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1924ref. 252927Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First. hardcover. near fine. Slim 8vo 70 pages khaki cloth backed boards. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. First Edition. Near Fine. Printed by the author at the Merrymount Press. Signed inscription by Updike " who wishes this book was a better exponent or example of what it commends in book-making!" Laid in are a T.L.S. & a T.N.S. from Updike on the Merrymount Press letterhead. Harvard University Press unknown
1924ref. 25679Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1924. Limited edition. Hardcover. vg. 1/260. 8vo. Original marbled boards with printed title-label on spine as issued. Signed by D. B. Updike on limitation page. Pages unopened. Contents: On the planning of printing. Style in the use of type. The seven champions of typography. Illustrated with 11 reproductions of title-pages bookplates programs invitations and tickets. Head and tail of spine slightly chipped with closed tears. Severely torn glassine jacket separated in 3 pieces laid-in. Binding in good- interior in near fine condition. Harvard University Press hardcover
1934ref. 599147Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. With a bibliographical list of books printed at the press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith. Small quarto. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Owner name on the front pastedown spine ends gently bumped a few faint scratches near fine lacking the dust jacket. Limited to 500 copies. Harvard University Press hardcover
1934ref. 42735CambridgeMA: Harvard University Press 1934. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 279p octavo illustration a very good copy in brown cloth. Non-authorial inscription on the front fly leaf Harvard University Press hardcover
ref. 9052Cambridge Harvard University Press 1934. Together "WITH A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LIST OF BOOKS PRINTED AT THE PRESS 1893-1933" by Julian Pearce Smith. First edition. One of 500 copies. Very good condition. Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1934 unknown
1975ref. 368921975. MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley. Notes on the Merrymount Press & Its Work.With a Bibliographical List of books printed at the Press 1893-1933 by Julian Pearce Smith to which has been added A Supplementary Bibliography of Books printed at the Press 1934-1949 by Daniel Berkeley Bianchi. Illus. Original cloth. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy Fine Arts 1975. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Fine. unknown
ref. 2215MERRYMOUNT PRESS. UPDIKE Daniel Berkeley. Notes on the Merrymount Press and Its Works.With a Bibliographical List of Books Printed at the Press 1893-1933. With Views of the Press at Various Periods Specimen of Types Alluded to. Original cloth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 1934. First edition. Limited to 500 copies printed at the Merrymount Press. unknown
1980ref. 52316Mt. Vernon NY: A. Colish Inc 1980. broadside 18 x 24 in. / 46 x 61 cm. Limited to 50 copies. A text excerpt from the 1962 Belknap Press/Harvard U. Press reprint of D. B. Updike's 1860-1941 founder of the Merrymount Press 1922 work "Printing Types: Their History Forms and Use." A "keepsake printed for The Second National Conference on Metal Typecasting & Design on the occasion of their visit to A. Colish Inc. Mount Vernon New York 1 July 1980." Printed in black with lavender rules at head and foot of text and inside a lavender border formed by a kind of ribbon design. A. Colish Inc unknown
1980ref. 513046Dover Pubns 1980. FIRST EDITION. Paperback. Like New/No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Published by Dover Pubns 1980. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. Dover Pubns paperback
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2026ref. LRB13003311Paris: Editions Recreasoft 2026 Language: English. Approximately 686 pages. English : Print-on-demand reprint. Original edition : 1923. Study of printing types and their historical development with attention to forms usage and surviving traditions in typography. Based on lectures delivered at Harvard University the work combines practical printing knowledge with historical analysis and includes a chronological list of specimens as well as an index. A reference title for the history of type and the material culture of printing. Book images are non-contractual. Editions Recreasoft. Softcover. New. Editions Recreasoft paperback
2001ref. SBBI-mon0000080921Oak Knoll PressUS 2001. paperback. Good. Our good condition books are generally good for reading but not for gifting or collecting. They could have imperfections such as creasing fanning inscriptions margin notes yellowing staining on edge or cover or pages bumps scuffs etc etc sometimes multiple of these. It's a wide category that encompasses anything that isn't almost-new down to anything that is slightly better than poor. We would NOT recommend gifting Good books - these should be considered reading copies. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order at least not without checking with us first although we don't always have time to check. We aim to dispatch prompty the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only. Oak Knoll Press,US paperback
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ref. 512375Harvard University Press. Hardcover. VERY GOOD. Harvard University Press hardcover
1962ref. 009808Cambridge Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 1962 2 vols. 8vo 24 cm XLVI 292 pp. 192 plates; XIX 326 pp. plates 193-367. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket jackets slightly sunned and rubbed at extremities jacket of vol. 2 somewhat creased at head. Third edition first published 1922 at the Merrymount Press of Updike's monumental and enduring survey of Western printing types from the invention of printing to the early twentieth century. With a preface by Lawrence C. Wroth of the John Carter Brown Library. Volume I covers the invention of printing the development of the Latin alphabet casting and point systems and the types of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries surveyed country by country -- Germany the Netherlands and Belgium France Italy Spain and England -- together with discussions of Aldine italic early roman and black-letter traditions and German foundries; Volume II continues with Netherlandish Spanish English including Caslon Baskerville and other founders Italian and French types through the eighteenth century followed by studies of the Didot family Bodoni the nineteenth-century classical revival and English and American types from 1800 to 1844 concluding with chapters on industrial conditions of the printing trade censorship production rates and a chronological list of specimens notes and index. Extensively illustrated with 367 plates reproducing type specimens title-pages and typographic details the work combines historical narrative with detailed typographical analysis and remains a foundational reference for typographers book historians and students of printing. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press hardcover
2001ref. 067802New Castle DE: Oak Knoll Press 2001. Two volumes in one. Pp. lii292xx330last blank frontispiece portrait plus numerous illustrations mostly full some double page patterned endpapers notes chronological list of specimens index; thick med. 8vo; green boards spine lettered in gilt slightly bruised at head of spine; dust wrapper; lower edge of leaves a trifle shelf soiled; Oak Knoll Press/British Library New Castle DE. 2001. Fourth edition. Originally published in two volumes in 1922 the master work of a master printer wrapper blurb. Classic study of typography tracing the development of type design from the invention of printing to the twentieth century. Oak Knoll Press unknown
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1937ref. B8109London: Oxford University Press. 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Edges and endpapers lightly foxed. Pages tanned. Jackets lightly edge worn; Overall an excellent set; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; xl292;xx326 pages; US imprint Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts. A compilation of lectures on the fashion of letter design 1500-1800 . Oxford University Press hardcover
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