Criteria:
- Keyword = Lettering & Mss
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JOANNA DYKE ACLAND TROYTE (1843-1917). GOSLING SOCIETY.
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Illuminated manuscript of the Epistles of St James and St. Jude.
1859
On the verso of the free endpaper is a pencil note “Joanna Dyke Acland Harper fecit (aged 16 1/2) - bequeathed to her grandson Ton…More details Price: £1,400.00 -
KIENZLE, Hermann. REINER, Imre.
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Initialen von Imre Reiner. Mit vielen Satzbeispielen und historischen Initialen in zweifarbigem Druck Eingeführt.
Basel
Benno Schwabe & Co.
1942
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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 -
WYATT, Leo. AESCHYLUS.
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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.
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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.
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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: £720.00 -
![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]. by KOCH, Rudolf. HEINRICHLEN, Friedrich.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8459-a---200.jpg?v=1587306318)
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 -
BRECHTEL, Christopherus Fabius, d.1622
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Nomenclatura pharmaceutica.
Nuremberg
Sebastian Heusler
1603
The book comprises pages with printed labels giving the Latin names of all the substances to be found in an apothecary’s shop. They were intended…More details Price: £48,000.00 -
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 -
RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. CARTER, Will.
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Portfolio One; Portfolio Two; Portfolio Three.
Cambridge
Rampant Lions Press
1967, 1974 & 1982
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ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT. WALDNER, Laure.
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Psaume CIII.
France
1912-1913
An glorious illuminated manuscript of Psalm 103 by a French female illuminator.More details Price: £1,500.00 -
STANBROOK ABBEY. ADAMS, Margaret. ST. AUGUSTINE.
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Question the Beauty. From a Sermon by St. Augustine.
Worcester
Stanbrook Abbey Press
[1970]
Although first printed in 1957 Question of Beauty sold well and was reprinted several times, this wrapper being in Curzon blue paper indicating it was…More details Price: £80.00
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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 -
STONE, Reynolds. HARVEY, Michael.
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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.
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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 -
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
![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]. by KOCH, Rudolf. HEINRICHLEN, Friedrich.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/8459-a---800.jpg?v=1587306318)
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