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West Drayton : A. J. Bastien – The Typographical Centre, 1953. Second edition. A redesigned, rewritten and reset version of the original 1950 edition. Specimen alphabets of a large number of contemporary type-faces, etc., with extensive preliminary discussion – including material on the influence of the Festival of Britain on typography.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [iv],(316),[iv]pp. Original cloth; a little bruised and a touch shaken, but a good copy of an excellent guide to mid twentieth-century typography.

£25

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London : Trefoil Publications, (1987). First edition. Loosely inserted is an autograph note, signed with forename, from Sebastian Carter. Well illustrated studies of Frederic W. Goudy, Bruce Rogers, Rudolf Koch, William Addison Dwiggins, Eric Gill, Victor Hammer, Stanley Morison, Hans Mardersteig, Jan van Krimpen, Georg Trump, Joseph Blumenthal, Robert Hunter Middleton, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, Roger Excoffon, Hermann Zapf and Adrian Frutiger.
Demy 4to (25cm). 168pp. Portraits. Illustrations. Examples. Original boards; a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

£25

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Bolton : Tillotsons (Bolton) Ltd., 1949. “New edition” – although no earlier edition has been traced. A handsomely produced specimen book, designed by Tillotsons’ house typographer, Stuart F. Hayes. Includes specimens of Times New Roman, Perpetua, Gill Sans, Caslon Old Face, Garamond, Plantin and Rockwell, with display types including Bernhard, Bodoni, Chisel, Corvinus, Colonna, Elongated Roman, Imprint Shadow, Narciss, Nicholas Cochin, Old Face Heavy, Palace Script, Perpetua Bold and Trafton Script, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). (94)pp. Original cloth; a few marks and spots, but an attractive copy.

£20

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Bolton : Tillotsons (Bolton) Ltd., (1952). Second edition. A handsomely produced specimen book, designed by Tillotsons’ house typographer, Stuart F. Hayes. Includes specimens of Times New Roman, Times Bold, Baskerville, Perpetua, Bodoni, Gill Sans, Caslon Old Face, Garamond, Plantin, Rockwell, with display types including Grotesque, Elongated Roman, Chisel, Perpetua Titling, Madonna Ronde, Palace Script, Old English Text, Tea Chest, Studio, Variante Initials, Trafton Script and Glamour, as well as rules and borders. Also with notes on house style, proof-reading, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). 134,[ii]pp. Original cloth; a few marks and spots, but a bright copy in worn and spotted dust-jacket. A Tillotsons presentation label at the front is made out to P. T. Chinnock – Peter Turner Chinnock (1922-2007).

£25

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London : Grafton & Co., 1934. First edition. An elegant study – with chapters on gothic, roman old face, roman modern face, italic, script types, early advertising types, type specimens, etc.
Demy 8vo (23cm). viii,232pp. Fifty-eight illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Original cloth; some very minor wear; spine a little scuffed; some spotting, especially of edges, but a good, sound and serviceable copy. Neat ownership inscription.

£25

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Bradford : Lund Humphries & Co., 1929. Second edition. A very attractively produced specimen book, with a good selection of both book and display types, both mechanically set and hand set – Baskerville, Caslon, Cheltenham, Cochin, De Vinne, Esthonian, Garamond, Imprint, Othello, Venetian, and many more.
Medium 8vo (24cm). (xvi),(186),[ii]pp. Original decorative wrappers; a touch dusty and very slightly split; splash mark on spine; lower wrapper a little spotted, but internally very good, clean and sound. Loosely inserted is a striking presentation slip in two colours – “to remind you that we are also letterpress printers”.

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Cambridge : Privately Printed at the University Press, 1960. First edition : limited to 500 copies. A life of the well-known fiction writer for boys, Talbot Baines Reed (1852-1893), who led a dual life as a prominent typefounder and the author of “A History of the Old English Letter Foundries” (1887). With material on the Caxton Exhibition; the Boy’s Own Paper; the Fann Street Foundry; Typography; the Leeds Mercury; the Bibliographical Society, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). [xii],80pp. Plates, illustrations. Original dark red cloth with portrait onlay in oval gilt rules on upper cover, lettered up spine in gilt; a few faint marks and spots, but otherwise very good. With the printed book-label of Ampleforth College Library (probably by Reynolds Stone) on front paste-down, with associated internal stamps, manuscript shelf-marks, and printed deaccession label.

£25

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London : F. C. Avis, (1972). First edition. An absorbing and compelling dictionary of symbols, from the letter A to the meteorological symbol for zodiacal light, via Lithuanian accents and logotype – accents, alphabets, book reference marks, borders, commercial signs, conventional symbols, initial letters, mathematical characters, ornaments, printing peculiars, representative foreign alphabets, scientific marks, type founts, zodiacal signs, etc.
Narrow royal 8vo (26cm). 360pp. Original cloth; top edge a touch dusty, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket – the jacket just lightly used and slightly creased.

£20

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London : Faber & Faber, (1945). First edition. The classic mid twentieth-century account of “the many typographic fundamentals of book-production”.
Demy 8vo (22cm). (xiv),(138)pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles, some coloured. Folding table. Original cloth; a few slight spots; occasional inked annotation; a good copy. Colourful bookplate spelling out ‘Hewson’ on front free endpaper.

£20

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London : Gordon Fraser Gallery, (1988). First edition. A study of twentieth century typography – with material on Theodore Low de Vinne, D. B. Updike, Stanley Morrison, Eric Gill, Beatrice Warde, Paul A. Bennett, Jan Tschichold, etc., and general consideration of design, research and reform by the designer of the Jubilee, Telegraph Modern and Times Europa typefaces.
Crown 4to (26cm). (96)pp. Illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Original cloth; very good indeed in the dust-jacket – also very good indeed.

£20

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London : Oxford University Press, [1951]. Second edition : the second impression of the 1937 American sheets. Originally published in 1922, but here much augmented – Updike’s magisterial history and survey of the printing types of the western world – “stands foremost among the classic books of the printing trade” – the invention; the font and its case; the Latin alphabet; fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and England; the Aldine italic; type specimens; types and foundries to 1800, country by country; the American colonies; the nineteenth century; English types 1800-1844; the revival of Caslon and Fell; industrial conditions and more.
Two volumes. Medium 8vo (25cm). xl,292; (xx),326pp. Over 350 illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Original buckram; just a hint of fading at foot; a few edge-spots; text very faintly tanned in places, but a very good set.

£125

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