The book becomes: the making of a fine edition
[Cambridge]: Rampant Lions Press, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; 16 textual illustrations; fine copy in original white cloth-backed patterened boards, glassine dust jacket. More
[Cambridge]: Rampant Lions Press, 1984. First edition, 8vo, pp. 96; 16 textual illustrations; fine copy in original white cloth-backed patterened boards, glassine dust jacket. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1987. First edition, square 8vo, pp. 168; illustrations throughout text; fine in the dust jacket. Collection of studies of the lives, works and personalities of 15 modern type designers, among the Goudy, Rogers, Koch, Dwiggins, Gill, Hammer. Morison, Mardersteig, Tschichold, and others. More
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1987. First edition, square 8vo, 168pp., illustrations throughout text; fine in the dustjacket. Collection of studies of the lives, works and personalities of 15 modern type designers. Good reference. More
Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, [1998]. First edition limited to 70 copies printed by Sebastian Carter, oblong 12mo, pp. [12]; original printed terracotta wrappers; fine. From the library of Kim Merker. "Some copies were reserved for Anthony Baker, some for other collaborators with the Gruffyground Press, some for friends of the..... More
New York: Columbia University Press, [1931]. Revised edition (first published 1925), 8vo, pp. xxvi, [2], 282; large folding table printed in colors showing the evolution of paper and printing and their spread westward, folding map, numerous illustrations on plates and in the text; page ix-x with tear in fore-margin affecting..... More
Cambridge, England: Rampant Lions Press, 1982. First edition limited to "about 500 copies," 4to, 8½" x 11", 26 leaves (3 folding, 4 inside a portfolio "A Group of Carvings"), including the title leaf and a colophon; a fine copy in original stiff card folder at bit faded at the edges..... More
Chicago: privately printed, 1942. 8vo, pp. [6] plus 12 pages of facsimile; near fine in original pink wrappers. More
Iowa City: Prairie Press, 1964. First edition, 8vo, pp. [36]; portrait frontispiece, title page in red, blue, and black, color alphabetical headers on each page, patterned paper-covered boards backed in green cloth, gilt title direct on spine; fine in a lightly toned dust jacket with two closed tears. Designed and..... More
Davenport, IA: Catfish Press, St. Ambrose College, [1968]. First edition, 4to, pp. x, [2], 310, [2]; typographgical illustrations throughout, some printed in red and green; very handsome book; fine copy in a fine dust jacket, t.e.g. "A new approach to the history, lineage, and development of our alphabet" (jacket blurb)..... More
London: Faber and Faber, [1971]. First edition, small 4to, pp. 376; 72 illustrations on plates and 83 illustrations in the text; fine copy in the dust jacket. A standard and comprehensive reference. More
Chicago: Caxton Club, 1950. Edition limited to 350 copies printed at the Printing Office of Philip Reed, 12mo, pp. [18], 19-111, [3]; original beige cloth-backed terracotta cloth boards, paper label on upper cover. With an accounting of 46 club publications, and 42 keepsakes and catalogues issued by the Club... More
New York: Brentano's, [1906]. 8vo, printed at the Merrymount Press, 2 volumes; dec. title-pages within borders designed by T. M. Cleland, 40 gravure plates; orig. dec. gilt-stamped green cloth, t.e.g., some wear to extremities with spine ends beginning to fray, corners and edges slightly bumped, vol. I with front hinge..... More
Sŏul: Pŏmusa, 1993. First edition, 8vo, pp. 187, [9]; tables and facsimiles throughout; fine copy in original pictorial yellow wrappers. Text in Korean. History of printing with metal type in Korea. More
Seattle: Private Press Paul Hayden Duensing, 1961. Edition limited to 150 copies, 8vo, pp. [46]; original orange wrappers, printed paper label on the upper cover; near fine. Fourth Decade, p. [23]. More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1987]. First edition, 8vo, pp. xi, [1], 354, [2]; 19 illustrations in the text; fine copy in a fine unclipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. This copy with Merker's ownership signature on the front free endpaper: "K. Merker 20.1.88." More
London: printed for the Limited Editions Club, 1939. Edition limited to 1500 copies designed by George W. Jones and printed by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press, folio, xxii & 309-[310]pp., red ruled margins throughout, frontispiece, title printed in color; very good copy in orig. white cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards..... More
Chicago: 1904. Edition limited to 255 copies, this one of 252 on Italian hand-made paper, 8vo, 361pp., title-p. printed in red and black; very good in somewhat soiled blue cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, light wear to extremities, paper label on spine. Caxton Club, 1909, XIV. More
Chicago: 1904. Edition limited to 252 copies, this one of 250 on Italian hand-made paper, 8vo, 361pp., title-p. printed in red and black; very good in partially faded blue cloth-backed gray paper-covered boards, light wear to extremities, paper label on spine a darkened with a few creases, slipcase. Caxton Club..... More
Los Angeles: 1958. Small 8vo, pp. [2], 19, [3]; creme printed paper wrappers; near fine. William M. Cheney was an "erudite, self-taught printer who takes great interest in words, phrases, and learning that are generally considered obsolete... His reasoning ability can leave readers behind him -- but that is not..... More
[Seoul: Bureau of Cultural Property, 1973]. 8vo, 2 vols, pp. 63, [1], 36; [76]; the first volume a facsimile of the Jikji, the second an explanatory text in English, French, German, Japanese, and Korean. Vol. 1 stab stiched in green brocade wrappers, vol. 2 in stiff paper wrappers; fine in..... More
Paris: L'Imprimerie Nationale, 1905. First edition, 4to, pp. 340, [4]; several unopened leaves, some printed in black, red and green, illustrated throughout with facsimile pages and photographs; lower corner of leaves very slightly dented, extremities of spine bumped, else a very good copy or better in orig. brown wrappers. More
Cambridge: printed by John Baskerville, printer to the university, 1762. First duodecimo Baskerville edition, 12mo, 198 leaves, collating as in Gaskell; the title a cancellans as described by Gaskell (with the price of "five shillings, unbound"); bound with: Sternhold, Thomas, & John Hopkins. The Whole Book of Psalms, Collected into..... More
Cambridge: printed by J. Baskerville, printer to the University, 1762. 12mo, 198 leaves; this copy with the cancellans title page, the last line reading "Price Five Shillings, unbound" and without the star & lozenge slip pasted over the last line; bound with: Brady, N., A New Version of the Psalms..... More
[London]: Plantin Publishers, [1987]. Paperback edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 302; gray printed paper wrappers; wrappers starting to tone, else fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press. More
London: Cassell, [1969]. First edition, 4to, pp. [6], 7-228; 1 illustration in the text; a very good copy in original green cloth, slightly worn, price-clipped dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. A chronology, beginning with the reputed invention of paper in China in 105 and ending with the..... More