BIBLIOGRAPHIE DEUTSCHER SCHREIBMEISTERBÜCHER VON NEUDÖRFFER BIS 1800.
Hamburg: Hauswedell, 1958. 8 1/2 x 11 3/4. 124 pp + 32 pp of plates + index. A very good copy. One of 600. Describes 256 writing books from 1519 to 1800. More
Calligraphy
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The First Writing.
San Jose, 2004. Original calligraphic manuscript. 6 x 8 (closed). Accordion-fold of 10 pages, mostly double spreads. The text is lettered on acrylic paste painted Arches, in gouache, pastel, and metallic ink. Each page shimmers. Bound in earthern-toned paste paper over boards tied with beaded suede thongs. Enclosed in a...... More
English Writing-Masters and their Copy-Books 1570-1800. A Biographical Dictionary & a Bibliography.
Cambridge, 1931. 9 x 12. xxxix, 225 pages + 81 plates. Buckram spine gilt & marbled cloth sides, top edge gilt. Light edge wear; contents fine. Illustrated with Portraits of the MAsters and specimens of their hands. Introduction on the development of handwriting by Stanley Morison. More
John Howard Benson 1901-1956. With a Preface by Lawrence C. Wroth and an Introduction by Rudolph Ruzicka.
NY: Typophiles, 1957. 4 3/4 x 7. xii, 57 pages. Bound in full brown morocco, cover gilt with a feather quill and "HB" by Arno Werner. Bound for John Peckham with his initials in gold inside front cover. In quarter morocco tray case using the decorated paper from the Typophiles..... More
The Harmonic Flight of Madness. A Visual/Verbal Book.
(San Francisco), 2010. 9 x 12. A unique lettered and painted manuscript heightened with gold. Eleven leaves: there are 9 double spreads & a colophon. Covers are also lettered and painted, blacks & blues for the upper cover, reds, yellows for lower. Signed by the calligrapher/artist. Fine in its plexiglass..... More
Disasters of Love: a Defense of Delilah. Poetry, lithographs, and etchings.
Hadley: Double Elephant Press, 2006. 17 x 12. 30 leaves laced together at fore-edges in Coptic style. Illustrated with 19 etchings and 12 lithographs by Kuch. Several additional etchings are on the three-part binding. Upper cover of the book bears a collage of various objects (including scissors) within temple pillars..... More
FIRE WOMAN LEARNS TO CARRY WATER.
1994. 6 1/4 x 10. Eleven double-spreads accomplished in acrylic, pencil, pen and gold leaf painting, and collage. Calligraphic text. Bound in highly textured, painted boards with an abstract design formed by onlays of various materials. Fine in cloth tray, which has a blind & gilt decoration. Edition of 1..... More
Paul: Corinthians 13.
(Nice, 1996). Hand painted and lettered on twelve sheets of heavy Fabriano folded to 10 1/2 x 22 inches. The Biblical text is lettered in the original Greek (in black) and in English (in red). Ornamented with paintings in red, blue, black, & gold leaf. Two of the folders have..... More
The Inner Garden.
Stillwater, Maine, 2007. 4 x 6. A one-of-a-kind hand lettered and painted artist's book. Twenty-seven text pages are interspersed with 5 double-spread nature prints created by the sun and enhanced by Leavitt. Bound in sage green linen wraps, and housed in a forest green tray case lined with two colorful..... More
THE TREATISE OF GERARD MERCATOR. Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas, cursoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio (Antwerp 1540).
Antwerp: De Sikkel and Paris: Pegasus Press, 1930. 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. One of 200 copies, printed at the Officina Bodoni in Janson type on..... More
HEURES NOUVELLES DÉDIÉES A MADAME LA DAUPHINE, Écrites et gravées par L. Senault.
Paris: Chez l'autheur rue de bussey à la croix blance au Fauxbourg St. Germain, nd (1680s). 4 1/2 x 7. Title, (ii), 260 pages beautifully engraved throughout in imitation of a calligraphic prayer book, with lovely and numerous ornamental initials, vignettes, head- and tail-pieces, and title pages for the various..... More
Four: Book V. Summer, Winter, Spring, Fall.
Np, 2004. 11 1/2 x 15. 12 leaves of monoprints over intaglios on thick Johannot paper, with Akua color. Endleaves painted in various colors. Full black goatskin ruled in gilt & blind with numerous inlaid symbols in yellow or red leathers on the upper cover, gilt ruled symbols on the..... More
GUDRUN ZAPF VON HESSE. Bindings, Handwritten Books, Typefaces, Examples of Lettering and Drawings.
West New York: Mark Batty, 2002. Two vols. 8 x 11. 221 pages (including 150 color plates). Red cloth gilt. A separate portfolio contains six type and printing specimens created especially for this edition by Gudrun Zapf. Both in slipcase. Fine. One of 80 special copies, signed by Gudrun Zapf..... More
Hermann Zapf ein Arbeitsbericht.
Hamburg: Maxmilian-Gesellschaft, (1984). 7 x 10 1/2. 177 pages. Cloth. Very good. INSCRIBED by Zapf on the title page, to fellow calligrapher Peg Kronenberg. Beautifully printed bibliography of Zapf's work, illustrated throughout (much in color). One of 1600 copies. More
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