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Monographs on individual printers, printing houses or typographers, a selection from our stock. (Last updated 3 April 2014)
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13651 ALDUS MANUTIUS. ALDUS MANUTIUS AND HIS THESAURUS CORNUCOPIAE OF 1496. Containing the first appearance in English of the prologue in which Aldus announces his plans to publish the first printed editions of Aristotle's works... Translated by Antje Lemke. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1958. Cr.8vo (183x114mm), 14,[15],[2]p. the original text reproduced from the Greek and italic original; several leaves lightly spotted. A nice ex-library copy in original cloth, marred only by a discrete stamp on the title verso. Designed and produced under the direction of Book Craftsmen Associates. £12.00


15545 BALDING & MANSELL. TYPE PRINCIPLES AND APPLICATION. The house style of Balding & Mansell, printers, with some photographs taken at their plant. Wisbech: Balding & Mansell, [1953.] 8vo, (196x1390mm), 80p. +16 plates. Original cloth, backstrip slightly faded. £10.00


20019 BARKER, Nicholas. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE SPREAD OF LEARNING 1478-1978. An illustrated history. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979. 4to, (295x200mm), xiv,71p. 264 plates (3 coloured). A very good copy in original buckram, dustjacket, several related ephemeral pieces, newspaper cuttings and photocopies of reviews loosely inserted.. Produced to celebrate the quincentenary of printing in Oxford, this well-illustrated history provides a guide to the major books from the Press and places them in their contemporary social and intellectual context. £35.00


799 BARR, John. THE OFFICINA BODONI, MONTAGNOLA, VERONA. Books printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand press 1823-1977. Catalogue of an exhibition. London: British Library, 1978. Sm.4to, (247x190mm), 96p, 30 illustrations (several in two colours). A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. £5.00


13379 BARR, John. THE OFFICINA BODONI, MONTAGNOLA, VERONA. Books printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand press 1823-1977. Catalogue of an exhibition. London: British Library, 1978. Sm.4to, (247x190mm), 96p, 30 illustrations (several in two colours). An ex-library copy in original stiff wrappers. £2.00


19304 BARR, John. THE OFFICINA BODONI, MONTAGNOLA, VERONA. Books printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the hand press 1823-1977. Catalogue of an exhibition. London: British Library, 1978. Sm.4to, (247x190mm), 96p, 30 illustrations (several in two colours). An ex-library copy in original cloth, pin-hole library stamp in the title. £5.00


3109 BARTY-KING, Hugh. HER MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE, The story of the first 200 Years 1786-1986. London: H.M.S.O., 1986. Roy.8vo, (258x158mm), xii,160p. 80 plates. An excellent copy in original buckram, dustjacket. The history of the official government print office, created in 1786 in order to reduce the cost of government stationary supplies which were being inflated by excessive profits made by the patent holders at the time. £10.00


16526 (BASKERVILLE, John). JOHN BASKERVILLE 1706-1775 [Portrait engraving]. After a wood engraving by John DePol, cut in lino by many hands and printed during the 5th annual Friends of St Brides conference, 16-18 October 2006 at the Custard factory, Birmingham. Bath: Richard Lawrence, printer, 2006. Single leaf, (406x278mm), image size 258x248mm printed in red from 25 separated blocks. Fine. An attractive interpretation of DePol's portrait of Birmingham's great printer. The overall image was transferred by Richard Lawrence onto 25 individual blocks of lino each element of the overall image being then cut by various persons attending the conference, the whole was then locked together and copies pulled for the cutters with a few overs for distribution. £20.00


4636 BAUDIN, Fernand. STANLEY MORISON ET LA TRADITION TYPOGRAPHIQUE. Exposition. Bruxelles: Bibliotheque Albert, 1966. Sm.4to, (255x190mm), 90p. 78 plates printed on a sepia ground. Original stiff wrappers, very slightly soiled. (Appleton Writings of Stanley Morison 351) Designed by Ferdnand Baudin and described by Appleton as  'The most comprehensive catalogue of Morison's work.' This catalogue shews (also issued in a Dutch edition) and shewing a contemporaneous first use of Monotype Albertina typeface. £20.00


17555 BAUDIN, Fernand. STANLEY MORISON EN DE TYPOGRAFISCHE TRADITIE. Exposition. 's-Gravenhage: Museum van het Boek, 1966. Sm.4to, (255x190mm), 90p. 78 plates printed on a sepia ground. Original stiff wrappers, very slightly soiled. (Appleton Writings of Stanley Morison 351) Designed by Ferdnand Baudin and described by Appleton as  'The most comprehensive catalogue of Morison's work.' This catalogue shews (also issued in a French language edition) and shewing a contemporaneous first use of Monotype Albertina typeface. Appleton further notes that he had not seen a copy of this Dutch language edition. £20.00


19234 BLADES, EAST & BLADES. PROGRESS OF PRINTING ILLUSTRATED. London: Blades, East and Blades, [1900?] 16mo, (140x95mm), [26]p. printed in red and black, 12 illustrations. Original card wrappers, a small tear in the front wrapper. An advertising booklet from a famous printing house of the period. 'In presenting this small brochure, Messrs. Blades, East & Blades wish to intimate that they make a speciality of getting up similar pamphlets on and subject, Trade, etc., in a unique and artistic manner, emplying special Artists and Photographs for portraying anything of interest, and Historians who are able to write readable and intelligent matter.'  £25.00


11013 BLADES, Rowland Hill. WHO WAS CAXTON? William Caxton, merchant, ambassador, historian, author, translator and printer. A monograph. Second edition, London, Reprinted [at the Chiswick Press] from The Library for Private Circulation, 1903. Roy.8vo, (260x160mm), 36p. 2 illustrations (1 a hand-coloured armorial bearing). A good copy in original printed wrappers, spine slightly soiled. Written by William Blades' brother and originally issued in 1877 to accompany the great Caxton celebrations. £25.00


18493 BLANC, Jerome. MEMOIRE EN ACTIONS A LYON ET DANS SA REGION. (1900-1983). A partir des titres realises par l'Imprimerie B. Arnaud. Lyon: Musee de l'Imprimerie et de la Banque, 1997. 4to, (297x210mm); 116p. illustrations (some coloured). A good copy in original stiff wrappers. The illustrations are mainly of ornate share certificates and other examples of engraved security printing. £15.00


3799 BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. THE SPIRAL PRESS THROUGH FOUR DECADES. An exhibition of books and ephemera, with a commentary. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. 1,500 copies, 4to, (272x187mm), 66p. +32p. of illustrations, type specimens, &c. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. Formerly Ruari Mclean's copy, with his on the front free endleaf. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. £12.00


15730 BLUMENTHAL, Joseph. THE SPIRAL PRESS THROUGH FOUR DECADES. An exhibition of books and ephemera, with a commentary. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1966. 1,500 copies, 4to, (272x187mm), 66p. +32p. of illustrations, type specimens, &c. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. Designed by Joseph Blumenthal. £15.00


18816 BREWER, Roy. A SHARPER IMAGE. A history of The Horsfell Group 1885-1989. London: James and James, 1989. 4to, (278x210mm), 64p. illustrations. Original stiff wrappers. A company history, designed by Caroline Archer. £12.00


14684 BREWER, Roy (Editor). RAITHBY LAWRENCE 1776 - 1976. THE DE MONTFORT PRESS. Leicester: Raithby Lawrence, 1976. 4to, (290x205mm), 90p. numerous illustrations in colour & monochrome. A good copy in original cloth, front cover ornately blocked in gilt. A bi-centenary history of a significant Leicester printing house. £12.00


9994 [BRIGGS, R.C.H.] THE TYPOGRAPHICAL ADVENTURE OF WILLIAM MORRIS. [Catalogue of] An exhibition. London: William Morris Society, 1957. 1,250 copies, oblong sm.4to (210x280mm.), 56p. 10 illustrations. An ex-library copy in full tan pigskin, gilt lettered with a small square blue morocco onlay on the front cover, joints and edges rubbed, spine lettered in white ink. £25.00


14422 BRYAN, George (Printer of Oxford). [INVOICE HEAD] AN UNUSED COLOUR-PRINTED INVOICE FOR GEO. BRYAN AND Co. Artistic and general printers. Oxford: Geo. Bryan & Co., 18 Cornmarket Street, [late 1920s]. Single sheet (270x210mm), printed in red and green at the head, with ledger ruling in blue. Very slightly spotted at the head and sometime folded with a slight horizontal crease. A nice late example of restrained 'Artistic Printing', a movement at its height in the 1880s and 1890s, in this piece the printers name in two-colour capitals is printed over a light toned device of multiple motifs. £10.00


19632 BUHLER, Curt F. THREE NOTES ON CAXTON. An off-print from The Library, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society. London: Bibliographical Society, 1936. Sm.4to, (225x180mm), [2],(155-)166p. A good copy in original wrappers. £5.00


11957 BULMER, William. AUTOGRAPH LETTER Shaksp[ear]e Printing Office [London], March 30th, 1792. Single leaf (223x188mm),  ?A draft copy signed by William Bulmer:  `The composition of the sheet concerning Mr. Jessop's Proposition, is 10/-. With respect to the paper, which was in preparation, it will do equally well for other purposes, and of course there is no loss on it...' £200.00


14246 BULMER, William. MANUSCRIPT BOND OF INDEMNITY BETWEEN JOHN PORTER, BOOKSELLER, GEORGE NICOL, BOOKSELLER AND WILLIAM BULMER, PRINTER WITH THOMAS PORTER, BOOKSELLER. London, 24 June, 1809. Folio, 2 conjugate leaves (389x245mm), blind taxation stamp on the recto of the first leaf and three wafers overlaying wax seals alongside the signatures of the three parties on the recto of the second leaf. Sometime folded to a docket and with the area the constituted the outer fold, carrying a note of the date and parties involved, lightly browned. Peter Isaac discusses this document in his book William Bulmer the fine printer in context, where he writes: `It is also worth noting that, when, in 1809, the bookseller and stationer Thomas Becket sought guarantees from John Porter, his former partner and successor, for the continued use of the partnership style "Becket & Porter", the joint guarantors, with Porter, were George Nicol and William Bulmer.'  This bond bound the guarantors in the penal sum of £700 to guarantee any possible partnership debts. Included with the manuscript itself is a solicitor's letter to Professor Isaac explaining the legal implications of the bond. £200.00


11414 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. CATALOGUE OF AN EXHIBITION OF CAMBRIDGE BOOKS AND PRINTING Held in the Old Court House, Marylebone Lane (Messrs J. & E. Bumpus Ltd) Cambridge: At the University Press, September – October, 1931. 8vo, (220x145mm), 51p. Original paper-covered boards, slightly soiled. £8.00


4452 CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS: NOTES ON ITS HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. Fourth edition. Cambridge: at the University Press, 1930. 12mo, (158x112mm), 42p. 12 illustrations & 4 ornaments. A good copy in original printed boards. £3.00


9748 CARTER, Harry. A HISTORY OF THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Volume 1 (All Published) To the year 1780, with an appendix listing the titles of books printed there 1690-1780. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Roy.8vo, (233x150mm), xxxii,640p. 31 plates & 42 text illustrations. An excellent copy in original navy blue cloth, dustjacket. Bookplate. Contains a brief history of publishing at Oxford before the University's Delegates took charge of the printing office in 1690, before narrating in considerable detail the development and productions of a learned press. The second (and even possibly, third) volume(s) have, as yet, not materialized. £75.00


10409 [CARTER, Sebastian (Editor)] THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. A printing workshop through five decades. Catalogue of an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press. 1982 Sm.4to, (248x185mm), 95p. 42 illustrations, several in two colours. Slightly creased in original wrappers, covers faded and the spine and edges. Bookplate of Paul Morgan cut by Leo Wyatt and printed at the Rampant Lions Press. The organisation for this splendid celebration of a discerning printer was done by Will abd his son Sebastian Carter, while the latter edited, mostly wrote, and designed this catalogue. £20.00


14801 [CASTLE, Peter (Editor)] BERTHOLD WOLPE A RETROSPECTIVE SURVEY. With an introduction by A.S. Osley. London: Victoria & Albert Museum and Faber & Faber, 1980. Sm.4to, (246x186mm), [102]p. 8 colour plates and 91 monochrome text illustrations. Original paperback, the spine very slightly faded. £10.00


16329 CHAVE, Leonard (Editor). TYPE FOR THE BOOK PAGE AT THE PITMAN PRESS. [Bath printed] London: published by Hamish Hamilton for the Pitman Press, 1984. Roy.8vo, (248x156mm), xx,172p. Original paperback, slightly sunned at the head of the front cover, A third revised edition of a printer's type specimen book first published as Typesetting at the Pitman Press, the bulk of the book is given over to both full-page and paragraph settings of text taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. £10.00


20162 CHAVE, Leonard (Editor). TYPE FOR THE BOOK PAGE AT THE PITMAN PRESS. [Bath printed] London: published by Hamish Hamilton for the Pitman Press, 1984. Roy.8vo, (252x160mm), xx,172p. A very good copy in original cloth. A third revised edition of a printer's type specimen book first published as Typesetting at the Pitman Press, the bulk of the book is given over to both full-page and paragraph settings of text taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. £15.00


19236 CHISWICK PRESS. THE CHISWICK PRESS TRADITION. London: Chiswick Press, [1938.] Sm.4to, (192x155mm), [8]p. A very good copy in original printed wrappers. A beautifully printed advertising leaflet extolling the house's skills and outlining significant developments in their history. £25.00


15818 CLOWES, W.B. FAMILY BUSINESS 1803-1953. London: Clowes, 1953. Sm.4to (237x176 mm), x,81p. 9 plates and 49 text illustrations. A good ex-library copy in original cloth. A good history of this long-established and important book-printing house. £5.00


20469 COCHRANE, J.A. Dr. JOHNSON'S PRINTER. The life of William Strahan. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1964. 8vo, (220x145mm), xiv,225p. 4 plates. Original cloth, rebacked preserving the original backstrip.. £6.00


15167 COLVIN, Clare. JOHN NASH BOOK DESIGNS. [Catalogue of a touring exhibition]. Colchester: Minories, 1986. Sm.4to, (252x222mm), 104p. numerous illustrations. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £20.00


4688 COOK, Jayne. WILLIAM CAXTON. Catalogue of an exhibition ... in celebration of the quincentenary of printing into England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Library, 1976. Sm.4to, (240x180mm), [64]p. 9 illustrations. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. £3.00


7735 COOPER, Audrey GEORGE NICHOLSON, PRINTER AT STOURPORT. Stourport-on-Severn: Civic Society, 2001. 8vo (210x148mm), 20p. 14 illustrations. A good copy in original printed card wrappers. £5.00


18569 CRADDOCK, David (Editor). ERIC GILL STONE CARVER, WOOD ENGRAVER, TYPOGRAPHER, WRITER. 3 essays to accompany an exhibition of his life and work. Totnes: Dartington Cider Press, 1979. 8vo, (208x142mm), [24]p. illustrations. Original wrappers. £12.00


4915 CRUTCHLEY, Brooke, Editor.SIBERCH CELEBRATIONS 1521-1971. Cambridge: University Printing House, 1971. Roy.8vo, (247x188mm), xii,133p. 22 illustrations. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. Essays by J C T Oates, Brooke Crutchley & H S Bennett with the catalogue of the University Library exhibition: From Caxton to Siberch and Rastell’s Interlude of The Four Elements. £12.00


11416 CRUTCHLEY, E.A. A HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PITT PRESS erected to the memory of Mr Pitt for the use of the University printing press A.D. 1833 altered and restored A.D. 1937. Cambridge: At the University Press, 1938. Sm.4to, (230x170mm), vi,38p. 7 plates. Original cloth, slightly soiled. £12.00


17878 DAISH, A.N. PRINTERS' PRIDE. THE HOUSE OF YELF AT NEWPORT Isle of Wight 1816-1966. Newport: Yelf Brothers, 1967. Sm.4to, (242x185mm), [12],92p. 53 illustrations. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket frayed, bookplate. Loosely inserted are a typescript duplicate, galley proof and finished proof of Paul Morgan's review of this book for The Library. £15.00


18216 [DAWSON, Georg H. (Editor)] GEORGE J. DAWSON'S RECOLLECTIONS OF THE STAGE AND PLATFORM. [Guildford] Printed for private circulation, 1913. 8vo, (195x139mm), 71p. 4 plates. Original quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, corner tips slightly worn. Printed by Billings on Guildford, memoirs of a onetime printer, theatrical performer, and employee of the typefounders Vincent Figgins, with added appreciations by Charles Cruikshank and Thomas Catling £60.00


3236 DEACON, Richard. A BIOGRAPHY OF WILLIAM CAXTON. The first English editor, printer, merchant and translator. London: Frederick Muller, 1976. 8vo, (240x160mm), viii,198p. 19 illustrations. A good copy in original hardback boards, dustjacket. £10.00


19385 DOBSON, Austin. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY VIGNETTES. Third series. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896. 8vo, (197x130mm), xiv,363p. +4p publisher's adverts. errata slip bound in. Original cloth, backstrip faded, free endleaves browned, top edge gilt. Essays include: Thos Gent, Printer; Dr. Mead's library and Fielding's library. £10.00


6868 DREYFUS, John & Knut ERICHSON (Editors). ABC-XYZAPF. FIFTY YEARS IN ALPHABET DESIGN. Professional and personal contributions selected for Hermann Zapf. London: Wynkyn de Worde Society; & Offenbach: Bund Deutscher Buchkunstler, 1989. 4to, (180x190mm), 254p. numerous illustrations in colour & monochrome. Original cloth, corner tips very lightly bumped. A festschrift in honour of Hermann Zapf with contributions by Max Caflisch, Will Carter, John Dreyfus, Philipp Luidl, Giovanni Mardersteig, Hans Schmoller, Sigfred Taubert, Adrian Wilson and others. £45.00


19787 DUNLAP, Joseph R. WILLIAM CAXTON AND WILLIAM MORRIS. Comparisons and contrasts. London: William Morris Society, 1964. 8vo, (215x140mm), 30p. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £10.00


20168 DUNLAP, Joseph R. WILLIAM CAXTON AND WILLIAM MORRIS. Comparisons and contrasts. Based on a lecture to the William Morris Society. Cambridge: University Printing House. 1976. 2,000 copies. sm.4to, (252x186mm), 20p. 2 full-page illustrations A good copy in original stiff wrappers. Printed at the Cambridge University Press as a keepsake to celebrate William Caxton's quincentenary year with headings set in Morris' Troy type. £20.00


13822 FRUTTIGER, Walter (Editor). EINE GENIE DER TYPOGRAPHIE WILHELM HAAS 1766-1838 Sein Tagebuch. Basle: Basler Papiermuhle, 1997. 700 copies, roy.8vo, (238x174mm), 68p. 1 illustration. A fine copy in original illustrated hardback paper-covered boards. £15.00


19516 GLUE, W.A. HISTORY OF THE GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE [NEW ZEALAND]. Wellington, R.E. Owen, 1966. 8vo, (240,x150mm), 194p. 84 plates. Original paperback, spine slightly faded. £15.00


5016 GOULDEN, Richard J. THE ORNAMENT STOCK OF HENRY WOODFALL 1719-1747. A preliminary inventory illustrated. London: Bibliographical Society (Occasional Papers No. 3), 1988. 4to, (296x210mm), x,86p. Numerous illustrations of printers' ornaments, decorative initials, factotums, &c. A good copy in original stiff wrappers. £4.00


18375 GREENHILL, Peter & Brian REYNOLDS. THE WAY OF THE SUN. The story of Sun Engraving and Sun Printers. Claremont: True to Type Books, 2010. 8vo, (237x170mm), xiv,370p. Colour and monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in original hardback boards, dustjacket. A history of the Sun Engraving Company and its successor, Sun Printers, of Watford for the century of its existence. This however, is far more than just a commemorative history of a printing house for the Sun Engraving Company was the originator of many of the most significant developments in gravure printing history. At it height the company printed the bulk of Britain's weekly magazines, including the most notable and most popular titles and the company's success made Watford both prosperous and famous as a printing town. The company was a printing powerhouse during several decades of existence; and then things began to go wrong. The authors chart in detail the course of Sun's story from its birth in London in the 1890s through to the closure of the once-famous Watford works in 2004. (NEW BOOK). £22.00


16804 HAMMER, Carolyn (Editor). VICTOR HAMMER ARTIST AND PRINTER. Lexington: Anvil Press, 1981. 550 copies, 4to, (286x195mm), [10],213,[2]p. numerous illustrations, several in two colours. A fine copy in original cloth, a copy of the prospectus loosely inserted. Designed by Martino Mardersteig and printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. A wide-ranging record of Hammer's talents, including his Uncial type, with essays by Rudolf Koch, Ulrich Middeldorf, R. Hunter Middleton, Hermann Zapf and W. Gay Reading, and including a bibliography of the books he printed under the imprints of Stamperia del Santuccio, Wells College Press, Hammer Press and Anvil Press. £85.00


503 HANSARD, Luke. THE AUTO-BIOGRAPHY OF LUKE HANSARD, PRINTER TO THE HOUSE 1752-1828. Edited with an introduction by Robin Myers. London: Printing Historical Society, 1992. 8vo, (248x154mm), xx,95p. 2 plates. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket. An invaluable first-hand sourcebook for book trade history which gives a unique insight into the activities of a small but resourceful provincial printer of the 1760s and his journey to the ownership and organization of the largest London printing house of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. £4.00


505 HART, Horace. CHARLES EARL STANHOPE AND THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. Reprinted from Collectanea, III, 1896 of the Oxford Historical Society, with notes by James Mosley. London: Printing Historical Society, 1966. 8vo, (215x142mm), x,[78]p. 12 illustrations. A good copy in original jacketed wrappers. £5.00


11176 HART, Horace. NOTES ON A CENTURY OF TYPOGRAPHY AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD 1693-1794. With annotations & appendixes. With and additional notes by Harry Carter. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. Large 4to, (320x155mm), [8],16,xvi,203p. frontispiece & very numerous type samples. A good copy in original buckram. A photo-litho facsimile of the original edition of 1900, with additional material, including a list of the recipients of the original limited edition. The supplementary material (as in the original) handset and printed from the fell types. £45.00


13837 HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY. TYPE FACES. A selection of type faces available for bookwork and display. Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson & Viney, [c.1925] Sm.4to, (245x160mm), 83 pages printed on the rectos only. An ex-library copy in original quarter canvas, corner tips worn. £12.00


18743 HAZEN, A.T. A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE STRAWBERRY HILL PRESS. With a Record of the Prices at Which Copies Have Been Sold, Including a New Supplement. Together with a Bibliography and census of the Detached Pieces by A.T. Hazen and J.P. Kirby. Folkestone: Dawson, 1973. 4to, (256x190mm), xxxiv,300p. 87 illustrations. Original cloth, fore-edge of the covers lightly damp-stained. dustjacket. £20.00


18564 HELLINGE-QUERIDO, Lotte. WILLIAM CAXTON ENGELANDS EERST DRUKKER EN DE NEDERLAND. 's-Gravenhage: Rijksmuseum Meermano-Westreenianum & Museum van het Boek, 1976. Sm.4to, (210x210mm), 28p. illustrations. Original wrappers, slightly faded at the spine. £10.00


19636 HERTEL, Carl PHOTOGRAPH: GUTENBERGSMONUMENT FRANKFURT a. M[AIN]. Mainz: C. Hertel, 1878. Single print, (308x260mm), A fine albumen photograph of the Gutenberg Monument by the German topographic photographer Carl [or Karl] Hertel (1832-1906). Some very minor tears to the edges and two large tears to the right-hand side (repaired with archival tissue). £90.00


17662 HOWE, Ellic. BUSHILLS. The story of a Coventry firm of printers and boxmakers 1856-1956. Coventry: Thomas Bushill, 1956. 8vo, (235x158mm), 66p. 25 illustrations. A good copy in original cloth, the firm's compliments card laid down on the front free endpaper. £25.00


9228 HUTCHINS, Michael. PRINTING AT GREGYNOG. Aspects of a great private press. [Cardiff?:] Welsh Arts Council, 1976. Sq.sm.4to, (210x210mm), 38p. 31 illustrations (2 in two colours). A good copy in original stiff illustrated wrappers. £8.00


191 ISAAC, P.C.G. WILLIAM DAVISON'S SPECIMEN OF CAST-METAL ORNAMENTS AND WOOD TYPES; With an account of his activities as pharmacist and printer in Alnwick 1781-1858 [including a detailed checklist of his printed books]. London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. 4to, (270x215mm), 176p including 130 pages in facsimile carrying numerous illustrations. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket. A facsimile edition, with an authoritative introduction, of a rare early nineteenth century priced specimen book of the large collection of stock blocks and ornaments (many engraved by Bewick and his workshop) from which Davison provided stereotypes to printers throughout northern England and elsewhere. £5.00


15061 ISAAC, Peter. BULMER PAPERS. Volume 1 number 1 to number 3, [all published]. Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1960-67. 4to, (250x189mm), 12; 13-32; 33-48p. 5 illustrations. A fine set in original printed wrappers. Number 1 limited to 60 copies, number 2: 75 copies, number 3: about 100 copies, originally, and perhaps slightly optimistically, intended as a annual publication. For the most part handset and printed by Peter Isaac with occasional lithographic work printed at Newcastle University. This collection of original research and reprinted articles includes Robert Pollard A biographical sketch of three Newcastle apprentices. £65.00


17124 ISAAC, Peter C.G. A SECOND CHECKLIST OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS PRINTED BY WILLIAM BULMER. Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1973. 4to, (296x210mm), 39p. reproduced from typescript and printed on one side of the leaf only. An ex-library copy in original plastic comb-bound wrappers. £10.00


19593 ISAAC, Peter. A THIRD CHECKLIST OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND PERIODICALS PRINTED BY WILLIAM BULMER. Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1986. 4to (296 x 208mm.), 4,35,6p. interleaved with blank pages, 8 plates. The author's copy with his bookplate and handsomely bound by him in quarter dark blue morocco, the backstrip faded, with Cockerell marbled paper sides. £50.00


12277 ISAAC, Peter. WILLIAM BULMER, 1757-1830. And article in The Manchester Review, Volume 9 Manchester: Manchester Libraries Committee, Winter, 1962-3. 8vo, (215x140mm), p.(333-)351. of 333-364. Fine copy in original wrappers. £3.00


6079 ISAAC, Peter. WILLIAM BULMER 1757-1830. The fine printer in context. Biddenden: Bain & Willliams, 1993. 4to, (285x215mm), 198p. 40 illustrations. A fine copy in original cloth. A masterful study of the finest English printer of his time and, as only befits the great man, handsomely designed and printed, with the illustrations on a tinted ground. £70.00


17664 ISAAC, Peter G.C. WILLIAM DAVISON OF ALNWICK pharmacist and printer 1781-1858. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Sm.4to, (210x165mm), x,41p. folding plate (printed on both sides of the leaf) & 42 text illustrations (several printed on coloured ground.) A very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt lettered, dustjacket. £35.00


1174 JONES, Herbert. STANLEY MORISON DISPLAYED. An examination of his early typographic work. London: Muller, 1976. Sm.4to, (250x190mm), 127p. 95 illustrations. A good copy in original hardback, dustjacket. (Appleton The writings of Stanley Morison 403) Concentrating on Morison's work as a practical typographer this study of 'one of the most influential Englishmen of his generation' is largely devoted to his work in the 1920s. £10.00


8855 KEEFE, H.J. A CENTURY IN PRINT. The Story of Hazell's 1838-1939. London: Hazell, Watson & Viney, 1939. 4to, xiv+224p. 31 plates & 17 text illustrations, some spotting. Original cloth, gilt lettered. A history of the London & Aylesbury based printing house. £10.00


9388 KLEUKENS, Ch. H. DIE KUNST GUTENBERGS. Mainz: Verlag für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1951. 8vo, (230x158mm), 63p. 24 illustrations, several in two colours. An ex-library copy with pin-hole stamp in the title, in original printed boards, soiled. £6.00


8488 KNIGHT, Charles. WILLIAM CAXTON, THE FIRST ENGLISH PRINTER. A biography. (1844) With an Introduction: William Caxton and Charles Knight by Kenneth Day. London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1976. 12mo, (152x100mm), [vii],8,240p. +8p original publisher's adverts, frontispiece portrait and 40 woodcuts in the text. An excellent copy in original stiff wrappers. (Bigmore & Wyman 1.389 quoting the original edition.) Knight's biography of England's first printer, originally published in 1844, was the first volume in his Weekly Volume series and remains one of the best popular accounts of its subject. This reprint includes Knight's essay Book-clubs for all readers, a small pamphlet occasionally found bound up in the volume, which contains an article taken from the Penny Magazine of 11 May 1844 giving instructions for the establishment and management of book clubs, sample rules and a blank circulation form. £6.00


16649 LANGE, H.-O. LES PLUS ANCIENS IMPRIMEURS A PEROUSE 1471-1482. [extracted from] Danske Videnskabernes Selskars Forhandlinger, 1907. 8vo, (235x150mm), 37p. 4 plates (3 folding). Quarter binders' cloth, marbled paper sides, £15.00


18085 LARKEN, H.W. AT THE SIGN OF THE RED PALE. A short account of the life and work of William Caxton. Maidstone: Privately printed at  Maidstone College of Art. [1961]. 8vo, (220x142mm), 58p. Original parchment paper boards, slightly dust-soiled, small ms. library class at the tail of the front cover. £10.00


3497 LARREMORE, Thomas A. & Amy H. THE MARION PRESS. A survey and checklist, with incidental alarums, and excursions into collateral fields. Reprinted, New Castle, DE.: Oak Knoll, 1971. 8vo, (220x145mm), xx+271p. 40 illustrations. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. Reprinted from the original edition of 1943. £12.00


3013 LIEBAERS, Herman (Introduction). EXPOSITION ... CALLIGRAPHIE ET TYPOGRAPHIE DE HERMANN ZAPF. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque Albert I, 1962. Sm.4to, (242x168mm), [22]p. 40 plates, several in two- or three-colours. A fine copy in original limp cloth. £8.00


20173 LIEBAERS, Herman (Editor?) S.L. HARTZ DANS LE MONDE GRAPHIQUE. Publié à l'occasion de l'exposition de son œuvre dans la Chapelle de Nassau. Bruxelles: Bibliothèque Royale Albert 1er, 1969. 8vo, (230x150mm), 77p. 23 illustrations ans several ornamental endpieces printed in dark red. A fine copy in original wrappers. Printed by Enschedé in Van Krimpen's Lutetia typeface, this collection of essays honouring a great designed includes pieces in English by Walter Tracy (The Juliana type design) and Ruari McLean (Our Sem). £15.00


14899 [MARREN, Mike & Peter HUGHES. YESTERYEARS. A HISTORY OF DEANPRINT LIMITED. Stockport: Deanprint, 1990. 4to, (306x210mm), 61p. profuse illustrations, some in colour. A very good copy in original morocco effect cloth, dustjacket. A centenary history of a northern provincial printing house which began as a travel agent, issued for private circulation in a limited edition of an unspecified number of copies. £25.00


9279 MARROT, H.V. WILLIAM BULMER [&] THOMAS BENSLEY A study in transition. London: The Fleuron, 1930. 300 copies, 4to, (253x190mm), 17 illustrations, some very slight spotting of the pre-lims. A good copy in original dark green buckram, gilt lettered, tail edge untrimmed, dustjacket frayed. Printed at the Curwen Press on Abbey Mills hand-made paper. A pioneering study of two of the great names in British typography and one which recognized - perhaps for the first time - the importance and artistic merits of English printing of the period. £76.00


8658 McKENZIE, D.F. THE CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1696-1712. A bibliographical study. 2 Volumes. Cambridge: University Press, 1966. 4to, (280x185mm), xvi,432; xvi,381p. 16 illustrations on 8 plates, 20 tables and 56 facsimiles of types and ornaments. An ex-library set, with a few small rubber-stamps, in original blue cloth, the covers a little dulled and with a blind ownership stamp on the front covers. The authoritative study of the Cambridge press in the time of Queen Anne which provides a detailed picture and an in-depth study of a hand-press house. An appendix provides a detailed bibliography of 274 items printed at the press during the period under review. £165.00


6104 McKENZIE, D.F. & J.C. ROSS (Editors). A LEDGER OF CHARLES ACKERS. Printer of the London Magazine. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1968. 8vo, (253x150mm), x,331p. 2 plates. A very good copy in original quarter linen. A transcription of the very detailed ledger covering the period 1732-47, with appendices of the books mentioned. £5.00


12723 McKITTERICK, David. A HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. 3 volumes. (1) Printing and the book trade in Cambridge 1534-1698; (2) Scholarship and commerce 1698-1872; (3) New worlds for learning 1873-1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992-2004. Roy.8vo, (247x174mm), 524; 535;  536p. 105 plates. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket (NEW BOOK). A magisterial, three-volume history of Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher in the world, from its foundation in 1534 until 1972. This is a definitive history of Cambridge University Press, the oldest press in the world. The origins of the modern University Press sprang from the charter granted to the University by Henry VIII in 1534, to provide for printers who would be able to work outside London and serve the University, and these volumes chart the history of the Press from 1534 to 1972. Volume I sets the early history of the Press in the context of authors, University authorities, and readers, and the wider issues of the book trade in Britain and overseas. Volume II deals with a period of fundamental changes in printing, publishing, and bookselling from 1698–1872 examining how the forces of commerce collided with the hopes or demands of scholarship and education. The final volume examines the ways in which the Press established itself as an international organisation with authors and customers across the world. The 3 volumes also available individually at £100 each. £275.00


703 McKITTERICK, David. A HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Volume 1: Printing and the book trade in Cambridge 1534-1698. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Roy.8vo, (247x174mm), xxiv,500p. 37 plates. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket.  A major study of the early period of the oldest extant press in the world. £55.00


12722 McKITTERICK, David. A HISTORY OF CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS. Volume 3: New worlds for learning 1873-1972. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Roy.8vo, (247x174mm), 536p. 35 plates. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket. The third and final volume of David McKitterick’s magisterial history of Cambridge University Press, the oldest publisher in the world. This volume completes the history of Cambridge University Press from the sixteenth century to the late twentieth. It examines the ways by which the Press launched itself as a London publisher in the 1870s, building up its educational and academic lists. It charts how interests in America were advanced, how subjects were extended and the Press became an international organisation with authors and customers across the world, while at the same time developing both its printing and its publishing. The volume explores changes in the printing industry, showing how the Press assumed a leading part in the typographical renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s, and built on this after the Second World War to acquire an international reputation for the quality of its work. In publishing as in printing, this book analyses both the pitfalls and the successes in a century of change. £110.00


3602 McKITTERICK, David (Editor). STANLEY MORISON & D.B. UPDIKE. Selected correspondence. London: Scholar Press; New York: Moretus Press, 1980. 8vo, (225x150mm), xxxvi,219p. 20 plates. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. £10.00


8588 McLEAN, Ruari (Editor). THE REMINISCENCES OF EDMUND EVANS. Edited with an introduction. Second impression, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968. Sm.4to, (214x170mm), xx,92p, 4 full-page colour plates & 22 monochrome text illustrations. A very good copy in original cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt, dustjacket. The memoirs of one of the Victorian era's most important colour printers, supported by a selective list of books containing colour printing by Evans. £30.00


16464 MORAN, James. STANLEY MORISON 1889-1967. Monotype Recorder, Volume 43 Number 3. London: Monotype Corporation, Autumn, 1968 4to, (280x215mm), 320. illustrations, several in two colours. A good copy in original printed wrappers, with Reynolds Stone's ornamental devices incorporating Morison's initials on the front cover and title page. £10.00


9590 MORAN, James. STEPHEN AUSTIN'S OF HERTFORD. A bi-centenary history. Hertford: Stephen Austin and Sons, 1968. Narrow 4to, (287x175mm), [6],72p. several illustrations. A very good copy in original paperback. A history of a long-established provincial printing house, noteworthy printer as a in oriental types. £8.00


20092 MORAN, James. WYNKYN DE WORDE. Father of Fleet Street. Second edition, reprinted, London: Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1987 8vo, (202x152mm), [10],56p. folding map drawn by Anna Farr and 8 plates. A good copy in original wrappers. £10.00


18788 MORISON, Stanley (Preface). OFFICINA BODONI VERONA. Catalogue of books printed on the hand press mcmxxiii – mcmliv, London: British Museum, 1954. 500 copies, 8vo, (248x169mm), x,43p. 3 leaves (1 illustrated) displaying 'new typefaces.' A good copy in original printed wrappers, covers lightly faded at the spine and fore-edge. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Stanley Morison contributed the preface (Appleton  The writings of Stanley Morison192). £15.00


11385 MUIR, Augustus. THE HISTORY OF BAKER PERKINS. Cambridge: W. Heffer & Sons, 1968. 8vo (220x140mm), x,214p. colour & monochrome illustrations. A good copy in original cloth. £3.00


5439 MYERS , Robin, IntroductionCAXTONIANA OR THE PROGRESS OF CAXTON STUDIES FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO 1976. An exhibition at the St Bride Printing Library, London: St Bride Printing Library, 1976. Sm.4to, (247x187mm), 16p. 2 illustrations. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers with a cover portrait engraved by Peter Paul Piech. £4.00


13455 [NIERITZ, Carl Gustav.] GUTENBERG AND THE LOST CHILD. A narrative of successful perseverance. Third thousand, London: James Blackwood, [1860?] 12mo, (147x92mm), 167,[1]p. +10p. publisher's adverts (numbered 4-12) listing the publisher's library of excellent literature, book suitable for presents, books for children, &c. Colour-printed wood-engraved frontispiece and 1 monochrome plate, a little browned throughout. Recased in original sand-grain cloth, lettered and blocked in gilt and blind. £25.00


19633 NUTTALL, Derek. A SHORT ACCOUNT OF WILLIAM CAXTON BRITAIN'S FIRST PRINTER. Chester: College of Further Education, 1976. 350 copies, 8vo, (248x157mm), [16p. illustrations. A good copy in original wrappers. Handset and printed by students at the Chester College of Further Education as part of the celebrations of the Caxton Quincentenary. £8.00


7140 OSWALD, John Clyde. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN PRINTER. [New York:] Doubleday, Page for the Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 1917. 8vo, (203x130mm),  xvi+245p. 54 illustrations. An ex-library copy in original cloth. £5.00


7676 PARDOE, F.E. JOHN BASKERVILLE 1705-1775. An address to the Wynkyn de Worde Society... to mark the 200th anniversary of Baskerville's death. Wellingborough: Printed at Skelton's Press, 1977. 250 copies, 8vo, (216x125mm), [15]p. 1 double-page plate. A good copy in original jacketed wrappers carrying a wood engraved portrait of Baskerville by Joyce Francis. £15.00


15006 PETTY. PETTY & SONS LIMITED 1865-1965. London: Newman Neame for Petty & Sons, Leeds, [1965]. Sm.4to, (260x188mm), 55pp. illustrations. A clean ex-library copy in original cloth, dustjacket frayed. A centenary history of a Leeds printing house that also traded in Reading under the name Southern Printeries. £15.00


19637 PHOTOGRAPH PHOTOGRAPH: THE GUTENBERG MONUMENT IN STRASBOURG No place or imprint but [?Strasbourg 1880s?] Single print, (255x198mm), A fine albumen print of the monumental statue of Gutenberg in Stasbourg. £50.00


19788 PLOMER, Henry R. WYNKYN DE WORDE & HIS CONTEMPORARIES. From the death of Caxton to 1535: a chapter in English printing. London: Grafton, 1925. Sm.4to, (255x190mm), 264p. 14 full-page illustrations, pre-lims spotted. Original quarter canvas, paper covered sides, printed back-label, covers a little discoloured. A study of De Worde, Pynson, de Machlinia, Notary, Faques, Copland, Rastell, Pepwell, Skot, &c., and the provincial and Scottish presses of the period. £65.00


19749 PLOMER, H.R. WILLIAM CAXTON. London: Leonard Parsons, 1925. 8vo, (187x125mm), 195p. frontispiece portrait, and with a decorated title designed by John Austen. An ex-library copy marred only by a rubber-stamp on the title verso in original cloth. £12.00


11984 RIVINGTON, Charles A. TYRANT: THE STORY OF JOHN BARBER 1675 TO 1741. Jacobite Lord Mayor of London and printer and friend to Dr. Swift. York: William Sessions, 1989. 4to, (292x205mm), 306p. 12 plates. A fine copy in original laminated paperback. £20.00


16225 ROSCOE, S. & R.A. BRIMMELL. JAMES LUMSDEN & SON OF GLASGOW. Their juvenile books and chapbooks. Pinner: Private Libraries Association, 1981. 8vo, (254x160mm), xxvi,134p. colour frontispiece & 62 monochrome illustrations. A clean ex-library copy in original cloth, backstrip faded. A fine study of an important Scottish late 18th and early 19th century chapbook and childrens book publisher. £12.00


5799 ROSS, J.C. CHARLES ACKERS' ORNAMENT USAGE. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1990. Sm.4to, (257x187mm), x,97p. 211 illustrations. Original stiff wrappers. £5.00


10845 SCHOLDERER, Victor. JOHAN GUTENBERG. The inventor of printing. London: British Museum, 1963. 8vo, (215x140mm), 32p. +4 colour & 14 monochrome plates. Slightly soiled in original paperback. £2.00


19005 SCHREIBER, Fred. THE HANES COLLECTION OF ESTIENNE PUBLICATIONS. From book collecting to scholarly source. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1984. 8vo, (228x152mm), 24p. 12 illustrations. Original wrappers, slightly soiled. The Fourth Hanes Lecture. £12.00


19935 SCOLAR PRESS. THE SCOLAR PRESS ILKLEY. Ilkley: Scolar Press, [1978.] Folio, (355x235mm), A triple-folded card containing notes on the press, a booklet on 'The scholarly facsimile' by Gerry Withers, four sections from books showing the quality of the press's text and illustration work, and three smaller booklets on the aims of the press, the house style and the craft bindery, and a catalogue of publications. Original stiff wrappers, slightly dust-soiled. £15.00


18828 SCOTT, Kathleen L. THE CAXTON MASTER AND HIS PATRONS. Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society (Monograph 8), 1976. Sm.4to, (255x180mm), xx,91p. 18 plates. An ex-library copy in hardback boards with the original printed front wrapper laid down on the cover. £8.00


12473 SESSIONS, Michael H., E. Susan & William K. JOHN JACKSON I & II AND FRANCIS. Printers at Grape Lane, and Petergate, York from 1704. York: Ebor Press, 2004. 4to, (240x208mm), [1],95p. printed recto only, numerous illustrations. A good copy in original paperback. A work-in-progress addition to Bill Session's Greenback series of studies in the early history of printing in the British isles; in this instance studying the careers of the family of York printers from whom the Ebor Press can claim its descent. £10.00


17084 SESSIONS, William K. BULKLEY & BROAD [and] WHITE & WAYT. [Northern 17th Century Printers from 1642]. York: Ebor Press, 1985. 4to (295x210mm), 286p. 198 illustrations. Original stiff wrappers. Number 7 of the Greenback series of studies on the spread of printing through the British Isles from 1476 to 1695 and advertised as : 'Northern 17th Century Printers from 1642' and covering the careers of Stephen and John Bulkley, Thomas and Alice Broad, John White I of York, and Thomas Wayt. £16.00


9243 SESSIONS, William K. NEWCASTLE'S FIRST PRINTER. Newcastle upon Tyne: History of the Book Trade in the North, 1996. 8vo,  (210x145mm), 22p. 6 illustrations. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. A brief account of Robert Barker, King's printer during the English Civil Wars. £5.00


9427 SESSIONS, William K. STEPHEN BULKLEY. Newcastle's first 'long-stay' printer. Newcastle upon Tyne: History of the Book Trade in the North, 1997. 8vo, (210x145mm), 40p. 14 illustrations. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. An account of the career of a seventeenth century peripatetic royal printer active at various times in London, York, Newcastle and Gateshead, and of his son John Bulkley. £3.00


9169 SESSIONS, William K. THOMAS AND ALICE BROAD(E). Parliamentary printers of York from 1644 and their daughter Hannah. Newcastle upon Tyne: History of the Book Trade in the North, 1998. 8vo, (210x145mm), 28p. 9 illustrations. A fine copy in original wrappers. £3.00


5331 SHARP, Michael. ANDREW REID & Co. Ltd. A famous North-country printery. Newcastle upon Tyne: History of the Book Trade in the North; Wylam: Allenholme Press, 1991. 8vo, (210x145mm), vi,42p. 16 illustrations. A very good copy in original stiff wrappers. A useful study of this long-established Newcastle printing house. £4.00


9428 SHARP, Michael. DAVISON DISPLAYED. The display types used by William Davison of Alnwick 1815-1855. Newcastle upon Tyne: History of the Book Trade in the North, 1995. 8vo, (210x145mm), xxvi, 37p. many single-line type samples. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. A detailed account, with letter specimens of all the types, of the display stock of an English provincial printer of the first half of the nineteenth century. £10.00


6076 SHIPTON, Clifford K. ISAIAH THOMAS. Printer, patriot and philanthropist 1749-1831. Rochester, N.Y.: Leo Hart, 1948. 8vo, (235x157mm), xiv,94p. 23 plates. A poor copy in original cloth, internally clean but the backstrip damp-stained. £3.00


280 SIDGWICK, Frank. FRANK SIDGWICK’S DIARY and other material relating to A.H. Bullen, & the Shakespeare Head Press at Stratford-upon-Avon. Oxford: Shakespeare Head Press, 1975. 1000 Copies, 8vo, (228x150mm), 90p. 5 plates. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. With a facsimile of a 16p advertising booklet for the press published in 1904 loosely inserted in a pocket within the rear cover. Also contains an introduction by Ann Baer, and Paul Morgan Arthur Henry Bullen and the Shakespeare Head Press. £15.00


10786 SIEGFRIED, Laurance B. WILLIAM BULMER AND THE SHAKESPEARE PRESS. A biography of William Bulmer from A dictionary of printers and printing by C.H. Timperley, London, 1839 with an introductory note on the Bulmer-Martin Types. Syracuse: University Press, 1957. 12mo, (177x110mm), [4]+35p. 4 wood-engravings by John DePol and a type sample. A very good copy in original cloth, glacine dustjacket. £12.00


1382 SIMON, Oliver. PRINTER AND PLAYGROUND. An autobiography. London: Faber, 1956. 8vo, (257x165mm), xvi,156p. 6 collotype plates & 38 text illustrations. Free end-leaves browned, original boards, edges lightly browned, dustjacket. The original issue with the collotype plates which were omitted from the remainder issue. A very readable book which contains a great deal of information on the Curwen Press and its stable of artists. £15.00


9983 SINGLETON, Frank. TILLOTSONS 1850-1950. Centenary of a family business. Bolton & London: Tillotson & Son, 1950. 8vo, (218x137mm); x,94p. 15 plates and several text illustrations. An ex-library copy in original cloth, backstrip slightly faded. £5.00


15111 SMITH, Charles Manby. THE WORKING MAN'S WAY IN THE WORLD. With a preface and notes by Ellic Howe. London: Printing Historical Society, 1967. 8vo, (200x130mm), xii,xii,347,xiii-xxvp. An ex-library copy with a heavily stamped title. A nineteenth century printer's autobiography first published serially in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1851-2 and here reprinted from the third issue of 1857. £10.00


18065 SMITH, Charles Manby. THE WORKING MAN'S WAY IN THE WORLD. With a preface and notes by Ellic Howe. London: Printing Historical Society, 1967. 8vo, (200x130mm), xii,xii,347,xiii-xxvp. A good copy in original cloth, bookplate; prospectus loosely inserted. A nineteenth century printer's autobiography first published serially in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine in 1851-2 and here reprinted from the third issue of 1857. £20.00


183 SOMMERLAD, Michael. WILLIAM CAXTON. A quincentenary tribute. Colchester: Institute of Higher Education, School of Printing, [1976?] Sm. folio, (295x210mm), [10]p. 4 full-page illustrations printed on a dark buff ground. A good copy in original stiff wrappers.  A shortened version of the text produced as a student exercise. £5.00


6901 STEELE, Richard C. ISAIAH THOMAS. Worcester, MA.: Worcester Bicentennial Commission, 1975. 8vo, (228x152mm), 31p. 10 illustrations. Original printed wrappers. £8.00


18439 STEINBERG, S.H. STANLEY MORISON 1889-1967. [An off-print from] Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume LIII, [1967.] 8vo, (246x151mm), [2],(449-)468p. frontispiece portrait. A good copy in original printed wrappers. £5.00


2888 SUTCLIFFE, Peter. THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS. An informal history. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978. 8vo, (240x160mm), xxviii,303p. 25 plates. Original cloth, lacking the front free (illustrated) end-leaf £20.00


815 SWAN, Bradford F. GREGORY DEXTER OF LONDON AND NEW ENGLAND 1610-1700. Rochester: Leo Hart, 1949. 8vo, (237x160mm), xvi,115p. 29 plates. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket frayed. £5.00


9972 SWAN, Bradford F. GREGORY DEXTER OF LONDON AND NEW ENGLAND 1610-1700. Rochester: Leo Hart, 1949. 8vo, (228x148mm); xvi,115p. 29 plates. An ex-library copy in original cloth. £5.00


16483 TARLING, Alan. WILL CARTER, PRINTER. An illustrated study. London: Galahad Press, 1968. 4to, (278x208mm), 47p. frontispiece portrait & 13 full-page reproductions of Carter's letter-designs, printing, letter cutting, and design work. A fine copy in original cloth-backed stiff boards. A brief, though tastefully arranged, well-designed (by Derek Maggs & Malcolm Read), and well-illustrated, survey of Will carter's work as a printer and designer at the Rampant Lions Press, with some note of his skills as a type designer (the front cover is set in his wonderful Klang typeface) and letter0cutter. £40.00


7470 TILLOTSONS. TILLOTSONS SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE FACES. To show the type available in Tillotsons composing room and to illustrate its use. New edition. Bolton: Tillotsons, 1949. Roy.8vo, (252x175mm), 93p. numerous specimens in alphabet, paragraph and page settings. A clean ex-library copy in original cloth. £8.00


12482 TREPTOW, Otto. JOHN SIBERCH. Johann Lair von Siegburg. Cambridge: Cambridge Bibliographical Society, Monograph 6, 1970. Sm.4to, (257x182mm), xii,73p. 4 plates & 12 illustrations. Original wrappers, lightly soiled. £5.00


562 Van DORSTEN, J.A. THOMAS BASSON 1555-1613. English printer at Leiden. Leiden: Thomas Browne Institute, 1961. 8vo, (218x136mm), xii,128p. 5 plates & 5 text illustrations. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. A study of the career of an English printer, bookseller and translator in the early years of the Dutch Republic. £5.00


13164 Van KRIMPEN, Jan [KEEPSAKE] A FACSIMILE LETTER FROM JAN VAN KRIMPEN TO JOHN DREYFUS. 12 March 1947. Printed for presentation to the Wynkyn de Worde Society. Amsterdam: Offsetdrukkerif Jan de Jong, 1995. 250 copies, bifolium (235x160mm), printed in blue with a short note by John Dreyfus. Fine. £8.00


12635 VOET. L. THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM. Antwerp: Museum Plantin-Moretus, 1965. 8vo, (223x149mm), 46p, 20 illustrations. Original wrappers, slightly soiled. £5.00


20160 VOET. L. THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM. Antwerp: Museum Plantin-Moretus, 1976. 8vo, (223x149mm), 46p, 20 illustrations, addenda leaf loosely inserted and some ink marginal annotation. Original wrappers, slightly soiled. £5.00


12939 WALLIS, Lawrence. GEORGE W. JONES PRINTER LAUREATE. Nottingham: Plough Press; New York: Mark Batty, 2004. 8vo, (245x165mm), 128p. 12 colour & 30 monochrome illustrations. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket.  This much-need study of one of the most respected and celebrated printers of his generation presents a study of Jones from his apprentice days in the 1870s through his career as fine printer and advisor to Linotype. The typefaces he designed and the fine books he printed are examined, discussed and placed into the context of the contemporary printing scene. £35.00


13269 WHITTAKER, F. Garth. EDWARD MARSDEN. The story of a company. Wakefield: EP Publishing, 1978. 8vo, (204x132mm), [8],67p. illustrations. A very good copy in original hardback boards. A business history of a Yorkshire ink manufacturing company. £15.00


19630 WIDMANN, Hans. DER DRUCKER-VERLEGER HENRI II ESTIENNE (HENRICUS II STEPHANUS), Mit einem dankwort an Aloys Ruppell... Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1970. 8vo, (240x160mm), 29,[2]p. A fine copy in original jacketed wrappers. Kleiner druck der Gutenberg-Gessellschaft 87. £10.00


3447 WRIGHT, Esmond (Editor). BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. His life as he wrote tt. London: Folio Society, 1989. 8vo, (255x158mm), 260p. 17 plates. A good copy in original quarter buckram, previous owner's blind embossed stamp on the half title, slipcase. £6.00


19048 YAMADA, Akihiro. PETER SHORT AN ELIZABETHAN PRINTER. Mie: College of Humanities, 1989. Sm.4to, (256x182mm), 184p. numerous3 illustrations. A good copy in original wrappers, bookplate and with the author's signed presentation slip tipped on to the inside of the front wrapper. A study of a notable printer of the Elizabethan period who printed, among other works, Shakespeare's Henry IV Part One, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, first editions of Morley's Canzonets and Dowland's First book of songs, and continued the printing of the 1596 edition of Foxe's 'Book of martyrs.' A brief biography is followed by a list of the books he printed and chapters on his annual output and shared printings. These are supported by illustrations of his ornaments, cuts, title-page borders, devices, headpieces, factotums and ornamental initials. £30.00


11181 ZAPASKO, Yakim. ARTISTIC HERITAGE OF IVAN FEDOROV. Lvov: University Publishing House, 1974. Folio, (348x272mm), 224p. numerous illustrations of initals, decorative ornaments, blocks, &c. Original cloth, covers lettered and blocked in red and blue, corner tips a little bumped, dustjacket frayed. Bookplate of J.S.G. Simmons. The text in Russian in cyrillic type with a summary and the catalogue in English, French and German. £36.00


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