1. A. F. JOHNSON. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
by Johnson A. F. Edited by Percy H. Muir 
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Description: Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co, Date: 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition thus, 1971 (1970). A Very Good book in a Good+ dust jacket. Folio, 489 pp., burgundy cloth with grey dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned; some small chips and spotting. Text is clean and unmarked; a couple of spots on text edge. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Printed publication date of 1970, errata slip states actual publication date of 1971. 1970. Van Gendt & Co ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US] 

2. A. F. JOHNSON. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
by Johnson, A. F. Edited by Percy H. Muir 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co, Amsterdam] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition thus, 1971 (1970). A Very Good book in a Good+ dust jacket. Folio, 489 pp., burgundy cloth with grey dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned; some small chips and spotting. Text is clean and unmarked; a couple of spots on text edge. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Printed publication date of 1970, errata slip states actual publication date of 1971. [Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]  

3. Selected Essays On Books And Printing
by Johnson A. F.; edited by Percy H. Muir 
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Description: Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., Date: 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a black cloth spine label stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has chips to the head of the spine and water stains. 1970. Van Gendt & Co. ISBN 9063000162 US 

4. Selected Essays On Books And Printing
by Johnson A. F.; edited by Percy H. Muir 
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Description: Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., Date: 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a black cloth spine label stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has chips to the head of the spine and water stains. 1970. Van Gendt & Co. ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US] 

5. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by AF. Johnson A. F. 
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Description: Van Gendt & Co., Date: 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . 1970. Van Gendt & Co. ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US] 

6. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by AF. Johnson A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam / New York: Van Gendt & Co.. Date: 1970. F First Edition Collectible. H Hardcover. Very Good. In light blue jacket with red and black titling over red cloth with gilt titling, folio, 489pp. Illustrated. Light toning and soiling to outer jacket extremities and spine, couple of sm. nicks to jacket at edges). 1970. Van Gendt & Co. ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US] 

7. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by JOHNSON AF.; Percy H. MUIR editor A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Date: 1970. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear. 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century. 1970. Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 US 

8. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by JOHNSON AF.; Percy H. MUIR editor A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Date: 1970. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear. 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century. 1970. Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US] 

9. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by Johnson AF. ; Muir PH A. F. 
Price: USD 71.00
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Description: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, Date: 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]. Cloth, 4to, 31 cm,. xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. Very Good in dustwrapper. 1970. Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ] ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [GB] 

10. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by Johnson AF. ; Muir PH A. F. 
Price: USD 123.00
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Description: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, Date: 1970 [ actually 1971 ]. Dark orange -coloured half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, large 8vo, 31 cm,. xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. A few light pencil sidelinings, Very Good. 1970. Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ actually 1971 ] ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [GB] 

11. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by Johnson AF. ; Muir PH A. F. 
Price: USD 91.00
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Description: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, Date: 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]. Cloth, 4to, 31 cm,. xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. Fine in a slightly used dustwrapper which is slightly frayed at the spine-ends. 1970. Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ] ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [GB] 

12. Selected essays on books and printing
by Johnson AF. A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam/London/New York, Van Gendt & Co/Routledge & Kegan Paul/Abner Schram, Date: 1970. Hardcover. Good. Edited by Percy H. Muir.; Tear dust jacket repaired. 1970. Amsterdam/London/New York, Van Gendt & Co/Routledge & Kegan Paul/Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [NL] 

13. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by JOHNSON ALFRED F. 
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Description: Amsterdam-London-New York, Van Gendt & Co.-Routledge & Kegan Paul-Abner Schram. 1970. Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title on black label spine, dustjacket, thick 4to: xiv, 490pp., 40 essays, richly illustrated, footnotes, references, bibliographical note, index. Fine copy. Amsterdam-London-New York, Van Gendt & Co.-Routledge & Kegan Paul-Abner Schram. 1970 ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [NL] 

14. Selected Essays on Books and Printing. Edited by Percy H. Muir
by Johnson A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Date: 1970 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp' Ornaments"; "An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst"; "Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders"; "The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein"; "Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36"; "Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52"; "English Books printed Abroad"; "Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright"; "Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio"; "The Italic Types of Robert Granjon"; "Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types"; "On Re-reading Updike"; "Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800"; "English Typography in the Seventeenth Century"; "Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type"; "Specimens"; "An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House"; "Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland"; "The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press"; "J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles"; "Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700"; "The 'Goût Hollandois"'; "John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716"; "The King's Printers, 1660-1742"; "English Type Specimen Books"; "The Homes of the London Typefounders" (jointly with W. Turner-Berry); "The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use"; "Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor"; "Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age"; "Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions". Beautifully printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. 1970. Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [PL] 

15. Selected Essays on Books and Printing. Edited by Percy H. Muir
by Johnson A. F. 
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Description: Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Date: 1970 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, type founding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp' Ornaments"; "An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst"; "Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders"; "The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein"; "Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36"; "Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52"; "English Books printed Abroad"; "Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright"; "Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio"; "The Italic Types of Robert Granjon"; "Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types"; "On Re-reading Updike"; "Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800"; "English Typography in the Seventeenth Century"; "Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type"; "Specimens"; "An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House"; "Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland"; "The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press"; "J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles"; "Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700"; "The 'Goût Hollandois"'; "John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716"; "The King's Printers, 1660-1742"; "English Type Specimen Books"; "The Homes of the London Typefounders" (jointly with W. Turner-Berry); "The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use"; "Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor"; "Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age"; "Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions". Beautifully printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. 1970. Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [PL] 

16. Selected Essays on Books and Printing. Edited by Percy H. Muir
by Johnson, A. F. 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Amsterdam, London, New York] Hardcover 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp' Ornaments"; "An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst"; "Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders"; "The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein"; "Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36"; "Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52"; "English Books printed Abroad"; "Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright"; "Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio"; "The Italic Types of Robert Granjon"; "Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types"; "On Re-reading Updike"; "Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800"; "English Typography in the Seventeenth Century"; "Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type"; "Specimens"; "An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House"; "Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland"; "The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press"; "J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles"; "Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700"; "The 'Goût Hollandois"'; "John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716"; "The King's Printers, 1660-1742"; "English Type Specimen Books"; "The Homes of the London Typefounders" (jointly with W. Turner-Berry); "The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use"; "Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor"; "Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age"; "Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions". Beautifully printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. [Kraków, Poland] [Publication Year: 1970]  

17. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by JOHNSON, ALFRED F. 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Amsterdam-London-New York, Van Gendt & Co.-Routledge & Kegan Paul-Abner Schram. 1970] Hardcover Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title on black label spine, dustjacket, thick 4to: xiv, 490pp., 40 essays, richly illustrated, footnotes, references, bibliographical note, index. Fine copy. [Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]  

18. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by JOHNSON, ALFRED F. 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Amsterdam-London-New York, Van Gendt & Co.-Routledge & Kegan Paul-Abner Schram. 1970] Hardcover Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title on black label spine, dustjacket, thick 4to: xiv, 490pp., 40 essays, richly illustrated, footnotes, references, bibliographical note, index. Fine copy. [Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]  

19. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by Johnson, A F (ed Percy H Muir) 
Price: USD 96.74
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt, Holland] Hardcover First Edition Large 4to, mint in dj, xiii+489 pp. Maroon cloth. Johnson of the British Museum was a remarkable pioneer in the history of printing and typography esp. the earlier period (mainly STC era), but his findings were scattered about in learned periodicals, and this is the first attempt to put some of them in book format. For the historian of books this is indeed a sumptuous feast, and with very fine illustrations. (Large book extra carriage costs) Size: Large 4to [Abingdon, OXON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]  

20. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by Johnson, A.F. ; Muir, P.H. 
Price: USD 58.04
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]] Hardcover First Edition Cloth, 4to, 31 cm, xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. Very Good in dustwrapper. [LONDON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]  

21. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by Johnson, A.F. ; Muir, P.H. 
Price: USD 77.39
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]] Hardcover First Edition Cloth, 4to, 31 cm, xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. Fine in a slightly used dustwrapper which is slightly frayed at the spine-ends. [LONDON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]  

22. Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
by Johnson, A.F. ; Muir, P.H. 
Price: USD 109.64
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ actually 1971 ]] Hardcover Dark orange -coloured half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, large 8vo, 31 cm, xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century; Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century; Geofroy Tory; Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books; The 'Antwerp' Ornaments; An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst; Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders; The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein; Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36; Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52; English Books printed Abroad; Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright; Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio; The Italic Types of Robert Granjon; Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types; On Re-reading Updike; Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type; Specimens; An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House; Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland; The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press; J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles; Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700; The 'Goût Hollandois'; John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716;The King's Printers, 1660-1742;English Type Specimen Books;The Homes of the London Typefounders (jointly with W. Turner-Berry);The modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use;Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor; Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age; Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions; References;Bibliographical Note; Index. A few light pencil sidelinings, Very Good. [LONDON, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1970]  

23. Selected essays on books and printing.
by JOHNSON, A.F. & MUIR, PERCY H. [EDITED BY]. 
Price: USD 44.37
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co.] Hardcover Amsterdam, Van Gendt , [Co-published by Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) and Abner Schram (New York)]. 1970. 31 x 22 cm. Hardcover Clothbound with dustwrappers. Illustr. in b/w. XI, 489 pag. NEW COPY * Previously published for 225 euro. This is a very heavy book that needs extra shipping charge! [ Typography /Typografie ] [HILVERSUM, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]  

24. Selected essays on books and printing.
by JOHNSON, A.F. & MUIR, PERCY H. [EDITED BY]. 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co.] Hardcover Amsterdam, Van Gendt , [Co-published by Routledge & Kegan Paul (London) and Abner Schram (New York)]. 1970. 31 x 22 cm. Hardcover Clothbound with dustwrappers. Illustr. in b/w. XI, 489 pag. NEW COPY * Previously published for 225 euro. This is a very heavy book that needs extra shipping charge! [ Typography /Typografie ] [HILVERSUM, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]  

25. SELECTED ESSAYS ON BOOKS AND PRINTING
by Johnson, A.F. 
Price: USD 67.99
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co, Amsterdam] Hardcover First Edition Edited by Percy H. Muir. Red Cloth. No inscriptions. This is a heavy book extra shipping may apply. [SUMMER HILL, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 1970]  

26. Selected Essays On Books And Printing
by Johnson, A. F.; edited by Percy H. Muir 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam] Hardcover First Edition Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a black cloth spine label stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has chips to the head of the spine and water stains. [Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]  

27. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson 
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28. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam / New York] Hardcover First Edition In light blue jacket with red and black titling over red cloth with gilt titling, folio, 489pp. Illustrated. Light toning and soiling to outer jacket extremities and spine, couple of sm. nicks to jacket at edges). Size: Folio - between 12" - 15" Tall [Vashon, WA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]  

29. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson 
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30. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson 
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Description: Amsterdam / New York Van Gendt & Co. 1970 F First Edition Collectible H Hardcover B/w Illustrations Very Good in J Very Good jacket Folio-between 12"-15" Tall In light blue jacket with red and black titling over red cloth with gilt titling, folio, 489pp. Illustrated. Light toning and soiling to outer jacket extremities and spine, couple of sm. nicks to jacket at edges). 

31. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson 
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32. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by A.F. Johnson; Illustrated [Illustrator]; Percy H. Muir [Editor]; 
Price: USD 35.00
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co.] Hardcover Oversized hardcover with dust jacket and mylar cover. Very good condition. Dj is glossy. Binding is strong, pages are clean. Corners squared. Title page and copyright dated 1970. 489 pages. This listing was written by an actual person, with the book sitting in front of me for inspection. Extra shipping may be necessary for priority or international shipping. Please email with questions or to see any photos. [Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]  

33. Selected Essays on Books and Printing
by JOHNSON, A.F.; Percy H. MUIR (editor) 
Price: USD 65.00
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Amsterdam, London, New York] Hardcover First Edition 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear [Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]  

34. Selected essays on books and printing
by Johnson, A.F. 
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Amsterdam/London/New York, Van Gendt & Co/Routledge & Kegan Paul/Abner Schram] Hardcover Edited by Percy H. Muir.; Tear dust jacket repaired. [Almere, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]  

35. Selected essays on books and printing
by Johnson, A.F. 
Price: USD 44.00
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Description: ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Amsterdam/London/New York, Van Gendt & Co/Routledge & Kegan Paul/Abner Schram] Hardcover Edited by Percy H. Muir.; Tear dust jacket repaired. [Almere, Netherlands] [Publication Year: 1970]