London, 1803. Second edition, with additions. Folio (11 1/4 x 18 3/4). Portrait, title, (iv), xxiv, 240 pages, 32 plates (some hand colored). Recent period-style half calf & marbled boards, original marbled edges. Front endpapers discolored (from glue?); portrait has marginal foxing & small dampstain; light old damp top margin... More

Paris, ca. 1770. 10 x 15 1/2. 17 pages of text followed by 25 engraved plates. Recent cloth. A few inconsequential spots, margins a bit toned, very good. The exotic alphabet section from the great Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers. The 25 fine plates... More

(Stillwater, ME, 1991). 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. Accomplished in watercolor and gouache, glair, and iridescent... More

New York: McLees, 202 Fulton Street, 1855. Oblong 10 x 6 3/4. Title plus 10 plates, engraved throughout. 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. McLees specialized in bank-note engraving, working... 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

(NP, ca. 1840). 9 1/4 x 11 3/4. 120 pages. The album is comprised of 12 alphabets of 25 letters (there is no "W") on rectos of thick, smooth paper which was "made" by the artist. There are also a title page, an index, and 10 section titles preceding the... More

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971. 8 1/2 x 11 1/2. Numerous collotype plates by Meriden Gravure. In a superb Roger Powell binding of dark green morocco, text gilt-tooled in capitals on both covers; twenty-seven Chinese seals in 8 colors are onlaid on covers; striped Oriental rice-paper endpapers, all edges gilt... More

Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 1993. 8 1/2 x 6. (10) pages followed by 16 leaves printed rectos only, in black, red, and blue. Reproduced from Zapf's calligraphy, with printed translation beneath. Blue cloth gilt, with red leather spine label. Fine. One of 30 special copies on Arches paper and... More

Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts (1987). 7 1/2 x 12. 254 pages. Cloth, printed dust jacket. Fine. Articles on calligraphy and type design, with illustrations, bibliographical notes and a list of Zapf's175 type designs. Approximately half the book consists of plates (most in color). The dustwrapper, when opened, reveals the... More