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Linguarum orientalium Hebraicae, Rabinicae, Samaritanae, Syriacae, Graecae, Arabicae, Turcicae, Armenicae, alphabeta. by Vitré (or Vitray), Antoine - 1636 (colophon 1635): With mounted woodcut bookplate “Lipsiae ex Ioh. Gottl. Imman. Breitkopfii Bibliotheca“

by Vitré (or Vitray), Antoine

Linguarum orientalium Hebraicae, Rabinicae, Samaritanae, Syriacae, Graecae, Arabicae, Turcicae, Armenicae, alphabeta. by Vitré (or Vitray), Antoine - 1636 (colophon 1635)

Linguarum orientalium Hebraicae, Rabinicae, Samaritanae, Syriacae, Graecae, Arabicae, Turcicae, Armenicae, alphabeta.: With mounted woodcut bookplate “Lipsiae ex Ioh. Gottl. Imman. Breitkopfii Bibliotheca“

by Vitré (or Vitray), Antoine

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Woodcut-vignette on title, (4), 54, (2) pages with oriental types. Gilt red morocco spine over marbled boards, 18th century veined paste paper wrappers preserved. Front paste-down with printed bookseller label of the Librairie Orientale de Dondey-Dupré père et fils. Colophon-leaf with mounted woodcut bookplate of Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf "Lipsiae ex Ioh. Gottl. Imman. Breitkopfii Bibliotheca", the noted German printer and publisher. 4to (187 x 144 mm).


Kévorkian, Catalogue des "incunables" Arméniens, 195; Birrell & Garnett 34 "Extremely scarce" ; G. Duverdier, "Les débuts de la typographie orientale: Les caractères de Savary de Brèves et la présence française au Levant au XVIIe siècle". In: L'art du livre à l'Imprimerie nationale. Paris, 1973, pp. 69-87 ; Not in Bigmore and Wyman and in Smitskamp, Philologia orientalis. Cf. Updike I, 208-209. First and only edition. Antoine Vitray (ca 1600-1674) became the king's printer for oriental languages in 1622, and in 1635 he succeeded Antoine Estienne as printer to the clergy. He is renowned as the printer of the great Paris polyglot by Guy-Michel Le Jay, published 1645 in ten volumes. The oriental types used were partly from the collection of oriental types formed by Savary de Brèves, French ambassador to Constantinople and Rome. In 1632 after de Brèves death Louis XIII ordered Vitray to buy them and to add Armenian and Ethiopian. Vitray employed Jacques de Sanlecque to cut the punches and strike the matrices for the Armenian type ("Caractères bolorgir corps 16". Kévorkian p. 168). After Vitray's death in 1674 the types after being used in the famous Paris polyglot were finally handed over to the Imprimerie Royale. A few spots, else a fine copy of a very scarce type specimen with an important and distinguished provenance closely associated with the history of typography in Germany.
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase,...
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London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethan London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [2]pp, with 70 plates, plans and maps (31 double-page or folding), including those of London, Westminster and Southwark. Title pages in red and black. Superbly bound in handsome contemporary paneled calf sewn on six raised bands, very skillfully rebacked with the original lettering pieces laid down. A crisp, clean, fresh copy, with only occasional minor soiling, the copper-engraved plates in deep, rich impressions. Provenance: On the verso of the title pages, the… Read More
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La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts
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La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts: Les phases ornamentales de la mode

by Arnoult, Léon

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Léon Arnoult: La Variabilité du Gout dans les Arts. Les phases ornamentales de la mode (The variability of taste in the arts. The ornamental phases of fashion). Printed and published by Devambez "À l'enseigne du masque d'Or". Paris, 1921. ARNOULT Léon - William ABLETT (1877-1937 illustrator). Preowned, Signed. A l'Enseigne du Masque d'Or, chez Devambez, 1921, in-4°, 87 pp + 7 plate illustrations, printed in 303 numbered copies. Sewn, original printed stiff wrapper over blind wrapper. Printed wrapper, interior fine, uncut and unopened copy. Two of the illustrations are mixed technique plates by William Ablett, one is signed in pencil by the artist: a circular engraving with a lithographic image printed on it and heightened with gold. Editorial paperback, Jacket with title to the framed flat, beautiful allegorical friezes, endpapers, eyelet, cover page with the same frieze (antique collection stamp). The quantity of circulation - 303 copies justified, and numbering - №120, a preface paper,… Read More
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Speaking in Faces
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Speaking in Faces: A Type Specimen Book

by [Virginia Center for the Book].

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Charlottesville:: Virginia Center for the Book,, 2017.. Edition of 25. 8.9 x 11"; 112 pages. Printed letterpress on Crane's Lettra paper (300 gsm). Body text in Garamond. Labels in Gill Sans. Boards covered in marbled paper crafted by Lindsey Mears with cloth spine. Numbered. Designer and printer -Lucas Czarnecki. Editor and printer - Kevin McFadden. Master printer - Garrett Queen. Consulting compositors - Bonnie Berstein, Richard Cappuccio, and Aurora Nichols. Virginia Center for the Book, Project Background: "The first pages of this volume were printed more than a decade ago in a daunting attempt to produce a complete reference to the entire collection of the movable type available to VABC printers. "Speaking in Faces, a project begun at VABC in 2004 by Johanna Drucker with VABC artists, is a unique specimen book, a creative resource for exploring letterpress printing, typography, and the treasures of our large and unique moveable type collection. VABC holds cases of… Read More
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Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. Vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis...

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Engraved title-vignette, 5 unnumb. leaves, 71, (3), 361, (3) pages ; engraved title vignette, 2 unnumb. leaves, 284 (2) pages. Cont. green half morocco, flat spine richly gilt with gilt stamped title. Covers lined with shell marbled paper, endpapers lined with an unusual pattern of multiple coloured shell marbled paper. All edges yellow. 4to (290 x 210 mm). Extremeties rubbed. Brooks, 361 ; Weiss 101. "Edizione sorvegliata da Bodoni e ben lo scorge chi ne esamina i pregi tipografici" (De Lama II, p. 53). A fine copy broadmargined and fresh inside.
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Pro Neo-Caesare Eustachii Cartoli Sistrum.
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Pro Neo-Caesare Eustachii Cartoli Sistrum.

by Cartoli, Eustachio

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Pages (8), 1-74 (1 leaf), 75-164 (1 leaf), 165-170 (1 leaf), 171-174 (1 leaf), 175-(188) (1 leaf), 189-267,(1). Title printed in red and black with large engraved arms of the honoree Francis I, grand-duke of Tuscany and recently elected Holy Roman emperor, one engraved plate with a carmen figuratum in the shape of a cross on Aa2r signed by N. V. (not identified) after Eustachio Cartoli and dated 1747, five engravings of which four armorial or emblematic, including one printed in green and one (the insignia of the Order of St. Stephen) in sepia, and engraved portrait of the author, signed with monogram of Pietro Antonio Pazzi and dated 1749; 3 large engraved head-pieces and an engraved tail-piece, 5 engraved pictorial initials, and numerous typographic vignettes, ornaments, initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary parchment over boards, flat spine with manuscript inked title to spine. Front paste-down with book label of the French banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau (1824-1903). Folio (360… Read More
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A survey of the cities of London and Westminster: containing the original, antiquity, increase,...
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London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethan London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [2]pp, with 70 plates, plans and maps (31 double-page or folding), including those of London, Westminster and Southwark. Title pages in red and black. Superbly bound in handsome contemporary paneled calf sewn on six raised bands, very skillfully rebacked with the original lettering pieces laid down. A crisp, clean, fresh copy, with only occasional minor soiling, the copper-engraved plates in deep, rich impressions. Provenance: On the verso of the title pages, the… Read More
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Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. Vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis...

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Engraved title-vignette, 5 unnumb. leaves, 71, (3), 361, (3) pages ; engraved title vignette, 2 unnumb. leaves, 284 (2) pages. Cont. green half morocco, flat spine richly gilt with gilt stamped title. Covers lined with shell marbled paper, endpapers lined with an unusual pattern of multiple coloured shell marbled paper. All edges yellow. 4to (290 x 210 mm). Extremeties rubbed. Brooks, 361 ; Weiss 101. "Edizione sorvegliata da Bodoni e ben lo scorge chi ne esamina i pregi tipografici" (De Lama II, p. 53). A fine copy broadmargined and fresh inside.
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Pro Neo-Caesare Eustachii Cartoli Sistrum.
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Pro Neo-Caesare Eustachii Cartoli Sistrum.

by Cartoli, Eustachio

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Pages (8), 1-74 (1 leaf), 75-164 (1 leaf), 165-170 (1 leaf), 171-174 (1 leaf), 175-(188) (1 leaf), 189-267,(1). Title printed in red and black with large engraved arms of the honoree Francis I, grand-duke of Tuscany and recently elected Holy Roman emperor, one engraved plate with a carmen figuratum in the shape of a cross on Aa2r signed by N. V. (not identified) after Eustachio Cartoli and dated 1747, five engravings of which four armorial or emblematic, including one printed in green and one (the insignia of the Order of St. Stephen) in sepia, and engraved portrait of the author, signed with monogram of Pietro Antonio Pazzi and dated 1749; 3 large engraved head-pieces and an engraved tail-piece, 5 engraved pictorial initials, and numerous typographic vignettes, ornaments, initials and head- and tail-pieces. Contemporary parchment over boards, flat spine with manuscript inked title to spine. Front paste-down with book label of the French banker and bibliophile Horace de Landau (1824-1903). Folio (360… Read More
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Epreuve du premier alphabet droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches.
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Epreuve du premier alphabet droit et penché, ornée de quadres et de cartouches.

by Luce, (Louis).

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8 leaves (10 pages of which are printed, 6 pages blank ) with types, vignettes, rules and borders. – bound with: Phaedrus. Fabulae et Publii Syri sententiae. Paris, Typographia Regia 1729. Engr. front., (4), 86 pages. – bound with: Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera. Paris, Typographia Regia 1733. Title with typographical vignette and border, (2), 224 pages. Black morocco binding by Simier, relieur du roy. Spine on four raised bands, gilt titles to three compartments, two compartments with blindembossed ornamentation. Covers framed by three blindembossed rolls with gilt point in each corner. Small- 8vo (122 x 78 mm). Spine neatly restored, extremeties worn. - I. Berlin Catalogue 5393 ; Audin, no. 3 ; Birrell and Garnett, p. 16 ; cf. Bigmore and Wyman I, 446. "C'est le plus petit caractère gravé en France à cette époque. Il est diminué d'un tiers par rapport à la 'sedanaise' gravée vers 1625 par Jean Jannon à Sedan (...) Ce spécimen de format très réduit (10,5 x 6,8 cm) contient non… Read More
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The Cats of Copenhagen
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The Cats of Copenhagen

by James Joyce

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The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché.
This Numbered issue, printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum, is in double-elephant sextos and hand-bound in one-quarter cloth over marbled boards.
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ITC American Typewriter
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ITC American Typewriter

by International Typeface Corporation [ITC]

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U.S.A.: ITC, 1975. First Edition. Published to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the American typewriter, with designers Joel Kaden and Tony Stan reinvigorating the font by dispensing with its rigid spacing. "On every standard typewriter, there's a metal bar with a row of teeth spaced exactly one-tenth of an inch apart. In 1874 this famous bar lifted the typewriter from the inventor's bench and placed it in the office where it changed our reading habits, modified our concepts of legibility, and eventually opened the world of business to women." Bound in stapled colour paper wrappers, 340 mm x 153 mm, 27 pages, a near fine copy.
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ED FELLA - a Life in Images
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ED FELLA - a Life in Images

by David Cabianca., editor

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London: Unit Editions, 2021. 1st ed. Paperback. New/no dj as issued. A long overdue book examining the extraordinary life and work of artist/designer Ed Fella. Ed Fella is revered by many of the leading names in contemporary design. Now, at long last, there is a book that charts Ed's journey from the commercial design studios of 1950s Detroit to his current position as a widely celebrated artist/designer. Ed Fella: A Life in Images makes extensive use of his vast treasure store of visual delight: it showcases flyers, posters, original sketches, drawings, Polaroids and collages, as well as items from Ed's collection of vernacular design. The book makes unrestricted use of Ed's vast archive. David Cabianca, the book's co-author and its instigator, has surveyed the archive in depth. He writes: "Ed Fella's archive is legion. It branches into numerous streams while sustaining a robust trail of examples along the way. Fella's archive exhausts the possibilities one might find in graphic design. Ed Fella… Read More
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The King of the Golden River

The King of the Golden River

by Ruskin, John

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5956Ruskin The King of the Golden River, A Legend of Stiria. Publisher: Roycrofters, East Aurora, NY, 1900. RARE. Original copyright 1841. BOUND IN SUEDE LEATHER. Used . Good- condition./ None Issued. A couple of top edges show bite-size area of loss. Does not effect text. Frontispiece black and white portrait of John Ruskin. Decorated title page and decorated initial letters by Samuel Warner. Colophon reads, printed in red, as follows: SO HERE ENDETH THE KING OF THE GOLDEN RIVER, AS / WRITTEN BY JOHN RUSKIN: THE TITLE PAGE AND INITIALS / BEING DESIGNED BY SAMUEL WARNER, AND THE WHOLE / DONE INTO A BOOK BY THE ROYCROFTERS, AT THEIR SHOP, / IN EAST AURORA, NEW YORK, U.S.A., IN THE YEAR MCM. Roycroft logo with Elbert Hubbard printed in. handwritten gift inscription and signature on front free endpaper dates this item to the year 1900. Leather is in clean condition.
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The Works of Chaucer [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer]

The Works of Chaucer [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer]: Now Revised by F.S. Ellis & Printed Again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith

by Chaucer, Geoffrey

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Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, 1958. First Edition. hardcover. Very Good/none. 13" × 9" × 2 1/2". Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. The Works of Chaucer [Facsimile of the Kelmscott Chaucer]: Now Revised by F.S. Ellis & Printed Again by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, Hammersmith; by Chaucer, Geoffrey. Edited by Frederick Startridge Ellis. Illustrated by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company. Printed by Copifyer Lithograph Corporation. 1958. First Edition. First Printing. Small Folio: 13" x 9" x 2 1/2" (33 x 22.9 x 6.4 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover blind-stamped cream leatherette, by The Press of the World Publishing Company, in imitation of the alum tawed pigskin binding design for the book by Morris and executed by Douglas Cockerell at the Doves Bindery. Gilt titles to spine. Printed on fine, thick and heavy, in imitation of the original Kelmscott paper paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon and special… Read More
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Design, Form, and Chaos
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Design, Form, and Chaos

by Paul Rand

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9780300055535 / 0300055536
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Cloth cover with imprint of author on front. Silver on spine. The book is in good condition, pages are crisp and clean with a binding that is tight. There is a ding on the top spine but the photos will show it is in lovely shape with some sun fading. Bargain priced without the dust jacket. Please view photos for quality views.
"From the dust jacket: Paul Rand's stature as one of the world's leading graphic designers is uncontestable. For half a century his pioneering work in the field of advertising design and typography has exerted a profound influence on the design profession; he almost single-handedly transformed "commercial art" from a practice that catered to the lowest common denominator of taste to one that could assert its place among the fine arts. Among the numerous clients for whom he has been a consultant and/or designer are the American Broadcasting Company, IBM Corporation, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
In this witty and instructive book, Paul Rand speaks on the process and… Read More
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The Typographic Book 1450 - 1935:  a study of fine typography through five centuries, exhibited...

The Typographic Book 1450 - 1935: a study of fine typography through five centuries, exhibited in upwards of 350 title and text pages drawn from presses working in the European tradition.

by Morison, Stanley, Kenneth Day, eds

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Chicago: University of Chicago, 1963. Hardcover. VG+/VG. ...with an introductory essay by Stanley Morison and supplemental material by Kennth Day. Large 4to, black cloth, gilt titles, xiii, 66, 377 plates, index. VERY GOOD+ book / VERY GOOD jacket: dj has some lite edgewear, discoloring and rubbing to spine (in mylar) A must-have for your book arts collection.
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Biblia Latina (The Gutenberg Bible, B42, facsimile of Library of Congress perfect vellum copy on...
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Biblia Latina (The Gutenberg Bible, B42, facsimile of Library of Congress perfect vellum copy on a 2 CD-ROM set)

by Gutenberg, Johann (Johannes; introduction by Janet Ing Freeman)

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Mainz: Johann Gutenberg (Oakland: Octavo), ca. 1455; 2003. 1st edition. Other Binding. New/No Jacket (as issued). Digital facsimile (in electronic PDF format on two CD-ROMs; not a printed book) of one of only three surviving perfect copies of the Gutenberg Bible on vellum, from the Library of Congress. This milestone of digital publishing and preservation, part of the groundbreaking Octavo Digital Editions series, presents the entire work, including bindings, in unprecedented resolution (may be magnified at up to 200% of original size), with full searchable English translation of the text, and introductory commentary by Gutenberg expert Janet Ing Freeman, bibliographical information, and a detailed account of the copy's provenance. Unsold original stock, minor storage wear.
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Type Spacing
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Type Spacing

by Currier, E. R

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NY: J. M. Bowles and Company. Very Good with no dust jacket; Spine cloth eroded.. 1912. Limited Edition. Hardcover. One of 300 copies. A republication of an article by Currier which originally appeared in the August 1910 edition of The Graphic Arts magazine. Printed by Norman T. A. Munder and Company of Baltimore. Inscribed by Munder on the title page "To some good friend of Mr. John Hoyle". Brown cloth spine. Printed paper-covered boards. Printed on cream-colored laid paper. Currier Press printer's mark and initial T on page three drawn by Frederic W. Goudy and printed in orange ink. "...The choicest type face in the world may have its beauty or its legibility nullified by bad spacing. The tools are not superior to the workman." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 19 pages .
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Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey
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Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey: A Paper Read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July 1, 1884; and A Paper Written for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in June, 1893

by Morris, William (1834–1896)

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London: Longmans & Co., 1998. First Edition. hardcover. Near Fine. 8 3/8" × 5 3/4" . Architecture and History, and Westminster Abbey: A Paper Read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July 1, 1884; and A Paper Written for the Protection of Ancient Buildings in June, 1893; by Morris, William (1834–1896). London: Longmans & Co.. Printed by Chiswick Press. 1998. First Edition. First Printing. 8vo: 8 3/8" x 5 3/4" (21.3 x 14.6 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with blue linen spine and black titles to cover. Printed on fine, hand-made, heavy paper. Uncut, deckled edges. Colophon. [iv], 50, [iv] pp. Part of a William Morris series comprising five octavo books printed at the Chiswick Press with the Golden type designed by Morris for his Kelmscott Press, 1898–1901. "Lecture IV: Architecture and History," A Paper Read before the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings, on July 1, 1884; and "Westminster Abbey," A… Read More
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The M Kimberly Almanac & Type Specimen book.
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The M Kimberly Almanac & Type Specimen book.

by [MKimberly Press] Mare Blocker

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Ames Lake:: MKimberly Press,, 1988.. Edition of 88. 5 x 8.5"; 26 pages. Letterpress printed on Ragston paper, with an Astrolux dust jacket cover. Lino cuts. Sewn binding. Signed and numbered by the artist. Letterpress printed speciment book to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the M. Kimberly Press. A fun Type Specimen book that pairs the Type with guides to titems of curiosity and interest. For example, Cameo type is paired with poisons. Skulls are printed with the names of poisons underneath each - snake venom, puffer fish, datura, tobacco, nux vomica, foxglove, hemlock, draino. Additional types and guides are News Gothic /Spontaneous Combustion; Barnum / Spotted Animals; Stymie Outline / Slug Extermination; and so on.
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