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| to select author names starting with A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z back to page 1 of full catalog (starting with NO authornames) | This selection contains 188 title(s) on 8 pages. This is page 1 with nrs. 1 to 25 |
| [DORRINGTON (C.)] Composing Room Lectures; A Manual for Young Printers. By an Old Printer. Published by the Author at the Press News Office, London. 1881. Third Edition, 28pp., orig. printed wrappers detached. St. Bride copy only in the UK. One copy in North America (University of Iowa Libraries). GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 20741 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| [LUCKOMBE (PHILIP)] A Concise History of the Origin and Progress of Printing; with Practical Instructions to the Trade in General. Compiled from those who have Wrote on this Curious Art. Printed and Sold by W. Adlard and J. Browne. 1770. First Edition, xiv,502,[4]pp., wood-engraved frontispiece purporting to be Gutenberg, but in reality is a portrait of Koster copied from Moxon, text printed within ornamental typographical border, ornamental wood engraved headpieces and initials, illustrations, specimens of printing types, recent calf calf with marbled sides, morocco label lettered in gilt, a few unobtrusive library stamps otherwise a nice clean copy. ‘The authors named as those from whom the historical matter was compiled, are Moxon, Ames, Middleton, Atkyns, Watson, Palmer &c. &c. ; the principal instructions are “the united opinions of the most experienced of the trade.” The latter is indeed the best part of the work. Following p.132 is “a specimen of printing types by W. Caslon & Son, letter-founders in London,” without date. There are 23 pages of flowers including a number of fantastic and elegant designs made out of them; and 41 pages of type-specimens, including music type and foreign alphabets.’—Bigmore & Wyman. Bigmore & Wyman I, p. 447. GBP 375.00 [Appr.: EURO 420.25 US$ 624.75 | JP 55574] Book number: 24509 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| [POLSCHER (ANDREW A.)] The Evolution of Printing Presses from Wood to Metal. Extra Binding at the Lakeside Press. Adagio Press in Harper Woods, Michigan. [c.1980]. Small 8vo, 8pp., 2 illustrs., orig. printed wrappers, uncut. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 11822 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| AMRAM (DAVID WERNER) The Makers of Hebrew Books in Italy. Being Chapters in the History of the Hebrew Printing Press. The Holland Press. (Reprint of the 1909 Edition) 1963. xvii,[i],417pp., numerous illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Publications of the Soncino and Bomberg families and later printers are given careful and detailed examination. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 24199 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BARKER (NICOLAS) The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning 1478-1978: An Illustrated History. Oxford University Press. 1978. First Edition, 4to, plates and illustrs., throughout (some coloured), orig. cloth, d.w. This volume celebrates the quincentenary of the introduction of printing at Oxford with a pictorial history of its subsequent progress, illustrated by the books, documents, and pictures which are its tangible record. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 12789 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BASSETT (JOHN) EDITOR. The Printing World. A Journal Devoted to the Interest of Printing. Vol. II.-Jan. to Dec., 1892. [&] New Series Vol. 1. 1893 - Vol. 2. 1894. Geo. W. Jones. 1892-94. 3 Vols., 4to, small neat library stamps, coloured and black & white throughout, numerous trade adverts, hinges shaken, orig. cloth. GBP 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 84.25 US$ 124.95 | JP 11115] Book number: 9239 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BASSETT (JOHN) EDITOR.: The Printing World. Vol. II.-Jan. to Dec., 1892. [&] New Series Vol. 1. 1893 - Vol. 2. 1894. Geo. W. Jones. 1892-94. 3 Vols., 4to, small neat library stamps, coloured and black & white throughout, numerous trade adverts, hinges shaken, orig. cloth. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 16 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| FRESHWATER (G.J.) & BASTIEN (ALFRED) Pitman’s Dictionary of Advertising and Printing. A Complete Work of Reference to the Advertising and Printing Arts. Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd. 1930. 4to, ex-libray, numerous plates and illustrs., (some coloured), orig. cloth, small nick to head of spine. Ex-library copy, with stamps. GBP 30.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.75 US$ 49.98 | JP 4446] Book number: 11003 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BEADNELL (HENRY) A Guide to Typography, in Two Parts, Literary and Practical; or, the Reader’s Handbook and the Compositor’s Vade-Mecum. F. Bowering. 1859-61. First Edition, 12mo, 2 parts in one, x,269,[1 blank]; vi,xii,272pp., recent quarter calf, spine gilt with contrasting leather labels, marbled sides. This is a rare book and copies seldom appear of the market. The first part is orthographic and typographic, including a section on proof-correcting; the second and most important part is the practical compositor or typesetter’s manual. An intended third part on press and machine work never appeared. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.41-2. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 330.5 US$ 491.47 | JP 43719] Book number: 23467 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BIGNAN (A.) Épitre a Quelques Ennemis des Lumières, sur la Découverte de l'Imprimerie, qui a Obtenu l'Accessit, au Jugement de l'Académie Francaise, dans la Séance Publique du 25 Août 1829. [In verse]. Chez Vezard, Paris. 1829. First Edition, half-title, marbled wrappers, 16pp. Bigmore & Wyman, I. p.61. Ex-library copy, with stamps. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 9269 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BIRLEY (ROBERT): Printing and Democracy. Privately Printed for the Monotype Corporation Ltd. 1964. Large 8vo, 29pp., frontis., 8 plates, orig. printed wrappers. The contribution of print to public debate as an essential preliminary to the formation of democratic public policy. GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9 US$ 13.33 | JP 1186] Book number: 127 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BLACK (M.H.) Cambridge University Press 1584-1984. Cambridge University Press. 1984. First Edition, 26 illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 20093 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BLADES (WILLIAM) The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author, and List of his Works by Talbot B. Reed. A.C. McClurg and Co., Chicago. 1891. 4to, xxvi ,[2],117pp., slightly foxed, 59 illustrs., and facsimiles, orig. cloth, gilt. This was the first comprehensive primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 22458 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BLADES (WILLIAM) The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges. With a Memoir of the Author, and List of his Works by Talbot B. Reed. Elliot Stock. 1891. 4to, xxvi ,[2],117pp., bookplate on front paste-down, 59 illustrs., and facsimiles, front inner hinge shaken, orig. cloth, decorated in gilt, a nice bright copy. This was the first comprehensive primer in the English language on the subject and it may still be considered invaluable to the student of historical typography. GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 45 US$ 66.64 | JP 5928] Book number: 24557 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BIRD & BULL PRESS. BLISS (CAREY S.) A Pair on Printing. Atkyns’ ‘The Original and Growth of Printing’ & William Caslon and the First English Type Specimen Book. Reproduced in Facsimile with Introductions by Carey S. Bliss. Bird & Bull Press, North Hills, Pa. 1982. 137-[141]pp., one of 500 copies, orig. cloth, printed paper label on spine. GBP 35.00 [Appr.: EURO 39.25 US$ 58.31 | JP 5187] Book number: 21037 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CORRARD DE BREBAN. Recherches sur l’Établissement et l’Exercice de l’Imprimerie a Troyes... A. Chossonnery, Paris. 1873. Third Edition, 200pp., illustrated by a number of facsimiles from books printed at Troyes, these are executed on wood and printed in the text, orig. printed wrappers, spine broken, uncut. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 19653 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CORRARD DE BREBAN. Recherches sur l’Établissement et l’Exercice de l’Imprimerie a Troyes. La Roue a Livres, Paris. (Reprint of the 1873 Edition) 1973. 200pp., orig. printed wrappers. From the library of Pierre Berès. GBP 20.00 [Appr.: EURO 22.5 US$ 33.32 | JP 2964] Book number: 23945 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BROWN (CYNTHIA J.) Poets, Patrons, and Printers. Crisis of Authority in Late Medieval France. Cornell University Library. 1995. First Edition, from the library of Dr Elizabeth Armstrong, illustrs., orig. cloth, d.w. Provides a historical framework for understanding the crisis of literary authority that arose as French poets became ever more aware of their legal standing and asserted greater control over the printing and distribution of their works. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50.5 US$ 74.97 | JP 6669] Book number: 19644 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BULLEN (GEORGE) EDITOR. Caxton Celebration, 1877. Catalogue of the Loan Collection of Antiquities, Curiosities, and Appliances Connected with the Art of Printing. The Elzevir Press. 1877. First Edition, small 4to, [ii],xix,[1],472pp., one of 157 numbered copies on hand-made paper, library buckram. 4,734 items described. GBP 65.00 [Appr.: EURO 73 US$ 108.29 | JP 9633] Book number: 20067 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BURDICK (WILLIAM) An Oration on the Nature and Effects of the Art of Printing. Delivered in Franklin-Hall, July 5, 1802, before the Boston Franklin Association. Printed by Munroe & Francis, Boston. 1802. [5],6-31,[1]pp., small piece of blank top outer corner of title-page cut-away, light off-setting onto title, recent marbled boards, morocco label to spine. The earliest historical account of printing in America listed in Bigmore & Wyman. In the first section his oration describes the history of printing and its impact on mankind, with specific references to Franklin. A two page “Anniversary Ode”, a poem on printing, composed by Burdick, follows this. Bigmore & Wyman I, p.94. GBP 495.00 [Appr.: EURO 554.5 US$ 824.67 | JP 73358] Book number: 26295 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CAMBRIDGE. The University Printing Houses at Cambridge from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century. Printed for the Opening of the New Printing House. Cambridge University Press. 1963. Oblong 8vo, 16pp., coloured illustrs., orig. printed wrappers. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 15613 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CAMUS (A[RMAND] G[ASTON]) Histoire et Procédés du Polytypage et de la Stéréotypie. Baudouin, Paris. [1801]. First Edition, [iv],135,[1 blank]pp., 6 specimen pages of stereotype printing (of which 3 are folding), some minor spotting, later wrappers with cloth spine, uncut. One of the key works on stereotyping and polytyping with 6 actual specimens of different processes. This is the first appearance of the work in book form, it was first published in the “Mémoires de l’Institut.” Bigmore & Wyman, I, p.101. GBP 295.00 [Appr.: EURO 330.5 US$ 491.47 | JP 43719] Book number: 23436 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| CLAIR (COLIN) A Chronology of Printing. Cassell & Co. Ltd. 1969. First Edition, small 4to, ex-library, orig. cloth. A chronological compendium of key facts in the history of printing and book production. GBP 25.00 [Appr.: EURO 28.25 US$ 41.65 | JP 3705] Book number: 18196 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| DIX (E.R. MCC.) COMPILER. Catalogue of Early Dublin-Printed Books 1601 to 1700. Volume One: Parts I-III [Volume Two: Part IV and Supplement]. Burt Franklin, New York. (Reprint of the 1912 Edition) 1971. 2 Vols., 4to, orig. cloth. GBP 85.00 [Appr.: EURO 95.25 US$ 141.61 | JP 12597] Book number: 18353 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| BARBER (GILES) COMPILER. French Letterpress Printing. A List of French Printing Manuals and other texts in French bearing on the Technique of Letterpress Printing, 1567-1900. Oxford Bibliographical Society. 1969. 4to, x,39pp., orig. printed wrappers. GBP 12.00 [Appr.: EURO 13.5 US$ 19.99 | JP 1778] Book number: 24745 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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