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Manuale typographicum; 100 typographische Gestaltungen mit Aussagen über die Schrift, über Typographie und Druckkunst, aus Vergangenheit und Gegenwart, in achtzehn verschiedenen Sprachen. 100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography, and the art of printing, selected from past and present, printed in eighteen languages

Maker(s)

Author: Zapf, Hermann
Publisher: Z-Presse

Grant Dahlstrom, master printer : a tribute on his 75th birthday

Maker(s)

Contributor: Brown, Philip S.
Contributor: Dreyfus, John
Publisher: New Ampersand Press
Publisher: Dawson's Book Shop
Publisher: Rounce & Coffin Club
Printer: Weatherbird Press

Boston Athenaeum, six views drawn by Rudolph Ruzicka

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Author: Whitehill, Walter Muir
Publisher: Boston Athenaeum
Printer: Anthoensen Press

Some maps by Veronica Ruzicka

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Publisher: Ruzicka, Rudolph

The portraiture of Thomas More, by Hans Holbein and after; an iconographical consultation illustrated by the paintings, miniatures, drawings and engravings by artists of four centuries. Read to the Thomas More Society in the library of the Inner Temple on 18 October 1957.

Maker(s)

Author: Morison, Stanley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The engraved glass of Laurence Whistler

Maker(s)

Author: Whistler, Laurence
Publisher: Cupid Press

The Nelme cup

Maker(s)

Author: Rothschild, Nathaniel Mayer Victor Rothschild, Baron
Printer: Cambridge University Press

Vite de' pittori, scultori e architetti bergamaschi

Maker(s)

Author: Tassi, Francesco Maria
Contributor: Marenzi, Girolamo
Contributor: Marenzi, Carlo
Contributor: Caccia, Ferdinando
Publisher: Stamperia Locatelli

Griffin Creek : poems

Maker(s)

Author: Burke, Clifford
Illustrator: Myers, Michael
Publisher: Cranium Press

The personal pleasures of a private press : published on the occasion of an exhibition of the Ashendene Press collection given to Stanford University by Irving W. Robbins jr

Maker(s)

Author: Dreyfus, John
Illustrator: Raverat, Gwendolen
Publisher: Stanford University Libraries
Printer: Stanbrook Abbey Press
Paper maker: Barcham Green Ltd.

A history of the old English letter foundries : with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography

Maker(s)

Author: Reed, Talbot Baines
Publisher: Elliot Stock

To Russia with Frost

Maker(s)

Author: Adams, Frederick Baldwin
Publisher: Club of Odd Volumes
Designer: Blumenthal, Joseph
Printer: Spiral Press
Illustrator: Nason, Thomas Willoughby
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company

Strings attached : Dorothy Abbe, her work and WAD

Maker(s)

Author: Bromer, Anne
Publisher: Boston Public Library
Publisher: Society of Printers
Printer: Wild Carrot Letterpress
Printer: Champagne Lafayette Communications, Inc.
Binder (person): Acme Bookbinding

Some notes on the history & origins of the type whose name is 'monotype' BEMBO

Maker(s)

Compiler: Jones, Eifion
Publisher: Osprey Press

Emery Walker : "the master of the art of the book."

Maker(s)

Contributor: Dreyfus, John
Printer: Kent, Carol
Printer: Press at the Humanities Research Center

Joseph Blumenthal, 1897-1990 : recollections

Maker(s)

Contributor: Baskin, Leonard
Contributor: Dreyfus, John
Publisher: Typophiles
Printer: A. Colish, Inc.
Printer: Meriden-Stinehour Press
Designer: Kelly, Jerry

A note on the Hammer Creek in the northern part of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Maker(s)

Author: Fass, John Stroble
Printer: Fass, John Stroble
Publisher: Hammer Creek Press

The engraved & typographic work of Rudolph Ruzicka : an exhibition, the Grolier Club, New York, 1948

Maker(s)

Publisher: Grolier Club, The
Printer: George Grady Press
Illustrator: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Designer: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Typographer: Ruzicka, Rudolph
Designer: Ruzicka, Veronica

The power within us : Cabeza de Vaca's Relation of his journey from Florida to the Pacific, 1528-1536

Maker(s)

Author: Long, Haniel
Printer: Berliner, Harold
Designer: Lederer, Wolfgang

Serving author and reader : about the design of my books

Maker(s)

Author: Tiessen, Wolfgang
Designer: Tiessen, Wolfgang
Publisher: Typophiles
Editor: Lerner, Abe
Translator: Polter, Stefan B.
Printer: Neotype-Druck
Printer: Kroner, Klaus

A type specimen of Lutetia : several fables of Aesop

Maker(s)

Printer: Berliner, Harold
Illustrator: Siegel, Helen
Translator: Handford, Stanley Alexander

La Estoire de Seint Aedward le Rei : the Life of St. Edward the confessor, reproduced in facsimile from the unique manuscript (Cambridge University Library Ee.3.59) together with some pages of the manuscript of the life of St. Alban at Trinity College, Dublin / with an introduction by M. R. James. Printed for the Roxburghe Club

Maker(s)

Editor: James, Montague Rhodes, Dr
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Hall, Frederick (printer)
Printer: Oxford University Press
Printer: Emery Walker Limited

The St. Trond lectionary : a ms. from the Abbey of St. Trond

Maker(s)

Author: Millar, Eric George
Publisher: Roxburghe Club
Printer: Oxford University Press
Printer: Emery Walker Limited

Geoffrey Chaucer's A.B.C., called La prière de Nostre Dame : made, as some say, at the request of Blanche, Duchess of Lancaster, as a prayer for her private use, being a woman in her religion very devout.

Maker(s)

Author: Chaucer, Geoffrey
Publisher: Grabhorn-Hoyem
Printer: Grabhorn, Robert
Printer: Hoyem, Andrew

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