NJ 1906. 6 x 10. xxx, 1181 pages plus 34 subscripted pages; with four pagination gaps as issued. Tipped in errata. Laid in are 2 order forms. Collated complete. Red cloth printed in black.A beautiful, fine copy. Extensive specimen with large sections of border and decorative material (about a third..... More
1900. 9 3/4 x 12 1/2. 250 pages printed entirely in olive green. Decorated boards, cloth spine, printed end papers. Two gouges to spine,some light wear & soil, contents very good. Art nouveau, livestock, flora & fauna, trades, chapbook cuts, Della Robbia & Busha ornaments; price list. There is an..... More
USA, 1900. 7 x 12. (98) pages plus 8 smaller format tipped-in specimens, each in wraps (10), (22), (18), (14)(18), (22), (4), (64). Cloth gilt title on cover; binding very worn and upper hinge open; contents very good. An extraordinary specimen showcasing mostly for the first time ATF's new and..... More
Frankfurt, 1962. Broadside/Poster. 34 x 27. Matted, glazed, in a handsome cherry frame. The visible portion measures 33 x 24 inches. A stylized black tree on a soft green background, displaying the development of Bauer type faces, printed in various colors. With about 60 faces, those on the trunk are..... More
Everywhere: American Type Founders Company, 1905. 9 x 12 1/2. 32 pages with Bradley layout, designs of Mission Toys and Chap-Book Cuts throughout. Decorated wraps, Brief closed tears along fore edge of covers. Fine. A showing of "the many valuable new type faces" developed that year, with examples of "fine..... More
London, 1796 & 1795. 6 x 9 1/2. 67 leaves & 29 leaves; all printed rectos only. Scattered foxing and toning, a few interleaved tissue guards Early half morocco quite worn, upper cover almost detached. Good copy. Nice cloth tray case with spine label. Lovely specimens; in addition to an..... More
London: H. W. Caslon, (ca. 1922). 4to. Frontis portrait, (vi), E1-E80, (12), E81-E220, E1-E72 (brass & wood rule, furniture) pages. Contents very good, but original brown cloth very faded and with old water damage. Good working copy. Introduction dated 1922. Beautifully printed in black, red, & green. Includes some ornaments..... More
Winter Haven: Anachronic Editions, 1986. 9 x 13. (vii), 95 pages illustrated throughout. Oatmeal & black cloth. Cloth spine is foxed, all else near fine. A colorful book. No. 51 of 100 signed copies printed in Ludlow types on Rives heavyweight. Six essays by Richard Huss, R. Karch, William Kittredge..... More
London: Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, (1867). 6 1/2 x 10. Approx. 122 leaves printed on one side only. Light occasional foxing. Handsome period wine morocco tooled in black; all edges & turn-ins gilt. Near fine copy of an uncommon book. Except for the final 12 leaves, this is not a...... More
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Oxford, Johannes Lichfield, 1633. 6 1/4 x 8 3/4. (24), 76, (48), (2) pages printed in in black and red, with ornamental woodcut initials, headpieces, and tailpieces. The Epistle is printed with Latin and Greek in parallel columns, and the editor's restorations printed in red. Contemporary English sheep spine, later..... More
(Oxford): The Jericho Press, 2005. 8 1/2 x 13. 13 pages printed in black & purple. A pocket contains a facsimile (folded) of the 15 x 23 broadside type specimen. Black cloth titled in gold. Fine. This specimen of types newly made by the punchcutter Balthasar Köblin may survive only..... More
Boston (ca. 1893). 9 1/4 x 12. (16), 17-439 pages; actually (457) pages with inserts. In the prefatory material there were 3 peforated blank sheets for removal for notes. Two small excisions. Printed cloth rebacked with the orig. spine laid down. Very good copy. The first ATF composite specimen, despite..... More
Frankfurt, 1832. 6 3/4 x 8. 82 leaves printed rectos only. Tipped to front end paper is a fold-out price list dated 1831; printed in black, green, blue, peach, & yellow. Linen spine & stiffened color-printed wraps, two old handmade wrap-around paper spine labels. A little wear and soiling, a...... More
Paris: Imprimerie de E. Duverger, 1827. 10 1/2 x 17. Original blue wraps with title & imprint on upper wrap; table of contents on lower wrap. 42 leaves: 1-30, 35-38, (1), 41-44, 48-50 pages, printed rectos only. The Table of contents calls for only 38 pages. The ornaments on these..... More
(Northampton), 1965. 5 x 6 1/4. 16 leaves printed rectos only. Marbled paper (by Peter Franck) over boards, title label on upper cover. Fine. With an autograph signed letter from Baskin, apologizing for having no deluxe copies left, and sending this copy. Printed in Van Krimpen's Cancelleresca Bastarda in three..... More
Hamburg & Munich, ca. 1913. A collection of about 75 specimens of design & typefaces. The 4-page specimens are tipped in, and the single page specimens are mounted, onto 34 leaves of good quality black stock. Bound into flexible cloth boards with string ties, printed cover label. A little extremity..... More
Brooklyn, 1975. 13 x 21. Four portfolios in wraps in a hinged wooden box with latches & large printed label. The four folders contain loose sheets printed on rectos only: "A History;" "How to Print Wood Type" (with illustrations by Marilyn Gratsdorf); "The Fonts" (50 broadside specimens, almost all in..... More
Berkeley (1976). Second edition. 8 1/2 x 11. 238 pages. Profusely illustrated with type specimens. Cloth, dj. Fine. First published in 1938, in small format, without the American chapter. More
NY, (1980). 8 x 11. 3 leaves, 25 pages printed in black, blue, red, and green on J. B. Green's handmade Milbourne, with illustrations and decorations. Bound in limp natural linen. Fine. One of 85 numbered copies. An offbeat type specimen, with virtuoso shaped typography. In a 3-page spread about..... More
NY, 1841. 6 1/2 x10 1/2. 288 leaves (4 folding), printed one side only. Three quarter leather binding over decorated paper boards. Rebacked in goat skin (portion of original sheet skin spine laid-in). Wear to extremity corners and board edges, else tight and very good. Faint library stamp on title..... More
San Francisco: John Howell Books, 1977. Folio (10 x 14). xxx, 117 pages + inserted illustrations and original leaves. Quarter green morocco & printed cloth. A couple of light scuffs to spine; but a fine copy of an exceedingly handsome book. Printed by Andrew Hoyem in Franciscan types in black..... 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
Terre Alta, American Typecasting Fellowship 1978-2018. An almost complete run of Numbers 1 to 42. With the Index to issues 1-16. Missing only nos. 25, 26, 34, 36. 7 x 10. Wraps. The first 13 numbers are from the collection of Richard Huss, bound by him with their wraps into..... More
(Rochester): P22 Publications, 2020. 9 1/2 x 12 1/2. 55 pages, mostly double spreads with a page of description facing the 26 type specimens. Each specimen is printed in one to 3 colors. Gold cloth, with luminous overprinted wood type endpapers. New. A colorful book printed from the original wood..... More
Paris: J. M. Eberhart, 1818. 9 x 11 3/4. 164 leaves: (viii) portrait of Pius VII, 150 numbered leaves + 57 bis, 5 unnumbered. Every page is set with a decorative border printed in red. Most of the 150 Lord's Prayers fit inside the borders on the rectos; but some..... More
