Typography

London: printed for A. Churchill, J. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. Walthoe, E. Horne, B. Tooke, D. Midwinter, B. Cowse, R. Robinson, and T. Ward, 1720. First Edition thus. Full Calf. Fine. First Strype Edition, best and most desirable edition of Stow's magisterial study—the "starting point of all inquiry into the subject of Elizabethan London." Complete in two folio volumes; each of the six 'books,' introduced by a drop-head title, with its own pagination: [4], xii, xlii, [2], 308, 208, 285, [1]; [2], 120, 459, [1], 93, [3], 143, [1], 26, [2]pp, with 70 plates, plans and maps (31 double-page or folding), including those of London, Westminster and Southwark. Title pages in red and black. Superbly bound in handsome contemporary paneled calf sewn on six raised bands, very skillfully rebacked with the original lettering pieces laid down. A crisp, clean, fresh copy, with only occasional minor soiling, the copper-engraved plates in deep, rich impressions. Provenance: On the verso of the title pages, the… Read More

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Dirk Hagner,, [n.d.].. Edition of 30. 11.25 x 7.25" closed, extends to 11.75 x 30". Accordion structure with four folds. Letterpress printed on 100% cotton paper. Black paper-covered boards with silver titling and multicolored thread tie closure. Housed in black lidded box with title in white and hand written edition number on lid. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "The album uses a quote from Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska employing texting as a means to allow use of larger type in the letterpress process than would be normally possible. 'All is mine and nothing owned for memory, and mine only while I look.' Much like a jpeg photograph the words compress when texted to fewer letters; however, when read, it 'resurrects' to the full wording. It allowed the effective use of some pied wood type.

Charlottesville:: Virginia Center for the Book,, 2017.. Edition of 25. 8.9 x 11"; 112 pages. Printed letterpress on Crane's Lettra paper (300 gsm). Body text in Garamond. Labels in Gill Sans. Boards covered in marbled paper crafted by Lindsey Mears with cloth spine. Numbered. Designer and printer -Lucas Czarnecki. Editor and printer - Kevin McFadden. Master printer - Garrett Queen. Consulting compositors - Bonnie Berstein, Richard Cappuccio, and Aurora Nichols. Virginia Center for the Book, Project Background: "The first pages of this volume were printed more than a decade ago in a daunting attempt to produce a complete reference to the entire collection of the movable type available to VABC printers. "Speaking in Faces, a project begun at VABC in 2004 by Johanna Drucker with VABC artists, is a unique specimen book, a creative resource for exploring letterpress printing, typography, and the treasures of our large and unique moveable type collection. VABC holds cases of… Read More

Chicago: John Calhoun Club. Very Good+. 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Limited edition, #72 of 160 copies in publisher's brown cloth-backed patterned boards with matching slipcase. Printed on Italian handmade paper. Brown cloth spine with bright gilt title. Deckle page edges, top edge gilt. Interior of text is tight, clean and intact. Contains14 illustrations of early printings, including a folding Deseret News (unopened). Text & slipcase bordering near fine. Typography, Western Americana; Samples of printing; 8vo; 91 pages .

Printed and sold by Clarke Conwell at the Elston Press, New Rochelle, New York, in black and red on hand-made paper. pps. iv plus 57. Overall size c.10. x 6.5/8 inches. c.25 x 17 cm. One of a limited edition of 160 copies. Name stamp of Sydney H. Caslon Smith on half title and top margin of title page. Top and bottom of spine a little worn/rubbed (no loss) o/w very good. contents fine.

Italia: n.p., 1835. Very Good. 19 cm; 20 pages (three blank), including 7 full-page illustrations with captions. Text and illustrations lithographed throughout. Bound in (later?) plain wraps. Not in Melzi. No copies located. Apparently unrecorded booklet with text and illustrations produced completely in lithograph. The text reproduces an italic calligraphy that must have been lettered in reverse on stone, or written out on transfer paper before being applied to the lithographic stone. The narrative concerns a lady who is handily juggling simultaneous affairs with a young man and with the young man's father.

Jerusalem: Massada Press & Golden Pages, 1979. Limited/Numbered . Original Full Leather. Fine. Large Folio. Zvi Narkiss. Some 150 unnumbered pages. Parallel Hebrew and English text. Introduction by Menahem Begin. Nearly each page ornated with gold illuminations by Zvi Narkiss,Upper edge gilt. One of 1800 numbered copies of a bibliophile edition signed by both editor and artist. A fine copy.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2020.. Edition of 8. 15 x 11.5" (38 x 29.25 cm); 20 pages. Collagraphs. Chine collé. Letterpress printed with debossed running text. Screen printing. Bound in paper over boards with leather spine. Front cover with printed titles and black glyph illustration. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "This large format case-bound book reflects on COVID-19 and is based on a poem by Emily Dickinson which she wrote in 1880, 'Apparently with no surprise'. "This time around the 'blonde assassin' on stage is played by the red-crested corona virus upstart. The sun proceeds but is unmoved. Life is often cruel and death can be random and unexpected, with God paring her fingernails while it all happens. "The book's pages follow the 8 lines of the poem, cutting up the words in several ways, and reassembling the pieces with collagraphs and chine collé, employing debossed running text… Read More

Leipzig: Meissner & Buch, 1918. First Edition- Limited and Numbered PRIVATE PRESS. Original Cardboard. Very Good. 4to. Richard Winckel. 69pp. VORZUGSAUSGABE VON 100 NUM. EX Auf Zanders Bütten in der Druckerei J.B. Hirschfeld(August Pries) gedruckt.. With 6 hand coloured woodcuts signed by the artist. Spine expertly renewed. Old small book store label on first fly-leaf. A VERY GOOD , CLEAN AND FRESH COPY.. I. Druck der Wahlverwandten. ENTIRE EDITION OF 300 COPIES. THIS COPY IS NR. 73 AND SIGNED (URAUSGABE) BY ARNO HOLZ AND WINCKEL.

Verona: Editiones Officinae Bodoni, 1952. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Quarter vellum over patterned paper-covered boards; vellum ruled in gilt with gilt lettering at spine. Top edge trimmed and gilt, other edges untrimmed. Housed in cream paper-covered slipcase. Special edition printed by hand-press in Griffo type on hand-made Fabriano paper, limited to 225 numbered copies, of which this is 106. Octavo. xi, [1, blank], 127, [1, colophon] pages. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts, made by Bartolommeo di Giovanni for a lost quattrocento edition, which were used to illustrate various later texts and have now been reassembled and recut. One full-page facsimile from the English version printed in 1597. Slightest toning and shelf wear to binding and slipcase. About fine. .

Amsterdam: Phoenix Editions, 1982. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Original gilt half vellum.Illustrated with an original etching by Rob Cox. An extra copy of the etching on different paper is loosely inserted. Designed and printed in black and red at the Bonnefant Press in a limited edition of 30 copies. Signed by David Simaleavich and Hans van Eijk. Copy printed on the name of Rob [Cox].15 (2) pp. Very fine copy. .

Engraved title-vignette, 5 unnumb. leaves, 71, (3), 361, (3) pages ; engraved title vignette, 2 unnumb. leaves, 284 (2) pages. Cont. green half morocco, flat spine richly gilt with gilt stamped title. Covers lined with shell marbled paper, endpapers lined with an unusual pattern of multiple coloured shell marbled paper. All edges yellow. 4to (290 x 210 mm). Extremeties rubbed. Brooks, 361 ; Weiss 101. "Edizione sorvegliata da Bodoni e ben lo scorge chi ne esamina i pregi tipografici" (De Lama II, p. 53). A fine copy broadmargined and fresh inside.

San Juan Capistrano, California:: Inkswine Press,, 2021.. Edition of 10. 13.75 x 11.25 x .675 inches (35 x 29 x 1.8 cm); 12 pages pages including front and end matters on heavy 480 gm rag paper. Multi-color woodblock prints and letterpress type. Quarter-bound in black Kraftex leather over blue hand-made paper covered boards, with foil title. Signed and numbered by the artist. Dirk Hagner: "Brecht's 'The Mask of Evil' reveals beautifully the problem of being angry and hateful in this world: it's straining and a lot of effort - exactly what it looks and sounds like. Here it is interpreted with anxious typography, juxtaposed with calm organic wood textures.

"Pulcinoelefante" is an Italian publishing house founded by Alberto Casiraghi (or Casiraghy).
The books are hand printed using movable types on the high-quality Hahnemühle paper produced in Germany. Annually "Pulcinoelefante" publishes hundreds of small plaquettes formed by a text (aphorism or short poem), accompanied by small engravings or original drawings made by artists. Each edition is published in a very small number of copies hors de commerce.
"[…] Piegata dal vento della vita, sub specie mutationis, l'opera di Alda Merini, in un flusso inarginato, si muove dalla narrativa alla poesia, dall'eros al mistico, dall'informe alla forma, dal terrestre al celeste, dal vissuto al sognato.
E' significativo notare il profondo legame di Alda Merini con le edizioni Pulcinoelefante di Alberto Casiraghy (edizioni veloci, stampate in giornata). Si attua una produzione sconfinata di Alda Merini, dove si riconferma un'intuizione consequenziale: una sorta di frase infinita nella temporalità, nella durata… Read More

The first-ever appearance in print of James Joyce's Story for Children, THE CATS OF COPENHAGEN in a special limited edition of 200 copies.
Michael Caine has printed this large-format letterpress edition with virtuoso skill, setting the text in a wondrously expressive array of original, early twentieth-century hand-cut Italian and French founts to capture the imagination of readers young and old. Casey Sorrow has brought to life Joyce's curious 'Københavnere' with ingeniously playful pen-and-ink drawings, specially commissioned, and printed by typographique cliché.
This Numbered issue, printed on Fedrigoni Freelife Vellum, is in double-elephant sextos and hand-bound in one-quarter cloth over marbled boards.
Further details and images are available at http://ithyspress.com