All books are in very good condition, unless otherwise stated. Postage is extra at cost.
3 CARTER (Harry) A view of early typography up to about 1600. Repr. with an intro. by James Mosley. London: Hyphen Press, 2002. 8vo. 22 cm. Pp. [22], xii, 138. Illusts. Flapped paperback. SOLD
4 The Fleuron, nos.
1-7 [all published]. A journal of typography. Ed. by Oliver Simon [later]
Stanley Morison. London: At the Office of the Fleuron [later] Cambridge:
The University Press, 1923-30. 7 vols. 4to. 28 cm. Insets. Plates. Illusts. Vol.
1 qtr. cloth, otherwise full cloth. Vol. 1 boards foxed, some spotting
elsewhere, but generally a nice set, vols 2 & 3 in orig. d.w. (vol. 2
chipped). £640
‘For me, collecting Volume VII of The Fleuron from
Zwemmer’s bookshop in the Charing Cross Road was as heady an aesthetic
experience as my first sight of Venice. For others, too. That notable wood
engraver, Reynolds Stone, told me…of a similar experience. Entering the
Cambridge University Press as a trainee…he discovered that one of the printers
there…Mr Nobbs, had a complete set of The Fleuron. That journal of
typography changed Stone’s life, as it changed mine.’
Robert Harling, from the Foreword to Grant Shipcott, Typographical
periodicals between the wars, Oxford, 1980.
5 LEWIS (John) Such
things happen. The life of a typographer. Stowmarket: Unicorn Press, 1994.
8vo. 24 cm. Pp. xi, 212. Plates. Typographer at Cowell’s, tutor at the RCA, and
much else (a great yachtsman). Eminently readable. Orig. boards. D.w. The first
edition. £10
6 LINOTYPE &
Machinery Ltd. Linotype faces. One-line specimens. London, 1923. 4to. 28
cm. Pp. 156. Orig. cloth. SOLD
7 LUND HUMPHRIES &
Co. Ltd. A selection of types from the Country Press. Bradford, 1929.
8vo. 23 cm. Pp. xvi, 187. Orig. qtr. cloth. Boards. Ex-lib. Good. £10
8 MONOTYPE CORPORATION
Ltd. Pages from books set on the ‘Monotype’ composing machine and published
mainly in London 1928-1931. London, 1931. La. 4to. 31 cm. Pp. [xi], 97.
Orig. buckram. S1. £30
9 MONOTYPE CORPORATION
Ltd. Spectrum roman and italic [front cover]. Designed by Jan van
Krimpen. N.d. 4to. 28 cm. Pp. [16] printed in black and colours. Type
specimen designed by Will Carter. Together with another specimen of Spectrum,
pp. [4], and 11 other 4pp. specimens of Poliphilus, Baskerville, Garamond,
Imprint, Fournier, Bembo, Bodoni, Ehrhardt, Plantin, Bell and Scotch Roman. £20
10 MORAN (James) Stanley
Morison. His typographic achievement. London: Lund Humphries, 1971. 4to. 30
cm. Pp. 184. Numerous illusts. Orig. boards. D.w. £10
11 REED (Talbot Baines)
A history of the old English letter foundries. With notes historical and
bibliographical on the rise and progress of English typography. A new
edition…by A. F. Johnson. London: Faber, 1952. Imp. 8vo. 28 cm. Pp. xiv, 400.
Folding frontis. and 95 illusts. Pleasantly rebound in recent half morocco,
cloth sides, marbled endpapers. Nice copy. S18. £60
12 SIMON (Oliver) &
Julius RODENBURG, Printing of today. An illustrated survey of post-war
typography in Europe and the Unites States. London: Peter Davies, 1928. La.
4to. 34 cm. Pp. xix, 83 + [76] (full-page reproductions). Printed in black and
colours. Orig. qtr. cloth. Boards. Ex-lib. Worn. Sound. Reading copy only. S1. £10
13 SPOTTISWOODE,
BALLANTYNE & Co. [Printers] Printing types [1st & 2nd
eds]. London, 1925-30. 2 vols. 4to. Pp. 52, [15]; 144. Orig. qtr. cloth,
printed boards. Worn. Front hinge of first vol. partly broken, but holding. One
minor excision. The principal interwar catalogues from this firm. S21. SOLD
14 UPDIKE (D.B.) Printing
types. Their history, forms and use. A study in survivals. 3rd ed.
Cambridge, Mass., & Oxford: 1962. 2vols. 8vo. 24 cm. Pp. xlvi, 292; xix,
326. Numerous illusts. Orig. cloth. D.w. £45
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