Criteria:
- Keyword = Lettering & Mss
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ROUSSELET, Gilles, calligrapher.
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L'Oraison Dominicale.
Paris?
c.1660
A remarkable and exquisite manuscript of The Lord’s Prayer by the great French calligrapher Gilles Rousselet (1610-1686). He worked as calligrapher, engraver and printer-publisher at…More details Price: £2,600.00 -
FIRST EDITION CLUB. SMITH, Percy.
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Lettering. A Plea.
Privately printed for members of the First Edition Club
1932
Percy Smith’s essay on architectural typography, ‘a plea for the greater consideration of lettering more especially in relation to architecture’, reprinted here from ‘The Architectural…More details Price: £40.00
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. RABEAU, Mlle A. IMPRIMERIE MOTTEROZ.
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Livre d'Heures, Edite et Illustre par Mlle A. Rabeau.
Paris
Imprimerie Motteroz
1882
A lavish, excellently hand-illuminated book, usually prepared as a wedding gift but here clearly intended to be presented at the first communion of Rita and…More details Price: £1,900.00 -
GERMAN PRINTING. LOMETSCH, Fritz. WAGGERL, Karl Heinrich.
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Lob der Wiese.
Gottingen
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
[1948]
A really lovely book in praise of the countryside.More details Price: £80.00 -
JOHNSTON, Edward. GILL, Eric.
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Manuscript & Inscription Letters for Schools & Classes & for the Use of Craftsmen.
London
John Hogg
1909
Inserted loose is a scarce advertisement leaf for plaster casts of lettering by Eric Gill available from the publisher.
Ownership inscription of the Scottish architect Basil…More details Price: £650.00 -
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KOCH, Rudolf. HEINRICHLEN, Friedrich.
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Neue Schriftvorlagen zum Gebrauch fur Schreiber, Maler, Buchdrucker, Stempelschneider und handwerker aller Art. [New font templates for the use of writers, painters, printers, stamp cutters and craftsmen of all kinds].
Dresden
Wolfgang Jess Verlag
1925
A very attractive book of font templates.More details Price: £150.00 -
PETRARCH PRESS. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. DAVIS, Laura.
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On Wine. A Letter Written to the Abbé Morellet.
Petrarch Press
1994
Written as an undated letter by Benjamin Franklin during his stay in France in the late 1780s.More details Price: £60.00 -
LANGHORNE, Freda, calligrapher. LANG, Jean.
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Orpheus a Myth, told by Jean Lang, written by Freda Langhorne.
c. 1930
Jean Lang (1867-1932) wrote the extremely popular A Book of Myths first published in London and New York in 1914. In it was this poetic…More details Price: £380.00 -
WYATT, Leo. CICERO.
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Reason is the Mistress and Queen of all Things.
Newcastle upon Tyne
c.1973-76
Leo Wyatt’s trade was to design and engraved steel dies and copper plates. In his late fifties, challenged by the assertion that famed English wood…More details Price: £120.00 -
KOCH, Rudolf. HAUPT, Georg.
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Rudolf Koch der Schreiber.
Weimar
Gesellschaft der Bibliophilen
1936
A very well-printed survey of all aspects of Koch’s work in calligraphy, type design, metal work, ecclesiastical art, book design &c. with very useful check-list…More details Price: £150.00 -
CALLIGRAPHIC MANUSCRIPT. LAO TZU. GILES, Lionel.
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Sayings of Lao Tzu.
[London
c.1995].
The calligrapher notes that help has been given with the Chinese characters from Clive Clunas at the V & A Museum.
Lao Tzu was the first…More details Price: £1,200.00 -
GERMAN TYPOGRAPHY & LETTERING. BRUDI, Walter.
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Schriftschreiben und Schriftzeichnen.
Stuttgart
C.E. Poeschel
1952
The specimens here, under the title Script Writing and Drawing Fonts, were derived for the book graphic art class at the Stuttgart Academy as font…More details Price: £80.00 -
RUZICKA, Rudolph.
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Studies in Type Design Alphabets with Random Quotations.
Hanover, New Hampshire
Friends of the Dartmouth Library
1968
The quotations are from works by Robert Frost, Paul Valéry, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Browne and…More details Price: £50.00 -
TRUCK PRESS. GALLO, Philip.
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The Broken G: Entertainment with Deepdene Kennerly & Cloister Initials.
St Paul
Truck Press
1978
A really charming, colourful and attractive alphabet book.More details Price: £290.00 -
WYATT, Leo. SHELLEY.
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The More We Study We the More Discover Our Ignorance.
Newcastle upon Tyne
c.1973-76
Leo Wyatt’s trade was to design and engraved steel dies and copper plates. In his late fifties, challenged by the assertion that famed English wood…More details Price: £120.00 -
HEWITT, Graily, NESBIT, Edith., JACKSON, F. Ernest, PRYSE, Spenser.
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The Neolith. Nos I-IV
London
printed by Thomas Kell, published quarterly at Royalty Chambers, Dean Street, Soho, London W.
November 1907 - August 1908
The Neolith was an artistic literary periodical published quarterly in London from 1907-1908 under the direction of Edith Nesbit, Graily Hewitt, F. Ernest Jackson and…More details Price: £600.00 -
WYATT, Leo. CONFUCIUS.
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To See what is Right and Not to Do it is want of Courage.
Newcastle upon Tyne
c.1973-76
Leo Wyatt’s trade was to design and engraved steel dies and copper plates. In his late fifties, challenged by the assertion that famed English wood…More details Price: £120.00 -
OLD SCHOOL PRESS. TONGE, George. WATTS, John. GIDNEY, Patricia.
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Tonge's Travels.
Bath
Old School Press
2001
The diary of an Oxford undergraduate George Tonge, recounting his tour the Mediterranean by boat in 1857. His 10 week journey took him to Gibraltar,…More details Price: £110.00 -
MOSER, Peter, calligrapher in Berlin in the 1920s. ROSSETTI, Christina.
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Uphill.
Berlin
1923
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KINDERSLEY, David.
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Variations on the Theme of Twenty-Six Letters.
Wellingborough
David Kindersley and Christopher Skelton
1969
The alphabets are from original 30 x 22 inch drawings printed in black line and individually painted, now in the collections of universities, museums and…More details Price: £30.00
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