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Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...

Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society, for 1862, Vol. XI (1871), Vol...

Ashby-De-La-Zouch; (Vols. XXII & XXIII) Ipswich: S.H. Cowell, 1855-1889. “The object of the Society is to delineate remains of Antiquity; e.g. ancient Ecclesiastical, Military, and Domestic Edifices, Sepulchral Monuments, Fonts, Brasses, Stained Glass, Tiles, Armour, Dress, Jewellry, Plate Embroidery, Furniture, Carvings, Illuminstions of ancient MSS, Copies of rare Prints, Portraits..... Read More about Anastatic Drawing Society, for the years 1855-57, and 1860. The Ilam Anastatic Drawing Society,...

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Cancels. R. W. Chapman

Cancels.

London: Constable & Co, 1930. First Edition, limited to 500 copies. Third volume in the influential series, Bibliographia Studies in Book History and Book Structure 1750-1900, edited by Michael Sadleir. Read More about Cancels

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Circulaire du Comité d’Adminstration de la Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen. Formation et...

Unrecorded Caen Imprint

Circulaire du Comité d’Adminstration de la Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen. Formation et Règlement de la Société, Composition du Comité...

Caen: de l’Imprimerie de Bonneserre, Rue Froide, 1822. Unrecorded Caen Imprint. Foundation document of the Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen, an auxiliary of the national Society in Paris, with constitution (17 articles), members of the administrative committee, and a priced catalogue of Bibles and New Testaments available. Unrecorded. Read More about Circulaire du Comité d’Adminstration de la Sociéte Biblique Protestante de Caen. Formation et...

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Lithography ... [in the July, 1819 issue of The Analectic Magazine]. Thomas Cooper

The First American Lithograph

Lithography ... [in the July, 1819 issue of The Analectic Magazine].

Philadelphia: M. Thomas [and others], July 1819. First edition. The First American Lithograph. "In May 1819 Philadelphia portrait painter Bass Otis (1784-1861) and scientist Dr. Samuel Brown (1769-1830) signed out a lithographic stone from the collections of the American Philosophical Society for the experimentation of the “art of lithographic engraving.”..... Read More about Lithography ... [in the July, 1819 issue of The Analectic Magazine

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Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...

Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses Thereon from the Bibliographical Decameron of...

London: The Imprint, [1913]. First edition. This reprint of an extract from the Bibliographical Decameron appeard a few pages at a time as a separately paginated supplement to the typographical periodical "The Imprint," a title page being include in the first number. The work was left unfinished when The Imprint..... Read More about Printers Devices. Being a Partial reprint of the Fifth and Sixth Days Delectable Discourses...

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Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. [Edited by Carolyn R. Hammer]. Victor Hammer

Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. [Edited by Carolyn R. Hammer].

Lexington: The Anvil Press, 1978. First edition, number 214 of 450 copies. Important and abundantly illustrated study of the careers of Austrian-born artist and typographer Victor Hammer (1882-1968). Includes chapters on Hammer's mezzotints and wood engravings, discussions of Hammer's uncial typefaces by R. Hunter Middleton and Hermann Zapf; and Paul..... Read More about Victor Hammer Artist and Printer. [Edited by Carolyn R. Hammer

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Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] … Zweyter Theil. Mit vielen Kupfern. History...

Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] … Zweyter Theil. Mit vielen Kupfern.

Leipzig; Wien: Johan Paul Krauss, 1768; 1769. First Edition. Includes notices of Berlin artists, graphic arts (engravers, early woodcuts & woodcut books), history of printing, and account of a journey through Lower Saxony, Westphalia & and Holland. Part Two, with striking images from early printed books such as the “Eagle..... Read More about Nachrichten von Künstlern und Kunst-Sache [and] … Zweyter Theil. Mit vielen Kupfern

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Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progrès de l'Imprimerie. History of Printing, Prosper...

Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progrès de l'Imprimerie.

La Haye: La Veuve Le Vier et Pierre Paupie, 1740. First edition. Printed by Prosper Marchand, a Huguenot publisher and journalist who fled France in 1709, the work appeared at the 300th anniversary of the invention of printing. Marchand writes that he produced the book “a la sollicitation de quelques..... Read More about Histoire de l'Origine et des Premiers Progrès de l'Imprimerie

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An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the...

Early Doubleday Imprint, Bound by the French Bindery

An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the Church of...

Ballston-Spa: Printed by U.F. Doubleday, 1818. Early Doubleday Imprint, Bound by the French Bindery. With an inserted note from one C.A. Montgomery, 1900, conveying the book “found on a book-stall on Ann Street”, to Frank N. Doubleday. The publisher is Ulysses Freeman Doubleday (1792-1866), publisher, newspaperman, U.S. Representative and bookseller. Read More about An Apology for the Book of Psalms, in Five Letters; addressed to the Friends of Union in the...

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Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York...

James Gordon Bennett Builds the New York Herald, 1836

Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York City, as a composing room, to...

New York: 1836. James Gordon Bennett Builds the New York Herald, 1836. James Gordon Bennett (1795-1872) a Scottish immigrant, worked in New York as a journalist and editor on several newspapers, and in May, 1835, established the New York Herald, a four-page daily newspaper which sold for a penny. Poverty..... Read More about Printed certificate, completed in ink, certifying the renting of 118 Fulton Street, New York...

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Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted...

Exotic Typography in the Encyclopédie

Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. Exotic Typography in the Encyclopédie. An elegant and visually appealing selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages, from Assyrian and Hebrew to Chinese, Tibetan..... Read More about Caracteres et Alphabets de langues mortes et vivantes, Contenant vingt-cinq Planches. [Extracted...

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Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts...

From the Encylopédie, with superb plates and alphabets

Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts contenant huit Planches. [and] Caracteres et Alphabets...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. From the Encylopédie, with superb plates and alphabets. An important selection of 33 printing-related plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict the typefounding process and the alphabets and characters of more than 40 languages..... Read More about Fonderie en Caracteres d'Imprimerie, Précédée de la Gravure des Poinçons, les deux Arts...

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Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean...

Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. Beautiful selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict every aspect of the art and craft of printing in the late 18th century; the explanatory text is concise yet fully detailed. Printing and..... Read More about Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, &...

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Imprimerie en Caracteres. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le...

Imprimerie en Caracteres. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, & Jean Le Rond d'ALEMBERT, editors. Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné...

[Paris: 1762-1772]. An especially attractive selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert. The plates depict every aspect of the art and craft of printing in the late 18th century; the explanatory text is concise yet fully detailed..... Read More about Imprimerie en Caracteres. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT, Denis, &...

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The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ..."

Printers to His Majesty for Prevention of Forgery

The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ..."

London, Beaufort House, Strand: Published by Edward Dixon Pouchée, at the Office of "The English Gentleman". Whiting & Branston, Engravers and Printers to His Majesty for the Prevention of Forgery, 1825. Printers to His Majesty for Prevention of Forgery. The elaborate covers provide a fine demonstration of mid-1820s printing by..... Read More about The Protestant Song. "Thanks Royal York ..."

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