Typography

1796. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. GARDNOR RJohn 1729-1808. HILL.. A rare subscribers coloured copy, 36 pls, 1 map, 2 ills. In contemporary brown basket weave calf boards, gilt edge tooling, tips carefully repaired. New spine, to style, original title in gilt to red calf label, raised bands, gilt tooling. Internally, map frontis (J Cary, 1787), [12], [1], (ii-xi), [1], [1], 2-360 pp, [1], 2-199, [1] errors, [6] subscribers, 36 pls (coloured), 1 map, 2 charts (folding), lacks half title (as normal per estc but?), ink name of Thomas Lewis Esq of St Pierre to head of title page (see subscribers list), text watermarked T Curtis, plates dated 1793, gilt tooling to board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, text block edges sprinkled blue, printed by H Baldwin, lacks p117/118 (as is usual in ALL copies. Lowndes), removal marks from scotch tape to f/joint, light offsetting & edge browning, spreading to a couple of leaves (light), plus a couple… Read More

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

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, [n.d.].. Edition of 30. 11.25 x 7.25" closed, extends to 11.75 x 30". Accordion structure with four folds. Letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper. Black paper-covered boards with silver titling and multicolored thread tie closure. Housed in black lidded box with title in white and hand written edition number on lid. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "The album uses a quote from Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska employing texting as a means to allow use of larger type in the letterpress process than would be normally possible. 'All is mine and nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.' Much like a jpeg photograph the words compress when texted to fewer letters; however, when read, it 'resurrects' to the full wording. It allowed the effective use of some pied wood type.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, [n.d.].. Edition of 25. 5.75 x 3.75 closed, extends to 24.5 x 15.5". Letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper. Bound in paper-covered boards. Laid in black storage box with title printed in white and handwritten edition number on lid. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Wordplay on the Buddhist notion that there is no 'there' - only a 'here.' Whenever one gets 'there' one is actually 'here.' Tomatoes, potatoes ..., either, neither ..."

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

Printed and sold by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press, New Rochelle, New York, in black and red on hand-made paper. pps. iv plus 57. Overall size c.10. x 6.5/8 inches. c.25 x 17 cm. One of a limited edition of 160 copies. Name stamp of Sydney H. Caslon Smith on half title and top margin of title page. Top and bottom of spine a little worn/rubbed (no loss) o/w very good. contents fine.

Leipzig: Meissner & Buch, 1918. First Edition- Limited and Numbered PRIVATE PRESS. Original Cardboard. Very Good. 4to. Richard Winckel. 69pp. VORZUGSAUSGABE VON 100 NUM. EX Auf Zanders Bütten in der Druckerei J.B. Hirschfeld(August Pries) gedruckt.. With 6 hand coloured woodcuts signed by the artist. Spine expertly renewed. Old small book store label on first fly-leaf. A VERY GOOD , CLEAN AND FRESH COPY.. I. Druck der Wahlverwandten. ENTIRE EDITION OF 300 COPIES. THIS COPY IS NR. 73 AND SIGNED (URAUSGABE) BY ARNO HOLZ AND WINCKEL.

Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarter vellum over patterned paper-covered boards; vellum ruled in gilt with gilt lettering at spine. Top edge trimmed and gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in cream paper-covered slipcase. Special edition printed by hand-press in Griffo type on hand-made Fabriano paper, limited to 225 numbered copies, of which this is 106. Octavo. xi, [1, blank], 127, [1, colophon] pages. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts, made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut. One full-page facsimile from the English version printed in 1597. Slightest toning and shelf wear to binding and slipcase. About fine. .

Amsterdam: Phoenix Editions, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original gilt half vellum.Illustrated with an original etching by Rob Cox. An extra copy of the etching on different paper is loosely inserted. Designed and printed in black and red at the Bonnefant Press in a limited edition of 30 copies. Signed by David Simaleavich and Hans van Eijk. Copy printed on the name of Rob [Cox].15 (2) pp. Very fine copy. .

Santiago de Chile: Nascimento, 1956. #169 of an edition of 1,000 copies printed on Alfa Loeber paper. Neruda's brilliant tribute to typography and typographers. Near Fine, small bit of wear at base of spine, in a Very Good original glassine jacket, 1'"x 2" hole front cover, light wear at bottom edge, glassine browned. There were an additional 154 copies printed, 4 on Whatman paper and 150 on Fabriano paper. Uncommon. . Limited and Numbered First Edition. Pictorial Printed Wrappers. Near Fine/Very Good. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Limited Edition.

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.

Woodcut title vignette, (4), 432 pages, 10 etched plates after Wächter. Publisher's printed cream boards. Printed title to flat spine, with typographical ornaments, both covers with 4 different typographical frames, front cover with title, back cover with Barth's address. Large 4to (400 x 290 mm). Head of spine expertly repaired. Extremeties minimally rubbed. A fine copy, top edge uncut, all others with deckle edges in its original publishing state. Ebert 12356 ; Graesse IV, 274 ; Lanckoronska/Oehler III, 18 ; Schweiger I, 566 ; Dibdin II, 189 "The printer is Degen, the Bulmer of Germany. This is a very sumptuous edition, published under the care of the late Count D'Elci." First edition of Degen's most notable edition de luxe printed in folio, is his edition of Lucan's Pharsalia, an epic poem on the civil war between Caesar and Pompey. "Degens Schaffen als Buchgestalter fand wohl seinen Höhepunkt mit der 432 Seiten starken Prachtausgabe der Pharsalia des Lucanus (1811), gesetzt in äusserst nobler… Read More

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

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… Read More

San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at half-title page -"for Gary Steigerwald in the middle of America. Clifford Burke". Prospectus for the book laid in, along with 2 bookmarks of handmade paper SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR -"for the love of the art of the book Clifford". Also laid in a broadside poem, 6" x 12 1/4", on handmade paper that reads -" old image squared up snoose, they call it skookum nailing up the boards that fit tight in winter mamook delate" with abstract brush stroke image and "xerox" at bottom, the broadside creased at ends and browning at top end. Book is Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1 of 2000 unnumbered copies printed, a delight for the lover of fine printing. . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. Limited First Edition. Quarter Cloth. Fine/Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Presentation Copy.