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PRINTS AND THEIR CREATORS, A WORLD HISTORY, AN ANTHOLOGY OF PRINTED PI CTURES AND INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF GRAPHIC ART IN THE WEST AND THE EAST.

By: Carl Zigrosser

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Crown Publishers Inc.: December 1973

Seller ID: 134671

ISBN: B00AYF4IZY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Covers show scuffing, water-glass round staining, sunfading at spine. Binding solid, text shows scant pencil marginalia.
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The Inscriptions of Eric Gill

By: David Peace

Price: $50.00

Publisher: David R Godine: February 1995

Seller ID: 109298

ISBN: 1567920276

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

When the prolific master artist-craftsman Eric Gill turned his talents to inscriptional lettering, h
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Thinking with Type, 2nd revised and expanded edition: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students

By: Ellen Lupton

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press: October 2010

Seller ID: 134796

ISBN: 1568989695

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Our all time best selling book is now available in a revised and expanded second edition. Thinking with Type is the definitive guide to using typography in visual communication, from the printed page to the computer screen. This revised edition includes forty-eight pages of new content, including the latest information on style sheets for print and the web, the use of ornaments and captions, lining and non-lining numerals, the use of small caps and enlarged capitals, as well as information on captions, font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual e...
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Alphabets and Ornaments (Picture Archives)

By: Ernest Lehner

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Dover Publications: May 1968

Seller ID: 134506

ISBN: 0486219054

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Like New

Light rubbing to covers, text pristine.
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Vintage Typography and Signage: For Designers, By Designers (Dover Pictorial Archive)

By: Frank H. Atkinson, Charles J. Strong, L. S. Strong

Price: $24.95

Publisher: Dover Publications: June 2018

Seller ID: 150597

ISBN: 0486824977

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

This versatile reference contains classic typographic images that will inspire the creation of ads with nostalgic flair. The collection consists of commercial signs, images, and fonts from two rare, early 20th-century sources that were used as a reference for sign painters and lithographers.
More than 1,400 eye-catching signs and design elements include 25 different fonts and more than 100 full-color images. The compilation abounds in borders, frames, typography, and other graphics, all ideal for recreating styles from the 1890s to the 1920s. Plates from the source books depict the color an...
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From Papyrus To Print a Bibliographical

By: George H. Bushnell

Price: $9.75

Publisher: GRAFTON BOOKS (ENGLAND): January 1947

Seller ID: 20110402186524

ISBN: B000PYA5CE

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Binding sound, text unmarked. Ex-library with usual marks thereof. Printing on spine mostly faded away.
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Art Nouveau Graphic Masterpieces: 100 Plates From 'La Decoration Artistique' (Calla Editions)

By: Guedy, Henry

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Calla Editions: February 2017

Seller ID: 184819

ISBN: 160660094X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Designers, collectors, and Art Nouveau aficionados will treasure this original collection of 100 plates of decorative full-color graphics. These authentic images are reproduced from the now extremely hard-to-find periodical La decoration artistique, which was published in Paris during the decade before World War I. They constitute some of the rarest and best material printed during the Art Nouveau period, and these uncommonly graceful and appealing illustrations are now available in this beautifully designed hardcover edition.
The dazzling array of images includes headpieces, typog...
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Alphabets And Numbers Of The Middle Ages

By: Henry Shaw

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books,U.S.: December 1997

Seller ID: 126038

ISBN: 156619640X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear, firm binding, unmarked text.
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Arabic Geometrical Pattern and Design

By: JULES BOURGOIN

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Dover Pubns: January 1974

Seller ID: 20070724117382

ISBN: 0486229246

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

By forbidding the representation of the human figure, the Mohammedan religion helped push Islamic art along a path much different from that of traditional European art. European abounds with perspective renderings of figures and landscapes, while Islamic translates artistic impulse into elaborate geometric patterns and linear designs. Through centuries of practicing this purely abstract art, Muslim artists have perfected it to an incomparable elegance.
This book contains 190 examples exhibiting the wide range of Islamic geometrical art: hexagon designs, octagon designs, dodecagon designs, c...
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Word and Image: The Library at the Victoria and Albert Museum

By: Julius Bryant

Price: $40.00

Publisher: V & A Publishing: November 2014

Seller ID: 114065

ISBN: 185177808X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

This book celebrates Britain's National Art Library, the first of what was a new kind of museum library, formed in the 19th century by and for artists, designers, and artisans; and intensively used by them and later by the public. Here are more than 100 objects that have helped to define and redefine the subject and scope of the history of the fine and decorative arts, from a 15th-century book of hours to George Cruikshank's studies of Fagin for Oliver Twist to an Yves Saint Laurent design for the House of Dior and Bill Brandt's photos, Word and Image explores some of the world'...
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Late Antique and Early Christian Book Illumination

By: Kurt Weitzmann

Price: $12.50

Publisher: George Braziller: June 1977

Seller ID: 98398

ISBN: 0807608319

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: Used - Very Good

Nearly as new condition, except top edge of front cover showing some wear. Textblock gently age-toned, binding firm, text unmarked.
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Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink: Jewish Illuminated Manuscripts

By: Marc Epstein, ed.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: April 2015

Seller ID: 116740

ISBN: 0691165246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The love of books in the Jewish tradition extends back over many centuries, and the ways of interpreting those books are as myriad as the traditions themselves. Skies of Parchment, Seas of Ink offers the first full survey of Jewish illuminated manuscripts, ranging from their origins in the Middle Ages to the present day. Featuring some of the most beautiful examples of Jewish art of all time--including hand-illustrated versions of the Bible, the Haggadah, the prayer book, marriage documents, and other beloved Jewish texts--the book introduces readers to the history of these manuscrip...
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Century for the Century : Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999

By: MARTIN HUTNER, JERRY KELLY

Price: $45.00

Publisher: David R Godine Pub: November 2004

Seller ID: 20090716159553

ISBN: 1567922201

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The hundred greatest printed books of the twentieth century, at least in the opinions of Messrs,
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Illuminated Manuscripts

By: Rh Value Publishing

Price: $19.50

Publisher: Gramercy: January 1995

Seller ID: 126040

ISBN: 0517120836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Light cover wear including usual jacket edgewear, text near fine.
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Roads into the Future

By: Robbert; Das, Rudolf Das

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Tirion-Baarn: January 1995

Seller ID: 20100825176726

ISBN: 9051216122

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Some scuffing/rubbing to jacket, contents pristine.
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Picturing Piety: The Book of Hours: Catalogue 13 (Les Enluminures, Paris and Chicago)

By: Roger S. Wieck, Sandra Hindman, Ariane Bergeron-foote

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Paul Holberton Publishing: February 2008

Seller ID: 94570

ISBN: 190347065X

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

Two dozen Books of Hours mostly from the 15th and 16th centuries, with examples from France, the Net
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Five Hundred Years of Printing

By: s steinberg

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Penguin Books: January 1955

Seller ID: 86574

ISBN: B0000CJ9EB

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Diagonal crease on front cover, price and owner stamps on text block edges, scattered pencil marginalia in text.
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Type Tells Tales

By: Steven Heller, Gail Anderson

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Yale University Press: May 2017

Seller ID: 153270

ISBN: 0300226799

Binding: Paper Back

Condition: New

A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions, and voice

Stretching the boundaries of typographic expression, Type Tells Tales is a sensational showcase of type that is integral to the message it conveys, with the capacity to emote, engage, and guide the reader from one thought to the next. Navigating the far reaches of graphic design, Steven Heller and Gail Anderson reveal how type can render a particular voice or multiple conversations, how letters in various shapes and sizes can guide the eye through d...
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Old Testament Miniatures

By: Sydney C. Cockerell

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Braziller: January 1965

Seller ID: 163596

ISBN: B00B0L5JSG

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Light cover wear, solid binding. Our copy shows spill stains showing on top and foredge of the text block, extending to the front rear endpapers and some of the initial pages. No jacket, no writing in text.
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The Evolution of Type: A Graphic Guide to 100 Landmark Typefaces

By: Tony Seddon

Price: $29.95

Publisher: Firefly Books: September 2015

Seller ID: 119994

ISBN: 1770855041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

The Evolution of Type examines 100 landmark typefaces from the history of font design, from the type used by Johannes Gutenberg to produce his 42-Line Bible, to the latest digital typefaces. It reveals the meaning behind typographic characters and shows how the use of type has changed over time.

A full spread is devoted to each typeface and its origins. Concise text describes the design history and usage of the face, and its long-term impact on the development of typefaces. Annotated enlargements show the new features that the typeface introduced and highlight its most impor...
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Category: Graphic Design