Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros

Date:
1933
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/125
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 581: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TypocrarpHy—continued. [1492] SKEEN (William). Earry Typocrapuy. 8vo. Original roan. Ceylon, 1872. £2 10s [1493] SOTHEBY (Samuel L.), Principta Typocraputca. The Block-Books, or xylographic delineations of scripture-history, issued in Holland, Flanders and Ger- many during the Fifteenth Century. Exemplified and considered in connection with the origin of printing. To which is added an attempt to elucidate the character of the paper-marks of the period. 3 vols., folio. Half red morocco, London, 1858. 41g 198 [1494] [STIRLING-MAXWELL (Sir W.).] ARasesquE AND OTHER ORNAMENTS IN Typocrapuica, Use at Zurich In M.D.LIX. With ornamental title-page and 31 pages of specimens. Folio. Half morocco, t. e.g. London, Privately Printed, 1868. 42 2s [1495] TYPOGRAPHY. ‘THe wrirTEN worD AND THE PRINTED worD. Some tests for types. Concerning printers’ flowers. The points of a well-made book. <A glossary of printers’ terms. Type specimens. A display of borders and initials. With numerous illustrations. Royal 8vo. Original buckram, uncut. London, The Pelican Press, 1923. £1 10s [1496] UPDIKE (D. B.). Printine Types, their History, Forms, and Use, a study in Survivals. Wauth 367 specimens of various famous Presses, from the Invention of Printing until the Present Day. 2 vols., 8vo. Cloth. Cambridge, U.S.A., 1927. #3 158 [1497] [VERARD (Antoine).] MACFARLANE (J.). Anroinz VERarp. 4to. Half buckram. London (Bibliographical Society), 1900. £2 28 [1498] WARDE (Frederic). Bruce Rocers, Designer of Books. With a List of the books printed under Mr. Rogers’ supervision. Wzth 20 plates of facsimile reprints. 8vo. Original boards. Cambridge (Mass.), 1925. $3 158 Signed by Bruce Rogers. Large Paper Copy, limited edition. One of 210 copies, with additional illustrations. The Ordinary Edition. 41 Is [14984 | [1499] [WHITTINGHAM (Charles).]} WARREN (Arthur). THe Cxarzes WuittIncHaM Printers. With portrait of Whittingham, 4 photograph portraits, 47 full pages of vignettes, fleurons, borders, and initial letters, 30 pages of engravings from various books, and numerous illustrations, some in red and black. Royal Svo. Half morocco, New York, (Grolier Club), 1896. “778 One of 385 copies on hand-made paper.
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