[Rarebooks] FS: The Wisean Forgeries, and more….

[John Howell]

Are you interested in the Wisean forgeries? History of typography? Following is a short list of 11 items recently cataloged. The full descriptions are available as a PDF on my website. All modestly priced. 

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1 CARTER, Harry Graham (1901-1982). The Fell Types: What Has Been Done In and About Them. New York: Oxford University Press, 1968. $ 20

2 CARTER, Harry Graham (1901-1982). “Huguenot Typography.” Extract from: Huguenot Society Proceedings, Vol. 21, No. 5, 1970. $ 15

3 CARTER, John Waynflete (1905-1975) and POLLARD, Graham (1903-1976). The Firm of Charles Ottley, Landon & Co. Footnote to an Enquiry. London: Rupert Hart-Davis; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1948. $ 12

4 CARTER, John Waynflete (1905-1975) and POLLARD, Graham (1903-1976). The Forgeries of Tennyson’s Plays. Oxford: Distributed for the Authors by B. H. Blackwell, 1967. $ 35

5 CARTER, John Waynflete (1905-1975) and POLLARD, Graham (1903-1976). Gorfin’s Stock. Oxford: Distributed for the Authors by B. H. Blackwell, 1970. $ 35

6 MORISON, Stanley (1889-1967). L’Inventaire de la Fonderie le Bé, Selon la Transcription de Jean Pierre Fournier. Paris: (Pierre Gaudin), 1957. $ 50

7 MORISON, Stanley (1889-1967). The Art of Printing. Brighton: (Designed and Printed for Tony Appleton by Christopher Skelton at Skelton’s Press, Wellingborough), 1977. $ 75

8 SCHOLDERER, Victor (1880-1971). Reminiscences. Amsterdam: Vangendt & Co., 1970. $ 20

9 VERVLIET, Hendrik Désiré Louis (b. 1923). Robert Granjon à Rome 1578-1589. Notes Préliminaires à une Historie de la Typographie Romaine à la Fin du XVIe Siècle. Amsterdam: Menno Hertzberger & Co., 1967. $ 45

10 WARDROP, Sir James (1905-1957). “A Note on Giovanantonio Tagliente.” Extract from: Signature, New Series, Number 8, 1949, pages 57-61. $ 15

11 [Wise] TODD, William Burton. (1919-2011), editor. Suppressed Commentaries on The Wiseian Forgeries: Addendum to an Enquiry. Austin: Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin., (1974). $ 15


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