First edition of one of the finest American type specimens of the 19th Century. David Wolfe Bruce was the son of the important Scottish-American printer George Bruce (1781–1866)—credited as the first to try standardizing type sizes in America—and the nephew of David Bruce, whose type casting machine “mechanized the entire.....
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First edition of a popular book by fine-press historian and printer, Joseph Blumenthal. Includes letters from Blumenthal to Wyman Parker, a collector of fine-press books, arranging a meeting with a lauded typographer. Blumenthal’s letters and note trace his attempts to invite the Parkers over for an “informal luncheon" so that.....
A handsome trade catalog of printing and lithographic inks, including samples of half-tone, semi-transparent, opaque, two-shade sepia, book, poster, soft, medium and heavy body inks printed over the same image of a cowboy on bucking bronco. The typography is impressive as each sample is printed on the type of paper.....
A rare and charming French “blow book” or trick book consisting of nine alternating scenes, eight of which are hand-colored. Each scene in this volume comprises two plates facing each other: two young women and a girl opposite two men (one blowing smoke into the other’s face); a large-headed dandy.....
A scarce and appealing catalog of druggists’ labels issued by a Philadelphia printer, Quaker minister, and inventor. The specimens included here embrace everything from the unadorned prescription labels providing the name and address of the apothecary (to be filled out with the date, directions, and so on), to elaborately decorated.....
This is copy 36 of “approximately 215 printed.” A delightful volume of paste paper samples, bound by Gray Parrot.
The December 1866 issue contains the first appearance of a story by Mark Twain in a magazine, “Forty-three Days in an Open Boat,” printed under his misprinted nom-de-plume “Mark Swain.”.
5th book of Strawberry Hill. 2nd year of press. 1 of 700 copies, edited by Horace Walpole. According to Walpole’s introductory advertisement, “Lord Whitworth’s little treatise will throw considerable lights upon the formation of the Muscovite power, and upon the plans of the extraordinary genius, Peter the Great." Whitworth’s “An.....