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Oblong 10 x 6 3/4. Title plus 10 plates, all engraved.Original cloth, with large title label on cover. Spine and tips worn; a couple scattered small spots or stains. Generally very good with original tissue guards.
A SERIES OF ALPHABETS Designed as a Textbook for Engravers and Painters of Letters.
McClees, Archibald.
New York, 1855.
Price: $500.00
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7 1/2 x 10. 251 pages including numerous illustrations and plates. Cloth. Fine.
ABC-XYZAPF. Fifty years in alphabet design.
Zapf, Hermann.
London: Wynken de Worde Society, 1989.
Price: $40.00
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6 x 8 1/2. 40, (3) pages. Cloth boards, title labels on cover and spine, marbled endpapers. Fine, with prospectus.
Afternoon: Amagansett Beach.
Hidy, Lance. Wheelock, John Hall.
NY: Dandelion Press, 1978.
Price: $100.00
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Broadside. 14 x 17. Alphabet designed by Yvette Rutledge. Printed from line cuts by Harold McGrath in 27 colors (and requiring 27 press runs for each copy). Near fine.
ALPHABET.: Calligraphy by Yvette Rutledge.
Pennyroyal Press.
West Hatfield, 1986.
Price: $350.00
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9 1/2 x 10. 31 loose leaves in printed paper wrapper, in cloth tray case by Arno Werner. Case has a few light scratches, but fine.
ALPHABET: The First Book 1977.
Kaihlanen, Candace Anne.
(Night Heron Penworks, 1978)
Price: $200.00
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BECKER'S ORNAMENTAL PENMANSHIP.: A Series of Analytical and Finished Alphabets. Philadelphia, 1845.
(Calligraphy) Becker, George.
NY, 1941.
Price: $100.00
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4to. 39, (1) double-column pages with side-by-side German and English text. Wraps foxed, else very good.
EDWARD JOHNSTON und die englische Schriftkunst. Edward Johnston and English Lettering.
Simons, Anna.
Berlin & Leipzig, [1937].
Price: $30.00
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8 x 11. 221 pages (including 150 color plates). Golden silk cloth gilt. Matching portfolio 9 1/2 x 13) contains seven original specimens and six type and printing specimens (each signed) created especially for this edition by Gudrun Zapf. Both in stepped slipcase. Fine.
GUDRUN ZAPF VON HESSE. Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings.
(Zapf, Gudrun)
West New York: Mark Batty, 2002.
Price: $950.00
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HERMANN ZAPF EIN ARBEITSBERICHT.
(Zapf, Hermann)
Hamburg: Maxmilian-Gesellschaft, (1984).
Price: $150.00
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One-of-a-kind artist's book. Text, calligraphy, and binding by Suzanne Moore. One long sentence is calligraphed in ever changing colors on one long sheet accordion-folded (measures 2 3/4 when closed). Saffron yellow silk boards with thread ties. Fine. Signed by Moore.
HUH. (Title in liquid gold on first leaf). "Something Hazel taught me" is hand written in the colophon.
Moore, Suzanne.
Nd, np (Ashfield, Mass., 1980s).
Price: $800.00
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JOHN HOWARD BENSON & HIS WORK 1901-1956.
Hofer, Philip.
NY: Typophiles, 1957.
Price: $45.00
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LETTERS REDRAWN FROM THE TRAJAN INSCRIPTION IN ROME.
Catich, Edward M.
Davenport: Catfish Press, 1961.
Price: $225.00
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23 x 31. Broadside silk screen. Numerals from 1 to 9 in burnt orange and persimmon surround & link with a large "0", all on a purple grown. Paper watermarked "Hayle Mill--19 Handmade." Outer edges slightly darker & rippled, but in fine condition.
Original silkscreen of numerals.
Kindersley, David.
September, 1969.
Price: $95.00
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9 x 13 1/2. 24 engraved plates, including frontis portrait of Coates. Rebound in quarter calf & marbled boards, new endpapers and tissue guards. Fine, tall copy. Rare.
POIKILOGRAPHIA,: Or Various Specimens of Ornamental Penmanship.
Coate, Samuel.
London, Published for the Author, 1812.
Price: $2,350.00
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7 1/4 x 11 1/2. (18) pages. Original calligraphed and painted manuscript. Text sewn on vellum strips, bound in iridescent & painted vellum paper wraps. Slight wear along spine, otherwise fine in custom cloth traycase. Signed by the artist.
SNOW. A WINTER SUITE. Words by Devin Crosby. Music by Tom Fettke.
Leavitt, Nancy (Calligrapher).
(Stillwater, ME, 1991).
Price: $1,800.00
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5 x 8 1/4. xx, 68, (4) pages. Engraved title & frontis, and 10 plates. Text woodcuts. Original leather back and corners, sprinkled edges. Front hinge open but held tightly by strong cords. Stains to first few and last few leaves, text generally clean, plates have light browning as usual (from the ink).
THE ART OF WRITING.: Reduced to a Plain and Easy System, on a Plan Entirely New, in Seven Books.
Jenkins, John.
Cambridge (1813). Book I (all published).
Price: $295.00
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8 x 11. 96 pages with 80 illustrations (many in color) of Zapf's type faces, book designs, and calligraphy, including many rare pieces never before reproduced. A separate portfolio contains 20 original specimens: leaves from books, alphabets (one signed), a prospectus, & an entire booklet from Zapf’s private press. Handbound by Judi Conant in green cloth gilt. Both volumes in marbled slipcase. Fine.
THE FINE ART OF LETTERS. PAGES FROM PUBLICATIONS BY HERMANN ZAPF.: The Work of Hermann Zapf.
Zapf, Hermann.
NY: Grolier Club, 2000.
Price: $1,550.00
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8 x 11. 96 pages with 80 illustrations (many in color) of Zapf's type faces, book designs, and calligraphy, including many rare pieces never before reproduced. Cloth. Fine.
THE FINE ART OF LETTERS. The Work of Hermann Zapf.
Zapf, Hermann.
NY: Grolier Club, 2000.
Price: $65.00
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THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary. Illustrated by Engravings taken from Marbles, Manuscripts and Charters, Ancient and Modern: Also, Some Account of the Origin and Progress of Printing.
Astle, Thomas.
London, Printed for the Author,1784. First edition.
Price: $900.00
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5 1/2 x 8. xxiv and 58-page facsimile of Mercator's writing book. Green silk cloth, upper tips bumped, board edges have wear. Bookplate of printer Bill Jackson. Good copy.
THE TREATISE OF GERARD MERCATOR.: Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio (Antwerp 1540).
Officina Bodoni. Mercator, Gerard.
Antwerp: De Sikkel and Paris: Pegasus Press, 1930.
Price: $400.00
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