PART III - Type & Type Specimens Books
252 BAUER, Dr Konrad F. Jahreszahlen aus acht Jahrhunderten. Bauersche Giesserei, Frankfurt, 1954. FIRST EDITION, 30 leaves, french-folded, + colophon; printed in black & sepia, showing dates in 110 different scripts & types; original printed boards, backstrip a little rubbed. £15
253 BERRY, JOHNSON & JASPERT. The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces. Blandford Press, 1962. Third Edition, revised & enlarged; 4to., pp.420; a good copy in original green cloth, hinges lightly rubbed. £20
254 COWELL, W.S. LEWIS, John [Designer] A Book of Typefaces. With some illustrated examples of text and display setting. W.S. Cowell Ltd, Ipswich, 1952. FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.(6)76; very good in original ring-bound decorated cloth & dust-wrapper; copy no.2398. A typically attractive production by the renowned lithographic printers, making full use of designer John Lewis's enthusiasm for printed ephemera. £20
255 ENDERS, Ludwig. Messe-Grotesk. Zierat von Ludwig Enders. Werbeschrift der Actiengesellschaft fur Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach a. Main, [c1926] Landscape folio (235 x 310mm); pp.(16); a most attractive specimen with a variety of sample settings using Enders' bold & attractive ornaments; printed in various colours; well preserved in original stiff wrappers, paper label. £35
256 ENDERS, Ludwig. Zierat. Die Stucke werden in starkem Kupferniederschlag auf Holzfuss geliefert. Actiengesellschaft fur Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach a. M. [c1926] Folio (310 x 235mm); pp.(12); sample settings using a variety of Enders' bold & attractive ornaments; printed in various colours; well preserved in original decorated wrappers. £18
257 FOURNIER, Pierre-Simon. The Manuel Typographique of Pierre-Simon Fournier le jeune. [1764/66.] Together with Fournier on Typefounding. An English translation of the text by Harry Carter. In Facsimile. With an introduction and notes by James Mosley. In three volumes. Darmstadt, 1995 [1997] FIRST EDITION, limited to 400 sets; 3vol., pp.(6)xxxii,323(8); (6)xlvi,306(4); (6)xliv,496; 16 folding plates; the first complete facsimile edition of Fournier's seminal work, expertly annotated by Mosley; new in silk cloth, paper labels. £90
258 GERMAN TYPE. Antiqua-Type Senator. Actiengesellschaft fur Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach am Main, [c1928] Folio, (310 x 235mm); pp.(28); three specimen pages & a wide variety of sample settings in various colours; well preserved in original decorated stiff wrappers; a splendid period piece produced at the Ludwig Enders Hausdruckerei. ; £25
259 GERMAN TYPE. Edel-Ronde [with] Edel-Ronde-Kursiv Herausgegeben von der Actiengesellschaft fur Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach am Main, [c1926] Two specimens, folio, (310 x 235mm); pp.(12; 8); specimens and a variety of sample settings in various colours; well preserved in original decorated wrappers, paper label. £25
260 GERMAN TYPE Borders. Einfassung Serie 115 [-117]. Three border specimens: Serie 115; 116 Mexiko [&] 117 'Bastienne' Das Neue Schmuckmaterial. Actiengesellschaft fur Schriftgiesserei und Maschinenbau, Offenbach am Main, [c1926] Three specimens, folio, (310 x 235mm); pp.(8; 4; 8); specimens and sample settings in various colours; well preserved. £25
261 GERMAN TYPE. TRUMP, Georg. Codex. Eine Neue Schrift Gezeichnet von G. Trump. Herausgegeben von der Schriftgiesserei C.E. Weber in Stuttgart [c1953] Folio, (295 x 210mm); pp.(24); printed in various colours with a variety of sample settings for book, advertising & other display work; well preserved in original ring-bound printed card. £20
262 GILL, Eric. HARLING, Robert. The Letter Forms and Type Designs of Eric Gill. Eva Svensson, 1979. Pp.64; illustrations & facsimiles throughout, some in colour, several folding; a very good copy in original wrappers of this expanded version of Harling's study which first appeared in Alphabet & Image. £12
263 HAILING, Thomas. Hailing's Circular Volume I. Published Quarterly. [Numbers 1-12, November, 1877 - Autumn 1882.] Thomas Hailing, Oxford Printing Works, Cheltenham, 1877-1882 FIRST EDITION, lg.4to. (325 x 250mm), pp.(8)116; illustrations & decorations throughout with many examples of 'fancy' printing in colours, silver & gold; light spotting of first two leaves, otherwise a very good copy in original decorated brown cloth, gilt, extremities rubbed & a little worn but sound, free endpapers sometime removed. A mix of printing news, typographic principles and advertisements but primarily a vehicle for Hailing to demonstrate his fancy printing skills; frontispiece portrait of Benjamin Franklin, 8pp. of prelims & 12 quarterly issues, initially 4pp. each but soon growing to 12pp. A second volume of 12 issues appeared 1883-89, both are extremely uncommon. See cover illustration £320
264 JEFFERY, Desmond & Libertad. the small letter. praxis documents 1 Praxis, 1956. FIRST EDITION, pp.(4)20; original printed stiff wrappers, slightly soiled. Interesting selection of largely display fonts & ornaments. 'We do not expect this booklet to be of any use to anybody, except possibly as a Dreadful Warning to the thoughtful against undue distortion & ornamentation of the basic letterforms...' £12
265 JONES, George W. [& others] Report of the Committee appointed to Select the Best faces of Type and Modes of Display for Government Printing. HMSO, 1922. (Reprinted 1931) Folio, pp.(2)18; 18 plates of 9 'Covers of Official Publications' showing actual covers & the Committee's redesigned suggestions, 9 plates of title-pages, 10 Designs for Royal Arms & 6 examples of page designs with 'proper imposition'; a very good copy in original printed blue wrappers of this influential report for which the chief typographic advisers were Jones, L.A. Legros and Joseph Thorp. £35
266 KLINGSPOR. Cocktail. New borders drawn by Alfred Finsterer. Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach A.M. [1950s] 12pp. pamphlet specimen in colours and 22 sample settings in a variety of sizes & formats from wine labels & menus to letterheads & advertising fliers; fine in original card folder. £25
267 KLINGSPOR. Five pamphlet specimens for: Cabinett, Kabel, neu-kabel, Koch Antiqua and Stahl. Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach A.M. [1950s] Five pamphlet specimens, each 8-16pp., printed in black & various single colours; well preserved in original wrappers. £25
268 KLINGSPOR. Salto. Eine moderne Type nach Zeichnung von Karl Georg Hoefer... Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach A.M. [c1952] 6pp. pamphlet specimen in colours and 20 sample settings in various sizes & formats for display, book & ephemeral use including letterheads, programmes & advertising fliers; fine in original card folder. £20
269 KLINGSPOR. Variante. Presenting 26 lively characters. [Decorative Initials designed by Joachim Romann.] Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach A.M. [1951] 8pp. pamphlet specimen in black & red and 14 sample settings in various sizes & formats for display, book & ephemeral use; fine in original card folder. £20
270 KLINGSPOR. KOCH, Rudolf. Neuland. Geschnitten von Rudolf Koch. Herausgegeben von Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach A.M. [c1953] 8pp. pamphlet specimen in colours; fine in original decorated wrapper. £10
271 KLINGSPOR. SPEMANN, Rudo. Gavotte. Eine Kursiv von Rudo Spemann. Geschnitten und herausgegeben von Gebr. Klingspor, Offenbach a. M. [c1939] 4to., pp.24; printed in black & several single colours; two mounted plates & two tipped-in specimens; a handsome specimen with various inserts & sample settings; very good in original printed wrappers. £15
272 LEWIS, John. A Handbook of Printing Types with notes on the style of composition and graphic processes used by Cowells. W.S. Cowell, Ipswich, 1947. FIRST EDITION, pp.95; many illustrations & 13 coloured lithographs after Moore, Piper, Hughes-Stanton, Nash, Freedman, Bawden & Sutherland; a very good copy in pictorial dust-wrapper. £15
273 MILLER & RICHARD. Typefounders catalogue [for 1873]. Reprinted in facsimile by Bloomfield Books, 1974. Unpaginated (c.200 leaves); very good in blue cloth-backed wrappers, paper label. A useful facsimile of this extensive specimen which includes many pages of equipment, vignettes, ornaments & borders. £20
274 MORISON, Stanley. On Type Designs Past and Present. A brief introduction. New Edition. Ernest Benn, 1962. Pp.79; 59 specimens of type; a very good copy in original boards of this revised & enlarged edition of Morison's classic study. £12
275 MORISON, Stanley. Type Designs of the Past and Present. With upwards of sixty illustrations. The Fleuron, 1926. FIRST EDITION, pp.(8)70(2); 64 facsimile illustrations; a good copy in lightly soiled & worn dust-wrapper. £12
276 NOTTING, William. Printing Materials and Machines. [Illustrated Catalogue & price-list.] William Notting Ltd., Bowling Green Lane EC1, [1920s?] 4to., (number 364); pp.(4)109 (break in pagination at 71-7 but complete as issued); illustrations in line & half-tone throughout; a very good copy of this scarce catalogue in original double screw binder, lettered in gold; a little rubbed at extremities. £65
278 STEMPEL. Chronik der Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel AG Sechzig Jahre Im Dienste Der Lettern 1895-1955. D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt A.. M. 1954. FIRST EDITION, pp.(38); four tipped-in portraits; printed flier laid in; a handsome production in original boards, slightly soiled & a little worn at hinges but sound. A brief review of the firm's history and chronology of its types. £15
279 STEMPEL. Gotenburg. Ein grosser deutscher formgedanke. Schriftgiesserei und Messinglinien-fabrik D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main, [c.1937] Printed card folder (310 x 230mm) containing 8pp. specimen (incorporating large folding broadside), large folding wood letter poster for Gotenburg in Holz, 4pp. specimen of fette Gotenburg, and 24 sample pamphlets, fliers, cards, letterheads, book pages, &c., in various colours on different papers; card folder lightly dust-soiled and a little creased otherwise well preserved. £30
280 STEMPEL. Gussprogramm 1952. Stempel-Schriften. Verleihen Ihren Druckerzeugnissen Den Spempel Ihres Geschmacks. D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt am Main, 1952. Landscape format (150 x 215mm) c150 leaves of type specimens (4 of rules & borders) with accompanying notes; printed in black & brown, largely on rectos only; well preserved in slightly soiled original printed card covers. £25
281 STEMPEL. Quality Types for Quality Printing. D. Stempel Limited Type-Foundry, Frankfort on Main, [c1930] Folio, pp.24(2); tipped-in half-tone plate; printed in red, black & ochre; a brief account of the firm and handsome showing of 20 types in sample settings for book & advertising use; well preserved in lightly dust-soiled original card wrappers. £20
282 STEMPEL. Tannenberg die erfolgreiche deutsche Schrift. Schriftgiesserei und Messinglinien-fabrik D. Stempel AG, Frankfurt a. Main, [c.1937] Printed card folder (300 x 218mm) containing 10pp specimen (fan-folded) and 24 sample pamphlets, fliers, cards, letterheads, book pages, &c., in various colours on different papers, secured with original printed yellow band; card folder lightly dust-soiled, otherwise remarkably well preserved. £35
283 STEMPEL. Types on Pica System. D. Stempel AG, Type-Foundry, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany [c1952] Folio, pp.(68); 3 additional pamphlet specimens laid in; a very nice copy of this handsome specimen produced for the English market. £20
284 UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley. Printing Types their history, forms and use. A study in survivals. [In two volumes.] Third Edition. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1962. Third Edition, 2vol., pp.xlvi,292; xx,326; 367 illustrations & facsimiles, some folding; a very good set in dust-wrappers. 'At once a revelation and an inspiration.' Morison to Updike, March 1937. £65