London: Office of “The British Printer,” 25 Pilgrim Street, 1890. First edition of this number. Large 8vo (11.25 x 9 inches), contemporary deep wine half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, gilt lettering, [8] pages plus 280 specimen leaves of printing (generally rectos only, several with multiple examples per leaf; one example..... More

Frankfurt: D. Stempel AG, 1967. First edition. Original printed glazed white wrappers 9.5 x 6.75 inches), 18, [2] pages, fold-out die cut rear wrapper. Illus. A supplement to Der Druckspiegel from May, 1967, a sort of specimen of Stempel’s Madison-Antiqua (as reissue of their Amts-Antiqua) as a series of advertising..... More

London: Office of “The British Printer,” 1 Imperial Buildings, Ludgate Circus, 1891. First edition of this number. Large 8vo (11.75 x 9,13 inches), contemporary deep wine half morocco, pebbled cloth sides, gilt lettering, [8] pages plus 303 specimen leaves of printing (generally rectos only; several specimens folding). Numerous instances of..... More

Bruxelles [Brussels]: Publiées sous les auspices du Cercle d’Etudes Typographiques de Bruxelles, 1903. First edition. 12 numbers of the second volume (January, 1903 to December, 1903), bound in early pebbled half cloth, marbled sides, 9.88 x 7.63 inches, original wrappers bound in. With inserts, examples of color printing, inserted folding..... More

(San Francisco: Philip Krayna Design, 1998). First edition. Oblong pamphlet (6 x 8 inches), printed green wrappers, wire stitched, [16] pages. Illus. A brief note on the pintores commeciales of Central America, with details and adaptations of a few samples of their idiosyncratic hand-painted commercial lettering and illustration for the..... More

Geisenheim am Rhein: Maschinenfabrik Johannisberg, [ca. 1930s]. Oblong pamphlet (11 x 8.25 inches), original pictorial self-wrappers, [20] pages, wire stitched. Illustrated throughout. An uncommon promotional booklet for a sheet-fed rotary printer from the German press manufacturers (or as the motto on the title page has it, “Für Tiefdruck nur Johannisberg.”)..... More

Lipsia [Leipzig]: J. G. Schelter & Giesecke, [1930]. Original embossed pictorial wrappers (11.75 x 8.38 inches), [3]-40 pages on coated paper. Illustrated throughout. With an attractive ticket tipped in before the title page for the Italian representative of Schelter & Giesecke in Italy, Guglielmo Lorch. An elaborate promotional catalog for..... More

Manchester [etc.]: Taylor, Garnett, Evans & Co., Guardian Printing Works, [ca. 1912]. First edition. 8vo (9.75 x 6.5 inches), original decorated brown glazed parchment over beveled boards, 70 pages. Mounted plates included in the pagination. A lovely and elaborate promotional work and specimen for the industrial printing firm, views of..... More

[Chicago]: Barnhart Brothers & Spindler, [1925]. Original embossed cloth (11.25 x 8 inches), 708, 11, [1] pages. [12]-page self-wrapper price list pamphlet dated September, 1925 laid in. Illus. An extensive specimen and trade catalog from the stalwart Chicago type foundry, including among a number of signature typefaces the flagship Cooper..... More

Stuttgart: C. E. Weber Schriftgiesserei, [ca. 1920]. Original printed wrappers (11.75 x 8.38 inches), [56] pages wire stitched, plus fold-out newspaper sample tipped into the rear. An attractive later specimen of this workhorse typeface first issued as Antiqua 7. More

[Colophon:] Paris: Deberny et Peignot, 1937. First trade edition. Original stiff yellow wrappers (12.63 x 9.75 inches), [2], [24], [2] pages, wire stitched. The typeface design commissioned by Deberny & Peignot from the poster artist Cassandre, a stressed sans serif intended as a text typeface that instead enjoyed a vogue..... More

[Frankfurt]: Schriftgiesserei D. Stempel, [ca. 1928]. Unbound brochure (11.75 x 8.25 inches), [4] pages. Designed for Stempel by Friedrich W. Kleukens and released in 1926, a display typeface with a very 1920s feel—here paired in a few examples with a grotesk or sans that would seem to be something other..... More

Frankfurt: Schriftgießerei Flinsch, [ca. 1909]. Original printed self-wrappers (11.13 x 8.63 inches), [16] pages. Illus., ornaments. Fonts in Use untangles this as the Flinsch version of the Caslon foundry’s Old Roman, designed by T. W. Smith in 1895. The sample forms here suggest a 1909 specimen. More