Ringwalt Luther Editor (8 results)

Full-Leather. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Rebound in black leather with gold stamped spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. .being, in fact, excerpts from the American Encyclopedia of Printing; Limited to 75 copies; Inscribed & Signed by Bud Goodman in blue ink to a noted collector on the fep; Black cloth with gold cover title; A fine copy; 21pages. Size: 4.5"x7". Signed by Author(s).

original cloth. thick 4to. original cloth. 512 pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 259). Rebound in cloth boards. Exlibrary with markings. Very light shelfwear. Bookplate of the Mercantile Library on front pastedown. Some light moisture stainting along top edge of the textblock throughout. With twenty plates including a full color frontispiece and a full-page example of raised lettering used for printing for the blind. About 1700 articles covering all aspects of the book and its production have been written by the famous authorities of the day. The many illustrations in the text are especially useful. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.

original cloth. thick 4to. original cloth. 512 pages. First edition. (Bigmore & Wyman II, 259). Spine cracked along the rear hinge, wear to spine ends. Covers lightly soiled. Internally in near fine condition. With 20 plates including a full-page example of raised lettering used for printing for the blind. About 1700 articles covering all aspects of the book and its production have been written by the famous authorities of the day. The many illustrations in the text are expecially useful.

Hardcover. Brown boards with gilt lettering and illustration; xv pp., 2 unnumbered pp.; 18-512 pp.; 21 unnumbered leaves of plates; richly illustrated. Very nice copy! Good (Boards are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; textblock edges are toned/scuffed/smudged; interior is clean but lightly toned with the occasional smudge/foxing; binding is solid.).

Cloth. Reprint of 1871 Edition. xv, 512, [4]. A fine reprint; no dj (as issued). "Publisher's note: for the 1871 edition the frontispiece and the plates facing pages 110 & 392 and between pages 240 & 241 were printed in color; rather than omitting them, as originally announced, the watermark samples following page 490 are here reproduced photographically, as is the sample of printing for the blind facing page 64." (from copyright page). Size: 4to. Book.

First edition. This remains a major reference for American printing history [Bigmore & Wyman p.259, Appleton p58]. Illustrated with 38 full-page plates including a beautiful colored chromolitho frontis, an example of printing for the blind, and a double-spread color facsimile of a leaf from the Gutenberg Bible, as well as 165 illustrations in the text. Maroon cloth with bevelled edges, gilt lettering and decoration, including an elaborate cover gilt pictorial featuring Franklin surrounded by nine prominent pioneer type founders. Small 4to, measuring approximately 8 x 11". Good or better with spine and edges faded, spine ends frayed, front endpaper torn (repaired with small pieces of tape) and skinned where small label removed, and some dampstaining to upper margins but interior otherwise bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st. Bound in publisher's original green cloth with spine and front cover elaborately stamped in gilt, rear cover elaborately stamped in blind. Edges worn through at extremities, half-inch tear at head of spine, small chips at heel of spine, front hinge separated. Text block is sound. All pages are present, intact, cleam, and bright. Contains many elaborate illustrations of the printer's craft, including a two-page color facsimile of illuminated text from a Bible printed by Gutenburg and Fust about the year 1455 (following p. 240), printers' coat of arms granted by Frederick III, printers' devices by Caxton, and numerous technical tables.