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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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

[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

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