Printing History (General) from Wykeham Books

Trustees of the British Museum, London, first edition, 1901. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 149 pp. Manuscript title added to spine, browned otherwise Good.

[Thomas Ross Ltd], [Binfield], first edition, 1994. Quarter rexine and cloth with gilt vertical rule and cover-title, large 8vo, 31 cm,. xvi, [various paginations- over 200 pp], chiefly colour ills, 14 pp. From the introduction - "-This reference catalogue is the most comprehensive published work that the firm has embarked upon in its long history. It has been… Read more about this item

Coates Brothers & Company Limited, n.d. Cloth covers with stamped cover-titles and holding a metal spiral-bound insert,. xi, 28 pp. Comprising introductory matter listing and describing the various inks advertised within and 28 pp of specimens (including several with 9 to a page) of the various hues of red available. An ex-library copy with a barcode label… Read more about this item

Milano : Il polifilo [1975]. Limited edition of 850 copies of which 250 were not for sale. 2 volumes, plain wrappers, 4to, 34 cm. xlix, 192, [2] pp plates + [193]-415, [3] pp. A valuable edition of Aldo Manuzio's dedications, prefaces and notes to the texts, with a 40-page introduction discussing his role as editor by the… Read more about this item

Oxford [University Press], New York, for The Typophiles, Inc., first edition, 1967. One of 360 copies "set aside by the publisher" for distribution by The Typophiles, Inc. Printed wrappers, marbled endpapers, 16 cm,. [32] pp, colour ills. The text is "Based on William Blackstone and the reform of the Oxford University Press in the eighteenth century ...… Read more about this item

The Federation of Master Process Engravers, [London], first edition, 1932. Cloth, gilt cover-title, 8vo, 23 cm,. ix, [1], 134 pp, ills (some colour). 'A description of the reproductive processes allied to the printing trade'. Spine-ends rubbed, otherwise Good.

The New Era Publishing Co., Ltd., London, first edition, 1930. Half-leather and cloth, gilt cover-title, small 4to,. ix, 447, [1] pp, several colour plates and inserts including 12 mounted specimens of 'Fancy papers'. Signature on front free endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper of Basil H. Tripp, worn at spine-ends and extremities and leather powdering,… Read more about this item

Farrand Press & Private Libraries Association, London, first edition, 1990. Cloth, gilt cover device, 4to, 26 cm,. 374 pp, ills. From the introduction: "This book is about books produced by lithography in Europe in the age of the hand press. The period it covers corresponds roughly with the first half of the nineteenth century, but since the hand… Read more about this item

Frederick Muller Limited, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, small 4to,. xvi, 192 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This new addition to the Ars Typographica Library traces the life and work of J. H. Mason from his humble beginnings to recognition as one of the great scholar-printers of this century. His introduction to printing came as an apprentice compositor… Read more about this item

The Bemrose Press, Derby, first edition, 1926. Wrappers with printed cover-label, patterned endpapers, 8vo,. xiv, 160 pp, numerous plates. A history of the first 100 years of this leading Dervy oprinting firm. From the foreword: "The coloured illustrations of the workrooms arc reproduced from originals by Herbert J. Finn, who is well known for his artistic ability in… Read more about this item

Frederick Muller Limited, London, first edition, 1976. Cloth, small 4to,. xvi, 192 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This new addition to the Ars Typographica Library traces the life and work of J. H. Mason from his humble beginnings to recognition as one of the great scholar-printers of this century. His introduction to printing came as an apprentice compositor… Read more about this item

Department of Graphic Design and Printing, North Staffordshire Polytechnic, [Stoke-on-Trent], first edition, 1975. Cloth, large 8vo,. x, 135 pp, numerous plates and ills. Top edge slightly duststained, otherwise Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.

Association of Correctors of the Press, first edition, 1954. Cloth, plan endpapers, gilt cover-initials and year, 4to, 26 cm,. 63 pp, 8 ills. From the blurb - "When a handful of proof-readers met at the Falcon Tavern, Fetter Lane, on September 4, 1854, they had no more ambitious plans in mind than to form a kind of voluntary… Read more about this item

Privately printed, 1897. Cloth, top edge gilt, small 4to,. xii, 175, [1] pp, 15 plates. From David McKitterick's "Readers in a Revolution": 'Charles Middleton-Wake..delivered four lectures on ‘The invention of printing’, a topic that had so much concerned Bradshaw. Whatever his qualifications as an art historian.. he was no historian of early typography, and he lacked any appropriate… Read more about this item

Signature, London, original journal, 1952. Printed wrappers, small 4to, 25 cm,. [3], 53, [2] pp, ills. Principal contents: The Achievement of Bulmer and Bensley, by Sir William Croft with a handlist of Bulmer's work; A Note on the Literature of British Type Specimens, by W. Turner Berry and A. F. Johnson with a supplement to the Catalogue of… Read more about this item

Elliot Stock, London, first edition, 1887. Cloth, edges sprinkled red, 4to, 28 x 22 cm,. xiv, 379, [1] pp, plates, ills. Described by Graham Pollard in 1928 as "an indispensable book : it is by far the best and most complete book on the history of type foundries that has been written for any country". James Mosley, in… Read more about this item

History of the book trade in the north, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, first edition, 1997. Printed wrappers, 8vo,. 49 pp, 29 ills. Provides details of 19th century provincial auction sales of printers' plant and type stock, with information also on the printefirms concerned. History of the book trade in the north publication PH75 Very Good.

Library Association, London, first edition, 1969. Cloth, large 8vo, 31 cm,. [3], 119 pp. Excludes items listed in (1) Aldis's List of Books printed in Scotland before 1700; (2) Dix's Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601-1700 ; and (3) Madan's Oxford Books [to 1680] , so the entries included in Clough for six Scottish towns, Dublin, and Oxford… Read more about this item

Oxford University Press, London, first edition, 1945. Decorated cloth, 8vo,. 183 pp, 24 plates. Contents include: Introduction; I. Printing To-Day; II. The History of Letterpress Printing; III. The Development of Type Design; IV. Transition; V. The Reproduction of Pictures by Non-Photographic Methods; VI. Type And Type Casting; VII Contemporary Type Design and Typography; VIII-XI Printing Processes To-Day (I)… Read more about this item

Macdonald & Co. (Publishers)Ltd, London, first edition, 1986. Cloth, folio, 24 cm,. 160 pp, profusely illustrated in colour. Elegant bookplate on front pastedown endpaper, Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.