at head and foot, paper repair to head of title-page not affecting text. Worn at the joints. [Order No. 52742]
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254. Monogramm Album. Crefeld, Rheinland: Maas & Jungvogel, n.d., 4to., original cloth stamped in gilt, all edges gilt. (54)
leaves.
$ 650An album of engraved monograms by this German engraving company. Highly decorative title page fol-lowed by leaves showing combinations of different letters of the alphabet. For instance the first two leaves show combinations of the letter “A” with the other 26 letters of the alphabet. This is followed by two leaves showing the letter “B,” etc. Each leaf is printed on heavy paper and is hinged to a tab. From the reference library of the Zaehnsdorf Company with a commemo-rative booklabel loosely inserted. Minor wear along edges. [Order No. 102457]
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wrappers. (iv) xxviii, 136 pages.
$ 2,000First edition. Forty engraved plates of calligraphic specimens. “Influential text, the result of a com-mission to design a more efficient national script.” (Harvard/Becker 141. Bonacini 1353; Berlin 5248; Cotarelo y Mori II, 145; Palau 210612,299945). Includes engraved additional title, lacking errata leaf. Spine cracked; blank lower outer corner of letterpress title restored. With fore edge trimmed, minor soiling on some plates and plate 33 wormed and probably supplied from another copy. [Order No. 96419]
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Altman, Rochelle. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2004, small 4to., cloth, dust jacket, 378 pages. ISBN 9781584561088. $ 59.95Absent Voices is unique among books that explore one of mankind’s greatest achievements: the art of writing. Writing enabled communication by the absent; yet, beneath any communication system, so conspicuous that it is concealed, lies a culture’s writing system. If there be no writ-ing system, there be no books, no libraries and no world wide web. Not just a history, Rochelle Altman’s work examines the complex unity of writing systems. Absent Voices is a “must read”
for all biblical, classical, and medieval scholars as well as anyone interested in the fascinating history of the Western writing system, its origins, and the components that are the basis of the giant communication systems of today. [Order No. 76236]
257. DE CARATTERI. Antonozzi, Leopardo. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1971, 22x30 cm ob-long, decorative wrappers. (vi, iv), 44, 2 pages. ISBN 9789060035344. $ 100.00Facsimile of 1638 edition published in Rome. Edition limited to 300 hand numbered copies. With numerous calligraphic specimens. Part of the Penman’s Paradise series. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103724]
258. AN ELEGANT HAND, THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN PENMANSHIP & CALLIGRAPHY.
Henning, William E. Edited by Paul Melzer. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2006, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 320 pages. ISBN 9781584560678. $ 59.95This work chronicles the history of the Golden Age of American penmanship and calligraphy. The author guides the reader through the lives and careers of some of the most important Ameri-can penmen, including Platt Rogers Spencer, the Father of American Handwriting, and Spen-cer’s gifted student, George A. Gaskell, whose books and periodicals reached hundreds of thou-sands of students throughout the second half of the 1800s. Paul Melzer, the editor of this work,
added more than 400 examples taken from original specimens to handsomely illustrate Henning’s manuscript. [Order No. 68991]
259. HISTORICAL SCRIPTS FROM CLASSICAL TIMES TO THE RENAISSANCE.
Knight, Stan. New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press and John Neal, Bookseller, 1998, 4to., hardcover, dust jacket. 110 pages. ISBN 9781884718564. $ 39.95Reprint with minor corrections of second edition. Revised and expanded, this book is an ex-cellent survey of bookhands with its full-page, enlarged illustrations and solidly researched sources. It is a useful text for studying the history of manuscripts as well as the details of letter construction. This work also helps one make judgments about the technical condition of letter writing and its qualities of rhythm and movement, possible only when consulting an original manuscript. The author has gone to considerable lengths to obtain photographs that are well-focused and lit so that the tactile qualities of surfaces, ink tone, and flow are revealed. The author has chosen examples of formal writing that show a coherent and reasonably consistent relationship between methods of tool use and letter formation, making the construction of a script much easier to grasp in practice. He has also made the effort of selecting writing without idiosyncrasies of style. [Order No. 52752]
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FROM JENKINS TO SPENCER. Nash, Ray. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1969, 8vo., cloth. xii, 303 pages. $ 35.00Best bibliography of the subject. [Order No. 7237]
261. IL PERFETTO SCRITTORE. Cresci, Giovanni Francesco. 2 parts in 1 volume. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1972, oblong 4to., decorative stiff paper wrappers. (iii, 51, 40, 1) un-numbered leaves. li pages. 64 pages. ISBN 9789060035351. $ 115.00Facsimile of the 1570 edition published in Rome. Edition limited to 300 hand-numbered cop-ies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103725]
262. ALBUM PALAEOGRAPHICUM XVII PROVINCIARUM. PALEOGRAFISCH ALBUM VAN NEDERLAND, BELGIË,
LUXEMBURG EN NOORD-FRANKRIJK. Dekker, C., R. Baetens, S. Maarschalkerweerd-Dechamps. Utrecht | Turnhout: HES & DE GRAAF, 1992, folio, cloth. 448 pages. ISBN 9789061941187. $ 145.00Examples of paleography. With 313 facsimiles. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103240]
263. EDWARD JOHNSTON: MASTER CALLIGRAPHER. Holliday, Peter. New Castle and London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2007, 8.5 x 11 inches, hardcover. 412 pages. ISBN 9781584561989. $ 49.95This detailed book by art and design historian Peter Holliday looks afresh at Johnston’s work and legacy. It considers his friendships and his philosophy, the people he worked with and the influence he had on them and others. Importantly it gives details of the setting up of the craft community at Ditchling in Sussex and the craftspeople who were all drawn to the village as a result. Co-published with The British Library. Sales Rights: Worldwide except in the UK; avail-able in the UK from The British Library. [Order No. 92516]
264. GOTTHARD DE BEAUCLAIR: ART AND LITERATURE THROUGH TYPOGRAPHY AND DESIGN.
Kelly, Jerry. With an introduction by Hermann Zapf. New York: The Typophiles, 2006, 6 x 9 inches, paperback. 48 pages. ISBN 0910672687. $ 20.00This catalogue includes an introduction by Hermann Zapf and a brief history of de Beauclair’s work as a student, typographer, designer, and bookmaker. It lists his endeavors at the Insel Ver-lag, the Stempel Typefoundry, various publishers, the Trajanus Presse, and others. A section of illustrations is also included. While the leading book designer in Germany, Beauclair is not as well known in the United States. Many presses in Germany and around the world have given up the tradition of printing from metal type by letterpress. Run now as industrial companies, pub-lishing companies are often merged focusing on mass production over quality. This book brings
to light the typographic work used in Beauclair’s exceptional publications in hopes of demonstrating that fine editions can still be produced today in exquisite detail, even despite the ever-growing technologies. [Order No. 108921]
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ss 265. SPEND YOUR ALPHABETS LAVISHLY! THE WORK OF HERMANN & GUDRUN ZAPF.
Kelly, Jerry. With an introduction by David Pankow. New York: The Typophiles in association with RIT Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2007, 6 x 9 inches, paperback. 48 pages. $ 20.00This catalogue of an exhibition at the Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection Rochester Institute of Technology presents a survey of work by Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. Honoring their fifty-year long relationship with RIT, the exhibition featured examples of calligraphy, type de-sign, book design, and bookbinding drawn completely from the Zapf archives of RIT. The book provides a brief history of the Zapf’s relationship with RIT, information regarding their calligra-phy and contributions, and an 18 page section devoted to illustrations. Beginning in 1957 when
Hermann Zapf visited the original downtown Rochester campus of RIT, the school’s relationship with the Zapf’s con-tinued to grow over the years. Hermann Zapf was the first recipient of the Goudy Award, and in 1977 he was appointed as Cary Professor where he had a dramatic impact on the Institute’s printing and design program. He extensively used the Cary Graphic Arts Collection, a rare book library devoted to the history of the book and printing acquired by RIT in 1969, and taught his students the importance of original manuscripts, early books, and the early types of Jenson, Aldus, and others. [Order No. 108920]
266. LITERARUM LATINARUM, QUAS ITALICAS, CURSORIASQUE VOCANT SCRIBENDARUM RATIO.
Mercator, Gerardus. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1970, 4to, stiff paper wrappers. 64 pages. ISBN 9789060030110. $ 80.00Facsimile of the 1540 edition, limited to 300 hand-numbered copies. With 54 woodcuts. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103727]
267. LUMINARIO. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ITALIAN WRITING-BOOKS OF THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH
CENTURIES. Osley, Arthur S. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1972, small folio, cloth. xiii, 173 pages,. ISBN 9789060042953. $ 230.00The first complete survey of Italian writing-manuals, 1514-1660. Appendix I contains a Check-list of first editions of 16th- and 17th-century Italian writing-books. With 116 full-size facsimi-les, and 13 vignettes, portraits and motifs. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103728]
268. LA VERA ARTE DELO EXCELLENTE SCRIVERE DE DIVERSE VARIE SORTI DE LITERE.
Tagliente, Giovanni Antonio. Nieuwkoop: HES & DE GRAAF, 1971, 4to, decorative stiff paper wrap-pers. (iii, 24) 53 pages. ISBN 9789060035375. $ 75.00Facsimile of the 1524 edition published in Venice. Edition limited to 300 hand numbered copies. Typographical design: Aldert Witte. With numerous calligraphic specimens. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103733]
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269. NOTARII EN EXCEPTORES. EEN ONDERZOEK NAAR ROL EN BETEK-ENIS VAN NOTARII EN EXCEPTORES IN DIENST VAN OVERHEID EN KERK
IN DE ROMEINSE KEIZERTIJD (TOT CIRCA 450 A.D.). Teitler, H.C. Utrecht: HES & DE GRAAF, 1983, 8vo, stiff paper wrappers. 379 pages. ISBN 9789061941545. $ 65.00Study of the notaries and exceptores up to 450 A.D. Sales rights: Available outside North America from HES & DE GRAAF Publishers. [Order No. 103376]
270. THE BOOK OF HEBREW SCRIPT: HISTORY, PALAEOGRAPHY, SCRIPT STYLES,
CALLIGRAPHY & DESIGN. Yardeni, Ada. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 2002, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. 365 pages. ISBN 9781584560876. $ 69.95First edition, second printing. From the very scarce first printing in English done in Israel. This work is one of the most definitive books written on the origin and development of the Hebrew Script. Breaking through almost all fences within which Hebrew paleography has been confined, this work starts at the beginning, forges through the Second Temple period, and deals with all the periods following it. The shapes of the letters and their development are documented, described
and analyzed. The survey also includes various scripts. Well-illustrated with the evolutionary calligraphy of the Ancient Hebrews. The author, Ada Yardeni, received her Ph.D. in ancient Semitic languages, paleography and epigraphy from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Sales Rights: Available in North & South America from Oak Knoll Books. Avail-able outside North & South America from The British Library. [Order No. 71692]
271. ABOUT MORE ALPHABETS: THE TYPES OF HERMANN ZAPF.
Kelly, Jerry. Foreword by Robert Bringhurst. New York: The Typophiles, 2011, 4.5 x 7 inches, hardcover. 112 pages. ISBN 9780984274406. $ 35.00Typophile Chapbook, New Series, 3. From metal type to the digital characters, Hermann Zapf has composed exceptional type designs for seventy years. He can be considered one of the most important calligraphers of all time, as well as a most notable book designer and typographer. His typefaces are among the most beautiful and familiar in the world. This book, a companion volume to the Typophile Chapbook About Alphabets (1960, updated 1970), describes Zapf’s post-1970 type designs and provides new research on many of the earlier types. In this volume, typographer and calligrapher Jerry Kelly describes the origins and history of numerous Hermann Zapf typefaces including Marconi, ITC Zapf International, Linotype Zapfino, and Zapf Civilité. Kelly also includes new information on the Palatino nova and Optima nova families. This new Typophiles Chapbook is profusely illustrated with type specimens and drawings, many of which have never before been reproduced. Illustrations include drawings by Zapf, comparisons of various types, early sketches, typefaces never is-sued, and a twenty-eight page image section of type specimens. Other types described include Hallmark Textura, AMS Euler fraktur bold, Zapf Renaissance italic swash, Medici script, Aurelia, AMS Euler, Zapf Renaissance, ITC Zapf Chancery, and Zapf Civilité. [Order No. 107426]
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