Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
INSTRUCTIONS TO LINOTYPE OPERATORS AND MACHINISTS
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, n.d.

Octavo. (16) pp; b/w illustrations. Paperback. Instruction manual.
Inventory number #012402

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
LINOTYPE Matrices and Slides for Casting Borders, Decorations Rules, Dashes, Braces
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, 1917

Octavo. 100 pp; illustrated throughout with type samples. Paperback. G+ covers worn and splitting, else very good.
Inventory number #012401

Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
INSTRUCTION BOOK: For the Installation, Operation, and Maintenance of the Linotype Electric Pot
Brooklyn, NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Co, 1923

Octavo. 37 pp; illustrated throughout in b/w and with fold-out wiring diagram. Staple bound paperback. VG- covers soiled, staples rusting, endpapers and diagram lightly foxed. Rare.
Inventory number #012400

[ROGERS, Bruce] Tory, Geofroy
CHAMP ROSE: Wherein May Be Discovered the Roman Letters that Were Made by Geofroy Tory and Printed by Him at Paris in His Book Called "Champ Fleury"
New Rochelle, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1933

Octavo. unpaginated; illustrated in red. pages uncut. Very good. light toning to covers. Designed by Bruce Rogers. Signed bookplate of American book editor, William Targ.
Inventory number #012394

Burlingame, Roger
OF MAKING MANY BOOKS: A Hundred Years of Reading, Writing, and Publishing
NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1946

First printing. Quarto. xii, 347 pp; index. Cloth with gilt titles. Near Fine. Some slight wear to covers. Book designed by T.M. Cleland, printed for the hundredth anniversary of Scribner Publishing.
Inventory number #012388

Wilson, Woodrow
WHY WE ARE AT WAR
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1917

First Printing (E-R). Twelvemo. 78 pp. Buckram boards with titles, and facsimile signature. Very good, a little wear to crown and heel, corners lightly bumped and a couple of white spots on back cover. Messages to the Congress, January - April 1917. With the President's Proclamation of War, and his Message to the People.
Inventory number #012387

Wilson, Woodrow
WHEN A MAN COMES TO HIMSELF
NY: Harper & Brothers, 1915

Twelvemo. 37 pp. Buckram boards with titles, borders and facsimile signature. Very good, a little wear to crown and heel.
Inventory number #012386

Orcutt, William Dana [Presentation copy]
DAGGER AND JEWELS: The Gorgeous Adventures of Benvenuto Cellini. A Romantic Novel
NY: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1931

Stated first edition. Octavo. 372 pp; illustrated endpapers. Gilt decorated cloth in chipped dustjacket. Near Fine in Good+ dustjacket with a couple large chips missing from top edge of front panel and crown, heel missing small chip, back panel top edge crinkled with closed tears, and chip near spine. Presentation copy to Mr. & Mrs. Ralph Lowell of the Lowell Institute and WGBH radio & television.
Inventory number #012379

Cary, Melbert B., Jr.
THE PRESS OF THE WOOLLY WHALE: Concerning a Private Press founded in New York in 1928 [Notes on Baleana Lanigera 1928-1938]
NY: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938

Quarto. [8] pp. Printed stiff card covers bound with cord. VG, light age toning to covers, light splash on back cover. As stated on back cover, "Insert prepared for the Colophon annual of bookmaking, May 1938".
Inventory number #012376

Rogers, Bruce
FINE BOOK PAGES: A Portfolio of Specimen Pages from the Distinguished Books Designed by Mr. Bruce Rogers
NY: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1928

Limited edition. Eight signatures in portfolio and slipcase. VG to Near Fine, some corner bumps on signatures, sticker residue on one signature. Complete. "A portfolio of specimen pages from the distinguished books designed by Mr. Bruce Rogers for composition on the linotype; each specimen signature being reprinted on the same paper in the same colors as the original volume. Printed by William Edwin Rudge in a limited edition of 975 copies" of which this is copy #575. Includes signed letter from the Mergenthaler Linotype Company on company letterhead from E.E. Bartlett, Director of Linotype Typography.
Inventory number #012372

ACHIEVEMENT: A Treatise on One of the Factors in the Advancement of the Art of Printing, with Examples
NY: Japan Paper Company, 1920

Octavo. 50 pp; frontispiece. Vellum-backed boards with blind-stamp decoration and gilt titles, edges untrimmed, in slipcase. VG+, light toning to spine & bottom corner lightly bumped; slipcase with one corner rubbed through, else minor edgewear. Printed letterpress on hand-made rag paper. Contains a catalogue of an exhibition held by the American Institute of Graphic Arts at the National Arts Club, NY in 1920. Judges for this exhibition include Goudy, Updike, Goodhue, Ruzicka, Rollins, Rogers, etc., and this volume may be considered a precursor of the catalogues for the yearly "Fifty" Books exhibitions. Bibliographic descriptions are given for each item.
Inventory number #012370

Newton, A. Edward
DOCTOR JOHNSON, A Play
Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press / The Merrymount Press, 1923

First printing. Octavo. 120 pp; color frontis, b/w illustrations. Cloth backed boards with paper spine and cover labels. ex-lib only for removed pocket on front pastedown and number on spine. VG, light rubbing to spine and corners. internally clean and tight.
Inventory number #012369

Rosner, Charles
PRINTER'S PROGRESS: A Comparative Story of the Craft of Printing 1851-1951
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951

First edition, American issue, printed in Britain. Large quarto. 119 pp; profusely illustrated with color plates, die-cuts, fold-out plates, inserts, leaflets. Brown buckram with gilt-lettered spine, no jacket. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #012367

Cleland, T.M.
HARSH WORDS
Newark, NJ: The Carteret Book Club, 1940

Octavo. 32 pp. Cloth with glassine dustjacket. Near fine in good only glassine which is toned and brittle with loss at spine.
Inventory number #012354

Alling & Cory Company
ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE PAPER BUSINESS 1819-1944: being a brief history of the founding of the paper business of the Alling & Cory company, together with an account of its Growth
Rochester, NY: Alling and Cory Co., 1944

Quarto. 76 pp; illustrated with line drawings. Tan cloth-backed boards, illustrated endpapers. VG, former owner name on first blank page, offsetting from illustrations; cover edges lightly toned, corner tips lightly rubbed, couple of small tears to top edge of rear cover, rear hinge starting. Includes "Paper, a brief account of how it is made," by Joseph T. Alling, with additions and revisions contributed by Ellsworth Geist. [5th edition], which includes a special title page.
Inventory number #012353

[Fish, Williston]
HIS WILL
N.P.: H. Frank Smith for His Friends, 1924

Limited edition. Octavo. 8 pp. Signed and initialed by H. Frank Smith. Paper-backed boards with title label on cover. VG-, moderate loss of paper to spine ends & 2 small tears to spine edge. Freshly wrapped in acetate.l. Rare Christmas gift book of the "Last Will of Charles Lounsbury" by Williston Fish and printed by H. Frank Smith, a NY printer and typesetter. The edition is limited to 150 copies, each signed to a specific person, in this case John Clyde Oswald, president of the National Arts Club, editor of the American Printer magazine and a leading authority on Benjamin Franklin. The limitation reads "One hundred and fifty copies of His Will were printed by H. Frank Smith for his friends, to convey to them his wishes for their happiness. Christmas 1924." OCLC lists this edition in 2 libraries; however they have the name "Theodore Weicker" (president of Squibb) in the limitation instead of Smith.
Inventory number #012339

Browning, Robert
PIPPA PASSES: A Drama
Mt. Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1937

Limited edition. Octavo. 68 pp; color drawings by Thomas Stothard. Cloth-backed decorated boards, paper label on spine. Very good in slipcase. Some light rubs to back cover. Limited to 1450 copies.
Inventory number #012334

Youngson, A.J.
THE MAKING OF CLASSICAL EDINBURGH 1750-1840
Edinburgh: Edinburgh at the University Press, 1993

Reissue; first published in 1966. Octavo. xv, 338 pp; 82 b/w photographs, 80 figures, appendix; notes; index. Publisher's cloth with gilt-lettered spine. VG+, a clean, unmarked copy; spine gilt bright, light soiled area on back cover. This book features the Georgian 'New Town' part of Edinburgh, built in the space of 75 years, from 1766 to 1840. The author has studied in detail how it was planned, financed, and brought into being.
Inventory number #012317

Beharrell, C.H.
CLAREMONT LANDSCAPE GARDEN Surrey
London: National Trust, 1994

Reprint. Octavo. 38 pp; 24 b/w illustrations; bibliography. Staple-bound illustrated stiff card covers. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy; no cover wear.
Inventory number #012316

Weber, Bertram A.
ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN. This Issue is Devoted to the Work of Bertram A. Weber, Architect, Chicago, Illinois
NY: Architectural Catalog Co., 1940

Vol. IV, No. 9, April 1940. Folio. [30] pp, printed recto only, [18] pp advertisements; full of b/w photos of exteriors and interiors. Original printed wrappers. Fine, a bright, crisp copy. Trade catalogue showing the firm’s residential & commercial work, including 26 residences and country houses, two churches, a chapel, funeral home, library, post office, hospital, housing project, and a design submitted for a memorial, all in the Chicago area. The adverts are from companies in the Chicago building industry before World War II.
Inventory number #012307