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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
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.
1824ref. 53328London: Longman Hurst Reese Orme Brown & Green 1824. Two vols. Thick 8vo. 7 x 4.25 in. Engraved frontisp. each vol. extra-engraved title pages woodcut-engraved borders throughout numerous illusts. diagrams woodcuts. Contemporary diced olive-green calf raised bands on spine gilt decorated red & gilt morocco spine labels fore-edges of textblock speckled red very minor shlefwear slight rubbing & wear to couple corners lower front hinge vol. II a little tender still an excellent set. First edition of this famed set providing an excellent history of the origins of English Printing and typography to 1599 and including an extensive sections on various alphabets including Hebrew Aramaic Greek Russian Irish Old Irish Gothic German and many others. The sections on printing typography forging types typesetting and various presses are extensive and detailed. Johnson 1777-1848 worked for a private press at Lee Priory Kent which published limited editions of poetry prose and pamphlets but eventually failed. Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, Brown & Green, hardcover
ref. ORD-7380Avant-Propos de Daniel ROCHE. Seyssel. Champ Vallon. 1989. In-8 (156 x 240mm) broché, couverture crème illustrée couleurs, 298, (5) pages, 5 gravures hors texte dont le frontispice. Bel exemplaire.
1922ref. 62321CBMünchen, Verlag Georg Müller, 1922. 8°. 20 x 13 cm. 160 Seiten. Dekorativer Halblederband der Zeit mit goldgeprägtem Rückentitel und marmoriertem Deckelbezug. [2 Warenabbildungen]
1948245x175 mm. 120 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. DJ yellowing. Cover yellowing and slightly curved. Spine edges bumped and rubbed. Few pages slightly age-stained. Pages yellowing. Else in good condition.
1943x + 170pp. + sompe plates out of text, limited edition of 500 copies, 26cm., publisher's ardcover binding in green cloth, in publisher's slipcase, few foxing, very good, G103123
1943ref. G103123Portland, Maine, The Southworth-Anthoensen Press 1943 x + 170pp. + sompe plates out of text, limited edition of 500 copies, 26cm., publisher's ardcover binding in green cloth, in publisher's slipcase, few foxing, very good, G103123
ref. 213290Halle, Karras, Kröber & Nietschmann, o.J. 4°. 46 S. OBr. Umschl. lichtrandig. (Veröffentlichungen d. Gesellschaft für Typenkunde d. XV. Jahrhunderts)
1965139 p. + Illustrations. 8vo. Cloth backed boards. Original glassine wrapper. Best work on the subject of early American typefounding. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 27
2009TWO VOLUME SET. [BOTH VOLUMES]: 25.5x32 cm. 360+360 pages. Gilt hardcover. Cover slightly dirty. [VOL. I]: Small stain on cover. [VOL. II]: Spine edges slightly chafed. [IN CONCLUSION]: Else in good condition. PLEASE NOTE: This item is overweight. We may ask for extra shipping costs.
1960ref. 64757Portland OR: Portland Linotyping Company 512 NW 17th Ave. ca. 1960. Oblong folio. 14.25 x 10.25 in. iv 2 206 i.e. 250 pp added supplement pages in assorted sections. printed throughout w/ peach-coloured border at lower fore-edge type specimens included throughout with each section divided by thick cardstock divider and thumb tab. Original publisher’s blue buckram 16-ring binder gilt lettering stamped on front cover & spine slight shelfwear NF copy from the library of David Kohl 1946-2025 former art teacher at the Hong Kong International School musician artist and historian. First edition of this exceedingly scarce and massive type font specimen book issued by the Portland Linotyping Company who specialized in commercial trade typesetting for many local Pacific Northwest regional newspapers magazines and job printers. This particular type specimen catalogue was intended to be expanded as per the additional 34 supplement pages and note on colophon specifying “New type faces are being constantly added to our library and when they become available new insert sheets will be printed and distributed to the holders of our specimen books.” Their Linotype Composition faces encompassed Baskerville to Condensed Gothic Garamond to Oldstyle Antique as well as Spartan Book and Times Roman; Monotype Composition included Bodoni Copperplate Gothic Garamond Modern Rockwell Antique and 20th-Century Medium; while the Handset Display typefaces ranged from Aurora Condensed to Bulmer Italic Craw Modern to a series of Gothics as well as Optima Italic P.T. Barnum and more. Through the 1960’s under Ray Sneddon 1926-2017 the company would evolve into Phototypesetting and further into film and computer-based advertising typefaces for PNW designers and ad agencies. Sneddon was recruited out of Canada and in 1958 he became printer owner/operator of Portland Linotyping Company where he remained overseeing the operation until his retirement in 1989. No copies in Worldcat. Portland Linotyping Company, 512 NW 17th Ave., hardcover
1936ref. 56351Kansas City MO: Western Typesetting Co. 1936. Two vols. 1st. - 4to. 220 pp. Title and section titles printed in colour on thick cover stock typefaces throughout. Black pictorial cloth Western motif cowboy riding typeface on front cover silver Art Deco lettering slight shelfwear; 2nd - 8vo. 81 1 pp. Typeface alphabets throughout self-printed black & silver softcovers minor shelfwear inserted into front pocket of Specimen book NF set. First editions of both these excellent volumes on American type faces produced by the noted company during the 1930s. Western offered Linotype Monotype Ludlow and Hand-set types reproduction proofs long wearing unconditionally guaranteed types and other advantages towards their clients. The type specimens included hear encompass Scripts Gothics Spartans Bodoni Moderns extensive special figures and more. The Type Identifier lists over 400 different faces from ATF Baltimore Bauer Continental Intertype Monotype Ludlow and other sources. Western Typesetting Co., paperback
1928ref. 1641Rochester: The Case-Hoyt Corporation 1928. First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to. Unpaginated. Filled with illustrations of type faces half-tone options and other offerings for compositors. Bound in black textured notebook bound with two posts printed title label mounted on front cover. A half inch closed tear to fore-edge of title page which also has the name of a former owner in ink else Fine. A scarce catalog of type specimens ornaments dingbats and related printing. One of the half-tone options utilizes Paramount movie starlet Esther Ralston whose fame faded with the talkies. Thuswe've dated this catalog to the late 1920s. The Case-Hoyt Corporation hardcover
1852EXTREMELY RARE TYPE SAMPLE, PRINTED AS A LARGE BROADSIDE, BY LAURENT AUBANEL IN AVIGNON. 55.1 x 45 cm. With the alphabet (25 letters--the "W" was not yet considered part of the French alphabet) in three columns: majuscule, minuscule, and Italic minuscule. With two lines of additional type at the bottom, perhaps an early example of a chart for checking eyesight! Beautifully printed, with deep indentations of the very large type, on very fine wove paper. Tiny traces of wear to edges of sheet, else FINE AND BRIGHT. A pristine copy of a very rare type sample.
1940ref. 63235Boston: Technical Composition Company 1940. Quarto. Tan linen hardcover; 386pp. Small tear to upper margin of first two preliminary leaves else Fine and unmarked. A specimen book containing "Linotype and Monotype faces suitable for book work and available to customers of the Technical Composition Company. There is illustrated also a selection of foundry type for title pages and special work" from Foreword. Technical Composition Company unknown books
1940ref. 63235Boston: Technical Composition Company 1940. Quarto. Tan linen hardcover; 386pp. Small tear to upper margin of first two preliminary leaves else Fine and unmarked. A specimen book containing "Linotype and Monotype faces suitable for book work and available to customers of the Technical Composition Company. There is illustrated also a selection of foundry type for title pages and special work" from Foreword. Technical Composition Company unknown
1955ref. 57818Vancouver WA: Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co. ca. 1955. 4to. 60 pp assorted pagination. type specimen samples & layouts throughout printed in blue & black. Colour-illustrated softcovers w/ type faces cover art and company logo of covered wagon w/ oxen minor shelfwear rubbing pencil MS annotations on first leaf still VG copy. First edition of this scarce Pacific Northwest type specimen catalogue featuring machine composition and hand composition typefaces. Machine was primarily confined to such typefaces as Bodoni Century Garamond Gothic Paragon Spartan and a few others. The Hand composition encompassed a much wider range from Balloon to Cloister Black Entravers Text to Pirannesi and even included a Wood Type face section. Pioneer Printing operated on Columbia Street in Vancouver from 1944 until 2008 when the business finally closed. No copies in Worldcat. Pioneer Printing & Stationery Co., paperback
1973Metal spiral binding. 9 7/8"w x 12"h. 208 pages. Typeface reference book organized by style category.
ref. 50370Two large format albumen print photographs each 230 x 280 mm both captioned in the negative at lower right 'Fitzroy Falls Moss Vale'; both in fine condition unmounted. Fitzroy Falls is an 80-metre waterfall located in what is now the Morton National Park in the Southern Highlands region of New South Wales just southeast of Moss Vale and at the head of the Kangaroo Valley. unknown
1846ref. ST19286London: Printed by Catchpool & Trent for Simpkin Marshall & Co 1846. FIRST EDITION. 320 x 255 mm. 12 1/2 x 10". xiii 3 96 pp. Publisher's original blind-decorated dun-colored cloth gilt titling to upper cover smooth spine newer endpapers. WITH 11 COLOR ENGRAVINGS after Frost by W. P. Chubb & Son printed in oil colors by George Baxter all with original tissue guards. Front free endpaper with small ink signature of John Hill. See: Francis Reid "Isaac Frost's 'Two Systems of Astronomy' 1846: Plebeian Resistance and Scriptural Astronomy" in "The British Journal for the History of Science" Vol. 38 No. 2 Jun. 2005 pp. 161-177. Cloth rather spotted corners bumped but the binding solid with no wear to joints or hinges. A few spots of foxing to title page half of the tissue guards with overall very faint foxing/browning the illustrations with minor foxing at edges and in margins but the images themselves clean and bright and all in all a really excellent copy the text wide-margined and quite clean and fresh and the plates with rich coloring. Illustrated with beautiful color plates this anti-Newtonian work promotes a view of the universe based on the backward-looking beliefs professed by a Protestant sect known as the Muggletonians. Named after co-founder Lodowicke Muggleton the Muggletonians emerged in London in 1651 based on the claims of two tailors who professed to be the "Last Witnesses" described in the Book of Revelation. Rejecting the new directions in philosophical reason Muggletonians believed in a purely scriptural interpretation of the universe. According to E. P. Thompson's 1994 "Witness Against the Beast" the Muggletonians had curious notions quite contrary to other Protestant denominations: they believed that the soul is mortal that Jesus and God are one and the same that Heaven was left without divine supervision from Jesus' death until the day of judgment that Heaven resides six miles above the Earth that God stands between five and six feet tall and other unconventional things. Although the sect initially avoided both worship and evangelizing during the 19th century some followers became more outspoken about their beliefs and even published books appealing to the general public. Our author Isaac Frost 1793-1858 was a prominent Muggletonian and successful owner of a brass foundry who along with his brother Joseph invested large sums to promote their belief system--the present work being an especially notable example. Divided into two main sections the text first describes the Newtonian system of heliocentric astronomy and then turns to Frost's scriptural interpretation and geocentric views. As Reid tells us "According to Frost Scripture clearly states that the Sun the Moon and the Stars are embedded in a firmament made of congealed water and revolve around the Earth that Heaven has a physical reality above and beyond the stars and that the planets and the Moon do not reflect the Sun's rays but are themselves independent sources of light. Our book was apparently written as a reaction against the lecturers who expressed Newtonian astronomy--which was often for them and their audiences simply shorthand for heliocentrism." The 11 plates that illustrate these extraordinary ideas are the work of George Baxter a pioneering printer who revolutionized color printing techniques by combining metal engravings with woodblock printing using oil-based inks to produce high-quality affordable prints. The plates here are appropriately ethereal and otherworldly utilizing a beautiful palette with subtle gradations and esoteric figures to create memorable pseudo-scientific imagery. Although this work appears at auction with some regularity it is almost always incomplete no doubt because the attractiveness of its plates encourages harvesting. Useful price comparisons include a complete copy said to be in fine condition selling for £7500 in 2016 and six loose prints from the book fetching £6875 in 2015. [Printed by Catchpool & Trent for] Simpkin, Marshall, & Co unknown books
1846ref. ST19286London: Printed by Catchpool & Trent for Simpkin Marshall & Co 1846. FIRST EDITION. 320 x 255 mm. 12 1/2 x 10". xiii 3 96 pp. Publisher's original blind-decorated dun-colored cloth gilt titling to upper cover smooth spine newer endpapers. WITH 11 COLOR ENGRAVINGS after Frost by W. P. Chubb & Son printed in oil colors by George Baxter all with original tissue guards. Front free endpaper with small ink signature of John Hill. See: Francis Reid "Isaac Frost's 'Two Systems of Astronomy' 1846: Plebeian Resistance and Scriptural Astronomy" in "The British Journal for the History of Science" Vol. 38 No. 2 Jun. 2005 pp. 161-177. Cloth rather spotted corners bumped but the binding solid with no wear to joints or hinges. A few spots of foxing to title page half of the tissue guards with overall very faint foxing/browning the illustrations with minor foxing at edges and in margins but the images themselves clean and bright and all in all a really excellent copy the text wide-margined and quite clean and fresh and the plates with rich coloring. Illustrated with beautiful color plates this anti-Newtonian work promotes a view of the universe based on the backward-looking beliefs professed by a Protestant sect known as the Muggletonians. Named after co-founder Lodowicke Muggleton the Muggletonians emerged in London in 1651 based on the claims of two tailors who professed to be the "Last Witnesses" described in the Book of Revelation. Rejecting the new directions in philosophical reason Muggletonians believed in a purely scriptural interpretation of the universe. According to E. P. Thompson's 1994 "Witness Against the Beast" the Muggletonians had curious notions quite contrary to other Protestant denominations: they believed that the soul is mortal that Jesus and God are one and the same that Heaven was left without divine supervision from Jesus' death until the day of judgment that Heaven resides six miles above the Earth that God stands between five and six feet tall and other unconventional things. Although the sect initially avoided both worship and evangelizing during the 19th century some followers became more outspoken about their beliefs and even published books appealing to the general public. Our author Isaac Frost 1793-1858 was a prominent Muggletonian and successful owner of a brass foundry who along with his brother Joseph invested large sums to promote their belief system--the present work being an especially notable example. Divided into two main sections the text first describes the Newtonian system of heliocentric astronomy and then turns to Frost's scriptural interpretation and geocentric views. As Reid tells us "According to Frost Scripture clearly states that the Sun the Moon and the Stars are embedded in a firmament made of congealed water and revolve around the Earth that Heaven has a physical reality above and beyond the stars and that the planets and the Moon do not reflect the Sun's rays but are themselves independent sources of light. Our book was apparently written as a reaction against the lecturers who expressed Newtonian astronomy--which was often for them and their audiences simply shorthand for heliocentrism." The 11 plates that illustrate these extraordinary ideas are the work of George Baxter a pioneering printer who revolutionized color printing techniques by combining metal engravings with woodblock printing using oil-based inks to produce high-quality affordable prints. The plates here are appropriately ethereal and otherworldly utilizing a beautiful palette with subtle gradations and esoteric figures to create memorable pseudo-scientific imagery. Although this work appears at auction with some regularity it is almost always incomplete no doubt because the attractiveness of its plates encourages harvesting. Useful price comparisons include a complete copy said to be in fine condition selling for £7500 in 2016 and six loose prints from the book fetching £6875 in 2015. [Printed by Catchpool & Trent for] Simpkin, Marshall, & Co unknown
1945ref. 2251The Hague: 's-Gravenhage F. Batten; Printed by N.G. van der A Drukkerij Albédon 1945. First edition thus. First edition thus together with: second edition. 8 pp. String-tied textured wrappers. Minor wear to spine else fine. One copy each of the first edition March 1945 and the second edition April 1945 each one of one hundred numbered copies "somewhere in occupied Holland in honour of our British allies on the Ides of March 1945." Number 1 of the series Vliegend Verzet. Reprints Brooke's "Safety" and "The Soldier" along with Churchill's memoir of Brooke from the Times of April 26th 1915. ['s-Gravenhage, F. Batten; Printed by N.G. van der A (Drukkerij Albédon)] unknown
19688vo., First Edition, with title in red and black, plates, and several mounted type specimens at end; patterned boards, red cloth back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.
19688vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with portraits and facsimiles; blue boards, red buckram back lettered in gilt, a near fine copy in publisher's board slip-case. EDITION LIMITED TO 500 COPIES. A Cambridge Christmas book.
