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‎ISAAC (Peter)‎

‎William Davison's New Specimen of Cast-Metal Ornaments and Wood Types. Introduced with an Account of his Activites as Pharmacist and Printer in Alnwick, 1780-1858.‎

‎4to, 39 pages of text followed by about 140 pages of reproductions of type specimen, orig. cloth, d.w. Reproduces this very unusual specimen book put out in the early nineteenth century.‎

‎BIGMORE (F. C.) & WYMAN (C. W. H.)‎

‎A Bibliography of Printing. With Notes and Illustrations.‎

‎3 Vols., in one, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, d.w. Since its original publication in 1880 this famous work has established itself as the greatest work in its chosen field. Many thousands of books and monographs are fully described, many with detailed collations.‎

‎LOHF (Kenneth A.)‎

‎The History of Printing from its Beginnings to 1930. The Subject Catalogue of the American Type Founders Company Library in the Columbia University Libraries.‎

‎4 Vols., 4to, over 2740pp., orig. cloth. Reproduces the catalogue cards of the ca. 16,000 items in this very important collection. Some of the many subjects include: incunabula, curiosities of bookmaking (such as chained books), modern fine printing, history of paper, type specimen books, printing manuals, graphic design, trade catalogues, binding, and much more.‎

‎BRESLAUER (Bernard H.)‎

‎Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana.‎

‎3 Parts, price list to each part loosely inserted, coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. decorated stiff wrappers, 1639 lots. The auction catalogue of the magnificent bibliographical library of Bernard H. Breslauer. For almost six years he employed Michael Laird to assist him in cataloguing the collection, Christie's have used these scholarly notes in the compilation of this catalogue.‎

‎TARLING (Alan)‎

‎Will Carter, Printer. An Illustrated Study.‎

‎First edition, 4to, 46pp., profusely illustrated with examples of Will Carter's designs in type and stone, orig. stiff printed wrappers a fine copy. Will Cater established The Rampant Lions Press at Cambridge.‎

‎DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognall)‎

‎A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.‎

‎Second Edition, 3 vols., frontispiece in each volume (offset), 9 plates, illustrs., in the text, orig. cloth, hinges torn, one spine lacking. Windle & Pippin A38b; Jackson 49.‎

‎THIBOUST (Cl.-L.)‎

‎L'Excellence de l'Imprimerie; Poeme Latin de Cl.-L. Thiboust, traduit par Cl.-Ch. Thiboust, son fils.‎

‎26, [4]pp., one of 200 numbered copies, 4 folding plates, orig. printed wrappers, a fine copy.‎

‎JENKINSON (Francis)‎

‎List of the Incunabula Collected by George Dunn Arranged to Illustrate the History of Printing.‎

‎First Edition, 83pp., disbound.‎

‎THIBOUST (Claude Louis)‎

‎Typographiae excellentia [L'excellence de l'imprimerie. Po?me latin]. Paris: 1754. Second edition of the Latin poem, first edition of the French translation, 28, [2]pp., half-title, double titles in Latin and French, engraved portrait frontispiece by J. Daulle, 2 etched plates (one folding) of a typefoundry and a printing shop, foremargin shaved with slight loss of image on folding plate, text closely cropped effecting imprint and a few letters and words to several foremargins. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Scalptura Carmen [La Gravure Po?me]. Paris: Le Mercier, 1753. Second edition in Latin, first edition of the French translation, xii, 76, xii, [1]-90, [2]pp. [Bound with:] DOISSIN (Ludovico) Sculptura Carmen [La Sculpture Po?me].‎

‎viii, 94, [2], [1]-120, [4]pp., with half-title. 3 works bound in one (the first named bound last), cont. mottled sheep, worn. The second edition of this poem on the different technical processes involved in printing. This edition was published by Claude Charles Thiboust, his father, Cluade Louis Thiboust, was the author of the poem, and had originally printed it in 1718. The family of Thilboust occupies a distinguished place in the list of French typographers, having started printing in Paris in the middle of the sixteenth century, with successive members of the family being appointed to be Printers to the University. This is followed by two editions of Doissen's poem on engraving. Bigmore & Wyman, III, p. 8; I, p. 183‎

‎ADAMS (Thomas F.)‎

‎Typographia: or, the Printer's Instructor; a Brief Sketch of the Origin, Rise, and Progress of the Typographic Art, with Practical Directions for Conducting Every Department in an Office, Hints to Authors, Publishers, &c.‎

‎Fourth Edition, with numerous emendations and additions, x, [7]-282pp., with the bookplate of Jackson Burke, illustrs., some occasional spotting, orig. cloth, wear to extremities. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.3. This was the second practical printing manual issued by an American author. Adams borrowed much of his material, without acknowledgement, from Johnson and Hansard.‎

‎COTTON (Rev. Henry)‎

‎The Typographical Gazetteer.‎

‎First edition, 8vo (225 x 145mm), xvi, 219, [1]pp., upper blank corner of dedication leaf torn away, bookplate removed, front endpaper loose, cont. half morocco, marbled paper boards. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p.145. "This is a standard work of reference, and has always enjoyed great authority. The names of the towns are arranged in alphabetical order, and the circumstances attending the introduction into them of the art of printing, the earliest products of their presses, and biographical references to early printers, are given in a succinct manner."‎

‎WESTREENEN VAN TIELLANDT (Willem Hendrik Jacob, Baron van)‎

‎Rapport sur les Recherches, Relatives a l'Invention Premi?re et a l'Usage le plus Ancien de l'Imprimerie St?r?otype...‎

‎First edition, 61, [1 blank]pp., the text appears in Dutch and French on facing pages, 4 folding plates, text spotted, paper wrappers, uncut and unopened. "Containing the first full and authoritative account of the Muller stereotyping process, the earliest known (save the doubtful claim of Valleyre); preceeding Ged's experiments by a comfortable margin. It was overlooked or ignored by the 19th-century historians, who dismissed Muller's products as merely soldered forms of type metal. Its existence was unknown to me or my expert advisor when I was preparing William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype (The Library, 1960). Its significance was recognized (through Ellic Howe's copy) by Percy Muir in 1963". (John Carter). Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.78.‎

‎[CLARKE (William)]‎

‎Repertorium Bibliographicum; or, Some Account of the Most Celebrated British Libraries. London: William Clarke, 1819. First edition, xlviii, [2], 138, 133*-138*, 139-454, 449*-454*, 455-672, [2]pp., engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved portraits (foxed and offset, the portrait of Towneley is inserted and stands proud), small ink splash to title, 2 woodcuts in the text. [Bound with:] A Dialogue in the Shades; between William Caxton, a Bibliomaniac, and William Wynken, Clerk. Rare Doings at Roxburghe Hall. A Ballad. The Diary of Roger Payne, with a Lithographic sketch on the Monument to be Erected to his memory by the Bibliographical Club.‎

‎Second edition, [2 ads], [36]pp., with printed title-page and half-title, engraved headpiece, the advert leaf includes two editions of Beckford's Vathek and A Description of Fonthill Abbey. Small 4to (235 x 145 mm), 2 works in one, recent half calf to style, marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt. A survey of the principal public and private libraries in England, listing highlights of the collections and concluding with brief accounts of 30 important English book auctions from the 17th century onwards. William Beckford assisted in the compilation of this work, particularly in the description of his own library at Fonthill. The Dialogue in the Shades is a two-part pamphlet of satirical verse is a response to Dibdin's Lincolne Nosegay and the Bibliographical Decameron. The attribution varies from William Beckford to the Clarke brothers. This second edition is issued with an additional half-title, title-page with note from 'Mr. Wynkem' on the verso, and with the addition of The Diary of Roger Payne, a work in the same vein. A rare anti-Dibdinia item. Windle & Pippin, D9.‎

‎LYNCH (Thomas)‎

‎The Printer's Manual. A Practical Guide for Compositors and Pressmen.‎

‎Second edition, large 12mo (190 x 130 mm), 226pp., text a little stained in places, new endpapers, orig. cloth, spine and fore-edges rather garishly strengthened with black tape, a copy obviously well-used by a working compositor. A scarce printer's manual which was first published in 1859.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Romance of Guy of Warwick. Fragment.‎

‎Small 4to (210 x 165 mm), 12pp., disbound. "The following fragment was found in the cover of an old book in the possession of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Bath, and was lent to the editor by the Rev. J. Hunter of Torrington Square. The whole poem was printed by Cawood, in the 16th century, but this contains some few variations. 50 copies of this impression have been taken. T. P. / M. H. / Oct. 1838."?Preface. Fenwick 124.1; Holzenberg 126.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎The Case of Colonel Barwick's Will, & Codicill.‎

‎Folio (340 x 215 mm), 4pp., caption-title, disbound. The Will of Colonel Barwick who lived in Barbados in the 17th century. Barwick sent his daughter to be educated in England and his Will provided her with a sum of money upon marriage with further sums to be paid on the birth of any children. "All the rest of my Landes, and Negroes, Goods' and Chattles, Rightes, and Credites,, I give to my Son, Samuel Barwick...". Shortly after making this Will in 1673 he moved to Bermuda where he made a codicill which greatly complicated matters. Holzenberg 74.‎

‎MORISON (Stanley)‎

‎John Bell, 1745-1831. Bookseller, Printer, Publisher, Typefounder, Journalist, &c.‎

‎First edition, large 8vo, xii, 168pp., one of 300 copies, coloured frontis., 18 plates and inserts (collotype, photogravure and line: one coloured), some folding and others of 4 & 8pp., orig. buckram, spine gilt with red leather label, uncut. This important critical biography of the founder and part proprietor of the Morning Post, The World, The Oracle or Bell's New World, Bell's Weekly Messenger, La Belle Assemblee, original proprietor of the The British Library, Bell's British Theatre, Bell's Poets of Great Britain and Bell's Edition of Shakespeare is an elegant production. There are appendixes on Bell's book and newspaper typography, the story of his types in the United States, and his type specimens. Appleton 94.‎

‎QUARITCH (Bernard)‎

‎Catalogue of the Monuments of the Early Printers in all Countries. I. Germany and the Low Countries. II. Italy. III. France. IV. Spain, Portugal; North and East Europe; America, and the East. V. England.‎

‎8vo (218 x 145 mm), vi, [2527]-4066, xli, [1]pp., inscribed with Bernard Quaritch's compliments, front hinge a little shaken, orig. red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small nick to head of spine. Valuable reference covering 2,609 items, Quaritch's General Catalogue Part XV.‎

‎STOWER (C.)‎

‎The Printer's Price-Book, Containing the Master Printer's Charges to the Trade for Printing Works of Various Descriptions, Sizes, Types and Pages; Also, a New, Easy, and Correct Method of Casting off Manuscript and other Copy, Exemplified in Specimen Pages of Different Sizes and Types...‎

‎First edition, 8vo (205 x 125 mm), iv, 446pp., 1 plate showing typographical marks (foxed and offset onto title), text moderately browned in places, 32 page author text followed by 326 pages of specimens of type in different sizes, from the foundry of Mr Thorne in Fan Street, Aldersgate Street, with footnotes by the author, pp. 359-446 contain tables with the regular charges for printing works of the same size type length and width as the foregoing specimen pages, cont. half calf, rebacked with original spine laid-down, marbled boards, corners rubbed through. A compendium of information on the early nineteenth-century printing trade: payment for compositors, master printers' rates, typographical marks, casting off copy, type specimens, etc. This book is far scarcer than Stower's earlier work The Printer's Grammar of 1808.‎

‎SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPE. STEPHEN SUTTON & CO.‎

‎Specimen of the Printing Type, Etc. Manufactured at the Caxton Type and Stereotype Foundry, Bishop's Court, Old Bailey, London. Stephen Sutton & Co.‎

‎Crown 8vo (246 x 150 mm), ff. 63, tipped-in is a small folio sheet (280 x 213 mm) printed of one side only "Prices of Type and Materials Manufactured and Sold by Stephen Sutton & Co. at the Caxton Letter Foundry...", later quarter red morocco, green boards. A very rare specimen of printing types from this little known foundry. The specimen begins with 34 samples of different size font from "the most modern faces, cut by artists of first-rate skill and acknowledged talent." Then follows 27 priced specimens of "a beautiful and extensive assortment of Stereotype Ornaments." The tipped-in price list is printed in double-column and gives prices for type, wood type, leads' and metal furniture, galleys, brass rule, cases, frames, and furniture. At the foot is a list of "Agents for the Country": Mr. Joseph Graham, 2 Jewry Street, Aldgate; Mr Simmons, Artillery Lane, Bishopsgate Street; Messrs. Renshaw and Kirkman, Budge Row; Messrs. Shepherd and Sutton, Foster Lane. Provenance: From the typographical library of John Lewis (his bookplate) and John Brinkley (his signature). The only other copy recorded is that of The British Library.‎

‎N?E DE LA ROCHELLE (Jean-Fran?ois)‎

‎?loge Historique de Jean Gensfleisch dit Guttenberg, Oremier Inventeur de l'Art Typographique.‎

‎First edition, 8vo (205 x 130 mm), [4], vi, 158pp., portrait frontispiece, some light water-staining to a few margins, recent marbled boards, morocco title label to spine. "A sketch of the life of Gutenberg, with a eulogium of his invention."?Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman II, p. 70.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Campden House, Co; Gloucr. The Seat of Sir Baptist Hickes temp. Chas. I.‎

‎Single sheet printed on bluish paper on recto only (200 x 320 mm). Lithographic sketch, dated 1870 and given a print run of 100 copies by Wakeman. Geoffrey Wakeman, "Anastatic Printing for Sir Thomas Phillipps," Journal of the Printing Historical Society, no. 5, 1969, pp. 38; Holzenberg 167.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Salford House, Co. Warwick.‎

‎Single sheet printed on bluish paper on recto only (200 x 320 mm). Lithographic sketch of rear facade of Salford House. Holzenberg 243.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Aeneae Sylvii Piccolomini, Pii secundi Papae, Electionis suae narratio, AD 1458. (Ex suorum libro primo Commentariorum.)‎

‎Folio (340 x 215 mm), [2], 10pp., printed on bluish paper, stitched as issued. Printed from Phillipps MS. 2670. A printed note in Latin on the final leaf apologises for the numerous for the numerous errors (errata fill all p. 10) caused by the editor not being able to compare proofs with the original, due to absence. Fenwick 112; Holzenberg 392.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎List of Utrecht Seals, Ex Bibl. Muschenbroeck. (at Middle Hill, 1864.)‎

‎Folio (345 x 205 mm), single sheet printed on both sides, caption-title, disbound, margins slightly torn. These Utrecht seals were purchased at the Muschenbroeck sale in 1826. Holtzenberg 55.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Index pedum finium pro Com. Glouc. temp. George I. Impensis Dni. Thomae Phillipps, Bart.‎

‎Folio (335 x 210 mm), [2], 115, [1]pp., title page printed on white paper, text on blue paper lithographed from the handwriting of Sir Thomas Phillipps, title page lightly browned, last couple of leaves a little spotted, orig. Middle Hill boards. Index of the fines for the County of Gloucestershire for the reign of George I. Fenwick 13; Holzenberg 183.‎

‎WESTREENEN VAN TIELLANDT (Willem Hendrik Jacob, Baron van)‎

‎Rapport sur les Recherches, Relatives a l'Invention Premi?re et a l'Usage le plus Ancien de l'Imprimerie St?r?otype...‎

‎First edition, 8vo (233 x 145 mm), 61, [1 blank]pp., the text appears in Dutch and French on facing pages, 4 folding plates, text lightly spotted, paper wrappers, orig. plain boards. "Containing the first full and authoritative account of the Muller stereotyping process, the earliest known (save the doubtful claim of Valleyre); preceeding Ged's experiments by a comfortable margin. It was overlooked or ignored by the 19th-century historians, who dismissed Muller's products as merely soldered forms of type metal. Its existence was unknown to me or my expert advisor when I was preparing William Ged and the Invention of Stereotype (The Library, 1960). Its significance was recognized (through Ellic Howe's copy) by Percy Muir in 1963"?John Carter. Bigmore & Wyman, III. p.78.‎

‎MIDDLE HILL PRESS.‎

‎Heralds Visitation Disclaimers. Imprensis Dni. Thomae Phillipps, Bart.‎

‎Folio (335 x 210 mm), [2], 76pp., printed on blue paper, title page from type, text zincographed from the handwriting of Sir Thomas Phillipps, light spotting throughout, orig. Middle Hill boards with printed paper spine label, spine torn a defective. A reproduction in anastatic printing of a catalogue of all those who usurped the names and titles of gentlemen without authority and were thereby disclaimed. Covers all the counties of England, beginning with Devon and Cornwall. Fenwick 54; Holzenberg 88.‎

‎PRINTER'S ADVERT.‎

‎A printed flyer for W. Henry Robinson, Steam Printing Works, Walsall.‎

‎8vo (222 x 142 mm), 4pp. The first page displays "Sizes of Types: Ordinarily used for Books, Pamphlets, &c.", centre pages "Corrections for the Press. Illustrations of Typographical Errors", and the final page "A few Specimens of Type."‎

‎TYPES SPECIMENS. FIGGINS (V. & J.)‎

‎Epitome of Specimens by V. & J. Figgins, 17 & 18, West Street, Smithfield, London.‎

‎Folio (440 x 270 mm), title followed by 111 leaves printed on one side only, 7 leaves with small area excised, 1 leaf torn in half with remaining portion loosely inserted, 1 leaf torn across centre, title-page printed with elaborate wood-engraved decorative border, some light fraying to blank margins of several leaves, orig. half calf, re-cased, title stamped in gilt on upper cover, corners rubbed. Figgins had issued specimens as early as 1792, but these were in small pamphlet form. By the 1820s they were issuing specimens in a 8vo book form, these were followed by quarto specimens in the early 1840s. "The Quarto Specimen Book was supplemented in 1847 by the 'Epitome of Specimens,' which contains a selection of antiques, blacks, and jobbing types, with flowers, borders, and ornaments, the book and news founts being shown in small paragraphs."?Bigmore & Wyman. This book was continually added to until 1871, when it became too large and heavy for the post, thereafter the specimens issued by Figgins were issued in a smaller condensed form. All edition of this folio specimen are rare. Bigmore & Wyman I p. 218; Gray, p. 185.‎

‎HART (Horace)‎

‎Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1900 with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Harry Carter.‎

‎Large 4to, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. Research done since the book was issued, particularly by the late Stanley Morison into the origins of the Fell types, is digested in revisions by Hart have been added. This edition is, therefore, an up-to-date survey of one of the world's richest collections of historical printing types.‎

‎HUTH LIBRARY.‎

‎Catalogue of the Famous Library of Printed Books, Illuminated Manuscripts, Autograph Letters and Engravings Collected by Henry Huth, and Since Maintained and Augmented by his Son Alfred H. Huth, Fosbury Manor, Wiltshire... First [-Ninth and Final] Portion.‎

‎9 Parts., 4to, numerous plates throughout, including some chromolithographed (some which a couple of the folding examples are adhered), list of prices and buyers' names bound in of the back of each part, uniform brown buckram, spines lettered in gilt. A complete record of the sale of printed books and manuscripts which De Ricci described as "one of the most striking events in the history of the English sale-rooms". Huth's collection, which ranked among the finest in England, was rich in incunabula, voyages, Shakespearean and early English literature, and Bibles. De Ricci, pp. 151-154.‎

‎OLD SCHOOL PRESS. OULD (Martyn)‎

‎Stanley Morison & 'John Fell'. The Story of the Writing and Printing of Stanley Morison's Book John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' Types.‎

‎2 Vols., 4to (280 x 215 mm), 141, [3]pp., number 17 of 50 de luxe copies signed by the author, Vivian Ridler and John Simmons, numerous plates and specimens tipped-in, quarter-bound red morocco, marbled paper boards, together with a portfolio of 12 additional specimen sheets, the whole presented in a slip-case, fine copy. Tells the story of the writing and printing of what was perhaps the masterpiece of printing in the 'Fell types' in the twentieth century: Stanley Morison's John Fell, the University Press and the 'Fell' types published by Oxford University Press in 1967. Prospectus inserted.‎

‎TYPE SPECIMENS. PRINCE & BAUGH, LIMITED.‎

‎Specimens of Types.‎

‎8vo (230 x 145 mm), title printed within a ornamental border, followed by [32] leaves of types specimens printed on rectos only, two minor worm pinholes, orig. cloth-backed blue card covers, worn, loss to front and rear cover covers. An apparently unrecorded specimen book from this firm of commercial printers. The firm traded from 14 College Hill, Cannon Street, London from c. 1895 to c. 1909, and were formerly connected with the house of Edward Saunders & Son. They specialised in supply banks and commercial houses with all manner of suitable stationery and account-books, all produced by the best and most artistic kind of lithographic and letterpress printing. No other copy located.‎

‎TYPE SPECIMENS. DIDOT.‎

‎Armes et Fleurons de la Fonderie de Firmin Didot, Rue Jacob, No 24, ? Paris.‎

‎Single folio sheet printed on one-side only (450 x 610 mm), folded into 4 sections, specimen sheet reproducing 36 priced ornaments, numbered 72-107, within border of type ornaments, unfortunately one ornament has been excised. Audin, Livrets typographiques des fonderies fran?aises cr??es avant 1800, 178; OCLC locates 2 copies only (Newberry Library and Houghton Library, Harvard).‎

‎DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall)‎

‎A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany.‎

‎First edition, 3 vols., bound in 4, 4to (279 x 185 mm), ONE OF 100 COPIES PRINTED ON THICK AND LARGE PAPER WITH EXTRA PLATES, [4], xxv, [7], 462,lxxix, [1]; [2], 555, [1]; [2], 298; [2], 299-622, lxiipp., with the author's wood-engraved device on each title-page, a wood engraving of the elaborately-quartered coat of arms of the Roxburghe Club on the dedication page, 85 engraved plates ((including the private plate of 'Diana de Poictiers' in vol. 2, which was apparently destroyed after only 50 copies had been printed, and a proof of the 'Prater' plate in vol. 3), 62 illustrations printed on fine and thin "India" paper and mounted on the text leaves, 55 other illustrations in the text, with the additional sixty engraved plates on 52 leaves from Lewis' Series of Groups bound in at the appropriate places as designated by Lewis in his 'Directions to the binder', contemporary notes in pencil to several endpapers and a few within the text, text and plates have staining of varying degrees, pale stain to many lower margins, a little damage to endpapers where bookplates have been removed, full red hard grain red morocco,,covers waterstained, spines lettered in gilt, all edges gilt. Unfortunately this handsome large paper copy has suffered from water damage sometime in the past, additional photographs are available upon request. This set with the additional set of etchings on india paper by George Lewis, of a classic work of the utmost importance for its wealth of eye-witness information and anecdotes about printed books, manuscripts, buildings, other artefacts and people, both from past centuries and from the author's own day, for the extraordinary collection of illustrations, mostly drawn during the tour itself, and finally as a sumptuous piece of book production. As soon as the book appeared, leading scholars derided Dibdin for his lack of scholarship, especially concerning early manuscripts and printed books. But one must distinguish between the extensive and extremely useful information about things and people Dibdin saw during his 1818 tour, and his own interpretations and conclusions, which now serve only as a window to the attitudes of the time. Dibdin's enthusiasm, readable style and entertaining anecdotes, moreover, caught the mood of his age, making the book extremely popular and influential. Lewis' A Series of Groups... was intended to accompany Dibdin's Tour but was rejected by Dibdin as unworthy of his book. Lewis, most perturbed, issued them at his own expense and presented his case in the eight-page Advertisement which was separately printed. Jackson 48; 56; 56n: Windle & Pippin A38a; A44; D13.‎

‎DIBDIN (Rev. Thomas Frognal)‎

‎The Bibliographical Decameron: or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.‎

‎First edition, 3 vols., 4to (270 x 185 mm), [6], vi, [2], ccxxv, [1], 410, [2]; [4], 535, [3]; [4], 544, [4]pp., with half-titles, ONE OF 50 LARGE PAPER COPIES, 37 engraved plates (without the 'Presentation in the Temple' plate which was not ready at publication and occurs in only a very few copies and the 'Portrait of Los Rios' which Windle & Pippin suggest is an extra-illustration), also without the engraved portrait of Dibdin by Henry Mayer, numerous woodcuts engraved vignettes, several printed in red or blue, some mounted, some light spotting and offsetting as usual, marbled endpapers, contemporary full blue-green morocco, decorated in gilt with interlacing geometrical design on the covers, richly tooled gilt morocco doublures, flat spines lettered in gilt direct, all edges gilt, spine slightly faded, corner of lower board of vol. II bumped, some slight edge-wear to bindings otherwise a handsome set. A fine copy of the rare large paper issue of the author's most lavish publication and the high water of Dibdinian Bibliomania. Jackson 40; Windle & Pippin A28.‎

‎TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY, STEELE, AND CO.‎

‎A Specimen of Printing Types, By Fry, Steele, and Co. Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street. [Bound with:] Specimens of Metal Cast Ornaments, Curiously Adjusted to Paper, by Edmund Fry and Isaac Steele...‎

‎2 Vols., in one, small 4to (260 x 160 mm), 103 leaves including title and two advertisement leaves; 22 leaves including title and advert leaf (ornaments numbered 1-103), all printed on rectos only, printed on thick paper stock, 'Lepard' watermark, orig. boards with marbled covers, printed paper title label to spine (rubbed), inner hinges expertly repaired, a very good uncut copy with wide margins. The Fry's were a Bristol family, and Joseph Fry (1728-87) established the foundry at Bristol in 1764, in partnership with William Pine and Isaac Moore as manager and type-designer. By 1766 the foundry had moved to London, with Moore retiring in 1776 and Pine shortly after. In 1782 Fry took his sons Edmund (especially interested in exotic founts) and Henry into partnership, and made considerable purchases of Greeks and Orientals at the sale of James' foundry. Joseph retired in 1787 and in 1794 Isaac Steele joined as partner until 1808, when Edmund Fry was left in sole control until he admitted his son to partnership. In 1829 the foundry was acquired by William Thorowgood. A very good copy of this extremely rare and substantial specimen book. Berry & Johnson, p. 45; Mosley, 118 & 119.‎

‎SABBE (Maurits) & RUDIN (Marius)‎

‎Die Civilit?-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die Fl?mischen Drucker des 16. Jahrhunderts.‎

‎First Edition, 4to, number 33 of 250 copies, 29 facsimiles, orig. boards, head of spine slightly torn, unopened, uncut.‎

‎HART (Horace)‎

‎Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press Oxford 1693-1794. A Photographic Reprint of the Edition of 1900 with an Introduction and Additional Notes by Harry Carter.‎

‎Large 4to, frontis., orig. cloth, d.w. Research done since the book was issued, particularly by the late Stanley Morison into the origins of the Fell types, is digested in revisions by Hart have been added. This edition is, therefore, an up-to-date survey of one of the world's richest collections of historical printing types.‎

‎TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY, STEELE, AND CO.‎

‎A Specimen of Printing Types, By Fry, Steele, and Co. Letter-Founders to the Prince of Wales, Type-Street.‎

‎Small 4to (250 x 155 mm), title with vignette, 2 ff. adverts, 126 ff. (i.e., 100ff. type specimens, 26 ff. ornaments, numbered 1-130) all printed on rectos only, printed on thick paper stock, 'Lepard' watermark, occasional spotting and turned corners, cont. calf, rubbed, joints cracked, black morocco spine label. The Fry's were a Bristol family, and Joseph Fry (1728-87) established the foundry at Bristol in 1764, in partnership with William Pine and Isaac Moore as manager and type-designer. By 1766 the foundry had moved to London, with Moore retiring in 1776 and Pine shortly after. In 1782 Fry took his sons Edmund (especially interested in exotic founts) and Henry into partnership, and made considerable purchases of Greeks and Orientals at the sale of James' foundry. Joseph retired in 1787 and in 1794 Isaac Steele joined as partner until 1808, when Edmund Fry was left in sloe control until he admitted his son to partnership. In 1829 the foundry was acquired by William Thorowgood. A very good copy of this extremely rare and substantial specimen book. Following an introduction, the specimens proceed from Ten line Pica to Diamond: 'the smallest Letter in the World. It gets in considerably more than the famous Dutch Diamond.' There are type in Hebrew and Greek, ornamental, Blacks, Exotics, Ships, Bands, frames, & decorative pieces composed of flowers continuing to a priced section of cast ornaments. This edition not listed by ESTC, Berry & Johnson and Mosley both cite the St. Bride copy only. Berry & Johnson, p. 46; Mosley, 122.‎

‎STEPHENSON, BLAKE & CO. (Typefounders).‎

‎Specimens of Printing Types, Borders, Ornaments, Plain and Fancy Brass Rules, &c.‎

‎Thick 8vo, 24pp., followed by [212] leaves (mostly printed on one side only), a couple of samples excised from to leaves, orig. decorated cloth, gilt, a very good copy. This specimen book presents a fine and extensive example of the period. Provenance: From the library of Ruari McLean with his signature to front-endpaper.‎

‎JENKINSON (Francis)‎

‎List of the Incunabula Collected by George Dunn Arranged to Illustrate the History of Printing.‎

‎First Edition, 83pp., orig. printed wrappers, unopened, uncut.‎

‎GREYHOUND PRESS.‎

‎Exploits and Wonders.‎

‎First edition, 8vo, [4], 13, [3]pp., limited to 106 numbered copies, some occasional spotting, orig. publishers cloth-backed patterned paper boards, label on upper cover.‎

‎TYPE SPECIMENS. FRY (Edmund, & Son)‎

‎Specimen of Modern Printing Types, by Edm. Fry & Son, Letter Founders to the King, Type Street, London.‎

‎Royal 8vo (245 x 155 mm), title printed within a heavy border of flowers, followed by 115 leaves of specimens printed on one side only, of which two a folding, some occasional offsetting, cont. cloth-backed boards with wine auction sale particulars pasted over boards, manuscript paper spine label, uncut and partial unopened, an attractive copy. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 243 mentioning only 1816, 1824 & 1827 editions; B&J citing the Oxford copy; Mosley locating four copies with between 91 and 118 leaves (Oxford, Cambridge, V&A, and Columbia University Library); OCLC adds the Huntington and Detroit copies; none added by JISC; not in the British Library or St Brides Catalogue. Berry & Johnson p. 49; Mosley, 135.‎

‎BRESLAUER (Bernard H.)‎

‎Bibliotheca Bibliographica Breslaueriana.‎

‎3 Parts, price list to each part loosely inserted, coloured illustrs., throughout, orig. decorated stiff wrappers, 1639 lots. The auction catalogue of the magnificent bibliographical library of Bernard H. Breslauer. For almost six years he employed Michael Laird to assist him in cataloguing the collection, Christie's have used these scholarly notes in the compilation of this catalogue.‎

‎SABBE (Maurits) & RUDIN (Marius)‎

‎Die Civilit?-Schriften des Robert Granjon in Lyon und die Fl?mischen Drucker des 16. Jahrhunderts.‎

‎First Edition, 4to, number 33 of 250 copies, 29 facsimiles, orig. boards, lacks back-strip, unopened, uncut.‎

‎MARDERSTEIG (Giovanni)‎

‎The Officina Bodoni. An Account of the Work of a Hand Press 1923-1977. Edited and Translated by Hans Schmoller.‎

‎First edition, 4to, lix, 286, [2]pp., one of 1,500 copies, facsimiles (some printed in two colours), orig. publishers cloth, slight sign of tape having been removed from base of spine. A detailed illustrated catalogue of all of the editions produced at this world-famous press, with the introduction forming an important account of Mardersteig as scholar, printer and publisher.‎

‎HOLME (Charles) Editor.‎

‎L'Art du Livre. ?tude sur Qurlques-uns des Derni?res Cr?ations en Typographie, Ornamentation de Textes, et Reliure, Ex?cut?es en Europe et en Am?rique.‎

‎4to, vii,[i],276+4pp., of adverts, numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. printed wrappers, partly defective. Profusely illustrated and containing some superb coloured plates. Includes an article by Douglas Cockerell 'La Reliure de luxe en Angleterre.' p.69-121.‎

‎STOWER (C.)‎

‎The Printer's Price-Book, Containing the Master Printer's Charges to the Trade for Printing Works of Various Descriptions, Sizes, Types and Pages; Also, a New, Easy, and Correct Method of Casting off Manuscript and other Copy, Exemplified in Specimen Pages of Different Sizes and Types...‎

‎First edition, 8vo (223 x 136 mm), [2, advert], iv, 446pp., WITHOUT the plate showing typographical marks, text moderately browned in places, 32 page author text followed by 326 pages of specimens of type in different sizes, from the foundry of Mr Thorne in Fan Street, Aldersgate Street, with footnotes by the author, pp. 359-446 contain tables with the regular charges for printing works of the same size type length and width as the foregoing specimen pages, later boards, signs of a label having been removed from base of spine, uncut. A compendium of information on the early nineteenth-century printing trade: payment for compositors, master printers' rates, typographical marks, casting off copy, type specimens, etc. This book is far scarcer than Stower's earlier work The Printer's Grammar of 1808.‎

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