typography
(Toronto, 2013). 7 x 11. 45 pages illustrated throughout. Cloth-backed marbled boards. Fine in paper chemise with spine label. A colorful and exuberant book printed letterpress in various colors and type faces. The essays are interspersed with mini "broadsides" showcasing quotations from other printers. One of 50 copies. Rueter has..... More
![Title in Greek] Novum Testamentum. Bible in Greek](/pictures/thumb/3433.jpg?v=1588097097)
Paris: Robert Estienne, 1549. Two volumes. 3 1/2 x 5 inches. (8.7 x 12.5 cm). 528, 359, (3) pages--all lightly ruled in red. The title page is hinged in. Circa 1800 gold-tooled straight grain red morocco, with marbled pastedowns, all edges gilt. Spines a bit darkened, joints a bit rubbed..... More
Tempe,1992. 16 x 20. Twenty broadsheets. With "Colophon to be printed" (4 pages stapled) and "Documentation Information" (5 pages stapled). The 20 prints exhibit a great variety of styles and techniques, including wood & linoleum cuts, lithography, photography, stencil rolled relief intaglio, pulp painting, & letterpress. Each is printed on..... 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
Marchbanks Press, NY, September 1921. 21 1/2 x 13. Printed letterpress in black & red on Arches paper. Faint stain at one tip, but fine. The types (identified and shown) are Kennerly (Roman & Italic), Forum Title, Hadriano, Goudy Antique, Goudy Open, and Goudy Modern. There is also the first..... 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
Advertising Agencies' Service: NY, 1938. Reprinted 1953. A four-page folder with type picture on front and explanatory text on rear (inside is blank). Created entirely from small metal ornaments., the image measure 6.5 x 15 inches Printed in green. Very good condition. Created in 1938, this was reprinted in 1953..... 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
