Printing Specimens: First Edition (46 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, 1940. Watson-Guptil. Very good spiral bound hardcover. Text clean, no writings. Book.

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 32 pages. Subjects; Typographica. Book Design. Printing History. Practice Periodical Books. Type Specimens. Books Catalogues. 1 Kg. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Very Good. 1st Edition. A printing guide for printers, advertisers, and students of printing. Fully illustrated. Covers and page edges darkened with age. Interior is clean and unmarked except for a few minor smudges.

Spiral Bound. Condition: Good. First Edition. Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall. Good copy in the original blue cloth stamped in silver, spiral-bound (general wear to binding; previous owner's inscription).

First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Date is suggested/cannot be verified. Physical description; 32 pages. Subjects; Typographica. Book Design. Printing History. Practice Periodical Books. Type Specimens. Books Catalogues. 1 Kg. …

Spiral bound. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Turquoise cloth cover is worn and soiled but overall in good condition. Boards are straight. Spiral binding in good condition. Title page modestly soiled. Pages are clean and in very good condition. .

4to. [289]-304 pp. With numerous photo and text illustrations throughout. Colour-illustrated softcovers, yapp edges (minor shelfwear, slight bumping to corners, dustsoiling), still VG copy. First edition issue of the Linotype Bulletin.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Limited/Numbered 500 Copies. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is the limited edition reprint of 500 copies. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 9" wide, 107 pages. …

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 32 pp, 12 plates (including 1 folding0, ills. 102 items. Wrappers stained, contents Very Good.

Printed wrappers, 8vo, 42 pp (in double-column format). 496 items. The contents include: Type Specimens items 1-64; Fine Printing of All periods 65-265; History of Printing 266-417; Calligraphy & Lettering 418-496. Staples rusted, otherwise Good.

First Edition. First edition; 4to; pp. [6], 8, [2] plus 25 plates printed recto/verso. Very good in contemporary black cloth over green paper-covered boards, lettered in gilt on spine.

4to. vii + 107 pp w/index. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light wear along top edges. One of 500 numbered copies. First printing of this edition (originally published in 1928).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated wrappers. 134pp. Split at the edge of the spine, small chips on the rear wrap, a very good copy. Includes a Shakespeare First Folio, offered with the other three folios as a set for $2750, firsts of Milton's *Paradise Lost* and *Paradise Regained* offered together for $175, etc. Includes a six page essay by Bouton on history and trends in book buying and selling. Fascinating insight into late 19th Century book collecting.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Another splendid volume published by The Grolier Club, edited by H. George Fletcher, on the social and technical history of printing and typography, bound handsomely in blue cloth with sharp and distinct gilt lettering to cover and spine, with chapters by Jack Lang (Preface), Eugene S. Flamm (another Preface), the editor, H. George Fletcher, Annie Parent-Charon (on humanism and typography), Isabelle de Conibat ("Pierre Moreau, Master Scribe and Printer (ca. 1600-1648)), "The Rimain du ROi: a type made for the Royal Printing-House of Louis XIV," by James Mosley, and then Livres d'Artistes, The Non-Latin Typefonts, and a Checklist of the Exhibition.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

cloth. small 4to. cloth, 160 pages. First edition. Lacking the dust jacket, else a fine copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. 25x20cm, 230 pages.

1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy large octavo 108pp., text ills., The catalogue was compiled by Graham Pollard, a partner in the firm of Birrell & Garnett. Pollard. was concerned, like Morison, to discover the 'original sources on which the scientific study of type design must be based,' and collections of type specimens were a major part of these sources. Published catalogues were indispensable to the typographical historian. The practical application of Pollard's theory was seen to startling effect in his use of evidence derived from type specimens to convict the forgeries of nineteenth-century pamphlets perpetrated by Thomas James Wise". Number 432 of 500 copies.…

First edition, royal 8vo, xvi, 196pp., original publishers cloth, a fine copy. From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Red canvas covers, titled in black, spiral-bound. A near fine copy. With an excellent selection of types, borders and ornaments.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield, UK 1950. First Edition. 1st Printing. 236 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Jacket has edge wear, long tears, missing chips. Size: 8vo 7.75 - 9.75'' tall. Books on Books::Printing 5993.…

First Edition. Music Book Printing, with Specimens, Stanhope Press and F. H. Gilson Co., 1915, first edition, all edges gilt, some staining to a lower section of the front cover, some bowing to the covers, else vg in chipped glassine dust-wrapper.

First Edition. Very good copy bound in gilt-blocked, cloth-backed boards. Spine ends and panel edges slightly worn and rubbed. Bumped corners. New endpapers. Very clean internally, with just some light marginal tanning. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pages; 1 unnumbered leaf, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 50 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm. Subjects: Printing -- Specimens -- Exhibitions. Advertising layout and typography -- Exhibitions -- Design. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed boards. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 1 pages; Description: Unpaged, ill. Subjects: Printing --Exhibitions. Advertising layout and typography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good++. 1st Edition. xi, [1], 312pp, complete with 109 mounted, printed fabric samples in back. Also, complete with all 50 illustrations, as called for [some folding, one folding plate has a closed tear, with no loss]. Bound in maroon cloth, with binding and hinges tight. Ex-library, no pocket ever placed in book, call numbers on spine. …

cloth-backed boards. 4to. cloth-backed boards. xii, 108 pages. First edition, one of 1750 copies, of which this is one of the 75 copies bound thus and printed on special paper. Very minor rubbing to spine and extremities, very minor toning to the boards, else a near fine copy. Finely printed by W. Lewis at the Cambridge University Press. A useful reference book for the study of type specimens. This dealer's catalogue was attempted to approach an area that had never been covered before in such depth. The prices were extremely low, even for the times. Printing (illustrator). …

Originalbroschur. 21cm. Condition: Gut. First edition. 53 pages. With illustrations and notes, partly in colour. Innendeckel, Vorsätze und Seiten teils stärker stockfleckig, sonst aber sehr gutes Exemplar. SEHR Selten. - (Wir bieten zahlreiche Titel aus diesem Sachgebiet auf unserer HP an. / we offer a lot of books on this subject area on our website ) " This book is bound in paper hand-marbled by Douglas Cockerell and his sons. " - 1926 erschienen. Bound in Douglas Cockerell marbled wrappers with printed labels to front cover and spine. Foxing to title and pages . See 'Cockerell Bindings 1894 - 1980 : Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge Exhibition 1981 - Catalogue entry 100. The first marbled paper wrapper designed by Douglas Cockerell. Aufgrund der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen Handels-Erschwernisse (die neue europäische Verpackungsverordnung mit extremen Gebühren für Händler) kann in folgende Länder KEIN VERSAND erfolgen: Bulgarien, Dänemark, Estland, Finnland, Griechenland, Irland, Kroatien, Lettland, Litauen, Luxemburg, Malta, Polen, Portugal, Rumänien, Schweden, Slowakei, Slowenien, Ungarn, Zypern. Falls Sie eine Rechnungs- und Lieferadresse in DEUTSCHLAND ermöglichen, kann an diese deutsche Adresse OHNE PROBLEME geliefert werden. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 300.…

thick 4to. later quarter brown leather over pebbled cloth-covered boards, original cover title and date laid-down. Frontispiece,352; 168 pages. Two volumes bound in one as issued. First edition (Annenberg p.83; Bigmore & Wyman I,167). Minor rubbing to the extremities of the binding, publisher's binding instructions on front pastedown, foxing to the frontispiece and title page, heavy dampstain to the top corner of pages 15-22, else a near fine copy. This specimen book contains the first appearance of De Vinne's important thesis on printing, set up in the form of a specimen book. This work is not just a compilation of previous works but contains original thinking backed up by many examples. De Vinne says in his preface that he paid more attention to the actual mechanics of printing than had been done previously. Specimen sections contains specimens of Caslon, Pica Aldine, Agate, Diamond, Pica roman and italic, and many others. With original presentation bookplate which has been filled in with ink noting that this was copy number 141 issued March 1st, 1882 to Mr. John Kirkpatrick of Cambridge, Ohio". A well-preserved copy. Founded in 1813, the firm grew and grew and in 1866 came under the direction of David Wolfe Bruce, son of George Bruce. "In 1878 [David] conceived the idea of incorporating his friend Theodore Low De Vinne's book The invention of printing, as an addenda to his type catalogue and it was bound in as an additional 168 leaves. The idea was repeated in 1882 and David always termed this catalogue the crowning work of his career."--Annnenberg. This catalogue is thus perhaps the single most desirable specimen of the prolific Bruce firm (except, of course, for the first which is unobtainable). The firm ceased operation in 1901. later quarter brown leather over pebbled cloth-covered boards, original cover title and date laid-down. Type Specimens (illustrator).…

First Edition. Very good copy bound in gilt-blocked, cloth-backed boards. Spine ends and panel edges slightly worn and rubbed. Bumped corners. New endpapers. Very clean internally, with just some light marginal tanning. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Further scans, images etc. and additional bibliographical material available on request.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 50 pages; 1 unnumbered leaf, 8 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 50 pages of plates : illustrations ; 32 cm. Subjects: Printing -- Specimens -- Exhibitions. Advertising layout and typography -- Exhibitions -- Design. 2 Kg.…

First Edition. Near fine in the original gilt-blocked cloth-backed boards. Panel edges very slightly dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. ; 1 pages; Description: Unpaged, ill. Subjects: Printing --Exhibitions. Advertising layout and typography. 1 Kg.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Red paper-covered boards, black label gilt. Dust-jacket a little ragged and lacking on spine. A very good copy.