Fleuron Journal Typography, First Edition (18 results)

4to. First edition. One of 1150 copies on antique wove paper. Original teal cloth, gilt to spine. Printed in Barbou type by Walter Lewis at the University Press, Cambridge. Illustrated throughout and with tipped in specimen pages, etc, some folding. Cloth a little dulled by dust with light wear to the corner tips. A little light foxing to the endpapers. The rear hinge is cracked but holding firm. Good +. The contents include Stanley Morison on Decorated Types; Paul Beaujon on Decorative Printing in America; and Albert Windisch on the Work of Rudolf Koch.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Binding, text, illustrations and tip ins, VG-NF. Coverboards Fair with some soiling and one stain on the back cover. Overall Good.

4to viii+168pp+ tipped in specimens etc. Original green cloth (some spots on backstrip) some foxing to prelims., a very good bright copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 1150 (1310) standard copies printed in Barbou type on Abbey Mills paper. 8pp insets of Lutetia italic, Stempel Baskerville, New Hellinic, a 12pp specimen of Weiss roman, and a 16pp specimen of Monotype Pastonchi. The are also broadsides of Lutetia, Weiss, Baskerville and Naudin bound in. Many illustrations in the text, inserted plates include work of Rudolf Koch and various inscriptions. Turquoise cloth, gilt on spine. Lacking dust-jacket, endpapers dusty. A very good copy. Principal contents: The Work of Rudolf Koch, by Albert Windisch; Geofroy Tory, by A.F. Johnson; On Decorative Printing in America, by Paul Beaujon; Decorated Types, by Stanley Morison; Bernard Naudin, Illustrator, by Luc Benoist; Address by Citizen Sobry on the types of Gille, edited by Daniel berkeley Updike.

Condition: Good. London: The Fleuron, 1923. 1st edition. No. 1. 4to hardcover. viii+127pp+examples and ads. Good book. Boards and endpapers slightly dampstained. Williams & Wilkins Company bookplate on front pastedown. Errata slip tipped in on half title page. (Typography, Graphic Design) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Greenwood edition. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1970. Numbers 1 and 2, bound as 1 book. Very Good condition. Covers lightly finger soiled. HARDCOVER. 1970. Facsimile reprint of this periodical's first 2 numbers (1923-1924). Beautifully illustrated, with much in gorgeous full color. THE FLEURON is the most important English language periodical devoted to the history and practice of typography. Included here are significant articles by Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, etc. This impressive edition REPRODUCES EVERYTHING and even DUPLICATES ALL OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION'S TIPPED-IN FULL COLOR PLATES, FOLD-OUTS, AND SPECIMENS. Ulrich/Kup describes THE FLEURON as: "A significant, learned and copiously documented periodical. THE FLEURON, under intelligent editorship, marched from effort to perfection. Fine printing, book illustration, printer's profiles, challenging reviews of new printing types. A periodical once consulted-never forgotten. the leader of modern typography. It devoted all of its efforts to the promotion of the highest standards in design and printing." Hart 247 says, "One cannot give this undertaking too much praise, for the articles are most informative and of interest to all appreciators of fine printing." Bound in the original cream-color cloth, stamped in red and black. A volume from the publisher's ART OF THE BOOK series. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.5" thick. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Greenwood edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, as issued. 2 volumes, bound as 1. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION,1930, 4to.pp.xii (2) 252,25: many illustrations,facsimiles, tipped-in plates & inserts, a very good copy in original buckram of the most splendid & substantial volume of the series with an index to all seven volumes. Spotless cover and pages. Includes; Morrison s First Principles of Typography, Warde on Gill, Koch on Holz, Updyke on Cleland, Ewald on Officina Bondini, Van Krimpen on Typgraphy in Holland; Insert short story by Rose Macaulay, Misfortunes, illustrated by wood engravings by Denis Tegetmeir, and not as stated as by Stanley Morrison, printed in the new Bembo , faint stamps of the Ipswich printer, W.S. Cowell on end paper. A nice clean copy with excellent provenance.

4to. xvi+206pp+ tipped in specimens etc. Original yelow cloth (some darkening to backstrip) some foxing to prelims., a very good copy. First edition. Limited to 1250 copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition; Limited edtion. 4to 11" - 13" tall; Oversize 4to HC in original mustard yellow cloth with decorative title design in red and blue to cover and spine. In a limited edition of 1250 copies printed on Antique Laid stock. Snugly bound and generally neat with just mild crimping to cloth at spine ends and light shelf soiling to board surfaces. Here and there some superficial foxing to pages, generally on leaves facing tipped in plates and examples. Solid neat copy; uncommon in condition. VG. . Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.

Includes "The 'Garamond Types: A Study of XVI and XVII century sources,' by Paul Beaujon; 'Towards an Ideal Italic,' by Stanley Morison; 'J.E. Laboureur Illustrator,' by Paul Istel; 'William Bulmer,' by H.V. Marrot; etc. Quarto. Illustrated with type facsimiles, reproductions, and tipped-in plates. Cloth. Covers lightly soiled. Very good. First edition. One of 1,250 copies on antique laid paper.

Includes 'Modern Printing in the Netherlands' by J. Van Krimpen; 'The Typographical Work of Eric Gill' by Paul Beaujon; 'The Typography of the 'Nineties' by A.J.A. Symons, 'First Principles of Typography' by Stanley Morison, et al. Quarto. Illustrated with type facsimiles, reproductions, numerous tipped-in color plates. Cloth. A very good copy, lacking the d.j. First edition. One of 1,000 copies.

Includes: 'The Work of Rudolf Koch' by Albert Windisch; 'Geofroy Tory,' by A.F. Johnson; 'Deecorated Types' by Stanley Morison, etc. Quarto. [xiv], [267] pp. Illustrated with type facsimiles, reproductions, numerous tipped-in color plates. Cloth. Some light foxing, light dampstaining to binding near top edge, not affecting text. Printer Ward Ritchie's copy, with his bookplate and name in pencil. Laid in is a 1934 newspaper article about Rudolf Koch, which has resulted in some offsetting to an interior page. A very good copy in dust jacket that is torn along front joint. Uncommon in jacket. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 191 of 210 (1210) edition de luxe copies printed on handmade paper with two extra inserts. 42 illustrations in text by Eric Gill and Heinrich Holz, other illustrations by Frances Clayton and Denis Tegetmeier. 7 very substantial inserts, being specimens of Perpetua, Centaur Roman, Monotype Bembo and Lutetia. Blue buckram, elaborately blocked in gold on the spine and upper board to a design by Jan van Krimpen. Lacking dust-jacket, slight fading to spine. A very good copy. The final issue, printed in Monotype Barbou and signed by Stanley Morison on the colophon. The issue contains Beatrice Warde's famous essay 'Eric Gill: Sculptor of Letters', this is illustrated with folding plates and other reproductions. Additionally, in this de luxe isse there is a folding photogravure plate of Gill's sculpture `Madonna and Child'. Inset into the essay are 8 pages Initial Letters etc., engraved by Eric Gill, specially printed at the Golden Cockerel Press on handmade paper; this hand-press printing appears only in the de luxe issue. Following the essay is 'The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity', 32 pages with engravings on wood by Gill, and signed by him at the foot of the type specimen. It is the first specimen of Gill's Perpetua type, although there is a school of thought that believes that Gill's signature was provided by Morison. Stanley Morison's Postscript closes with the specially commissioned 'Explicit' engraving by Gill. This final number of `The Fleuron' includes the first printing of Morison's 'First Principles of Typography'; Jan van Krimpen on Typography in Holland; D.B. Updike on T.M. Cleland, and Friedrich Ewald on The Officina Bodoni - this with hand-printed specimens. Magnificent. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Quarto. Complete set, mixed edition. Some foxing in volume 1 &2. Cloth spine of volume 1 faded, scuffed on front cover. Volumes 1 & 2 are quarter cloth with paper over boards. Volumes 3 & 4 are bound in black cloth. Volumes 3-7 are limited editions on hand-made paper while volumes 1 & 2 are of the standard edition, 1/1000 copies on Antique Cream Laid paper. Vol III: 48/125, vol IV: 78/120, vol V: 90/110, vol VI: 11/160, vol VII: 128/210 Small closed tears to spine of volume 4. Volumes 5, 6, & 7 are in dust jackets. The deluxe limited editions feature additional illustrations not present in the standard edition. Volume 6 with a pamphlet of Greek type specimen "The New Hellenic" which has an engraving signed by David Jones (pamphlet mounted opposite page 231). The final volume is signed by one of the editors, Stanley Morison, on the colophon page, as well as artist Eric Gill on his Perpetua type specimen preceding page 51. Jackets with a few small closed tears. Extensively illustrated throughout with type specimens, engravings, portraits, head and tail pieces, and high quality color facsimiles of pages from finely printed books. Tipped inclusions in volumes 5,6 & 7. One of the most important and influential typographical periodical. Many of the most important people in the book arts and typography for the time period are discussed and illustrated such as Karl Klingspor, Rudolf Koch and J. E. Laboureur. Beatrice Warde's (writing as Paul Beaujon) important scholarly article on Garamond typefaces appears in volume 5. Reference: Grant Shipcott. Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars: A Critique of The Fleuron, Signature and Typography.

Limited Edition of 210 de luxe copies on handmade paper (from a total edition of 1210). Cloth, gilt-stamped cover titles and cover device,4to, 29 cm, xii, 253, 24 pp plus inserts, plates (some colour). The last and greatest issue of The Fleuron, Stanley Morison and Oliver Simon's showcase for the typographic arts, here in one of the "de luxe" copies. This differs from the ordinary copies in that it has a binding designed by Jan Van Krimpen, it includes some additional illustrations, and has some of the illustrations printed direct from the original plates, and it is printed on English handmade wove paper and signed by Stanley Morison. Grant Shipcott in his informative book "Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars" enthused:about the volume. Contents include Typography in Holland, by J. Van Krimpen, Haarlem; Eric Gill, Sculptor of Letters, by Paul Beaujon, London with A List of Books with lettering and illustrations by E. G. compiled by Douglas Cleverdon; also The Passion of SS. Perpetua & Felicity in a new translation by W. H. Shewring with engravings by E. G.; First Principles of Typography, by Stanley Morison, London; Heinrich Holz, by Rudolf Koch, Offenbach; An Unacknowledged Movement in Fine Printing, by A. J. A. Symons, London; The Officina Bodoni, by Friedrich Ewald, Hannover; Thomas Maitland Cleland, by D. B. Updike, Boston; Footnotes To Book Production : Early Italics in the German Empire, by A. F. Johnson; Epitaph upon "Period" Printing, by Paul Beaujon; Baskerville's Jobbing Work, by Graham Pollard; The Trusler Script Types, by Stanley Morison; The earliest known work of Arrighi, by Stanley Morison. Also : Type reviews (with specimen works printed in the types) of Centaur roman, Bembo roman, Treyford roman and italic, Antigone greek, Bernhard roman, italic and script, Goudy Modern roman and italic, Romanée roman, Perpetua roman and italic.; Book reviews; Index to the Fleuron I-VII, etc. etc. Copy No. 198, numbered and signed by Stanley Morison, and with the Perpetua type specimen signed "Eric G." [=Gill]. Covers a little rubbed with fading to the lower edge and lower spine-corner of front board, very minor bumping to spine, otherwise Good in a dustwrapper which is chipped and somewhat browned and soiled with tears to the lower front hinge (tape repair on reverse).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 7 volume set, all issued. Volumes 1 & 2, quarter cloth with paper covers boards, volumes 3 to 7 full cloth. Volumes 1 to 4: 28 x 22cm, volume 5 to 7: 28.5 x 22.5cm. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, tipped-in specimens, papers, facsimiles, some folding. All with a little wear to extremities. Volume 4 a little stained to base of spine, volume 5, small abrasion to rear boards. Bookplate to front pastedown in volume 2. A very heavy set, additional postage required for delivery outside the UK.

Condition: Fair. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press/Doubleday Page & Co., 1926. 1st edition. No. 5. Limited edition of 1370 copies. xiii+205pp+ads. Fair book. No dust jacket. Covers soiled. Two inch tear at lower-rear joint. Rear board mildewed. Interior pages Good. Williams & Wilkins bookplate on front pastedown. Light pencil marginalia. (Typography, Graphic Design) Inquire if you need further information. NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES.

First Edition. Totalling approximately 1,500 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white (several folding, many full page), numerous hand-tipped examples and facsimiles, several decorative initials, patterned endpapers Volumes V & VI, index Volume VII; demy 4to; most volumes black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Volume V beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red & blue, Volume VI green cloth, decorated in gilt and dark green, Volume VII brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, occasionally a trifle marked, a couple of corners faintly bruised; top edges gilt (first 4 volumes) or red (Volume VI), others mostly uncut); dust wrapper for Volume VII only; bookseller's tiny stamp at foot of upper pastedowns Volumes I-VI, 2 small bookplates (David and Hermione Chambers, and James Alan Maclean) and signs of removal of another bookplate on upper pastedown Volume VII, all with the book label of David Levine (Sydney) on upper pastedown, a little faint offsetting from some of the coloured illustrations, occasional light foxing; The Fleuron (Volumes I-IV)/Cambridge University Press (Volumes V-VII), London & Cambridge, 1923-1930. First editions, the first 6 volumes being deluxe editions, printed on handmade paper and limited to between 110 and 160 numbered copies; Volume VII one of 1,000 copies on machine made paper. *A complete set of the major twentieth century British journal on typography and the book arts. Contributors include D. B. Updike, Holbrook Jackson, W. A. Dwiggins, Stanley Morison, Rudolf Koch, A. J. A. Symons, and others, on subjects including the work of Emery Walker, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Bruce Rogers, Frederic W. Goudy, Eric Gill, Claud Lovat Fraser, the Officina Bodoni, script types, decorative papers, and more. From the collection of Australian graphic designer and typographer Eric Maguire, who made the attractive dust wrappers for the first six volumes, each from different Japanese handmade patterned papers, with small volume labels in his distinctive hand. The publisher's printed dust wrapper for the final volume is slightly soiled, with a couple of tiny splits at head of backstrip, and with four small inked underlining to some of the text on the front panel.