20309 ABBINK, Michael. FONTFOCUS KIEVIT. [A digital typeface specimen]. [N.P.:] Fontshop International, 2008. Tall narrow folio, (295x155), [24]p. illustrations and letter samples. A fine copy in original stiff wrappers. A typeface that began in a design school lettering class and became a humanistic sans serif typeface of simple but elegant design offering maximum legibility. £10.00

20315 AM VARITYER. DIGITAL TYPE. VARITYER TYPE SYNOPSIS. Salford: AM Varityper, [1984]. Folio, (320x222mm), [26]ff. of introductory matter and type specimens loosely contained in a card folder, covers slightly soiled. A prefactory notes states that 'AM digital typesetting features the unique Purdy & McIntosh Spirascan system, whose ability to generate smooth curves is denied to many rivals.' A nice example of faces available to a typesetting system than was rapidly superceded £15.00

21542 ARTYPE. ARTYPE | H/R ARTYPE | TRANS-ARTYPE. Crystal Lake: Artype, 1970. 4to, (278x210mm), 96p. numerous letter samples, screens, symbols, &c. Original stiff wrappers, covers slightly soiled. A specimen book of dry transfer letters, &c., with instructions for their use. £10.00

14925 BARBER, Ray. ITC NEW TEXT [Farmington?]: International Typeface Corporation, 1977. Tall narrow 4to, (304x152mm), 35p. A good copy in original wrappers. £5.00

15473 BENGUIAT, Ed. INTRODUCING THE ED BENGUIAT FONTS BY HOUSE. Yorklyn, DE.: House, [2004.] Oblong 4to, (210x272mm), 32p. printed throughout in colours and shewing a variety of settings of Benguiat's fonts available from this founder. A fine copy in original wrappers. £10.00

14923 BENGUIT Ed. ITC CASLON No. 224. [Farmington?]: International Typeface Corporation, 1983. Tall narrow 4to, (304x152mm), 35p. A good copy in original wrappers. £8.00

15010 BENHAM. BENHAM'S BOOK OF PRINTING TYPES. Colchester & London: Benham and Company, [1960.] Sm.4to, (245x187mm), 40p. + 14 leaves of sample pages printed by the house. A good copy in original cloth. £5.00

17094 BERTHOLD. BERTHOLD FOTOTYPES E1. A compendium of Berthold-Fototype faces compiled and explained by Gotz Gunnar Gorissen. Berlin: H. Berthold, 1974. Large 4to, (307x303mm), 506p. numerous typefaces shown in upper and lower case alphabets and numerals, pages 492-506 blank, presumably for the insertion of later additions and supplements. A good copy in original cloth. £50.00

12319 BERTHOLD. FOTOYPES. BODY TYPES SUPPLEMENT NEUE SCHRIFTEN II. Berlin: H. Berthold, 1980. 4to, (296x210mm), 35p. numerous line and paragraph specimens. Original wrappers, very slightly spotted. £5.00

15980 BERTHOLD. FOTOYPES. BODY TYPES SUPPLEMENT NEUE SCHRIFTEN I. Berlin: H. Berthold, 1980. 4to, (296x210mm), 58p. numerous line and paragraph specimens. Original wrappers. £5.00

19744 CAINES, W.S. ABCD CAINES TYPE FACES. Type Specimen Book. Second post-war edition London: W.S. Caines, Andover House, Broadway, Plaistow, 1950. Sm.4to, (255x182mm), 90p. An ex-library copy, with a rubber and pin-hole stamps on the title. Original comb-bound stiff wrappers. £8.00

10206 CARTER, Harry & H.D.L. VERVLIET. CIVILITE TYPES. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1966. 8vo, (248x155mm), xiv,139p. frontispiece & 57 illustrations and type samples. A very good ex-library copy marred only by a small rubber-stamp on the title verso. Original quarter canvas, blue paper-covered boards, bookplate with discard stamp. The contents include a history of printing in civilite types, descriptions of the types, histories of the materials and a list of 638 books, published between 1557 and 1874, in which civilité types were employed. £30.00

8366 CARTER, Harry. A VIEW OF EARLY TYPOGRAPHY up to about 1600. (1969) Reprinted with a new introduction by James Mosley. London: Hyphen Press, 2002 8vo, (216x140mm), 150p. 85 illustrations and a distribution map. A fine copy in original jacketed paperback. (NEW BOOK) A reprint of Carter's classic Lyell Lectures for 1968 which provides an excellent summary of the design and designers of printing types in the 15th and 16th centuries. One of the reasons for the near legendary rarity of the original edition is apparently due to the O.U.P. inadvertently pulping a large portion of the first printing. £15.00

16477 CARTER, Sebastian. TWENTIETH CENTURY TYPE DESIGNERS. [First edition], London: Trefoil, 1987 Sm.4to, (238x222mm), 168p. numerous illustrations. A fine copy in original hardback boards, dustjacket.  Designed by Sebastian Carter himself, this is the first appearance of a book that rapidly became a standard work of reference for typographers, designers and historians of print. £25.00

1964 CASLON, H.W. A BROADSIDE SPECIMEN ..., showing Caslon Old Face. London: H.W. Calson, [?1930s]. Broadsheet (510 x 766mm triple-folded to 194 x 257mm) printed in red and black. A small piece cut, removing one letter sample. £10.00

18148 CASLON, H.W. CASLON OLD FACE HEAVY AND OLD FACE HEAVY COMPRESSED. London: H.W. Caslon, [1920.] Sm.folio, (320x240mm), [24]pp. A very good copy in original wrappers, edges of the wrappers very slightly creased. A handsomely produced typefounders specimen showing the faces in various sizes in letter samples, paragraph, newspaper, display and text page settings. £35.00

14010 CASLON, William. A SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES BY WILLIAM CASLON, 1766. A facsimile with an introduction and notes by James Mosley. Being Journal of the Printing Historical Society, No. 16. London: Printing Historical Society, 1983. 8vo, (247x158mm), [4],113p. 40 facsimile pages & 5 text illustrations. A very good copy in original jacketed wrappers. £15.00

16329 CHAVE, Leonard (Editor). TYPE FOR THE BOOK PAGE AT THE PITMAN PRESS. [Bath printed] London: published by Hamish Hamilton for the Pitman Press, 1984. Roy.8vo, (248x156mm), xx,172p. Original paperback, slightly sunned at the head of the front cover, A third revised edition of a printer's type specimen book first published as Typesetting at the Pitman Press, the bulk of the book is given over to both full-page and paragraph settings of text taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. £10.00

20162 CHAVE, Leonard (Editor). TYPE FOR THE BOOK PAGE AT THE PITMAN PRESS. [Bath printed] London: published by Hamish Hamilton for the Pitman Press, 1984. Roy.8vo, (252x160mm), xx,172p. A very good copy in original cloth. A third revised edition of a printer's type specimen book first published as Typesetting at the Pitman Press, the bulk of the book is given over to both full-page and paragraph settings of text taken from Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey. £15.00

18779 CLEARFACE. [SPECIMEN BOOK OF] THE HOUSE OF CLEARFACE. London: Clearface, 1965. Sm.4to, (228x226mm), [28]p. Original stiff wrappers, edges slightly soiled. A sample book of single-line specimens of stock typefaces, borders, ornaments, tints, &c. With a large folding list of faces loosely inserted from a firm of advertisement typesetters, process engravers, stereotypers & electrotypers. £10.00

18091 CORNOG, D.Y. And F.C. ROSE. LEGIBILITY OF ALPHANUMERIC CHARACTERS AND OTHER SYMBOLS. II. A reference handbook. Washington: National Bureau of Standards, 1967. 4to, (265x205mm), 461p. large folding chart. Original cloth, slightly dulled. £12.00

12269 EASON, Ron & Sarah ROOKLEDGE. ROOKLEDGE'S INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK OF TYPE DESIGNERS. A biographical dictionary edited by Phil Baines & Gordon Rookledge. Carshalton Beeches: Sarema Press, 1991. 8vo, (223x125mm), [6],vi,209p. some illustrations & type samples. A good copy in original cloth, dustjacket. £10.00

19022 ECONOSIGN. [CATALOGUE OF] THE ECONOSIGN. London: The Econosign Co., [1920s.] 4to, (272x210mm), 24p. illustrated, Original self wrappers, front cover slightly soiled. A catalogue of letter and ornament stencil outfits of which '20,000 outfits [are] in use the world over.' £15.00

9137 ENSCHEDE EN ZONEN. PROEF VAN NEDERDUITSCHE LETTERS EN GOTHISCHE INITIALEN UIT DE XVde EEUW. Specimen of Dutch black-letters and gothic initials of the XVth century [same in French and German]. Haarlem: Joh. Enschede en Zonen, 1925. Sm.4to, (283x196mm), 52p. + corrigenda slip. Printed in red and black with the title repeated in Dutch, French, German & English. A good copy in original marbled paper boards, end-leaves lightly browned. A majestic showing of fifteenth-century black-letter faces cast from punches cut in the 1490s by Henricus of Delft, and Cornelius Henrier (who may be the same person). These were acquired by Enschede in 1767 and are here displayed in suitable texts: Le Testament de Francoys Villon (French), Stabat Mater (Latin) Ene schone historie van den wesene en van den leuene onss Heren Jhesu Christi (Dutch) and Hunting the Cheviat (English). Each showing is followed by notes on the types in the four languages of the title and the specimen concludes with full alphabet, and where applicable, figures and points) samples of the type faces. £40.00

20027 ENSCHEDÉ en ZONEN. [SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPEFACES.] Spectrum, Romulus, Lutetia, Romanee, Open Kapitalen... Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, [1959.] Sm. narrow folio, (287x142mm), [99]p. 17 typefaces displayed in a variety of colour-printed and monochrome settings. A fine copy in original jacketed wrappers. (See Jan Middendorp, Dutch type, p159). A beautifully designed (by Bram de Does and Wim Bloem) and printed specimen book, each type face title is printed in a small red  frame on tissue paper, thereafter the entire alphabet and figures are shown printed on a grey ground, thereafter follow a number of examples of the face's use in a variety of setting styles. Typefaces shown are: Spectrum, Romulus, Lutetia, Romanee, Open Kapitalen, Bembo, Perpetua, Times, Baskerville, Bodoni, Falstaff, Cheops, Gill, Spartan, Marina, Bavo, and Houtsnee. £40.00

16250 FALK, Valter. BOKSTAVSFORMER OCH TYPSNITT GENOM TIDERNA. Stockholm: Bokforlaget Prisma, 1975. 4to, (265x204mm), 263p. a number of illustrations and numerous type samples, both historic and modern and identified with the names, founders and dates. A very good copy in original cloth, previous owner's small rubber stamp on the front free endleaf. £40.00

19941 FISHENDEN, R.B. PHOTOGRAPHIC OR LEADLESS TYPE COMPOSITION. An address to the London branch of the Association of Teachers of Printing and Allied Subjects. London: North-Western Polytechnic Printing Department, 1938. Sm.4to, (255x187mm), 16p. Original printed wrappers, covers slightly discoloured. Printed by students at the Polytechnic and set in Egmont type; and earlyish example of the face which had been introduced by the Amsterdam typefoundry in 1933 and here set on the Intertype to whose range the face had been added in 1937. £15.00

20147 FOURNIER, Simon-Pierre. CARACTERES DE L'IMPRIMERIE. Nouvellement graves par S.P. Fournier le jeune, graveur & fondeur de caracteres. London: Printing Historical Society, 1971[-2.] 1000 [actually 600] copies, 24mo, (110x78mm),  [88]p. printed recto only, the sample leaves printed from line-blocks. A good copy in original printed wrappers. (Private press books 76.220) Although the colophon states that 1000 copies were printed only 600 were issued as the remainder were destroyed after being considered too poorly printed to issue. An excellent facsimile of the 1742 small type specimen. It was printed by David Chambers and other members of the P.H.S. on a Columbian and two Albion presses during the winter of 1971-2 though not issued until 1976. £55.00

8656 FOURNIER, S.P. FOURNIER ON TYPEFOUNDING. The text of the Manuel Typographique (1764-1766) translated into English and edited with notes by Harry Carter. London: The Fleuron Books, Soncino Press, 1930. 260 copies, 8vo, (180x125 mm), xviii,[6],323p. with portrait and 16 double-page plates, outer margins very lightly browned. An ex-library copy marred only by a pencilled class-mark on the title verso and a large & ornate institutional bookplate (marred with a `withdrawn' stamp) in original buckram, gilt lettered, backstrip faded and with a blind ownership stamp on the front cover. The first edition printed at the Curwen Press. Number 25 in Lehman-Haupt's Fifty Books About Bookmaking which describes this important text thus: 'for accuracy of details, clearness of presentation, and excellence of illustration, Fournier's book has never been surpassed… Harry Carter's translation, with a short biography of Fournier, explanatory notes, and wonderful reproductions of the copperplates, is… a key to understanding the printing arts in the light of yesterday's achievements.' This edition appeared in two states, the copy we offer has the cancel leaf with page xxxiii ending: 'Two sizes of ornamented titlings and some of the flowers were recut by Messrs. Peignot in 1914.' It caused quite a spat at the time. Monotype had cut two designs of Fournier - 178 and 185. Morison, as Monotype's typographic advisor, preferred 178 but 185 was approved and released (Morison blamed it on 'some confusion while I was abroad'). Carter's criticism of 185 annoyed Monotype who told Morison to get Simon and Carter to change it. Simon agreed and Carter couldn't overrule him, but he did refuse to recall the copies that had already been issued. Morison had the original version, of course (that's how he found out about the criticism) and he didn't return his own copy for replacement. Series 178 was later released as Barbou. (Martyn Thomas Harry Carter, typographer,12.) £250.00

19426 FRY, Edmund. SPECIMEN OF MODERN PRINTING TYPES 1828. A facsimile with an introduction and notes by David Chambers. London: Printing Historical Society, 1986. Roy.8vo, (243x162mm), 18p.+ 90 facsimile leaves (5 large folding). An excellent copy in original buckram. A fine facsimile of the final specimen book of the Fry foundry, reproduced from the only known copy and preceded by an excellent introductory essay. £15.00

18823 GARDINER, Alan H. CATALOGUE OF THE EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPHIC PRINTING TYPE. from matrices owned and controlled by Dr Alan H. Gardiner. In two point sizes 18 point : 12 point with intermediate forms. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1928 4to, (320x252mm), 47p. full-pages of specimens. half-title rather spotted, title and colophon leaf also spotted but significantly less so. Modern quarter binder's cloth, compliments slip of the OUP Printer laid down on the front pastedown endleaf. 'The forms are mainly derived from the Eighteenth Dynasty originals copied in the tombs of Thebes by Mr. and Mrs. de Garis Davis. The matrices have been cut by Mr. W.J. Bilton of Messers Bannerman & Son Ltd.' (Preface) £45.00

13584 HACK, Bertold. KONRAD F. BAUER. Eine Gedenkschrift zu Seinem Siebzigsten Geburstag am 9 Dezember 1973... und einer bibliographie seiner Schriften von Sofie-Charlotte und Michael Bauer. Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft, 1973. 8vo, (245x153mm), 83p. 15 illustrations and several two-line type samples. A fine copy in original hardback boards, bookplate. Kleiner druck der Gutenberg-Gessellschaft 96. £10.00

13837 HAZELL, WATSON & VINEY. TYPE FACES. A selection of type faces available for bookwork and display. Aylesbury: Hazell, Watson & Viney, [c.1925] Sm.4to, (245x160mm), 83 pages printed on the rectos only. An ex-library copy in original quarter canvas, corner tips worn. £12.00

18032 HELLER, Steven & Gail ANDERSON. NEW ORNAMENTAL TYPE: DECORATIVE LETTERING IN THE DIGITAL AGE. London: Thames & Hudson, 2010. 4to, (250x250mm), 192p. 272 colour & 78 monochrome illustrations. Original jacketed paperback, dustjacket. (NEW BOOK) Beginning with a historical overview of ornament and how it has evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century, the book also includes essays introducing the background, influences, and outstanding aspects of typographical design. New Ornamental Type presents a dazzling kaleidoscope of highly decorated or fancy fonts across a wide spectrum of styles and effects. Psychedelia, Hip-Hop, Gothic, flowers, smoke, hair and electricity are just a few of the styles for the hundreds of examples inspired by nature, history, and just about anything that is visually expressive. (Publisher's blurb) £24.95

18033 HELLER, Steven & Gail ANDERSON. NEW VINTAGE TYPE: CLASSIC FONTS FOR THE DIGITAL AGE London: Thames & Hudson, 2009. 4to, (250x250mm), 192p. 400 colour illustrations. A fine copy in original paperback. (NEW BOOK) Here is a lively and lighthearted survey that looks at the role that old and classic fonts play in contemporary graphic design.  Written and compiled by the world’s leading graphic-design historian, the book provides hundreds of examples, as well as informed texts that will entertain and inspire a new generation of students and practitioners to appreciate that the past contains typographic riches for the future. £17.95

18907 HOLTHUSEN, Bernd. SCANGRAPHIC DIGITAL TYPE COLLECTION. Die digitalen Schriften von Scangraphic. Collection de polices digitales de Scangraphic. A-F.[Vol 1 only] Second Edition, Hamburg: Dr Böger, February, 1985. 4to, (337x233mm), 139, (2-)797p. A good copy in original grey cloth, lettered in black and silver gilt, dustjacket very slightly discoloured at the head and tail. Two-page specimens in paragraph settings of each face in their the various sizes and weights covering typefaces from Aachen to Futura, preceded by two-line specimens showing upper & lower case alphabets and numbers for the entire A-Z range, with introductory parallel text in German, English, and French, £20.00

20311 HUGHES, Rian. A POSTER OF GRAPHICS AND TYPEFACES DESIGNED BY RIAN HUGHES. London: Fontworks, 1997. Single Sheet (545x410mm), folded into four (as issued) and printed on both sides with on the obverse a number of colour-printed images of graphics by Rian Hughes, and on the reverse samples of a number of his typeface designs. A fine copy. £20.00

8786 HUTCHINGS, R.S. THE WESTERN HERITAGE OF TYPE DESIGN. A treasury of currently available typefaces demonstrating the historical development and diversification of form of printed letters... London: Cory, Adams & Mackay, 1963. Sm.4to, (247x187mm), 127p. 102 typefaces illustrated including decorated and script faces. A clean ex-library copy, marred only by a rubber-stamp on the front fly & end leaves in original brown buckram, silver gilt lettered and blocked. £10.00

19768 INTERNATIONAL TYPEFACE CORPORATION. THE ITC TYPEFACE COLLECTION. Farmington: International Typeface Corporation, 1980. Large 4to, (313x310mm), [8],573p. several hundred typefaces displayed in all weights and sizes with complete fonts and sample and letter settings. A good copy in original cloth. A monumental type specimen book which displays the range of faces designed for contemporary technologies and which includes all the faces produced by the company since its foundation in 1970. This is the first complete specimen of the output of the world's first 'typefounders' which neither sold type nor type-setting equipment, but simply licensed the designs to others. £100.00

7081 INTERTYPE. MAKING YOUR ACQUAINTANCE WITH SOME TYPE PERSONALITIES FROM THE REPERTOIRE OF INTERTYPE LIMITED. Slough: Intertype, [1935?] 8vo, (245x152mm), [44]p. printed in black & red and shewing page settings, full alphabets, and comparative alphabet lengths. A good copy in original spiral-bound printed boards. £12.00

191 ISAAC, P.C.G. WILLIAM DAVISON'S SPECIMEN OF CAST-METAL ORNAMENTS AND WOOD TYPES; With an account of his activities as pharmacist and printer in Alnwick 1781-1858 [including a detailed checklist of his printed books]. London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. 4to, (270x215mm), 176p including 130 pages in facsimile carrying numerous illustrations. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket. A facsimile edition, with an authoritative introduction, of a rare early nineteenth century priced specimen book of the large collection of stock blocks and ornaments (many engraved by Bewick and his workshop) from which Davison provided stereotypes to printers throughout northern England and elsewhere. £5.00

9584 JASPERT, W.P. (Editor). ADVANCES IN COMPUTER TYPESETTING. Proceedings of the 1966 International Computer Typesetting Conference. London: Institute of Printing, 1967. 4to, (297x210mm), xiv,306p. illustrations, graphs, &c. A fine copy in original buff cloth, lettered in blue. £20.00

16486 JOHNSON, Alfred Forbes. THE EVOLUTION OF THE MODERN-FACE ROMAN. [Extracted from The Library, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Series 4, volume 11.] London: Bibliographical Society, 1931. Sm.4to, (217x172mm), 25p. (numbered (353)-377), 8 full-page illustrations. Modern binders' cloth. £10.00

20111 KING, Jean Callan & Tony ESPOSITO. THE DESIGNER'S GUIDE TO TEXT TYPE. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1980. 4to, (302x229mm), 320p. numerous type sample settings. A good copy in original paperback. A specimen of fifty-one popular typefaces displayed in leaded paragraph settings from 6 to 14pt. £10.00

16125 LINOTYPE. LINOTYPE FONT EXPLORER 1.5 + additional fonts version 1.6 Bad Homburg: Linotype Library, 2000. 4to, (278x203mm), 228,40p. numerous single-line alphabet specimens. A very good copy in original paperback. £8.00

17339 LINOTYPE. LINOTYPE MODERN. Altrincham: Linotype and Machinery Ltd., [1970.] Sm.folio, (297x208mm), [4]p in a flapped sheet. A good copy with the rubber-stamp of Linotype's Karachi representative and a version of the same sample printed on newsprint loosely inserted.. A specimen of Linotype's version of a characteristic English face more usually associated with Monotype. £8.00

17340 LINOTYPE. LINOTYPE MODERN. Altrincham: Linotype and Machinery Ltd., [1970.] Sm.folio, (297x208mm), [4]p in a flapped sheet. A good copy. A specimen of Linotype's version of a characteristic English face more usually associated with Monotype. £6.00

16191 LINOTYPE. LINOTYPE TYPE FACES AND MATRIX INFORMATION. Altrincham: Linotype and Machinery Ltd, 1969. 4to, (288x220mm), xii,64p. numerous faces shown in paragraphs and alphabet settings in all sizes, together with the range of special characters available. Original quarter cloth, internal spiral binding, covers rubbed. £15.00

17820 LINOTYPE LINOTYPE TYPEFACE CATALOG A TO Z. Bad Homburg: Linotype GmbH, 2006. 4to. (285x215mm), 606p. numerous typefaces displayed. A fine copy in original cloth, dustjacket. Linotype’s latest Typeface Catalogue, A to Z, represents a new approach to specimen books for Linotype, taking a decidedly different form from its predecessors over the past two decades. The specimen book offers the user an easy-to-reference overview of Linotype’s entire portfolio. Individual fonts are presented as parts of typeface families; font format information is clearly depicted next to each weight. The specimen book is divided into three parts, each of which is printed in English, French, and German: general information, typeface displays, and technical information. Faces are grouped by category (Sans Serif, Serif, Script and Brush, Decorative and Display, Uncial and Blackletter, Pi and Symbol, Central European and Non Latin Typefaces). Aside from format information, each typeface lists the name of its designer, the year in which it was designed, and from which foundry library the typeface comes from. Each typeface shows a large, 24 point single-line partial alphabet setting in the typeface’s regular weight. If the regular weight has a companion italic, a sample line is set in it as well. Following this are three lines of sample copy in 13-point size that show off some of the font’s special characters, Euro symbol, etc. Lastly, a sample single-line alphabet showing in 12-point size is available for each of the type styles that make up the respective typeface family. The book’s last typeface category, Central European and Non Latin Typefaces, shows all Linotype fonts containing character sets other than the traditional Western European standard. Many OpenType typefaces that contain large character sets are therefore depicted in the catalogue twice, in their respective stylistic category (Sans Serif, Serif, Script and Brush, etc.) and in the Central European and Non Latin Typefaces section. This allows for a simple overview of all of Linotype’s many Central European and Non Latin typefaces; these include typefaces for Central European languages, Cyrillic, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, and Armenian. £60.00

7186 LINOTYPE. SPECIMENS OF FACES LINOTYPE MATRIX INFORMATION. London: Linotype and Machinery Ltd, 1953. 4to, (284x220mm), viii,133p. numerous faces shown in paragraphs and alphabet settings in all sizes, together with the range of special characters available. Original quarter cloth, joints and corner tips lightly rubbed. £15.00

18203 LOXLEY, Simon. TYPE. The secret history of letters. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005. 8vo, (240x160mm), viii,248p. illustrations. A good copy in original hardback boards, dustjacket. £10.00

13364 MACKAY, W. & J. TYPE FOR BOOKS. Revised Edition. Chatham: Mackays, 1965. 8vo, (255x158mm), x,310p. numerous alphabet specimens from upper and lower case, figures and points for the wide variety of faces held in stock by the printer. An ex-library copy in original quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, corner tips rubbed. £10.00

20084 MACKAY, W. & J. (Printers). TYPE FOR BOOKS. A designer's manual. New Edition. London: Bodley Head for Mackays, 1976. 8vo, (247x155mm), xx,280p. numerous alphabet specimens from upper and lower case, figures and points for the wide variety of faces held in stock by the printer. A good original quarter cloth, decorated paper sides, dustjacket. £15.00

15978 MONOTYPE. ALPHABET SHEETS. A collection of 15 sheets. London; Monotype Corporation, [1971.] Single folio sheets, (216x280mm), printed in two colour. Fine in the original, slightly town, mailing envelope. Each sheet, printed verso and recto in 48pt size, carrying full alphabets in both Roman and Italic together with figures & points for various weights of Bodoni, Backerville, Caslon Old Face, Bembo, Centaur, Falstaff, Klang, Garamond, Plantin, Gill Sans, Grotesque, Headline, Perpetua, Rockwell, Times, Univers, and Walbaum typefaces. £20.00

21485 MONOTYPE. FOURNIER. A CLASSIC EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ROMAN AND ITALIC TYPE. London: Lanstone Monotype Corporation, [1926?] Single sheet broadside, (434x272mm), Printed in black within a frame of red fleurons, horizontal fold as issued. (Appleton, The writings of Stanley Morison p66 E) From 1923 onwards Morison prepared and designed, and in some instances wrote the text for, a number of handsome type specimen broadsides for Monotype. This example, which shews Monotype Fourner from 18 to 10pts, uses texts from Milton, Aristotle and Plato and is printed on Abbey Mills Greenfield paper. £40.00

19767 MONOTYPE. MONOTYPE COMPOSITION FACES. [New edition], London: Monotype Corporation, [1972.] 4to, (298x210mm), 48p. paragraph settings devoted to many Monotype faces with historical  notes on each, together with extracts from Beatrice Warde's Crystal goblet. Original stiff wrappers, previous owner's signature on the front cover.. £15.00

18714 [MORISON, Stanley]. NOTES ON THE ANCIENT TYPOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. 3 volumes, [Oxford] Privately printed [at the University Press], [1953]. 50 copies, 4to, (285x200mm), 23; 15; 15p. numerous letter & some ornament samples. Original printed wrappers, the covers a little faded and with some slight loss from the front cover of the first volume, preserved in a modern binders' cloth envelope chemise. (Appleton Writing of Stanley Morison 189) A series of working copy pamphlets produced for circulation to interested parties for comment and suggestions as part of the research that eventually culminated in the publication of Morison & Carter's monumental John Fell. The parts comprise (1) Types for Latin and the vernacular: black letter, Roman, italic; (2) Greek; (3) Flowers. A fourth part devoted to exotic faces was compiled by Harry Carter and issued in 1956-7. £300.00

19747 MOSLEY, James. BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831. A hand-list. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. 4to, (247x189mm), 70p. A good copy in original printed stiff wrappers. Occasional Publication Number 14, this modestly titled `hand-list' of typefounders' and printers' specimens is supported by appendices of works that draw attention to the type in which they are printed, works using the material of a name typefounder or punchcutter, specimens compiled for 'house' use, and specimens of engraved brass printers' ornaments. £10.00

19748 MOSLEY, James. BRITISH TYPE SPECIMENS BEFORE 1831. A hand-list. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1984. 4to, (247x189mm), 70p. An ex-library copy in original printed stiff wrappers. Occasional Publication Number 14, this modestly titled `hand-list' of typefounders' and printers' specimens is supported by appendices of works that draw attention to the type in which they are printed, works using the material of a name typefounder or punchcutter, specimens compiled for 'house' use, and specimens of engraved brass printers' ornaments. £6.00

15015 MOSLEY, James. HANDMADE TYPE. Thoughts on the preservation of typographic materials. Oldham: Printed at the Incline Press on behalf of the Justin Howes Memorial Fund, 2007. 350 copies, tall narrow 4to, (268x155mm), [2],ii,25p. A fine copy in original printed wrappers. This is the text, more or less as it was delivered, of the first Justin Howes memorial lecture, which was given at the St Bride Institute on 21 February 2006, just one year after Justin Howes died. It was intended mostly as a personal tribute to a friend, and as the reader may detect, it was not written with publication in mind. There was in fact more of it than could be spoken in a reasonable time. Since the generous offer has been made to print it, I have responded by making only some slight pruning and correcting, and I have added details of some the publications to which I referred. The general theme of this lecture is one with which I knew Justin had full sympathy. I had already approached it in an ‘Editorial’ that was published in the Bulletin du bibliophile, Paris, in the summer of 2005. I am well aware that there is no easy answer to the questions I raise. It seems to me, though, that it is high time to address them while we still have some grasp of the nature of the vanishing culture, technical and aesthetic, within which many typefaces that are currently in use were first created. (Author's foreword) £15.00

4678 MOSLEY, James. A SPECIMEN OF BRASS CARD BORDERS. On an entire new principle. (1788). London: Printing Historical Society, 1965. 175 copies, 4to, (242x174mm), [26]p. 52 illustrations. Original stiff wrappers, printed front label, slightly creased at the edges. A facsimile printed at the St Bride Library on a Stanhope press and containing a historical note by James Mosley. The original of this specimen was printed by T. Rickaby in 1788 and only the St Bride copy survives. £10.00

5568 MOULDTYPE. RULE AND BORDER CATALOGUE. Preston: Mouldtype Foundry, 1950. Tall 8vo, (242x121mm), 36p. numerous one-line examples. Original wrappers, front cover with small crease at head. £8.00

19033 MOULDTYPE. A SMALL COLLECTION OF SIX SPECIMEN AND ANNOUNCEMENT LEAFLETS. Leyland; and later Preston: Mouldtype. 1938-41. Various sizes, slightly soiled and with a small piece torn from the tail-fore corner of one leaflet. Comprising: Lawrence Clear Face; Mouldtype Figaro; Christmas decorative borders and units; Metal rules strip & border units; Price List (1941) and a printed notice regarding price changes due to the War Emergency Increase dated July 1941. £20.00

18933 NUTTALL, Derek. THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF PRINTING TYPES. An article in The Manchester Review, Volume 9. Manchester: Manchester Libraries Committee, Spring 1961. 8vo, (215x140mm), pages 129-44 of 129-60. Original wrappers. An address given to the Manchester Society of Book Collectors. £3.00

6548 OUT OF SORTS LETTER FOUNDERY. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MONOTYPE FACES Available in fonts, sorts [&] composition. Mamaroneck: Out of Sorts Letter Foundery, 1983. 8vo, (215x137mm), [12]p. duplicated letter/price list loosely inserted. A good copy in original printed wrappers. £10.00

18784 PHILLIPS, Arthur. MATHEMATICAL SORTS LIST. Comprising specimen alphabets, matrix numbers of italic and Greek characters and named mathematical signs. London: Monotype Corporation, [N.D.] 4to, (285x222mm), 40p. Original printed stiff wrappers, slightly soiled. £20.00

12496 PHOTOSCRIPT. LIST OF TYPEFACES. London: Photoscript, 21 Tower St, 1970. Tall thin 8vo in 2s, (261x107mm), 60p. numerous single-line specimens (of the face's name) including several faces unique to the house, with setting price list & other details printed on a variety of coloured papers. Original limp leather texture cloth covers, slightly soiled. £5.00

19522 PITMAN PRESS. TYPESETTING AT THE PITMAN PRESS. A specimen book and a guide to the photocomposition, IBM and Monotype facilities available. Bath: Pitman Press, 1977. 8vo, (248x156mm), [12],120p. Original stiff wrappers, previous owner's rubber-stamp on the front cover. Full page settings in various typefaces taken, in the case of the Photon specimens, Trollope's Small house at Allington, and for the VIP typefaces from the Divine Jane's Northanger Abbey ('which is topographically more appropriate' Pref.) £10.00

14682 REED, Talbot Baines. A HISTORY OF THE OLD ENGLISH LETTER FOUNDRIES; With notes historical and bibliographical on the rise and progress of English typography. Revised and enlarged by A.F. Johnson. London: Faber and Faber, 1952. 4to, (275x185 mm), xiv,400p. folding frontispiece and 95 illustrations. A good ex-library copy, marred only by a bookplate, in original dark green buckram, gilt lettered. The most handsome edition of Johnson's masterly revision of what is the definitive history of English type founders; including the Wilson foundry - of Scotland! Graham Pollard described it as `an indispensable book: it is by far the best and most complete book on the history of type foundries that has been written for any country.' £80.00

18699 ROBINSON-PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE ROBINSON-PFORZHEIMER COLLECTION OF OLD-FASHIONED TYPE fonts, borders, printers' ornaments and stock cuts... New York: New York Public Library, [1960?] Broadside (870x560mm folded -as issued- to 280x220mm), printed on both the obverse and reverse in black and green. A nice copy. Designed by Liam Dunne, composed by Paul Arbucho and printed by Amos Aden at the NYPL and displaying samples of around a hundred ornamented type faces, &c. £30.00

19572 SEARS, Matthew Urlwin. SPECIMEN OF STEREOTYPE ORNAMENTS (1825). With an introduction by James Mosley. London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. 4to, (270x210mm), 6p +22 facsimile leaves. Original jacketed wrappers, covers slightly soiled. A facsimile of the specimen book of 1825 containing 158 ornaments, decorated letters, stock blocks, vignettes, &c. £15.00

1387 SILVER, Rollo G. TYPEFOUNDING IN AMERICA 1787-1825. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1965. 8vo, (220x145mm), xiv,141p. 26 illustrations. A good copy in ouarter cloth, paper sides. A very useful introduction to early American typefounding and printing. £8.00

20308 SPIEKERMANN, Erik. FONTFOCUS META [A digital typeface specimen]. [N.P.:] Fontshop International, 2008. Tall narrow folio, (295x155), [28]p. illustrations and letter samples. A fine copy in original stiff wrappers. A booklet showing the various weights and characteristics of the typeface which has been called 'the most influential sans serif of the digital revolution.' This specimen includes the then recently introduced serif version of the face and includes correspondence between Spiekermann and Christian Schwartz about its creation. £10.00

19091 STAR TYPE. A SMALL COLLECTION OF SIX TYPE SPECIMEN LEAFLETS, typesetting services, mounting bases, price list, &c. Birstall: Horsfall & Sons, Star Type Foundry, [1950-59.] Various sizes and paginations, some soiling. £25.00

18606 STEPHENSON BLAKE. PRINTING TYPES. The Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield: Stephenson Blake, 1969. 8vo, (204x128mm), [4],112,[4]p. Original jacketed wrappers, joints and edges slightly rubbed. £12.00

19545 STEPHENSON BLAKE. PRINTING TYPES. The Caslon Letter Foundry, Sheffield: Stephenson Blake, 1969. 8vo, (204x128mm), [4],112,[4]p. Original jacketed wrappers, an ex-library copy with part of a library label laid down on the title page. £8.00

509 STEPHENSON, S. & C. A SPECIMEN OF PRINTING TYPES & ORNAMENTS 1796. Reproduced together with the sale catalogue of the British Letter-Foundry 1797. With an introduction by James Mosley. London: Printing Historical Society, 1990. 8vo, (210x144mm), 12p +61 facsimile leaves (1 folding). A very good copy in original wrappers. A facsimile of the final specimen of the British Foundry (created by John Bell), together with the sale catalogue. £15.00

12962 STEPHENSON BLAKE. [TYPE SPECIMEN] INVITATION SCRIPT. Sheffield: Stephenson Blake, [1954.] Sm 4to, (230x168mm), a three-leaf triptych printed on thin card in three colours, a nice copy. (Jaspert, Berry & Johnson Encyclopaedia of type faces 4ed. p383) A re-interpretation of a traditional English script face. £10.00

7470 TILLOTSONS. TILLOTSONS SPECIMEN BOOK OF TYPE FACES. To show the type available in Tillotsons composing room and to illustrate its use. New edition. Bolton: Tillotsons, 1949. Roy.8vo, (252x175mm), 93p. numerous specimens in alphabet, paragraph and page settings. A clean ex-library copy in original cloth. £8.00

14956 TILLOTSONS. TILLOTSONS TYPE SPECIMEN BOOK; Incorporating the house style of typesetting and standard printers' and authors' proof corrections. Second edition, Bolton: Tillotsons, 1952. Sm.4to, (252x193mm), 134p. numerous full-alphabet and paragraph setting type specimens. An ex-library copy in original cloth. soiled. £5.00

13239 TRATTNERN, Johan Thomas. ABDRUCK VON DENJENIGEN ROSLEIN IN ZIERRATHEN, welche sich in der K. K. Hoffchristgiesserey... Nebst einer Probe wie solche sowohl zu Anfangbuchstaben, also Leisten und  Finalien zusammengesetzt werden konnen. Wien 1760. (Facsimile), Wien: Fur die Bibliotheca Typograhica in Wien gedruckt von Jaboda & Siegel, 1927. 200 copies, 8vo, (260x184mm), [60]p printed recto only. An internally clean ex-library with no stamps, in original boards; some discolouring and the backstrip faded, a small piece lacking from the head of the backstrip has been neatly replaced and coloured to match, the original printed back-label preserved. Bookplate with discard stamp. A well-produced facsimile of a rare specimen of beautifully wrought ornamental typographic decoration, done under the supervision of Herbert Reichner on Renker's Zerkall paper. £45.00

17067 TYPOGRAPHIC VISION. THE TYPEFINDER SYNOPSIS. London: Typographic Vision, 1983. 4to, (300x205mm), 205p. A good copy in original laminated hardback boards. Shewing over 1,000 Diatronic and headline faces, the former shown in short paragraph settings, the latter in alphabets. £15.00

8049 USHERWOOD, Les. THE HEADS. London: Typographic Vision, 25-27 Farringdon Road, [1970?] Oblong 4to, [104]p. numerous line, alphabet, and paragraph specimens. A very good copy in original spiral-bound stiff wrappers, the binding along the head edge. A specimen book of Les Usherwood's collection of headline typefaces. £15.00

19021 VAN DER VELDE. WALL CHART OF NAMEPLATE AND SIGN STANDARD TYPEFACES. Newcastle upon Tyne: Van der Gelde Group, [1980?] Broadside (580x420mm), 24 typeface displayed. Sometime multi-folded. £10.00

8142 Van KRIMPEN, Jan. SPECIMEN OF LUTETIA ROMAN AND ITALIC. Designed by J. Van Krimpen. Cast on the American point system. Haarlam: John. Enschedé en Zonen, [1925.] 4to, (276x208mm), [4]p. outer margins lightly browned. A good copy in original wrappers. Designed by Jan Van Krimpen and here published under the name of  Soldan, the founder's English Agents. The face was revised several times and the later Enschedé version reverted to the original design with the exception of the lower-case e which adopted a horizontal bar rather than an oblique one as shown in this specimen. £25.00

17702 VEYRIN-FORRER, Jeanne. CAMPIONARI DI CARATTERI NELLA TIPOGRAFIA DEL SETTECENTO. Scelta, introduzione e noti. Milano: Polifilo, 1963. Folio, (332x260mm), 187p. 48 plates, 2 large folding and several carrying two or more images. An ex-library copy marred only by a bookplate on the front free endleaf and a small rubber-stamp on the title verso, in original jacketed wrappers, backstrip and edges faded. A beautifully designed and printed selection from major type founders' sample between 1742 and 1790, displaying examples from: Imprimerie Royale, Fournier, Enschede, Caslon, Baskerville, Real Biblioteca, Didot, Bodoni, Bell, and Cotta; a handsome book. £85.00

19480 WACE & Co. ALPHABET BOOK OF OVER TWO HUNDRED TYPE FACES. London: Wace, [1957.] 4to, (276x190mm), 49p. small stain in the fore margin of the title. Original spiral wire-bound stiff wrappers, A type specimen book showing typefaces in upper and lower case and figures together with ornamental rules and borders. £10.00

14138 WAITE, Harold E. ALTERNATIVE TYPEFACES Collected and arranged with an explanatory essay. Foreword by Francis Meynell. [Second edition], London: Technical Publishing Co., 1951. 8vo, (190x125mm), xvi,112p. numerous letter specimens. Original cloth, joints lightly rubbed. £12.00

8051 WESTERN TYPESETTING. TYPE FOR THE PRINTER. Bristol: Western Typesetting, Cave Street, [1931.] 4to, (290x190mm),  [111]p. numerous type specimens shown in line and display settings, 1 page printed in colours. Original stiff wrappers, covers slightly soiled. A specimen book from a provincial trade-setting house which includes borders and ornaments, and crossword puzzle and solution blocks. £15.00

19389 YENDALL Typefounders. THE RISCATYPE CATALOGUE OF POPULAR TYPEFACES. Risca: Yendall & Co., [1969.] 8vo, (224x145mm), 256p. +1 folded leaf of interchangeable calendar units. Original hardback boards, backstrip faded. Issued in June 1969. £10.00

19390 YENDALL Typefounders. THE RISCATYPE CATALOGUE OF POPULAR TYPEFACES. Risca: Yendall & Co., [1971.] 8vo, (224x145mm), 244p. +1 folded leaf of interchangeable calendar units. Original hardback boards, backstrip slightly faded. Issued in June 1971. £10.00

3410 YENDALL Typefounders. THE RISCATYPE CATALOGUE OF POPULAR TYPEFACES. Risca: Yendall, [1972.] 8vo, (223x150mm), 242,[2]p. + 1 folded leaf of interchangeable calendar units. Original red hardback boards, slightly soiled. Issued in June 1972. £8.00