The Typefounder's Hand Mould by R Stanley Nelson
£55.00
The hand mould was arguably the most important development in the history of western printing. It enabled metal type to be cast in quantity, the development of the printing industry, the printing press and printers' ink, and later of mechanical typecasting technologies,
Stan Nelson, Curator Emeritus of Graphic Arts at the Smithsonian has been researching and making hand moulds, for some fifty years.
His new monograph examines the form, manufacture and use of historical moulds, and describes the practical process of making a type-mould and using it to cast type. It is the first such study, and the only detailed work on the subject in the English language. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, and the author's diagrams and working drawings, in colour and monochrome, it is co-published by the Legacy Press and the Norwich Printing Museum
Price £55, includes packing and standard UK post
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French Renaissance Printing Types: a Conspectus by Hendrik D L Verliet
£42.00
The second edition revised by William S Kemp and Paul W Nash
This second edition has been revised, corrected and updated, with the addition of several newly-identified types and new evidence for the dating of some of those listed in the first edition (published in 2010 by the Bibliographical Society, Printing Historical Society and Oak Knoll). The bibliography has also been enlarged and updated. A total of 413 Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew and exotic types dated between 1478 and 1600 are described and illustrated with more than 500 specimens.
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