The Didot family and the progress of printing
Syracuse University Press: 1961. 12mo, pp. 52-[53]; 4 illus. after facsimiles in text; fine in the jacket. More
Syracuse University Press: 1961. 12mo, pp. 52-[53]; 4 illus. after facsimiles in text; fine in the jacket. More
London: Cassell & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 324, [2]; title-page vignette reproduction of "Bell Sauvage, IV: girl standing"; original blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine, spine toned, else fine. "The type, of which this is the first use, is the 'Perpetua,' designed by the author and cut by the..... More
London: Cassell & Co., 1929. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 324, [2]; title-page vignette reproduction of "Bell Sauvage, IV: girl standing"; original blue buckram, gilt-lettered spine, spine toned, else fine. "The type, of which this is the first use, is the 'Perpetua,' designed by the author and cut by the..... More
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1983. Edition limited to 1435 copies, this one of 1350 on Mohawk Superfine, large 4to, pp. xxiv, 545, [3]; contains reproductions of 1074 of Gill's wood engravings, 3 folding plates, some of the illustrations are in color; fine copy in original cream shelf-backed black cloth boards embossed..... More
New York: Devin-Adair Company, 1944. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii, [1], 192, plus 30 pages of illustrations at the back; ex-library, with stamps on title and preliminary pages, and card envelope on upper pastedown, very good in original gray cloth. Introduction by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Preface by Mary Gill. Twenty-three..... More
New York: The Devin-Adair Co., 1944. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvii,[1], 192 plus 30 pp. of illustrations at the back; very good copy in a worn and chipped jacket with old tape repairs on verso. Introduction by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Preface by Mary Gill. Twenty-three essays on a variety of..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1942]. First edition, 12mo, pp. 903, [1]; wood-engraved frontis and colophon; small stain on front panel of jacket and spine of jacket slightly soiled else a very good copy or better. More
London: Jonathan Cape, [1947]. First edition, small 8vo, pp. 480; 12 plates; some pencil annotations on rear endpaper, else fine in the jacket with several small breaks at the top of the spine. "Eric Gill was a born letter-writer … and the letters of this collection (just under 350 of..... More
San Francisco: Grabhorn Press, 1960. Edition limited to 350 copies, 4to, pp. vi, 59, [1]; mounted photographic frontis portrait, 4 plates of facsimiles of manuscripts at the back; fine in orig. tan cloth-backed boards, printed paper label on spine. An account of Richard Frederick Scholtz and his studies of the..... More
London: Alexandria Press, [1988]. First edition, 4to, 416pp., 48 color illus. on plates, numerous illus. throughout the text; fine copy in the jacket. Excellent survey history of the lithographer's art and craft. More
Basel: Petri Pernae typographi, 1578-77. Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [12], 427, [1]; [8], 176, [26] index; 177-225; title page within elaborate woodcut border; index appears at p. 176 of the second volume, before the final section on the lives of the Turkish emperors, which first appears in this..... More
Philadelphia: Associated Antiquaries, [1989]. First edition, review copy with publisher's slip laid in; 4to, pp. [4], 252; illustrated throughout; fine copy in the dust jacket. American in maps and illustration, 1500-1600. More
Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, [1991]. 4½" x 6½" postcard announcement for Glazier's poetry collection Prefatory Lyrics, featuring a relief print by Susan Nees. More
New York: The Typophiles, 1984. Edition limited to 750 copies, 12mo, pp. x, 91, [2]; 30 illustrations and facsimiles; fine in brown cloth-backed, paper covered boards, paper label on spine, original glassine. Typophile Chap Book no. 57. More
Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1985. First edition, 4to, pp. xx, 268; frontispiece, plates; fine in original black cloth, about fine dust jacket. Bookplate of Jacob L. Chernofsky on front pastedown. Review copy with slip laid in. More
Jaffrey, N.H. David R. Godine, in assoc. with the University of Delaware Library, 2004. First edition, 8vo, pp. xvi, 78, [2]; portrait frontispiece and over 100 illustrations after wood engravings by DePol; perfect bound in green printed paper wrappers; fine. Printed in anticipation of a celebration of his life and..... More
New York: Japan Paper Company, 1931. Square 8vo, pp. [16]; title page printed in red and black; near fine in slightly toned blue paper wrappers. Designed by Carl Purington Rolins and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper. More
[Meisenheim, Germany: Hain, 1965]. Reprinted photographically with corrections, slim 8vo, pp. 144; facsimile frontispiece; original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; minor damp staining to boards along spine edges, else very good. Facsimile reprint of the London, Bibliographical Society at the University Press, 1943 edition. Supplement to the Bibliographical Society's Transactions, no..... More
Cambridge: University Press, 1950. First edition limited to 750 copies, 4to, pp. viii, [2], 92, [4], plus 8 facsimile plates (7 double-page, each with a descriptive leaf of text; 32 illustrations in the text, a number full-page; spine a little sunned, else near fine in original terracotta cloth stamped in..... More
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1980. 10" x 5" letterpress broadside. More
[West Branch, Iowa]: Toothpaste Press, 1980. 10" x 5" prose broadside, printed for friends of The Toothpaste Press. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1986. 7½" x 9½" letterpress broadside, printed at MCBA as part of 'Dirty Works' 1986, cream paper. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1990. 7¼" x 9¾" letterpress broadside, printed by Coffee House Press at Guild Books, 1986, on taupe paper. More
[Minneapolis]: Coffee House Press, 1990. 7¼" x 9¾" letterpress broadside, printed by Coffee House Press at Guild Books, 1986 for MCBA 'Dirty Works' on hand-made paper. More
[Marlborough], New York: David Gildea, July 23, 1938. Tall narrow broadside approx. 29" x 5½", printed in red and black; one central fold, the top edge slightly miscreased; all else near fine. A list of 107 Goudy types on hand at the Village Press. "This record of Goudy types, complete..... More