Recent Acquisitions
Nowlan, Alden. A black plastic button and a yellow yoyo / illustrations, Charles Pachter. Toronto : Charles Pachter, 1968. [Gift of Charles Pachter, Associate Senior Fellow]
Neurath, Otto. From hieroglyphics to Isotype: a visual autobiography. London: Hyphen Press, 2010.
Peter Parley’s annual for 1870: the Christmas & New Year’s present for young people / with ten coloured illustrations, printed in oil, by Ben. George. London: Ben George, 47, Hatton Garden, and all Booksellers, 1870. [Gift of Fisher Rare Book Library]
Satie, Erik and Charles Martin. Sports & divertissements. Paris: Lucien Vogel, 1923.
Tarr, John C. Printing to-day / with an introduction by Francis Meynell and a note on modern typography by Bertram Evans. London; New York; Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1945. [Inscribed by Carl Dair. Gift of Rod McDonald, Canadian type designer]
Dair, Carl. A letter from Carl Dair about the paper mills of Amalfi, Italy / introduction & afterword by Robert R. Reid. Vancouver: Heavenly Monkey, 2003.
Wayzgoose anthology: being a collection of signatures produced by private press printers, book artists & papermakers, held on this 30th day of April in the Grimsby Public Art Gallery, 2011.
Steuart, Maureen. The quest for the golden ingots. Dundas, Ont.: The Aliquando Press, 2004.
Garshin, Vsevolod Mikhailovich. Four days / translated by Henry Schogt ; linocuts by William Rueter. Dundas, Ont.: The Aliquando Press, 2003.
Letter arts review. Norman, OK : Calligraphy Review, 1994-
Berger, Sidney E. Chiyogami papers. Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press, 2011.
McClure, Floyd Alonzo. Chinese bamboo papermaking: a companion to “Chinese hand made paper, 1986” / with a preface by Henry Morris. Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press, 2011.
Powell, David, J.R. Piggott and Horatio Blood. Printing the toy theatre. London: Pollock’s Toy Museum Trust, 2009.
A specimen book of papers produced at Abbey Mills Holywell in Flintshire, North Wales: with selected examples of printing by various processes. London: Grosvenor, Chater & Co., Ltd, 1958.
Matuschke, Walter, ed. Internationale graphische annalen=International graphic annual= Les annales graphiques internationales. Berlin: Ullstein, 1967.
Young, Laura S. Bookbinding & conservation by hand: a working guide. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
Batstein, Alfred and G. J. Freshwater. Printing types of the world: a comprehensive manual of lettering and typecraft for the use of printers, advertising experts, signwriters, commercial artists, draughtsmen, engravers, etc. London: Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1931.
Tattersfield, Nigel. Thomas Bewick : the complete illustrative work. London: Oak Knoll Press, 2011.
Mason, John. Bookbinding. London; New York: Frederick Warne & Co Ltd., 1936.
Harrison & Sons Ltd. Harrison: a family imprint. Middlesex; Bucks. Harrison & Sons Ltd, 1950.
The Monotype Corporation. The Monotype recorder: filmsetting in focus. Volume 43, number 2, Summer 1965. [London]: The Monotype Corporation Limited, 1965.
The Monotype Corporation. The Monotyper recorder: the innovators: a review of the progress of Pictorial Machinery Limited, 1919-1969. Volume 43, Number 4, Autumn 1965 [London] : The Monotype Corporation Limited, 1965.
Andrew Reid & Company Ltd. Examples of type faces available at Strawberry House for bookwork, advertising and general printing. Newcastle upon Tyne: Andrew Reid & Company Ltd., 1959.
Arman, Mark. Patterns in print: a workshop experiment using a small Albion and a Model 4, both presses of 19th century design. Essex: The Workshop Press, 1984.
Artmonsky, Ruth. Do you want it good or do you want it Tuesday? : the halcyon days of W. S. Cowell Ltd. Printers. London: Artmonsky Arts, 2011.
Mitchell, John. The craftsman’s guide to edge decoration / edited and designed by Nolan Watts. Sussex: The Standing Press, 2005 (1993).
British printer. Specification manual of printing machinery, 1961-1962. London: Maclean-Hunter Ltd., 1961.
The care and adjustment of the Miehle: a booklet for the guidance of minders of the Miehle two-revolution press. London: Linotype & Machinery Ltd., 1930.
Crane, W. J. Eden. Home bookbinding: being no. 41 of the Useful-arts-and handicrafts series, edited by H. Snowden Ward. London: Dawbarn and Ward Ltd., 1902.
[Alberti, E. G.]. 19th century initials, ornaments & borders, display types & vignettes. London: Coptic Press, [ca. 1965].
Sharp, Michael. Andrew Reid & Co. Ltd.: a famous north-country printery. [Newcastle upon Tyne]: Allenholme Press for the History of the Book Trade in the North, 1991.
Gill, Eric. Art. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1946.
Charles, Reynolds & Co. The album of English Lakes views. London : Charles Reynolds & Co., [ca. 1890].
Knighton & Cutts. Printing types for advertisers. London : Knighton & Cutts, The Expert Engraving Company Ltd., [ca. 1935].
Reproduction Services Ltd. Stock Blocks. London: Reproduction Services Ltd., 1948.
The Vale Shakespeare. Vol. 1-39. [London] : Hacon & Ricketts [The Vale Press], 1900-1903. [Gift of Ann Saddlemyer, Master Emerita].
The Book-binders & Machine Rulers’ Consolidated Union. The book-binding trades journal ( Vol. I., nos. 1,2, 4-24 ; Index ; Vol. II., nos. 1,2,4, 6-12), 1904-1913.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The nuns and the gardener : a tale from the Decameron / with wood engravings by Wesley W. Bates. Dundas, Ont. : The Aliquando Press, 2002.
Il giardino d’amore = The garden of love : Italian renaissance madrigal poems / selected by William Rueter. Dundas, Ont. : The Aliquando Press, 2003.
Forget me not : a Christmas and New Year’s present for 1824. London : R. Ackermann, 1824.
The Bijou : an annual of literature and the arts. London : William Pickering, 1830.
Meriton, John with Carlo Dumontet, eds. Small books for the common man : a descriptive bibliography. London : The British Library ; New Castle, DE. : Oak Knoll Press, 2010.
Wakeman, Geoffrey. Aspects of Victorian lithography : anastatic printing and photozincography. Wymondham : Brewhouse Press, 1970.
Raphael Tuck & Sons. Gems set by Tennyson / illustrated by Bertha Maguire and Bessie Nichol. London ; Paris ; New York : Raphael Tuck & Sons, [1893].
Park, Mungo. Travels in the interior districts of Africa : performed under the direction and patronage of the African Association in the years 1795, 1796, and 1797 / Fifth edition. London : Printed by W. Bulmer and Co. … and sold by G. and W. Nicol, 1807.
The family friend : vol. 4. London : Houlston & Stoneman, [1851].
W. Banks & Son, Edinburgh. Views of the English lakes. Windermere: J. Garnet, [ca. 1860]
Bolton, John. Geological fragments collected principally from rambles among the rocks of Furness and Cartmel. Ulverston : D. Atkinson ; London : Whittaker & Co., 1869.
[James Beresford]. The miseries of human life : or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive, and Timothy Testy : with a few supplementary sighs from Mrs. Testy : in twelve dialogues / A new and improved edition. London : Printed for William Miller, Albemarle-Street, by W. Bulmer and Co., 1806.
Enterprise Printing House. Cut book : showing a few of the many cuts carried in stock and for sale by the Enterprise Printing House. Corfu, New York : Enterprise Printing House, [ca. 1890?].
Marcassin, J. Traité d’impressions typographiques. Paris : Paul Lecoq, 1897.
Cabinet of miniature lead type used in the Multigraph printing system, a cabinet of stereotype and wood advertising blocks from the 1950s and 60s, several half reams of Byronic paper stock and other equipment and cabinets for the Massey College Printing Shop. [Gift of Don Dicks on the closing of his father’s Toronto printing firm, A. W. Dicks Graphics, 22 Sackville St.]
Charles Dickens rare print collection / edited by Seymour Eaton. Philadelphia : R. G. Kennedy & Co., 1900. [Gift of James Carley, Continuing Senior Fellow]
Aliquando Press. The Aliquando century : the first 100 books from the Aliquando Press of William Rueter. [Dundas, Ont.] : Aliquando Press, 2008. [Gift of William Rueter]
Yeats, William Butler. Pages from a diary written in nineteen hundred and thirty. Dublin, Ireland : The Cuala Press, 1944. [Gift of Ann Saddlemyer, Master Emerita]
Dumont, Jean. Vade-mecum du typographe / ouvrage illustré de 86 gravures. (Bibliothèque Technique). Bruxelles : F. Hayez, Imprimeur de L’Académie Royale de Belgique, 1891
Rosenthal, George S. and Frank Zachary. Portfolio : a magazine for the graphic arts (with Portfolio : the annual of the graphic arts) Three volumes. Cincinnati, OH : Zebra Press, 1950, 1951.
Friendship’s offering : a literary album, and Christmas and New Year’s present, for MDXXXII. London : Smith, Elder & Co., 1832.
Walker, Frederick, and George John Pinwell. English Rustic Pictures / engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. India Proof. London, [Camden Press] : George Routledge and Sons, [1882].
Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.French Renaissance Printing Types : a conspectus. London : Bibliographical Society [&] Printing Historical Society, 2010.
Silver, Joel. Dr. Rosenbach and Mr. Lilly : book collecting in a golden age. Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press, 2010.
Michel, Francisque. Charlemagne : an Anglo-Norman poem of the twelfth century :
now first published with an introduction and a glossarial index. London : William Pickering ; Paris : Techener, 1836.
Milton, John. The poetical works of John Milton in three volumes. London : William Pickering ; Nattali and Combe ; Oxford : Talboys and Wheeler, 1826.
[Merridew, John, Editor?]. The noble and renowned history of Guy Earl Of Warwick : containing a full and true account of his many famous and valiant actions, remarkable and brave exploits, and noble and renowned victories. Chiswick : printed by Charles Whittingham ; for John Merridew, Warwick … , 1821.
Knight, Charles [Ed.]. The Penny magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. Volume 6. London : Charles Knight & Co., 1837.
Horace. Horatius Flaccus Quintus. Londini : Typis C. Corrall : Impensis Gul. Pickering, 31 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, 1820.
The New Hall vault : Kronheim prints from the collection of the late Ernest Owen, the property of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Lury / J.M. Kronheim & Co. London : Christie’s South Kensington, Ltd., 1987.
Chambers, David. English country bookshops : being a further part of a pictorial record of The antiquarian book trade : portraits & premises. Pinner, Middlesex [Eng.] : Private Libraries Association in association with the Antiquarian Booksellers Association, 2010
The Album Of London And Crystal Palace Views. London : F.P.& S., [1890?]
Cottin, Marie. Elizabeth; or, The exiles of Siberia. : a tale, founded upon fact. London : printed for John Sharpe, 1828.
Gill, Eric. Joanna / designed by Eric Gill and originally cut for Hague & Gill by H.W. Caslon & Co. Ltd. : Recut in 1937 by the Monotype Corporation Ltd. For J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. [First Monotype Issue]. London: Monotype Corporation, [1958.]
Gill, Eric & René Hague. Hague And Gill on printing / with a foreword by Brocard Sewell and an introduction by Roger Smith. Upton: Aylesford Press, 1993.
Harrison, James Park. Views and details of St. Giles’ Church. Oxford : J.H. Parker for the Architectural Society, 1842.
Lepard & Smiths. Ltd.. The printers’ utility book: revised, improved and enlarged. : being a book containing further matter of interest to printers and users of printing, including a full set of Messrs. Lepard & Smiths’ Limited, well-known “Britain’s Castle Covers” : with some suggestions as to material and designs for the production of high-class modern printing. Second edition. London: Lepard & Smiths, Ltd., 1907.
Greenhill, Peter & Brian Reynolds. The way of the Sun : the story of Sun Engraving and Sun Printers. Claremont : True to Type Books, 2010.
Morris, Henry. The art of intaglio produced on a letterpress with a collection of twelve prints of 18th century London tradesmen’s cards, with Schlocker & the fishes. Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press, 2010.
Walker, George A. The woodcut artist’s handbook : techniques and tools for relief printmaking. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2005.
Hood, Thomas. The Epping Hunt / illustrated with six engravings on wood, by Branston and Wright, Bonner, Slader, and T. Williams, after the designs of George Cruikshank. London : Charles Tilt, 1829.
Cooke, Simon. Illustrated periodicals of the 1860s : contexts & collaborations. London : Private Libraries Association ; The British Library ; New Castle, Del. : Oak Knoll Press, 2010.
Darnton, Robert and Daniel Roche, Ed. Revolution in print : the press in France, 1775-1800. Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press in collaboration with the New York Public Library, 1989. [Gift of Simon Stern, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto]
Bringhurst, Robert. The surface of meaning : books and book design in Canada. Vancouver: CCSP Press, 2008. [Gift of Dan White, Department of English, University of Toronto]

