Book Design - Oak Knoll Books

Third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. This
extraordinary work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing
to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike
discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons they contain
for today's designers. The original two-volume set has been combined into
one book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected
from rare and beautiful books. Updike's well-written text constitutes a
running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these
illustrations, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders
from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the
invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types
in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England, as well as German, Italian
and French types of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries.
Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the
nineteenth century and then describes American types and
nineteenth-century types in general. Co-published with The British Library.
[Order No. 63429]
343. Barnhill, Georgia Brady (editor). PRINTS OF NEW ENGLAND. Worcester: American Antiquarian
Society, 1991, 4to., cloth, dust jacket. viii, 164, (2) pages. ISBN 0912296925. $59.95 $44.96
These articles focus on the first available studies on James Turner (1722-59), silversmith-engraver by Martha Fales;
William Bentley's bequest of an exceptional collection of portraits by Stefanie Winkelbauer; American 18th-century
portrait prints by Wendy Reaves; the publishing of illustrations in the Society's first substantial publication in 1820
by Marcus McCorison; New England's political cartoons from 1812-61 by Georgia Barnhill; the maps of Franklin
Leavitt by David Tatham, and textile printing by Jane Kaufmann. Extensive illustrations and a checklist of the
prints in the exhibition are also included. The 1976 Seventh North American print conference, at which these
articles were presented, was co-sponsored by the American Antiquarian Society and the Worcester Art Museum
and sought to cover New England printmakers and prints about New England, reflecting the diversity of the
history of the region, its graphic arts and the strengths of the collections of the museum and of the Society. [Order
No. 39076]
344. (Center for Book Arts) PRODUCTION, NOT REPRODUCTION: OFFSET PRINTED ART-
IST BOOKS. New York: Center for Book Arts, 2007, 8vo., paper wrappers. 35 pages. $25.00 $18.75
Held in New York from September 28 to December 8, 2007, this group exhibition was organized by Tony White,
Head, Fine Arts Library, Indiana University, Bloomington. More than forty artists participated to create a visual
experience that charts the rise and fall of offset printed artists' books. Includes a Genealogy In Progress of offset
artists' books, an essay by the curator, and a glossary. Digitally printed with several color illustrations. [Order No.
103182]
345. Heijting, Willem, and Michel L.H.M. le Cat. PROTESTANTISM CROSSING THE SEAS: A
SHORT-TITLE CATALOGUE OF ENGLISH BOOKS PRINTED BEFORE 1801 ILLUSTRAT-
ING THE SPREAD OF PROTESTANT THOUGHT AND THE EXCHANGE OF IDEAS BE-
TWEEN THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND THE NETHERLANDS. `t Goy-Houten:
HES & DE GRAAF, 2000, 8vo, cloth. xxv, 291 pages. ISBN 9789061944089. $155.00 $116.25
The collection of English books printed before 1801 in the University Library of the Vrije Universiteit at
Amsterdam is one of the largest collections of such books outside the English-speaking world, and by far the
largest in the Netherlands. The collection numbers 5,600 titles and covers all subjects, but is especially concentrated
on (reformed) Protestantism in Great Britain, the Netherlands and America, and the exchange of ideas between
these countries. The collection of which the existence is practically unknown, contains many rare items from the
16th to the 18th century. It covers the periods of the well-known and widely used bibliographies of English printed
books (STC, Wing, and ESTC); in a large number of cases the catalogue entries correct or supplement these
bibliographies. The catalogue is aimed both at a general public of bibliographers, literary and book historians
working with books from the STC, Wing and ESTC periods, and at researchers in the Netherlands, Great Britain
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