Typography from Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko

British Museum, 1970 8vo (22 cm), 32 pp, 18 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear, bookseller's ticket and ownership signature in pencil verso of half-title). Over five hundred years ago Johann Gutenberg of Mainz invented printing and began to produce books using movable types. Victor Scholderer's account of the inventor of printing shows how the printed book did… Read more about this item

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972 4to (28 cm), [6], 362 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj clipped, little frayed at extremities and stained, ownership signature on front fee end-paper). Edited by Nicolas Barker. "The history of lettering and its place in the history of the western world is the last of Stanley Morison's work's. Based on his 1957 Lyell lectures,… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Gerard Th. van Heusden, 1966 4to (28.5 cm), [4], X, 93, VIII plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little frayed at extremities and stained, blind collector's stamp on the front free end-paper). In 1947 the learned antiquarian bookseller Ernst Philip Goldschmidt was invited to America to lecture on 'The Spread of Renaissance by Means of the Book'. The… Read more about this item

‎Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1900 4to (32 cm), LXIV, 128 pp, 40 plates interleaved with leaves with titles. Red chagrin-backed marbled boards with corners. with 5 raised bands, top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, marbled end-papers, original wrappers bound in. A history of printing in France. Contents includ Ecriture artificielle avant Gutenberg; Gutenberg; Établissement de l'imprimerie en France. -… Read more about this item

Ghedina & Tassotti Editori, 1990 4to (29.5 cm), 224 pp. Laminated wrappers with flaps (minor shelf-wear). Contents include: I. Una famiglia della borghesia imprenditoriale veneta. Giovanni Antonio Remondini: la nascita della casa Remondini (1650-1725) Giuseppe Remondini: il consolidamento (1725-1742) Giambattista e Giuseppe Remondini: l'espansione (1742-1797). II. Le cartiere e le carte. Le cartiere Remondini Gli impianti e la manodopera Le… Read more about this item

Spring Books, 1975 4to (31.5 cm), 280 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities. Very well written history of the book from Alan G. Thomas (1911-1992), an English bookseller and bibliophile. Included chapters on manuscripts, incunabula, bindings, the Bible, herbals and color-plate books, books on architecture, private press books, fakes and forgeries and great book collectors.

Paris: Adam Pilinski et fils, 1883 4to (32 cm), [4], 3 pp, 16 ff of facsimiles. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered front board (binding and front end-paper little stained). A facsimile reprint of a book-block preserved in the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The Canticum canticorum blockbook illustrates the Christian allegory of divine love derived from the Old Testament book of the… Read more about this item

Éditions du Chêne, 1972 4to (32 cm), 162 pp, errata loosely inserted. Publisher's cloth, gilt-lettered spine, Lyon's coat or arms in relief on the front board). A collection of essays on the history of printing in Lyon in the 16th century by Henri Hours (Le Renaissanse à Lyon), Henri-Jean Martin (L'apparition du livre à Lyon), Maurice Audin (Cent ans de… Read more about this item

Joh. Enschedé en Zonen 6 pamphlets 4to (29.5 cm), [12] pp, [6] pp, [4] pp; [6] pp; [2] pp; [6] pp. In paper folder with stamped business card (folder stained).

Mijdrecht: Drukkerij Verweij, 1972 Two booklets 8vo (24 cm), 32, 48 pp. Printed wrappers. Type specimens of the Drukkerij Verweij in Mijdrecht.

The Private Libraries Association, 1998 8vo (21.5 cm), 48 pp. Printed wrappers.

Liverpool University Press, 2018 8vo (24.5 cm), XVII, 269 pp. Laminated boards. This book is concerned with the eighteenth-century typographer, printer, industrialist and Enlightenment figure, John Baskerville (1707-75). The last major, but inadequate publication of Baskerville dates from 1975. Now, forty years on, the time is ripe for a new book. This interdisciplinary approach provides an original contribution to printing… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Nico Israel, 1976 Folio (35 cm), 256 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear) "This is the first work in English on the entire production of an early illustrated book. The survival of page by page layouts for a book of the incunabula period, as well as the original contracts for its illustration,for its printing and for the… Read more about this item

The Private Libraries Association, 2016 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 129-192. Printed wrappers. Included a bibliography of the Folio Society Limited Editions by Joe Whitlock Blundell.

The Private Libraries Association, 2016 8vo (21.5 cm), PP. 193-240. Printed wrappers.

Florence: Tipografia Barbera, 1927 4o (30 cm), front. portrait, xvi, 357, [3] pp., 59 facsimiles. Untrimmed in cont. blue cloth (binding little stained, corners slightly bumped, bookplate of L. Gonnelli & Fi., Editori, Firenze & Blundell's School Library, inscribed on the verso of title-page "Author's copy". One of 50 copies on Fabriano paper from the edition limited to 750… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Vangendt & Co, 1969 2 volumes 8vo (25 cm), XXII, 501 pp, 105 plates; XXI, 632 pp, 77 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj little rubbed at extremities, spine of the second volume lightly sunned). "The Officina Plantiniana may be considered the most important printing and publishing house that ever existed. Founded in 1555 at Antwerp by Christoph… Read more about this item

Paris: Firmin Didot, 1806 12mo (19.8 cm), In-8, [7] ff, 263, [1] pp. Contemporary dark blue morocco by Thevenet, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered title and initials J. L. on the spine, gilt fillets to edges and end-papers, all edges gilt, marbled end-papers (binding little rubbed and little chipped at the top of the spine, light browning of paper of… Read more about this item

Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1968 8vo (25 cm), IX, 331 pp, plates. Publisher's cloth backed boards (ex-library copy with usual marks and stamps but clean and firm).

British Library, 1992 4to (25.5 cm), 175 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. The study of Russian design and literature of the 1920s and 1930s emphasizes continuity with the preceding futurist years, and explores the development of graphic design and photomontage in books and journals about theatre and architecture, as well as collections of avant-garde writing.