PART III - Type & Type Specimen Books
191 CARTER, Matthew. RE, Margaret. Typographically Speaking. The Art of Matthew Carter. With essays by Joanna Drucker and James Mosley. Princeton Architectural Press, 2003. £20
Folio, pp.104; illustrations & facsimiles throughout including 21 colour plates of type designs & lay-outs; new in printed card wrappers
192 CASLON, William. A Specimen of Printing Types, by William Caslon, Letter-Founder to His Majesty. Printed by Galabin and Baker, 1785. £2,200
8vo., 247 x 160mm; 67 leaves comprising: title, dedication, preface and 64pp. specimen, all printed on rectos only; a very good large copy in contemporary half calf, marbled boards, neatly rebacked with new endpapers; ex libris James Rennell and 'Lady Rodd 1840'. Comprises 32 leaves of types (including 8 of Greek & exotic fonts), 2ll. music, 2ll. script, 1 leaf ship ornaments & swelled ruled, 6ll. flowers & ornaments & 21 leaves of ornament designs, head-pieces, &c. Mosley 55; Mosley PHS J16 p.112.
193 GRANJON. BOLTON, Claire. A Granjon Arabesque. Alembic Press, 1998. £36
FIRST EDITION limited to 140 numbered copies; (70 x 65mm), pp.71 bound concertina-style in six fold-out sections so the evolution of a pattern from a single unit can be better displayed; printed in blue & black with a splendid variety of patterns & accompanying text; new in decorated paper wrappers & a tie. A most attractive production, ingeniously designed & engineered.
194 HUTCHINGS, R.S. A Manual of Decorated Typefaces... Cory Adams & Mackay, [&] Hastings House, New York 1965. £22
FIRST EDITION, (US issue), sm.4to., pp.96; a very good copy of this standard reference in frayed dust-wrapper.
195 LUND, HUMPHRIES. Types. Some of those in use at The Country Press. Percy Lund, Humphries & Co., The Country Press, Bradford... [1922]. £30
Pp.(6)81; very good in original tan lambskin blocked in gold, a little rubbed & worn at extremities but sound. A fine production from the early years of a 'printing firm which came to the fore during the nineteen-twenties, both for its technical excellence & advanced ideas on design...' McLean in Modern Book Design p.90.
196 MORISON, Stanley. A Tally of Types. With additions by several hands. Edited by Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge at the University Press, 1973. £65
No.117 of 300 copies of this deluxe version of the enlarged second edition; pp.138 + colophon; frontispiece portrait by Wm. Rothenstein; very good in original linen-backed decorated boards & slip-case. The 17 type designs of Morison's original Tally of 1953 are augmented by Van Dijk, Ehrhardt & Romulus described by Netty Hoeflake, Harry Carter & John Dreyfus respectively. Appleton
198 POYNDER. 40-line Poynder Bold Condensed. Alembic Press, 2000. £30
Limited to 30 numbered copies; sm.4to., 18 leaves printed on rectos only & bound accordian-style to allow the whole alphabet to be displayed in fan formation; printed in two merging shades of purple with printed violet card piano-hinge binding. With an introductory note by Claire Bolton on this DelIittle wood letter and its designer Robert Poynder of the family printing firm in Reading.
199 ROGERS, Bruce. New Series of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers and the Arrighi Italics of Frederic Warde. Cut by Monotype and here first used to print a paper by Alfred W. Pollard. Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1929. £20
FIRST EDITION, sm.folio; pp.14 + 4pp. specimen, ornaments printed in red; original printed wrappers, uncut; printed on Arches paper. A fine copy of the first appearance of these types & Pollard's article - 'The trained printer and the amateur and the pleasure of small books.'
200 RUZICKA, Rudolph. Studies in Type Design. Alphabets with Random Quotations. Friends of the Dartmouth Library, New Hampshire, 1968. £55
FIRST EDITION, lg.4to., 4pp. prelims. & ten broadside specimens (350 x 280mm), each printed in black & single colour on heavy paper with captioned paper folder, incorporating quotations from Frost, Melville, Coleridge, Shakespeare, Whitman, Thoreau, Chaucer, &c.; a very good set in original buckram folder & matching slip-case
201 TUSCAN CONDENSED. 14-line Tuscan Condensed. The Alembic Press, Marcham, [2001] £15
Forty copies printed, (95 x 75mm); a full alphabet of the fine ornate 'Tuscan' wood letter, printed in blue & brown on two accordian-folded sections of 18pp., which slot into each other to form an ingenious honeycomb design within brown printed boards.