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Book Artsand Printing

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Rebus of Richard Grafton. With Suscipite incitum verbum &e., 1546. Detail from Publishers' and Printers' Devices in England and Scotland, 1485-1640, by Ronald B. McKerrow, 1913.

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BOOK ARTS & PRINTING 2

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BOOK TRADE......................................................................................................3

PAPER SAMPLES .................................................................................................4

PRESSES & PRINTING..........................................................................................5

PRINTING HISTORIES FOCUSING ON THE EARLY PERIOD IN THE U.S. ...........8

TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY................................................................................ 11


BOOK TRADE

Boynton, Henry. Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1991.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 473.B79 1991

Charvat, William and Warren Tryon. The Cost Books of Ticknor and Fields, and their Predecessors, 1832-1858. New York: Bibliographical Society of America, 1949.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 473.T5

Duff, Edward Gordon. A Century of the English Book Trade: Short Notices of All Printers, Stationers, Book-Binders, and Others Connected with it from the Issue of the First Dated Book in 1457 to the Incorporation of the Company of Stationers in 1557. Philadelphia: R. West, 1977.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 151.2.D38 1977

Hunt, Arnold, Giles Mandelbrote and Alison Shell, eds. The Book Trade & Its Customers, 1450-1900. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1997.


Hunt, Richard, Graham Pollard, and Richard Roberts, eds. Studies in the Book Trade: In Honour of Graham Pollard. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1975.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 325.S89

Isaac, Peter and Barry McKay, eds. The Reach of Print: Making, Selling, and Using Books. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 325.R38 1998

Maxted, Ian. The London Book Trades 1775-1800: A Preliminary Checklist of Members. Folkestone: Dawson, 1977.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 152.L8 M39

Maxted, Ian. The London Book Trades, 1775-1800: A Topographical Guide, Including a Correction of Major Errors in the Author’s Preliminary Checklist of Members. Exeter: Ian Maxted, 1980.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 152.L8 M4


Silver, Rollo. The Baltimore Book Trade, 1800-1825. New York: New York Public Library, 1953.


Stern, Madeleine. Antiquarian Bookselling in the United States: A History from the Origins to the 1940s. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1985.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 479.S79 1985

Todd, William. A Directory of Printers and Others in Allied Trades, London and Vicinity 1800-1840. London: Printing Historical Society, 1972.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 330.6.L6 T6

PAPER SAMPLES Japan Paper Company. Hand Made Papers. New York: Japan Paper Company, 1933.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.J36 1933 f

A Series of Text Papers, mould Made from the Famous Mills of Marais, France; Miliani, Italy; Portals, England; Rives, France: Showing Sizes 20 X 26 X 26 X40, 25 X 38. New York: T.N. Fairbanks Company, 193?.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.T566 1930z

Thomas N. Fairbanks Company. Papers. New York: Thomas N. Fairbanks Company, 193?.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.T49 1930z

Thomas N. Fairbanks Company. A Series of Hand Made Papers from England and Italy. New York: Thomas N. Fairbanks Company, 1930.

Call Number: Special Collections TS1220.T55 1930

Worthy Paper Company. Worthy Master of Arts Cover. West Springfield: Worthy Paper Company, 193?

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.W63 1930z f

Worthy Paper Company. Worthy Papers. West Springfield: The Company, 1932.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.W65 1932


Worthy Paper Company. Worthy Sterling Laid. West Springfield: Worthy Paper Company, 193?.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1220.W67 1930z

Yoshikuni, Seiki. Edo Tokyo Kamisukishi Ko. Tokyo: Fuzanbo, Showa 18, 1943.

Call Number: Special Collections TS 1095.J3 S4

PRESSES & PRINTING

American Printing History Association. The APHA Letter. New York: The Association, 1974-1985.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.A6

American Printing History Association. The APHA Newsletter: A Publication of the American Printing History Association. New York: The Association 1986-1990.


Book Arts Specimen Collection, ca. 1600-ca. 1850.

Call Number: Special Collections MS2135/003

Barker, Nicolas. The Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478-1978: An Illustrated History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.O98 B37

Brenni, Vito Joseph. Book Printing in Britain and America: A Guide to the Literature and a Directory of Printers. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1983.


Catalogue of I. Typefounders’ Specimens. II. Books Printed in Founts of Historic Importance. III. Works on Typefounding, Printing, & Bibliography. Offered for Sale. s.l.: Birrell & Garnett, Itd., 1928.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A1 B55 1972

De la Mare, Richard. A Publisher on Book Production. London: Dent, 1936.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 116.A3 D34 1936


Duff, Edward. The Printers, Stationers, and Bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535. New York: Arno Press, 1977.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 151.2.D85 1977

Franklin, Benjamin. Boston Printers, Publishers, and Booksellers, 1640-1800. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.B7 B67

Grabhorn Press. Pages from Various Books Printed at the Grabhorn Press, San Francisco, 1928-1940. San Francisco: The Press, 1942.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.G72 f

Greenhood, David and Helen Gentry. Chronology of Books & Printing. New York: Macmillan, 1936.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 116.A2 G3 1936

Henry E. Hungtington Library and Art Gallery. The Work of the Merrymount Press and Its Founder, Daniel Berkeley Updike. San Marino: The Huntington Library, 1942.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.M57 H4

Hodson’s Booksellers, Publishers and Stationers Directory 1855: A Facsimile of the Copy in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1972.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 327.H63 1972

International Printing Machinery and Allied Trades Exhibition. Printing and the Mind of Man, Assembled at the British Museum and at Earls Court, London, 16-27, July 1963. London: F.W. Bridges, 1963.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 121.L73 1963

Kimber, Sidney. Cambridge Press Title-Pages, 1640-1665: A Pictorial Representation of the Work Done in the First Printing Office in British North America. Takoma Park: Private Printer, W.L. Kimber, 1954.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.C3 K5

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. The Book in America: A History of the Making and Selling of Books in the United States. New York: Bowker, 1951.



Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. One Hundred Books about Bookmaking: A Guide to the Study and Appreciation of Printing. New York: Columbia University Press, 1949.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 279.L38

Lehmann-Haupt, Hellmut. Seventy Books about Bookmaking: A Guide to the Study and Appreciation of Printing. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 279.L4

Maslen, Keith, and John Lancaster, eds. The Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer, Father and Son, Reproduced on Microfiche: With a Checklist of Bowyer Printing, 1699-1777, A Commentary, indexes, and Appendixes. New York: The Bibliographic Society of America, 1991

Call Number: Special Collections Microfiche S4

Morrison, Paul. Index of Printers, Publishers, and Bookselelrs in A.W. Pollard and C. R. Redgrave: A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland & Ireland and of English Books Printed Abroad, 1475-1640. Charlottesville: Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1950.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 2002.P771 M58

Morison, Stanley. Four Centuries of Fine Printing: Two Hundred and Seventy-Two Examples of the Work of Presses Established between 1465 and 1924. New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1957.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.M86 1957

Nash, John Henry. Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press. San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash, 1929.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.C65 N37 f

Ritchie, Ward. Of Bookmen & Printers: A Gathering of Memories. Los Angeles: Dawsons, 1989.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.R61 A3 1989

Rogers, Bruce. Italian Old Style, a New Type Designed by Frederic W. Goudy and Produced by the Lanston Monotype Machine Company of Philadelphia. Mount Vernon: Rudge, 1924.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.G69 R6 1924 f


Saxe, Stephen. American Iron Hand Presses. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1992.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 249.S23 1992

Trienens, Roger. Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States. Washington: Library of Congress, 1973.


Updike, Daniel Berkeley, et. al. Updike: American Printer and His Merrymount Press. New York: The American Institute of Graphic Arts, 1947.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.M57 U83

Winship, George Parker. The Merrymount Press of Boston: An Account of the Work of Daniel Berkeley Updike. Vienna: Printed for H. Reichner, 1929.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.M57 W56 f

Winship, George Parker. Daniel Berkeley Updike and the Merrymount Press of Boston, Massachusetts, 1860, 1894, 1941. Rochester: Print House of Leo Hart, 1947.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.M57 W5

Yale University Press. Specimens of Type in the Printing-Office of the Yale University Press. New Have: Yale University Press, 1939.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.Y17

PRINTING HISTORIES FOCUSING ON THE EARLY PERIOD IN THE U.S.

American Antiquarian Society. Needs and Opportunities in the History of the Book: America, 1639-1876. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1987.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 1003.2.N43 1987

Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. Boston: Dartmouth College Library, 1977.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.B58

Boynton, Henry. Annals of American Bookselling, 1638-1850. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1991.



Goldman, Yosef. Hebrew Printing in America 1735-1926: A History and Annotated Bibliography. Brooklyn: Yosef Goldman, 2006.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 7070.G595 2006

Hudson, Graham. The Design & Printing of Ephemera in Britain & America, 1720-1920. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2008.

Call Number: Special Collections NC 1284.G7 H83 2008

Jenkins, John. Early American Imprints: A Collection of Works Printed in America between 1669 and 1800, II. Austin: Jenkins Co., 1977.

Call Number: Special collections Z 8462.8.J4 no. 110

Jenkins, John. Early American Imprints: A Collection of Works Printed in America between 1662 and 1800, II. Austin: Jenkins Co., 1979.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 8462.8.J9 no. 120

Jenkins, John. Early American Imprints: A Collection of Works Printed in America between 1663 and 1800, III. Austin: Jenkins Co., 1983.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 8462.8.J9 no. 150

Joyce, William L. Printing and Society in Early America. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1983.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.P74 1983

Kimber, Sidney. Cambridge Press Title-Pages, 1640-1665: A Pictorial Representation of the Work Done in the First Printing Office in British North America. Takoma Park: W.L. Kimber, 1954.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.C3 K5

McMurtrie, Douglas. The Delaware Imprints of 1761. Metuchen: Privately printed, 1934.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.D34 M2

McMurtrie, Douglas. The First Known Wisconsin Imprint. Chicago: Privately printed, 1934.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.W8 M22 f


McMurtrie, Douglas. A History of Printing in the United States: The Story of the Introduction of the Press and of its History and Influence during the Pioneer Period in Each State of the Union. New York: R. R. Bowker Company, 1936.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.M18

McMurtrie, Douglas. A Portfolio of Informational Articles on the Invention of Printing and the Beginnings of Papermaking in the United States. Chicago: Invention of Printing Anniversary Committee, International Association of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 127.C5 M3

McMurtrie, Douglas. The Price of Printing in Philadelphia, 1754. Chicago: Privately Pinted, 1928.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 245.A2 1754

Silver, Rollo Gabriel. The American Printer, 1787-1825. Charlottesville: University of Virginia, 1967.


Studio. Modern Book Production. New York: A & C Boni, 1928.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 276.M69 f

Thomas, Isaiah. The History of Printing in America. Worcester: Isaiah Thomas, 1810.


Winterich, John Tracy. Early American Books & Printing. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.W79

Wright, John. Early Bibles of America. New York: T. Whittaker, 1892.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 7771.A5 W9

Wroth, Lawrence. American Woodcuts and Engravings, 1670-1800. Providence: Associates of the John Carter Brown Library, 1946.

Call Number: Special Collections NE 505.W7


Wroth, Lawrence. The Colonial Printer. Portland: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.W95 1938

Wroth, Lawrence. The Colonial Printing Press: A Chapter from the Colonial Printer. Portland: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938.


Wroth, Lawrence. A History of Printing in Colonial Maryland, 1686-1776. Baltimore: Typothetae of Baltimore, 1922.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 209.M39 W9

Wroth, Lawrence. The Maryland Press, 1777-1790. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1938.

Call Number: Special Collections: Z 209.M39 W91

Wroth, Lawrence. William Parks, Printer and Journalist of England and Colonial America, with a List of the Issues of His Several Presses and a Facsimile of the Earliest Virginia Imprint Known to be in Existence. Richmond: The William Parks Club, 1926.

Call Number: Special Collections E 173.W72 no. 3

TYPE AND TYPOGRAPHY

American Institute of Graphic Arts. Las Artes del Libro en Los Estados Unidos, 1931-1941. New York: Institute of North American Graphic Arts, 1942.


Annenberg, Maurice. Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1994.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A1.A56 1994

Annenberg, Maurice. A Typographic Journey through the Inland Printer, 1883-1900. Baltimore: Maran Press, 1977.



Anthoensen, Fred. Types and Bookmaking, Containing Notes on the Books Printed at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press. Portland: The Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1943.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.S728 A5

Bauer Type Foundry. Specimen Book of Bauer Types. New York: The Foundry, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.B38

Blumenthal, Joseph. Typographic Years: A Printer’s Journey through a Half-Century, 1925-1975. New York: F.C. Beil, 1982.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.B654 B58 1982

Carter, Rob. American Typography Today. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1993.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 208.C37 1993

Carter, Sebastian. Twentieth Century Type Designers. New York: Norton, 1995.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 C27 1995

Cleland, T.M. The Fine Art of Printing. s.l.: s.n., 19—.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 C596

De Lopatecki, Eugene. Advertising Layout and Typography: A Quick Easy Technique for Every One who Prepares Advertising with Simple Methods for Choosing and Calculating Type. New York: Ronald Press Company, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections HF 5825.D45

Dowding, Geoggrey. An Introduction to the History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day: An Aid to Type Face Identification. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 D6 1998

Dreyfus, John. Into Print: Selected Writings on Printing History. Boston: David R. Godine, 1995.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 124.I55 1995

Dwiggins, W.A. Caledonia, A New Printing Type Designed for Merganthaler. New York: Merganthaler Linotype Co., 1939.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.5.C15 D9


Goudy, Frederic. Goudy’s Type Designs: His Story and Specimens: Being a Virtual Facsimile of the Typophiles Chap Books XIII and XIV, a Half-Century of Type Design and Typography. New Rochelle: Myriade Press, 1978.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.G68 G6 1978

Goudy, Frederic W. A Half-Century of Type Design and Typography, 1895-1945. New York: The Typophiles, 1946.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.G68 G6

Goudy, Frederic. Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1940.


Gray, Nicolete. Nineteenth Century Ornamented Typefaces. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1976.


Haley, Allan. ABC’s of Type. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1990.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.H2 1990

Hart, Horace. Notes on a Century of Typography at the University Press, Oxford, 1693-1794. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 232.O98 A55 f

Hermann, Zapf. Manuale Typographicum. Cambridge: M.I.T. Press, 1970.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.Z325

Johnson, A.F. Type Designs: Their History and Development. London: Grafton & Co., 1934.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 J6

Kelly, Rob Roy. American Wood Type, 1828-1900: Notes on the Evolution of Decorated and Large Types and Comments on Related Trades of the Period. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1969.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 K4


Lewis, Bernard. Behind the Type: The Life Story of Frederick W. Goudy. Pittsburgh: 1941.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 L48

Lieberman, J. Ben. Type and Typefaces. New Rochelle: Myriade Press, 1978.


McGrew, Mac. American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.M37 1993 f

McMurtrie, Douglas. A Century of Progress in the Graphic Arts. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1933.


McMurtrie, Douglas. The Earliest Use of Type Ornament? Chicago: Priv. Print, 1933.


McMurtrie, Douglas. The First Swedish Type Specimen. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1933.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 M237

McMurtrie, Douglas. Modern Typography—Today. Chicago: Private Print, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections Z246.M19 1935f

McMurtrie, Douglas. A Mysterious Type Specimen: A Note on the Typeface Showing of the Typefounder Marquet, Issued at Lyons, France, Apparently During the last Half of the Eighteenth Century. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1935.


McMurtrie, Douglas. Notes on Typographic Trends: What’s Next in Type Faces—the Rising Importance of Photography in Advertising Layouts—Reasons for Bleed Pages—the New Display Typefaces. New York: Priv. Print, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections HF 5825.M237

McMurtrie, Douglas. Structure in the New Typography. Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930.



McMurtrie, Douglas. Type Design, an Essay on American Type Design with Specimens of the Outstanding Types. Pelham: Bridgman, 1927.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 M2 1927

McMurtrie, Douglas. Types Grow Tall. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1934.


McMurtrie, Douglas. Upper and Lower Case Pays. Chicago: Privately Printed, 1934.


McMurtrie, Douglas. What is Modern in Typography? Chicago: s.n., 1929.


Mergenthaler Linotype Company. A Digest of Linotype Faces. Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1935.


Morison, Stanley. A Brief Survey of Printing: History and Practice. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1923.


Morison, Stanley. First Principles of Typography. New York: Macmillan Company, 1936.


Morison, Stanley. Letter Forms, Typographic and Scriptorial: Two Essays on Their Classification, History, and Bibliography. London: Nattali & Maurice, 1968.


Morison, Stanley. Selected Essays on the History of Letter-Forms in Manuscript and Print. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.M875 1981 f

Morison, Stanley. Tact in Typographical Design: A Type Specimen. Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1962.



Morison, Stanley. Type Designs of the Past and Present. London: Cambridge University Press, 1926.


Morison, Stanley. The Typographic Book, 1450-1935: A Study of Fine Typography through Five Centuries. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.


Newdigate, Bernard. The Art of the Book. New York: Studio Publications, 1938.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 276.N57

Poortenaar, Jan. The Art of the Books and its Illustration. London: G.G. Harrap, 1935.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 116.A2 P8

Record Company. Type Faces: A Showing of Old Style, Modern and Sans Serif Faces Suitable for Book and Catalog Work in Either Traditional or Modernistic Manner. Saint Augustine: The Record Company, 1939.


Reed, Talbot. A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography. London: Faber and Faber, 1952.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 R3 1952

Rehak, Theo. Practical Type Casting: A Typefounder’s Compendium. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.


Rogers, Bruce. Italian Old Style, a New Type Designed by Frederic W. Goudy... Mount Vernon: Printed by Rudge, 1924.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.G69 R

Silver, Rollo. Typefounding in America, 1787-1825. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1965.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 S5


Simon, Oliver. Printing of To-day, an Illustrated Survey of Post-War Typography in Europe and the United States. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.S59 f

Type Faces, at the American Book-Stratford Press, Incorporated. New York: s.n., 1938.


Updike, Daniel B. In the Day’s Work. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1924.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 246.U66

Updike, Daniel B. Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 250.A2 U6 1937

White, Alex. The Elements of Graphic Design: Space, Unity, Page Architecture, and Type. New York: Allworth Press, 2002.


Wroth, Lawrence. A History of the Printed Book, Being the Third Number of the Dolphin. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1938.

Call Number: Special Collections Z 119.D66 no. 3 f

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