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
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
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
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
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
(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
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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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