(Alameda, 1918) San Francisco: Black Stone Press, 1983. 4 1/2 x 6 1/2. Portrait, (24) pages. Self-wraps. In a printed folder with an introduction by the Kemble curator, Glenn Humphries. Fine. Facsimile of the 1918 original which exists in only one known copy, in the Kemble Collection of Western Printing..... More
Baltimore: Hill Press, 2014 (actually 2020). 7 x 9 3/4. vi, 44, (1) pages illustrated with several tipped in photos. Title page wood engraving by Chris Manson. Red cloth, paper spine & cover labels. Fine. WITH 11 loose broadside specimens of type and prayer books. These range in size from..... More
St. Louis, 1908-1909. 8vo. Wraps, many with art nouveau designs. One issue has covers detached, but many are in fine condition.; over-all very good. A monthly house organ, filled with practical articles and ads, and some type specimens. Present are Volume X, nos. 1,2,3, 7,9,10. Volume XI, nos. 1-12 (complete..... More
Philadelphia , April 1855 - July 1869. 10 x 13. 412 pages plus 6 bound-in supplements. Each issue has a page of 3-column text with substantive news (recent type specimens from other foundries, notices of typographic journals, technical articles) and a page of ads for printing equipment. Specimens of types..... More
Cambridge & Somerville, 1990. 9 x 6. Two text pages + 2 trifold leaves bearing 24 borders composed of printers' ornaments. printed Wraps. Fine. One of 150 copies printed at Firefly Press and Harvard's Bow and Arrow Press. More
Haarlem, 1993. 5 1/2 x 9. Two volumes. Facsimile is clothbound; 116-page introduction in wraps. Both in slipcase. One upper corner on each volume is lightly bumped, else fine. More
Verona, 1968. 6 1/2 x 10. [34] pages including specimens. Grey Roma wraps. Near fine. One of 50 copies printed at the Officina Bodoni on Cernobbio mould-made paper. This second printing, reprinted from the Gallery 303 keepsake, differs from the first "in that the 16 point specimen is taken from..... More
Dawson's Book Shop: Los Angeles, 1966. 11 x 1/2 x 16 1/2. Frontis, 73 pages with 15 ORIGINAL specimens. Original cloth-backed boards covered with a special handmade Korean embossed paper. Cloth slip case, with a little joint and extremity wear. Two previous owners have pasted descriptions etc. on 3 pages;..... More
Oxford, 1950. 5 x 7 1/2. 41 pages. Illustrated throughout with type specimens. Printed boards; outer joint partially split but tight, contents fine. Printed at Oxford in Fell types on handmade paper. Printed for Friends of the Press, a Compliments slip is laid in. More
Newtown: Bird & Bull Press, 2007. Thick small folio. Quarter morocco, slipcase. Fine. One of 140 copies. Composed in numerous hand-set metal types in two colors, ranging in size from 4-pt. to 84-pt. Also included is ornamental material from the last ays of the great German type founders. Morris' Foreword..... More
(Oldham): Incline Press, 2007. 10 x 14. 86 pages illustrated with 67 tipped-in sheets, including bookmarks, bookplates, keepsakes, announcements, programs, poems, and posters. Half green cloth & marbled boards. Fine in slipcase. "These pieces include our experiments with ink...and tentave forays into the world of asymmetrical typograhy. They show some..... More
Edinburgh, 1839. 5 3/4 x 9 1/2. 85 leaves printed one side only. Title page in black & red within an architectural border of printers' ornaments. Original printed boards with title on upper cover, leather spine. Extremities worn, upper cover and first two leaves detached. Otherwise very good, contents clean..... More
Paris: The Pleiad, 1926. 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. xxxvi pages printed throughout in an elegant italic letter. Marbled boards with spine label. Small glue marks on endpapers, all else fine in the uncommon slipcase with label & copy number. With the RARE 4-PAGE Announcement, printed mostly in the Vincenza..... More
Northampton: Rosemary Press, 1969. 8 x 10. vi, 30, (1) pages. Errata slip laid in. Vellum spine, green paper sides, gilt. Fine, in custom tray case of vellum (slight soil) and grey cloth. Inscribed by Offner in the colophon. An exquisite book printed in various colors throughout, with quotations from..... More
Paris: Charles Panckoucke, ca. 1783. Twenty-five plates, 12 x 19 inches. Each plate is on a half sheet of paper (with deckles on 3 sides). They are mounted on hinges of the same paper, and bound sidewise (as they would have been originally) into recent black cloth titled "Oriental Alphabets."..... More
Amsterdam, (1784). (5 1/4 x 8. 68 leaves: double-spread title and introduction in Dutch and French (7 pages) followed by 64 leaves of type specimens printed rectos only on heavy paper. Collates [pi 4] A-H8. This copy lacks 20 leaves at the end: I8-L4 (astrological signs, music, & ornaments). The..... More
NY, nd. 6 x 9 1/2. 24 pages showing copper and brass rules for printers. Wraps. very good. More
London, 1892. 9 x 11. (x) pages of Introduction & list of contributors + about 350 leaves of specimens (3 folding). Publisher's full vellum over boards, titled in gold on spine and upper cover. Covers have old soil, spine darker, upper joint split one-third but held on tightly. Some protruding..... More
Chicago, 1884. 12 x 17. Seven text pages in 4 columns, followed by 10 leaves of advertising. These include 2 fullpage type specimens from MacKellar, Smiths, & Jordan. Self wraps are chipped and brittle, rear wrap torn, but repaired with Japanese tissue. Fair condition. Three leaves are elaborate specimens of..... More
Andoversford: Whittington Press, 1990. 10 x 14. 125 pages with wood engraved illustrations throughout. Quarter cloth & decorated paper boards with sturdy matching slipcase. Fine. One of 530 copies. A lovely type specimen, showing some of the larger and less-seen Monotype faces owned by the Press. While most type specimens..... More
NY, 1994. 8 1/4 x 8. 31 leaves printed one side. Red cloth with printed tissues paper overlays on cover. Fine in custom slipcase. With the 10-page prospectus. One of 100 signed copies printed by Ronald Keller. A marvelously inventive "type specimen" displaying 30 faces on various papers in a...... More
San Francisco: Mackenzie & Harris, 1948. 5 1/2 x 12 1/2. Single sheet printed on both sides. The price list is on one side, with Bruce Rogers Borders on the other. Very good. Copies at Cambridge & Berkeley. More
NY, (1920s). 13 x 15. (ii), 397 pages + 12 subscripted pages. Indexed. Bolted between heavy leather-like boards measuring 14 x 17. Covers unevenly faded; page edges toned. Very good. The specimen has four parts: Standard Types; The New Types; Miscellaneous Types & Initials; Borders, Ornaments, & Rules. Each type..... More
(Madison, 1999). 7 x 10. 61, (2) pages. Cloth, paper labels, and endpapers printed from wood type and ornaments. Rear pocket holds a folded broadside printed in three colors of wood type and ornaments. Fine. One of 200 copies printed letterpress on Mohawk Superfine paper. Signed by Kelly, Saxe, and..... More
Adobe Systems, 1994. 8 1/2 x 11. (41) pages + tipped on leaf. Illustrated with type specimens throughout. Wraps. Fine. One of 1000 copies. A bit of a landmark in the evolution of digital typefaces. Type design based on Jenson and Arrighi types. More
