Cambridge: printed for W. Thurlbourn, over-against the Senate-House, 1735. First edition. "Against the popular notion at the time that William Caxton had been preceded by a printer at Oxford, Middleton published A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England (1734–5), which argued vigorously that Caxton had introduced the printing..... Read More about A Dissertation Concerning the Origin of Printing in England. Shewing, that it was first...

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...

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1938. First Edition, one of 1800 copies, designed by Carl Purington Rollins an printed at the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. Read More about A History of the Printed Book. Being the Third Number of the Dolphin

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

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

Meriden: Meriden Gravure, 1978. First edition. This is the festschrift done for Harold Hugo after 54 years at Meriden Gravure by all his friends and satisfied customers. Read More about A Portfolio Honoring Harold Hugo for His Contribution to Scholarly Printing. In 35 separate...

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...

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...

Wymondham: Brewhouse Press, 1970. First edition, one of 250 copies printed. Finely printed history of the first commercially viable means of making facsimile reproductions of the printed page. Read More about Aspects of Victorian Lithography. Anastatic Printing and Photozincography

[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...

[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, &...

London: William Heinemann Ltd, 1923. First edition. Heinemann Authors. This is a anthology of authors who had been published by William Heinemann over 30 years. They include Galsworthy, Gosse, Sassoon, Masefield, Baring, Beerbohm, Swinburne, Hearn, Sackville-West, Zangwill, Crane, Symons, Morley, Maugham, Jack London and others. Many of the pieces in..... Read More about The Windmill: Stories, Essays, Poems & Pictures by Authors & Artists whose Works are...