Hesterberg William (11 results)

cloth, dust jacket. Hesterberg Press (illustrator). 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 133, (6) pages. First edition. A fine copy in fine jacket. The first major work by William Hesterberg and his Hesterberg Press. The book is a photographic documentary of the author's hometown of Norborne, Missouri, a small railroad town of 931 people in the northwestern part of the state. The photographs represent a personal view of the friends, neighbors, relatives and personalities in the community who touched his early life and who are unforgettable to him. This familiarity and friendship is clearly evident in each portrait and offers the viewer a rare and unusual view of a changing rural America.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 26x17cm, 23pp. With tipped-in photographic reproductions of title pages, etc and a tipped-in broadside type specimen printed letterpress. Copy 26 of 75, bound in quarter-mauve cloth over marbled paper-covered boards, the paper by Iris Nevins, gilt title to backstrip. A thorough survey of the 18th century type designer and his eponymous faces, beautifully produced. Quite scarce. Very Good (a small square of moderate fading to the cloth at the head of the upper board, otherwise Fine).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Thomas Bewick (illustrator). (1975). Limited to 100 copies. Thin octavo brown decorated cloth stamped in gilt. Portrait frontispiece and sixteen fine wood engravings. From the preface, "The intent of this book is to explore in Thomas Bewick's engravings and writings his interest in the subject of monuments, both personal and public". With an addendum and acknowledgments. Fine in the publisher's slipcase.

Sewn wrappers. Condition: Fine. First, Limited Edition. Small quarto, French wrappers. Rare. This copy is pencilled "3/4 Press Copy". Carolyn Hammer asked William Hesterberg to write this piece for the Encyclopedia, inspired by Hesterberg's master's thesis. Carolyn provided the photograph of Victor by Martin Jessee. This hand-printed work features Hammer's American Uncial type on Arches paper and Zerkall Book papers.

Hesterberg Press (illustrator). 8vo. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards. 40 pages. Limited to 70 numbered copies. A fine copy. The life of Chicagoan Robert Hunter Middleton, distinguished Ludlow type designer and private press printer, is summarized in this long overdue work that speaks of the twenty year friendship between William Hesterberg and Robert and Katherine Middleton. quarter cloth, paste paper covered boards.

Hesterberg Press (illustrator). tall 8vo. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards. 23 pages. One of 75 copies. This wonderfully produced book by The Hesterberg Press chronicles the history of Baskerville type, starting with the influence from Caslon type in 1757 to how it has evolved in the present day. Includes tipped in samples, along with a facsimile of an early Baskerville type specimen produced by The Hesterberg Press. quarter cloth and marbled paper covered boards.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Quarter lavender cloth gilt with Iris Nevins marbled paper-covered boards, 8vo., 23, (1) pages, illustrated including 5 mounted plates and a folding specimen. No. 11 of 75 numbered copies printed from Baskerville type in all its available forms by William Hesterberg, with Monotype and border ornaments by Michael & Winifred Bixler, on soft-White Zerkall Book Smooth paper. Bound at Campbell-Logan Bindery with Iris Nevins marbled paper. A fine copy in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo (royal). Copy 45 of 75 limited printed copies. Pink quarter-cloth over pink, marbled boards, purple endpapers, 23pp, illustrated with [5] tipped-in illustrations, and [1] folding sample of Baskerville types. Light sunning on boards, spine. Near FIne.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. LIMITED EDITION of 100 copies of which this is numbered 22. Near Fine hardcover in slipcase. This book presents a selection of Bewick's engravings and writings on the subject of monuments, both personal and public. The text contains writings from MEMOIR, two letters and several notations made by Bewick and his daughter Jane in the margins of two 1821 volumes of the BRITISH BIRDS now in the Victoria and Albert Museum Library, London. Sixteen tailpieces were selected and carefully reproduced on copper from the MEMORIAL EDITION. Other illustrations tipped in include a portrait of Bewick from an original engraving by Burnett, a halftone photograph of Bewick's gravestone and a print pulled on troya paper from an original block. The book is 6" by 8 3/4" and is printed in monotype Baskerville in black on a callendered Japanese paper. Original prospectus enclosed.

Hardcover. Condition: As-new. Limited edition. 69, (v) pp., illustrated with 14 engravings by Bewick printed from the original blocks on dampened Rives Heavy-weight paper using a Washington Hand Press. 35 additional Bewick engravings were printed using a Vandercook Press from metal engravings reproduced from the Memorial Edition, 3 tipped-in plates from photographs; octavo, original green cloth with engraved vignette inset printed from an original Bewick block mounted to front board. An additional print pulled from the Hen & Ducklings vignette block laid in loose, as described in the publisher's prospectus, which is also laid in. Edition of 90 copies, this #64.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Chicago: Cherryburn Press, 1975. No. 55 of an edition limited to 100 (pp. 48). Tall octavo (23 cm) in soft brown publisher's cloth with matching slipcase, gilt titles and decoration; sixteen wood engravings by Bewick printed on fine calendered paper, text set in Baskerville. Portrait of Bewick together with a specially mounted print in a folding album by way of a frontispiece. A brief discussion of Bewick's wood engravings as monuments and memorials which appeared here and there in his work. A Fine copy of a handsome little book.