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BALL, Johnson, 1901-1985 : WILLIAM CASLON 1693-1766 : THE ANCESTRY, LIFE AND CONNECTIONS OF ENGLAND’S FOREMOST LETTER-ENGRAVER AND TYPE-FOUNDER. Kineton : Roundwood Press, 1973. First edition. An extraordinarily detailed and thoroughly-researched account of Caslon’s life, achievement and connections – with much also on John Baskerville, William Bowyer, Edward Cookes, Benjamin Green, James Green, Thomas Guy, Saloman Negri, John Watts, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25460 – or simply click on the button
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BARKER, Nicolas (Nicolas John), 1932- : THE FUTURE OF TYPOGRAPHICAL STUDIES. Chapel Hill : Hanes Foundation, 1996. First edition. The tenth Hanes Lecture – “The word ‘serif’ is odd ...” – thoughts from the masterly Nicolas Barker. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 39115 – or simply click on the button
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BARKER, Nicolas (Nicolas John), 1932- : STANLEY MORISON. London : Macmillan London, (1972). First edition. Both the best life of Stanley Morison (1889-1967) and an authoritative account of typography in the twentieth century – with much incidental material on Lord Astor, R. M. Barrington-Ward, Lord Beaverbrook, Robert Bridges, William Burch, Cambridge University Press, Eric Gill, Victor Gollancz, Edward Johnston, Hans Mardersteig, the Monotype Corporation, Bruce Rogers, Oliver Simon, The Times, D. B. Updike, Beatrice and Frederic Warde, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21083 – or simply click on the button
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BASTIEN, A.J. (Alfred James), 1897-1970 : TYPE LETTERING AND MANUSCRIPTION ALPHABETS. West Drayton : A. J. Bastien – The Typographical Centre, 1953. Second edition. A redesigned, rewritten and reset version of the original 1950 edition. Specimen alphabets of a large number of contemporary type-faces, etc., with extensive preliminary discussion – including material on the influence of the Festival of Britain on typography. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 25388 – or simply click on the button
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CARTER, Sebastian, 1941- : TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS. London : Trefoil Publications, (1987). First edition. Loosely inserted is an autograph note, signed with forename, from Sebastian Carter. Well illustrated studies of Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Koch, William Addison Dwiggins, Eric Gill, Victor Hammer, Stanley Morison, Hans Mardersteig, Jan van Krimpen, Georg Trump, Joseph Blumenthal, Robert Hunter Middleton, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26080 – or simply click on the button
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FRY’S METAL FOUNDRIES : PRINTING METALS. London : Fry’s Metal Foundries, [1936]. First edition. A detailed analysis, with some fine examples of micro-photography, of the physical requirements and properties of type metal – metals for slug-casting, linotype, monotype, stereotype, electo backing, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28111 – or simply click on the button
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GALE & POLDEN : TYPE IN USE AT THE WELLINGTON PRESS, ALDERSHOT. London : Gale & Polden, [ca.1935]. An attractive small type specimen book – with a pleasant array of faces for display and mechanical composition – Bodoni, Clearface, Gill, Goudy, Grotesque, Plantin, Rockwell, Times and other rather more unusual examples, with numerous borders, etc. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28100 – or simply click on the button
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[HAYES, Stuart F. (Stuart Furnevall), 1910-1979] : TILLOTSONS SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE FACES TO SHOW THE TYPE AVAILABLE IN TILLOTSONS COMPOSING ROOM AND TO ILLUSTRATE ITS USE. Bolton : Tillotsons (Bolton) Ltd., 1949. “New edition” – although no earlier edition has been traced. A handsomely produced specimen book, designed by Tillotsons’ house typographer, Stuart F. Hayes. Includes specimens of Times New Roman, Perpetua, Gill Sans, Caslon Old Face, Garamond, Plantin and Rockwell, with display types including Bernhard, Bodoni, Chisel, Corvinus, Colonna, Elongated Roman, Imprint Shadow, Narciss, Nicholas Cochin, Old Face Heavy, Palace Script, Perpetua Bold and Trafton Script, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21482 – or simply click on the button
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[HAYES, Stuart F. (Stuart Furnevall), 1910-1979] : TILLOTSONS TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK INCORPORATING THE HOUSE STYLE OF TYPESETTING AND STANDARD PRINTERS’ AND AUTHORS’ PROOF CORRECTIONS. Bolton : Tillotsons (Bolton) Ltd., (1952). Second edition. A handsomely produced specimen book, designed by Tillotsons’ house typographer, Stuart F. Hayes. Includes specimens of Times New Roman, Times Bold, Baskerville, Perpetua, Bodoni, Gill Sans, Caslon Old Face, Garamond, Plantin, Rockwell, with display types including Grotesque, Elongated Roman, Chisel, Perpetua Titling, Madonna Ronde, Palace Script, Old English Text, Tea Chest, Studio, Variante Initials, Trafton Script and Glamour, as well as rules and borders. Also with notes on house style, proof-reading, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20155 – or simply click on the button
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HUTT, Allen (George Allen), 1901-1973 : FOURNIER : THE COMPLEAT TYPOGRAPHER. London : Frederick Muller, 1972. First edition. An illustrated study of the celebrated Pierre Simon Fournier le Jeune (1712-1768) – in the “Ars Typographica Library” series. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21168 – or simply click on the button
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JOHNSON, A.F. (Alfred Forbes), 1884-1972 : TYPE DESIGNS : THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. London : Grafton & Co., 1934. First edition. An elegant study – with chapters on gothic, roman old face, roman modern face, italic, script types, early advertising types, type specimens, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 28112 – or simply click on the button
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JONES, Herbert, 1905- : STANLEY MORISON DISPLAYED : AN EXAMINATION OF HIS EARLY TYPOGRAPHIC WORK. London : Frederick Muller, 1976. First edition. Concentrating on the 1920s, with material on the Cloister Press, Victor Gollancz, Monotype Corporation, Pelican Press, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21078 – or simply click on the button
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LUND HUMPHRIES & CO. : A SELECTION OF TYPES FROM THE COUNTRY PRESS. Bradford : Lund Humphries & Co., 1929. Second edition. A very attractively produced specimen book, with a good selection of both book and display types, both mechanically set and hand set – Baskerville, Caslon, Cheltenham, Cochin, De Vinne, Esthonian, Garamond, Imprint, Othello, Venetian, and many more. SOLD |
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MORISON, Stanley (Stanley Arthur), 1889-1967 & UPDIKE, D.B. (Daniel Berkeley), 1860-1941 : SELECTED CORRESPONDENCE. London : Scolar Press, (1980). First British edition. The absorbing correspondence of the English typographer Stanley Morison and the American printer Daniel Berkeley Updike – with wide-ranging comment on the great typographers, ancient and modern, and much on the book design of the first half of the twentieth century. Edited and introduced by David McKitterick. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20363 – or simply click on the button
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MORISON, Stanley (Stanley Arthur), 1889-1967 : TALBOT BAINES REED : AUTHOR, BIBLIOGRAPHER, TYPEFOUNDER. Cambridge : Privately Printed at the University Press, 1960. First edition : limited to 500 copies. A life of the well-known fiction writer for boys, Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893), who led a dual life as a prominent typefounder and the author of “A History of the Old English Letter Foundries” (1887). With material on the Caxton Exhibition; the Boy’s Own Paper; the Fann Street Foundry; Typography; the Leeds Mercury; the Bibliographical Society, etc. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26106 – or simply click on the button
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MORISON, Stanley (Stanley Arthur), 1889-1967 : THE TYPOGRAPHIC ARTS : TWO LECTURES. London : Sylvan Press, 1949. First combined edition. Includes “The Typographic Arts”, first printed at Edinburgh in 1944, and “The Art of Printing”, first printed in the Proceedings of the British Academy in 1938 – but here with fresh illustrations. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21085 – or simply click on the button
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MOSLEY, James, 1935- : BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831 : A HAND-LIST. Oxford : Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. First edition. An annotated finding list of 220 typefounders’ and fifty-four printers’ specimens, with appendices of related material. Oxford Bibliographical Society Occasional Publication No.14. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 21411 – or simply click on the button
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ROBINSON, L.J. (Leslie John) : A DICTIONARY OF GRAPHICAL SYMBOLS. London : F. C. Avis, (1972). First edition. An absorbing and compelling dictionary of symbols, from the letter A to the meteorological symbol for zodiacal light, via Lithuanian accents and logotype – accents, alphabets, book reference marks, borders, commercial signs, conventional symbols, initial letters, mathematical characters, ornaments, printing peculiars, representative foreign alphabets, scientific marks, type founts, zodiacal signs, etc. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43651 – or simply click on the button
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SIMON, Oliver (Oliver Joseph), 1895-1956 : INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY. London : Faber & Faber, (1945). First edition. The classic mid twentieth-century account of “the many typographic fundamentals of book-production”. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20493 – or simply click on the button
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STEPHENSON, BLAKE & CO. : [COLLECTION OF PROMOTIONAL LEAFLETS]. Sheffield & London : Stephenson Blake [ca.1960]. A collection of fifteen attractively designed promotional leaflets advertising various type specimens from the long-established Blake Stephenson & Co. Includes “Catch Yourself a ‘Different’ Sans” (Condensed and Grotesque); “The Sun Never Sets on Caslon”; “Still Topping the Bill” (Playbill and Egyptian Expanded); “From Stephenson Blake” (Saxon Black, Bologna, Festival); “The Two Best 20th Century Type Families” (Times and Perpetua); “The Best of the Heavyweights” (Dorio Italic, Wide Sans, Grotesque); “Lots of Weights of Sans” (Light, Narrow, Medium, Grotesque); “Famous Scripts” (Imperial, Marina, Palace, Society, Youthline); “Rich Fruity Latins” (Bold, Wide, Chisel); “Decoration is Timeless” (Fry’s Ornamented, Thorne Shaded, Sans Serif Shaded, Molé Foliate, Old Face, Regalia); “Pen Letters” (Amanda Ronde, Madonna, Mercury, Parisian Ronde, Recherché, Union Pearl); “Carefully We Cultivate the Adonis Family”, etc. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44579 – or simply click on the button
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TAYLOR, GARNETT, EVANS & CO. : SPECIMENS OF PRINTING TYPES, &C.: OLD STYLE SERIES. REDDISH BRANCH : “GUARDIAN” GENERAL PRINTING WORKS. Manchester : Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co., 1905. An attractive type specimen book, this volume concentrating on old style faces in various sizes and styles – Antique Old Style, Cheltenham Old Style, Linotype Monotype Old Style, Old Style, Ronaldson Old Style, Venetian Old Style, Caslon Old Face, Bemrose, etc. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 20270 – or simply click on the button
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TRACY, Walter (Walter Valentine), 1914-1995 : THE TYPOGRAPHIC SCENE. London : Gordon Fraser Gallery, (1988). First edition. A study of twentieth century typography – with material on Theodore Low de Vinne, D. B. Updike, Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Beatrice Warde, Paul A. Bennett, Jan Tschichold, etc., and general consideration of design, research and reform by the designer of the Jubilee, Telegraph Modern and Times Europa typefaces. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 26090 – or simply click on the button
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UPDIKE, D.B. (Daniel Berkeley), 1860-1941 : PRINTING TYPES : THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE : A STUDY IN SURVIVALS. London : Oxford University Press, [1951]. Second edition : the second impression of the 1937 American sheets. Originally published in 1922, but here much augmented – Updike’s magisterial history and survey of the printing types of the western world – “stands foremost among the classic books of the printing trade” – the invention; the font and its case; the Latin alphabet; fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and England; the Aldine italic; type specimens; types and foundries to 1800, country by country; the American colonies; the nineteenth century; English types 1800-1844; the revival of Caslon and Fell; industrial conditions and more. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43439 – or simply click on the button
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