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Two Important Works on Printing History:

1. 19th Century Printing Practices by Gabriel Rummonds
Critically acclaimed as, "A half-millennium's worth of printing wisdom, a 
truly incredibly researched masterpiece by a master printer." This 
two-volume work is encyclopedic in its examination of early printing 
techniques from the 15th to the 19th centuries.
With more than 480 historic illustrations, many never published before.
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2. Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum by John Lane
The Museum holds one of the world's richest collections of antique, type 
specimens in the world. This book traces the great type founders (mostly 
from Holland, Belgium and France) andtheir innovated styles from the 17th 
to the mid 19th centuries. Its extensive indexes make this work a powerful 
reference tool for type enthusiasts and printing historians.
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NINETEENTH-CENTURY PRINTING PRACTICES AND THE IRON HANDPRESS
By Richard-Gabriel Rummonds

First edition. Nineteenth-Century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress 
is encyclopedic in its examination of printing techniques from the 
late-seventeenth-century through the nineteenth-century. Using selected 
readings from printers’ manuals - beginning with Joseph Moxon’s Mechanick 
Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683, and culminating with John 
Southward’s Practical Printing, 1900 - Gabriel Rummonds has distilled over 
two hundred years of printers’ wisdom into this very readable and important 
work on iron handpresses and how they were used in the nineteenth century.
    This remarkable work represents over twenty years of research and 
scholarship by one of the most celebrated fine press printers of the 
twentieth-century. With almost five hundred rare and scarce wood cuts, 
engravings and photographs, and the most comprehensive annotated 
bibliography on the subject ever printed, this monumental, two-volume work 
stands alone in the annals of printing history. Nineteenth-Century Printing 
Practices and the Iron Handpress is a worthy companion to Rummonds’ 1998 
classic, Printing on the Iron Handpress. Co-published with The British 
Library. Sales Rights: (hardcover) Worldwide except the UK; available in 
the UK from The British Library - (paperback) Worldwide.

2004, 8.25”x 11,” two volumes, 1152 pages total
Hardcover: ISBN 1584560886    Order No. 076305    Price: $150.00
Paperback: ISBN 1584561009    Order No. 076306    Price: $99.95


EARLY TYPE SPECIMENS IN THE PLANTIN-MORETUS MUSEUM
By John Lane

First edition. The Plantin-Moretus Museum has one of the world's richest 
collections of type specimens, many surviving nowhere else. They include 
types by Garamont, Granjon, Van den Keere, Briot, Van Dyck, Kis, Fournier, 
Rosart, Gillé, Didot and many other masters from the fifteenth to the 
nineteenth century. Since the Plantin-Moretus printing office acquired most 
of the type specimens when new, moreover, the collection as a whole tells a 
story in a way that collections assembled piecemeal in the nineteenth and 
twentieth centuries cannot. Finally, the Museum's extraordinary archives 
help to document the origins of many specimens.
    This first detailed catalogue of the Museum's specimens reports the 
styles and sizes of type shown, describes the structures and paper stocks, 
notes relations with other specimens in the collection and elsewhere, and 
provides references to literature on many of the individual types shown.
    Preliminary notes on the type founders and printers who issued the 
specimens include chronologies of the foundries and information on the 
origins of their materials, sometimes supplemented with information about 
the history of the firms and the genealogy of the founders. Nearly all of 
the nineteen specimens illustrated at their original size appear here for 
the first time, and extensive indexes make this book an important reference 
tool for type specimen enthusiasts and printing historians. Published in 
association with the Plantin-Moretus Museum & The British Library. Sales 
Rights: Worldwide except the UK; available in the UK from The British Library.

2004, hardcover, 8.25”x 11”, 344 pages
ISBN 1584561394     Order No. 076434     Price: $95.00
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