London, 1803. Second (and best) 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... More about THE ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF WRITING, as well Hieroglyphic as Elementary. Illustrated by Engravings...

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 about Caracteres et Alphabets de Langus Mortes et Vivantes

Heavenly Monkey, 2017. 4 1/2 x 6. Title + 26 leaves+colophon, all printed (black) & calligraphed (red) on rectos only. Bound by Claudia Cohen in a non-adhesive limp vellum, gold-tooled at the edges, title calligraphed in red on the spine. The pastedowns are taken from old vellum manuscripts. Fine in... More about An Alphabetical Accumulation

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 about Caracteres et Alphabets de Langues Mortes et Vivantes

(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 about Album Calligraphique. Album of 12 original alphabets hand painted by stencils in watercolors...

Boston: Bromer, 1984. 2 x 2 1/2. Miniature manuscript of 32 leaves of calligraphed text and water colors. Bound by Arno Werner in red morocco with the alphabet in gilt, all edges gilt. Fine in morocco & cloth tray case. A delicate alphabet book --F for Fava Bean, N for... More about A Garden Companion

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 about 'Chinese Calligraphy and Paintings in the Collection of John M. Crawford, Jr

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 about CALLIGRAPHIC SALUTATIONS

Rochester, 2009. 8 x 12. Two-page introduction by Jerry Kelly, 20 type specimens printed on rectos in black & red , 2-page list of contributors. Vellum spine & boards. Fine. One of 100 copies. Specimens were created by several presses, including Kelly-Winterton (5), Cary Graphic Arts (5), Rick Cusik (8), and Archetype. More about MANUALE ZAPFICUM