typography
London: Shakespeare Printing Office, 1795 & 1796. 8 11/4 x 11. xx, (1), 76; xv, vii, 126 pages. Illustrated with full page wood engravings and tailpieces by Thomas Bewick, and 2 by John Bewick. Two proofs from a Bewick block are laid in. Contemporary straight grain red morocco, Greek key..... More
London: Tooks Court, Chancery Lane, (1867). 6 1/2 x 10. Approx. 122 leaves printed on one side only. Light occasional foxing. Handsome period wine morocco tooled in black; all edges & turn-ins gilt. Near fine copy of an uncommon book. Except for the final 12 leaves, this is not a...... More
![Title in Greek] Clementis ad Corinthios Epistola Prior. Pope Clement I](/pictures/thumb/18705.jpg?v=1652960904)
Oxford, Johannes Lichfield, 1633. 6 1/4 x 8 3/4. (24), 76, (48), (2) pages printed in in black and red, with ornamental woodcut initials, headpieces, and tailpieces. The Epistle is printed with Latin and Greek in parallel columns, and the editor's restorations printed in red. Contemporary English sheep spine, later..... More
(Vernon): Greenboathouse Press, 2021. 9 x 13. Ten text pages and 25 plates. These are a "series of grids in green, blue, and turquoise, progressing through a sequence of formal studies of line, block, and colour recalling wood, lake, sky, and tree." The compositions are formed from the "furniture" (rectangles..... More
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2020. 17 x 11. Two portfolios of ten prints each. The first portfolio "Elevations" contains 10 type pictures of Chicago printed in colors by letterpress. The second portfolio "Construction Drawings" contains 10 "blueprints" printed by offset. Both housed in a red cloth tray case with printed labels..... More
Chicago: Starshaped Press, 2016. 12 x 12 A portfolio of 16 loose prints -- each the design of an ampersand created from umpteen small pieces of type and ornaments. A colophon details all of the type forms. Fine in printed sleeve. The ampersands are inspired by, and reflect, the designs..... More
Leipzig, 1900. A 4-page prospectus for several books, framed in Art Nouveau borders.. 7 x 9 1/2. Light wear & soil. Very attractive. Printed at the Drugulin Press. More
Newark, Delaware, 2014. 15 x 23. Twenty-seven leaves: Title, colophon, descriptive page, 23 daily posters for the Tour de France + 1 composite print of the entire bicycle race. Quarter linen tray case covered in a pastepaper illustration of a landscape traversed by bicycle wheels. Fine. Portfolio E of 26..... More
NY, 2017. 11 3/4 x 15 3/4. 28 leaves of translucent paper. "...the letterforms in "Roma Abstract" are printed on translucent paper to emphasize their communal aspect--rather than standing alone, each letter is supported and explicated by those around it." Black wraps, stab-sewn, printed in black with text from the..... More
Amos Paul Kennedy Jr., (Detroit, 2014). 12 1/2 x 19. Twelve posters letterpress printed on chipboard with oil-based inks using wood type in rich colors and silver. Multi-colored type is printed in several layers creating word patterns, which are overlaid with a quote by Parks. The colors and types were..... More
Minneapolis, 1994. Approximately 185 printed examples from the first 20 years of this fine press. A wonderful collection of greeting cards, invitations, announcements, letterheads, bookmarks, and broadsides. Housed in three cloth clamshell cases with printed paper labels, all within a stepped cloth slipcase (8 1/2 x 14 x 11). Fine..... More
Columbiad Club, 1983. Broadside 11 1/2 x 17 1/7. Schiller's intricate type picture was created in 1938 entirely from small metal ornaments. It is reprinted here as Keepsake 101 for members of the Columbiad Club. Small crease in one lower corner. No. 31 of an unstated number (the Club had..... More
[France, 1914]. 8 1/4 x 5 1/2. 18 miniature calendar cover specimens mounted on one sheet, stapled into printed wraps. Printed beneath are their stock numbers and the number of different colors or subjects available. Penciled inside is quantity and price information. Light soil. Very good. Charming calendars in a...... More
NYPL, 1962. 4to, self-wraps, 44 leaves printed rectos only. Fine. Wealth of 19th century and early 2oth c. decorative material. Designed for direct reproduction, with permission granted by the Library. 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. First major retrospective of this German book bookbinder, calligrapher..... More
(Frankfurt, 1963). 8 x 12. (5), 78, (4) pages. Vellum spine, green boards, printed dustwrapper. Inscribed to a fellow calligrapher. Fine. No. 77 of 100 copies printed for Zapf. German edition, privately printed at Stempel. Brief introduction in German, English, & French. Many of the 78 typographic layouts are presented..... More
