Criteria:
- Keyword = Lettering & Mss
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NEEDLEWORK SAMPLER. KING, Georgiana. ~ George III needlework sampler by Georgiana King, dated March 13th 1799. 1799
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STONE, Reynolds. SPARROW, John. ~ Grave Epigrams. Printed by Simon Rendall at Bembridge 1974
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KIENZLE, Hermann. REINER, Imre. ~ Initialen von Imre Reiner. Mit vielen Satzbeispielen und historischen Initialen in zweifarbigem Druck Eingeführt. Basel Benno Schwabe & Co. 1942
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SAUMEREZ-SMITH, Romilly, binder. DOLBY, Hazel, scribe. ~ King Solomon & Queen Sheba. Bound by Romilly Saumerez-Smith 1998
A remarkable item both for the calligraphy and the binding. The feeling of the Old Testament text is conveyed perfectly with an ancient earthiness to…More details Price: £2,750.00 -
ROUSSELET, Gilles, calligrapher. ~ 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: £2,800.00 -
WYATT, Leo. AESCHYLUS. ~ Learning is Ever in the Freshness of its Youth, Even for the Old. 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: £80.00 -
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. IMPRIMERIE MOTTEROZ. ~ Livre d'Heures, Edite et Illustre par Mlle A. Rabeau. Paris Imprimerie Motteroz 1882
A lavish, execllently 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: £2,500.00 -
GERMAN PRINTING. LOMETSCH, Fritz. WAGGERL, Karl Heinrich. ~ 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. ~ 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: £720.00 -
KOCH, Rudolf. HEINRICHLEN, Friedrich. ~ 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. ~ 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 -
RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. CARTER, Will. ~ Portfolio One; Portfolio Two; Portfolio Three. Cambridge Rampant Lions Press 1967, 1974 & 1982
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. WALDNER, Laure. ~ Psaume CIII. France 1912-1913
An glorious illuminated manuscript of Psalm 103 by a French female illuminator.More details Price: £1,500.00 -
WYATT, Leo. CICERO. ~ 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 -
STONE, Reynolds. HARVEY, Michael. ~ Reynolds Stone: Engraved Lettering in Wood. London Fleece Press 1992
The essay was written by Reynolds Stone’s assistant Michael Harvey. He tells many wonderful stories including when Reynolds Stone met Gill on a train by…More details Price: £120.00 -
KOCH, Rudolf. HAUPT, Georg. ~ 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 -
GERMAN TYPOGRAPHY & LETTERING. BRUDI, Walter. ~ 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 -
SAUMEREZ SMITH, Romilly, binder. DOLBY, Hazel, scribe. ~ Solomon’s Gold. 1998
A remarkable item both for the calligraphy and the binding. The feeling of the Old Testament text is conveyed perfectly with an ancient earthiness and…More details Price: £2,750.00 -
RUZICKA, Rudolph. ~ 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