[Rarebooks] FS: Jane Roberts, Kate Greenaway Mignonettes from John Howell for Books, Los Angeles

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Offered today: 

For all you Typophiles out there.... This tasty little item is a
complete history of the Kate Greenaway Mignonettes that were available
from American Type Founders from 1897 through the 1920s. The Mignonettes
were essentially a series of type ornaments (dingbats) based on the
ever-popular drawings of English children's book author and illustrator,
Kate Greenaway (1846-1901). 

The book was published by woman printer and type historian Jane Wardell
Roberts (1925-2015). Roberts was active in her community of Fitzwilliam,
New Hampshire, where she taught various crafts, and especially
letterpress printing. Her love for the printing craft inspired her to
create the Old Time Press in Fitzwilliam, a fully operational
nineteenth-century print shop. Her personal passion was
nineteenth-century type faces. 

ROBERTS, JANE WARDELL (1925-2015). 

_Kate Greenaway Mignonettes_. 

(Fitzwilliam, NH): Jane W. Roberts, (1983). 

32mo. 4 1/2 x 3 1/4 inches. 18 pp. Figures of children from Kate
Greenaway designs manufactured by American Type Founders throughout the
text, 2 figures printed in colors, bibliography; text clean, unmarked.
Green cloth, printed paper front cover and spine labels, decorative
end-papers; binding square and tight. SIGNED by Jane Roberts on the
colophon. SCARCE in the trade. Fine. 

$ 65 

LIMITED EDITION of 350 copies, this is number 83, handset and
handprinted at the Old-Time Press. The figures on the end-papers are
taken from pages 834-835 of the American Type Founders specimen book of
1906. The printer's ornaments of 67 cast cuts documented in the book
were available from ATF, and were originally issued in 1897 by ATF. They
continued to be carried by ATF into the 1920s. Jane W. Roberts was a
printer and type collector of primarily nineteenth-century types; in
1986 she had approximately 175 fonts of metal type. She was also a type
scholar who published a number of books on printing, type ornaments,
borders and the like. The Old-Time Press was a nineteenth-century print
shop created by Jane Roberts in Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire to pursue her
interest in letterpress printing and teaching crafts in her community. 

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