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

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

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

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

Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Collection, 2016. 11 x 9. xi, 19 leaves of calligraphy in black & red/brown, 6 double-column pages of the artists' biographies (LI-LVI). Quarter vellum & blue boards. Fine. One of 325 copies, designed by Jerry Kelly and typeset in his Rilke typefaces. Printed by Bradley Hutchinson... More

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 of flowers, shrubs, vegetables, & garden... More

West New York: Mark Batty, 2002. 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 Zapf. First major retrospective... 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