Our latest E-list of books about the book arts has just been published. It's full of books about typography, book design, fine press printing, bookplates, and more.
Here is the link to the full E-list:
https://mailchi.mp/90ebf03c5635/1cw4h8azg0
And here are some of the highlights:
Type Spacing, by E.R. Currier, NY: J. M. Bowles and Company, 1912, limited edition. VG. Spine cloth eroded.One of 300 copies. Brown cloth spine. 19pp. Printed paper-covered boards. Printed on cream-colored laid paper. Currier Press printer's mark and initial T on page three drawn by Frederic W. Goudy and printed in orange ink. A republication of an article by Currier which originally appeared in the August 1910 edition of The Graphic Arts magazine. Printed by Norman T. A. Munder and Company of Baltimore. Inscribed by Munder on the title page "To some good friend of Mr. John Hoyle". "...The choicest type face in the world may have its beauty or its legibility nullified by bad spacing. The tools are not superior to the workman." $100
Libro Illeggibile N. Y. 1, by Bruno Munari, NY: Museum of Modern Art, 1967. One of 2,000 numbered copies (#208). Stapled black card covers with red illustrated glossy jacket. Short descriptive text in Italian and English on rear jacket flap. Measures 8.5 x 8.5 inches. VG. Rear jacket flap creased.Artist book by the Italian designer with black and translucent pages with die-cut holes, threaded through with a red string. $400
Demonstrations of Type and Illustrations by Letterpress, Lithography and Sheet-Fed Gravure on Fine Text Papers, NY: The Canfield Paper Company, [1950]. Patterned paper-covered boards over green cloth. VG. Boards rubbed. Promotional book by Canfield Paper Company showing different appearance of the same illustrations and photos appearing on nine kinds of papers, printed through three kinds of printing methods. $25
Engraved Bookplates: European Ex Libris 1950-70, by Mark Severin and Anthony Reid, Pinner, UK: Private Libraries Association, 1972. One of 2,000 copies. 176pp. Green cloth binding. Presents over 500 bookplates (including some of Severin’s) with gazetteer and index of bookplate artists and many reproductions, review of technical symbols, bibliography. 4to. VG/VG. Boards worn, jacket faintly soiled. $65
