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Title
"Leven wonder angst," Freedom from fear
Creator
Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr.
Summary
Kennedy’s signature style is shown here in these poster-sized editions of quotes that are printed using vintage letterpress wood type and flatbed cylinder presses. He layers texts in colorful sequences. This creates word patterns that become the backgrounds for prominent phrases which are emphasized in the boldest final impressions. The "Freedom" series, printed in bilingually in Dutch and English, are banners for basic universal human rights.
Title
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, what are you doing for others?"
Creator
Kennedy, Amos Paul, Jr.
Summary
Kennedy’s signature style is shown here in these poster-sized editions of quotes that are printed using vintage letterpress wood type and flatbed cylinder presses. He layers texts in colorful sequences. This creates word patterns that become the backgrounds for prominent phrases which are emphasized in the boldest final impressions. Kennedy’s poster honors the American civil rights activist Dr. King as his words are powerfully accentuated by his vivid treatments.
Title
"On ne voit bien..."
Creator
Zapf von Hesse, Gudrun, 1918-2019
Summary
Quote from "Le Petit Prince" executed in pencil and watercolors. Translation: "You can only see with the heart... What is essential is invisible to the eye..."
Title
"Vous qui marchez, Aidez-nous" Journée Nationale des Paralysés et Infirmes Civils, 8 Juin 1952
Creator
Association des Paralysés de France
Summary
Poster for the French National Day for the Paralyzed and Infirm, June 8, 1952. Poster depicts two smiling children from black and white photos, whom are both holding crutches. They each have raised one arm and extended their index fingers. A yellow field surrounds their silhouetted bodies with a headline in script lettering that states: "You who walk, help us."
Title
"Was uns die nächsten Jahre..."
Creator
Zapf von Hesse, Gudrun, 1918-2019
Summary
Quote typeset in a variant of Zapf von Hesse's Carmina typeface.
Title
14th supplement to Bruce's abridged specimen book of 1869. New-York, January 1, 1878
Creator
George Bruce's Son & Co.
Summary
David Wolfe Bruce, son of George Bruce, took over management of the plant after the death of his father in 1866. There were 19 supplements to the 1869 specimen book. This supplement contains mainly Penman script types and Pica ornamented types.
Title
50 Marbled Papers
Creator
Daal, Geert van
Summary
Marbled paper technique sample book.
Title
[Paste paper portfolio]
Creator
Middleton, R. Hunter (Robert Hunter), 1898-1985
Summary
66 mounted paste papers, approximately 50 blank mounting papers in envelope (with ink inscription along bottom edge: "R.H.M. paste paper mounts"), 1 paste paper 32 x 24 cm folded to 24 x 16 cm, with pencil inscription on back "Design with Troy-weight symbols by R.H. Middleton 1950 for Abbott Laboratories," and two 15 x 11 cm envelopes, each filled with approximately 30 paste papers, both labeled "R.H. Middleton paste papers 1944."
Title
A Blessed Conversation
Creator
Zapf, Hermann, 1918-2015
Summary
"From Cocker's Writing Book." Signed by H. Zapf. Written in multiple hands by his students.
Title
A booklet devoted to the book-plates of Elisha Brown Bird, being a collection printed in photogravure
Creator
Bird, Elisha Brown
Summary
Elisha Brown Bird was an American Illustrator who lived from 1867-1943. The book was typeset by Bertha Goudy in Village type designed by Frederic Goudy.
Title
A brief treatise on the merits of the Golding jobber
Creator
Golding Manufacturing Co
Summary
["Designed and printed in the Printing and Advertising Department of Golding and Co. in Boston, Massachusetts, 1904." Most pages printed in black and red., In 1869 William H. Golding went into business at 14 Kilby Street in Boston, but adopted the name Golding & Co. by 1875, also moving from Kilby Street to 40 Washington Square (later renamed Fort-Hill Square.). The company would begin to be called Golding Manufacturing Co. towards the end of the 19th century. This pamphlet gives a detailed account of the Golding Jobber, described as the "most highly developed type of modern job printing press."
Saxe, S. O., "A Brief History of Golding & Co." In "Printing History," volume 3, number 2 (1981), pages 14-19.]
Title
A Gaiety Girl
Creator
Hardy, Dudley
Summary
This leaf (plate 4) was taken from Volume I (1896) of the series Les Maîtres de l'Affiche. The embossed stamp of the series is found in the lower right corner of the lithograph. The original poster was published in London by Waterlow & Sons Ltd. Lithographers in 1894 for the musical review "A Gaiety Girl" by Sidney Jones. The poster depicts a dancing woman in a long white dress on red background.
Title
A guide and handbook for amateurs of printing
Creator
Grabhorn, Jane Bissell
Summary
Title vignette; printed in red and black; decorated initials
Letter from Jane Grabhorn to Melbert B. Cary, pasted inside front cover, states that twenty five copies were printed on the hand-press and bound by Jane Grabhorn.
Inscribed to Melbert Cary, Jr., by Jane "Jumbo" Grabhorn.
Set in blackletter types.
Title
A History of the Art of Bookbinding: With Some Account of the Books of the Ancients
Creator
Brassington, William Salt, 1859-1939
Title
A printing plate for Daniel 3's title page.
Creator
David, Ismar, 1910-1996
Summary
A printing plate with the title page lettering for an edition of Daniel 3 from the Book Of Daniel. The book was created for private distribution to friends of Press of The World publishing company.
Title
A printing plate for the cover and page of Daniel 3.
Creator
David, Ismar, 1910-1996
Summary
A printing plate with the cover and page illustration for an edition of Daniel 3 from the Book Of Daniel. The book was created for private distribution to friends of Press of The World publishing company.
Title
A printing plate for the Nebuchadnezzar illustration for an edition of Daniel 3 from the Book Of Daniel. The book was created for private distribution to friends of Press of The World publishing company.
Creator
David, Ismar, 1910-1996
Summary
A printing plate with the Nebuchadnezzar illustration.
Created for a limited edition of Daniel 3 for private distribution to friends of Press of The World. Printed in red in the book.
Title
A printing plate for The Offenbacher Haggadah
Creator
Kredel, Fritz
Summary
A copper photoengraving which was not used in the volume (Offenbach am Main: Guggenheim, 1927). It contains the text on the burning bush, which appears on page 26, enclosed within a decorative border like that on page 95.
Title
A printing plate for The Offenbacher Haggadah.
Creator
Kredel, Fritz
Summary
A copper photoengraving created from Fritz Kredel's original woodcuts, and used in printing illustration in the Offenbacher Haggadah (Offenbach am Main: Guggenheim, 1927).
This illustration appears on page 28 with the Hebrew text: רבותי הגיעה זמן קריאת שמע של שחרית.
Title
A printing plate for the title page illustration of Daniel 3.
Creator
David, Ismar, 1910-1996
Summary
A printing plate with the title page illustration. The book was created for private distribution to friends of Press of The World publishing company.
Title
A record of the Black prince. Being a selection of such passages in his life as have been most quaintly and strikingly narrated by chroniclers of the period, embellished with highly wrought miniatures and borderings selected from various illuminated mss., referring to events connected with English history.
Creator
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879
Summary
"In order to give as much as possible of the original 'old book' charm to these passages from the chroniclers, they have been carefully printed, with suitable 'rubrics,'in black letter, from old type that appears to have been actually used by ... the celebrated Caxton ... A massive carved binding has been added in order that the volume may convey, as completely as possible, the impression of one of those richly embellished books of chronicles that form the gems of some of our greatest public and private libraries "--Pref
Title
A showing of nineteen paste papers of the Pioneer Valley: with brief biographies of their makers and an introduction
Creator
Bourbeau, David
Summary
"Paste Papers of the Pioneer Valley" is a history of fine printing and binding in western Massachusetts, with special focus on decorated and paste papers and nineteen printers. The booklet includes Illustrated with full-page reproductions of nineteen paste papers with short biographies of their makers. These reproductions are from a portfolio of original paste paper specimens.
Title
A specimen of printing types
Creator
William Caslon and Son
Summary
Includes fonts in Hebrew, Gothic, Coptic, Etruscan, Arabic, etc., music, and fleurons.
Title
A specimen of printing types cast at the Boston Foundry, No. 51, Cornhill
Creator
C. Ewer and T. Bedlington (Firm)
Summary
"The Charlestown branch of E. White & Co. was sold in 1819 to the partnership of Timothy Bedlington, a bookbinder and Charles Ewer, owner of a book store in Boston. In 1820 Bedlington and Ewer released the first type catalog displaying some of their products. This catalog includes all the type and ornaments of their own manufacture at the Boston foundry, which would evolve into Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry after the business was sold again."
--Annenberg, M. "Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs," page 70-73.
Title
A specimen of printing types, cast at the letter foundry of D. & G. Bruce...
Creator
D. & G. Bruce (Firm)
Summary
["By 1816, the Bruce brothers shifted from printing to focus exclusively on type founding and stereotyping under the name of D. & G. Bruce, Letter-founders; they previously had published their first specimen book around 1815. This early catalog includes: type metal, cuts, ornaments, and rule."
--Annenberg, M. "Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs," page 83., In original publisher's printed paper wrappers.]
Title
A specimen of the types originally cast in Philadelphia by Binny & Ronaldson: later called Oxford and Monticello. Also a showing of a new digital version of the types / designed by Matthew Carter for the Papers of Thomas Jefferson
Summary
Broadside offering a newly designed digital font and a history tracing its development from the 18th century to 2003
Title
A. Dwight, Printer's Bodkin
Creator
Dwight, Alfred
Summary
A bodkin is a pointed, pin-like tool.
Title
A. Dwight, Type Case
Creator
Dwight, Alfred
Summary
A type case holds metal printer's type in small compartments.
Title
Aan onzen geachten patroon en de begunstigers van Kosters vinding
Creator
la Lau, J. G.
Summary
[Printed in black with a typographic illustration of a triumphant arch., Broadside printed annually on the Dutch printers festival day, called Koppermaandag, the Monday following the feast of the Epiphany. These broadsides were presented to friends and customers, having been set and printed by the shop apprentices. The poems generally are in praise and honor of Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370, Haarlem – c. 1440), whom the Dutch considered the inventor of printing with moveable types.]
Title
Ab urbe condita: fragment
Creator
Livy
Summary
[Ms. This manuscript leaf is part of a collection of medieval manuscript leaves selected to illustrate the art of the manuscript during the period of its greatest development and influence. They have been taken from books written in various European scriptoria by Benedictine, Franciscan, Carthusian, Dominican, and other orders of monks. Many are enriched with handsome borders, initial letters, and line-endings rendered in color. Twenty-five are illuminated with burnished gold or silver. The texts include the Bible, various church service books, the writings of the Church fathers, and some of the Classics., In Humanistic script., The known part of Livy's great life work, the History of Rome, was completed about the year 9 A.D. The finished work consisted of one hundred and forty-two books, of which only thirty-five are extant. These books are regarded as one of the most precious remains of Latin literature. One of the outstanding characteristics of the scholars and scribes of the Italian Renaissance was their great interest in Latin literature. Through their influence, many copies of the classics were made from the few 9th and 10th century manuscripts available. These earlier manuscripts had been written in a carolingian or pre-gothic script to which the 15th century humanistic calligraphers assigned the name antiqua littera. The letters were not really of antiquity, since minuscule letters were not known before the time of Charlemagne. In the 15th century, this carolingian script became the inspiration not only for manuscripts like this leaf, but also for the fine roman types designed by the printers in Italy. This vellum leaf was created in Italy.]
Title
Actions and reactions of an effete easterner : Warren Chappell in the wanton West, 1935-1936
Creator
Chappell, Warren, 1904-1991
Summary
13 pen and water-color drawings.
Title
Adventures of Captain Horn
Creator
Stockton, Frank R., 1834-1902
Title
Advertising Typographers Association keepsake
Creator
Zapf, Hermann, 1918-2015
Summary
Quotes by Daniel B. Updike and J. S. Mills, [sic]. Typeset in Optima and Melior typefaces.
Title
Akkadian Cuneiform tablet
Summary
Clay tablet with text of possibly an administrative nature. The tablet is dated from the Old Babylonian period (ca. 1900-1600 BCE).
Title
al-Munaḍḍidah al-ʻArabīyah (līnūtayb) : kātalūk ʻāmm yaḥwī sharḥan ʻan ṭarīqat al-shughl ʻalá al-munaḍḍidah maʻa amthilah al-ḥurūf al-ʻArabīyah allatī tuṣafu ʻalayhā
Creator
Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
Summary
Explains the workings of the Linotype Arabic compositor through examples of Arabic letters set on it. All the contents of this catalog whether Arabic or English letters, or patterns and borders have been set with the compositor.
Title
Album of Designs for Typefaces 1876
Creator
Ihlenburg, Hermann, 1843-1905
Summary
Type Drawings (1866-[1904]) contains two albums holding hundreds of pencil sketches and ink drawings of typefaces, borders, and cartouches drawn on various papers and Bristol board. Most are not dated but likely were created for Hermann Ihlenburg's American employers L. Johnson and MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. The ink drawings are both loose cards and cards mounted on boards.
Title
Album of Designs for Typefaces and Borders, 1866-1888
Creator
Ihlenburg, Hermann, 1843-1905
Summary
Type Drawings (1866-[1904]) contains two albums holding hundreds of pencil sketches and ink drawings of typefaces, borders, and cartouches drawn on various papers and Bristol board. Most are not dated but likely were created for Hermann Ihlenburg's American employers L. Johnson and MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan. The ink drawings are both loose cards and cards mounted on boards.
Title
Aldus Manutius
Creator
Thom, Robert A., 1915-1979
Summary
Perhaps the greatest figure in book publishing history, Aldus Manutius established a printing firm in Venice during the Fifteenth Century which published "pocket-sized" editions of Greek and Latin classics at low cost. His Aldine Press made it possible for commoners to read Aristotle, Euripides, Plato and Plutarch. The works were distinguished by typographical beauty and accuracy of scholarship. He was the first printer to use small capitals and italics; he authored one of the first Greek-Latin dictionaries, and founded an academy of famous Greek scholars.
Title
All American Men of War
Creator
[Kanigher, Robert, Ellsworth, Whitney]
Title
All Star Western
Creator
[Schwartz, Julius, Ellsworth, Whitney]
Title
Alleluia
Creator
Werkman, Hendrik Nicolaas, 1882-1945
Summary
Translation of the Dutch from the colophon:
'The skippers of "De Blauwe Schuit" and her master printer H.N. Werkman wish you a blessed Easter 1941 ... The text for this Easter greeting was taken from an old Dutch Easter song from Ootmarsum.'
Title
Almanak voor 1859
Creator
de Mequita, J. B.
Summary
[Printed in blue and brown. Type is set in a circular calendar., Broadside printed annually on the Dutch printers festival day, called Koppermaandag, the Monday following the feast of the Epiphany. These broadsides were presented to friends and customers, having been set and printed by the shop apprentices. The poems generally are in praise and honor of Laurens Janszoon Coster (c. 1370, Haarlem – c. 1440), whom the Dutch considered the inventor of printing with moveable types.]
Title
Alois Senefelder and Lithography
Creator
Thom, Robert A., 1915-1979
Summary
Near the close of the century, a young Bavarian playwright named Alois Senefelder sought a method of printing his own plays. His first efforts were engraved and etched on copper and printed on a makeshift intaglio press. The high cost of copper led Senefelder to experimentation with limestone slate. In 1796, a happy accident occurred. Having no paper immediately at hand, Senefelder wrote out an urgently needed laundry list on a polished piece of stone with a greasy ink mixture. Curiosity led him to the discovery that it was not necessary for the printing surface to be raised in the usual manner. The greasy image surrounded by the water-attracting stone surface accepted ink, while the dampened part of the stone rejected it. Printing from a plane or level surface, of lithography as we know it was born. Pursuing his discovery, Senefelder succeeded in adapting his process to metal plates by 1803.
Title
Alois Senefelder and Lithography
Creator
Thom, Robert A., 1915-1979
Summary
Near the close of the century, a young Bavarian playwright named Alois Senefelder sought a method of printing his own plays. His first efforts were engraved and etched on copper and printed on a makeshift intaglio press. The high cost of copper led Senefelder to experimentation with limestone slate. In 1796, a happy accident occurred. Having no paper immediately at hand, Senefelder wrote out an urgently needed laundry list on a polished piece of stone with a greasy ink mixture. Curiosity led him to the discovery that it was not necessary for the printing surface to be raised in the usual manner. The greasy image surrounded by the water-attracting stone surface accepted ink, while the dampened part of the stone rejected it. Printing from a plane or level surface, of lithography as we know it was born. Pursuing his discovery, Senefelder succeeded in adapting his process to metal plates by 1803.
Title
Alphabet calligraphic quotes
Creator
Zapf, Hermann, 1918-2015
Summary
Large alphabet with quotes by Douglas C. McMurtrie, Emanuel Giebel, and Jean Cocteau, and a sentence in Greek.
Title
Alphabet in blue, yellow, green
Creator
Zapf von Hesse, Gudrun, 1918-2019
Summary
An alphabet of capital letters executed in pencil and watercolor.
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