[Paris: 1762-1772]. Beautiful selection of plates from the Récueil de Planches, that extraordinary illustrated supplement to the magnificent... Read More about Imprimérie en Caractères. Contenant dix-neuf Planches. [Extracted from: DIDEROT,...
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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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London: Charles Hindley [The Younger], 1886. Second edition. In Dust Jacket. Read More about The History of the Catnach Press, at Berwick-upon-Tweed, Alnwick and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in...
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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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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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Home Farm, Culham, Oxford: Colin & Charlotte Franklin, 1977. Inscribed by Colin Franklin to Gordon Ray on the half-title. Read More about A Catalogue of Early Colour Printing: From Chiaroscuro to Aquatint
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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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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
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New York: Published by Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902. First edition. One of 350 copies on deckle-edge paper. Read More about The Journals of Hugh Gaine Printer. Edited by Paul Leicester Ford. Volume I. Biography and...
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Ditchling, Sussex: Printed and Published at S. Dominic's Press, 1921. Read More about Songs without Clothes. Being a Dissertation on the Song of Solomon and Such-like Songs ......
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Oakland: Rather Press, 1975. First edition, numbered 69 of 150. A little tribute to Jane Grabhorn. Jane Grabhorn (b.1911 – d.1973) was an American artist, typographer, bookbinder, and printer and founded the Colt Press in San Francisco along with William M. Roth and Jane Swinerton. Read More about Jane Grabhorn, Printer
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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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London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co, 1843. A New Edition. Read More about An Inquiry into the Nature and Form of the Books of the Ancients; with a History of the Art of...
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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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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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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...
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London: Published Messrs. Logman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, Paternoster Row, 1824. First edition. Read More about Typographia, or Printers' Instructor: Including an Account of the Origin of Printing, with...
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New York: Covici, Friede, 1930. First edition, one of 1050 copies printed at Southworth Press. Read More about Biblio-Typographica. A Survey of Contemporary Fine Printing Style
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New York: R.R. Bowker Company, 1939. First edition in English. Inscribed. Inscribed by the author in 1957 to Ward Ritchie: "A very belated inscription to a fairly obsolete (see p. 278) edition..." Read More about The Book in America. A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States ... In...
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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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[Oxshott, Surrey]: The Tabard Private Press, 1986. No. XX of 20 copies on Van Gelder Simili Japon paper. ONE OF 20. Collects Newdigate’s articles on book production during the early 1920s. Read More about Book Production Notes. Articles Contributed to the London Mercury 1920-1925. Foreword by Ruari...
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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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Londres: Et se trouve a Paris chez D. C. Couturier père, Imprimeur-Libraire, aux Galeries du Louvre, 1775. First edition in French. Read More about Dissertation sur l'origine de l'imprimerie en Angleterre, traduit de l'anglais du Docteur...
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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
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[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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[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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