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22 Oak Knoll Press French Renaissance Printing Types A Conspectus by Hendrik D.L. Vervliet This conspectus exhaustively surveys all Roman, Italic, Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic typefaces made in France during the sixteenth century. Such a survey will be of interest to historians, bibliographers, and philologists wishing to identify the types used in the imprints they are investigating, as well as to type historians or type designers wishing to base their attributions on documentary evidence. The conspectus consists of introductory chapters on the sources available, the evolution of sixteenth-century type-casting and letter-engraving, biographical notices of 17 punchcutters (both famous ones, such as Colines, Garamont, Granjon, and lesser known ones, such as Vatel, Gryphius, or Du Boys) and the methodology used. The main part of the book consists of the facsimiles of 409 typefaces (216 Romans, 88 Italics, 61 Greeks, 41 Hebrews, 2 Arabics, and one phonetic) each with a short identifying notice, describing their letter family, size, punchcutter (or eponym), their first appearance in books or type-specimens, the surviving materials such as punches or matrices, and finally (for about two-thirds of them), the recent literature. Every typeface has been illustrated, several with multiple examples of their use. 2010, hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 inches, 472 pages ISBN 9781584562719, Order No. 103920, $120.00 Co-published with The Bibliographical Society and The Printing Historical Society; available in the UK from The Bibliographical Society 2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 11.75 x 12.75 inches, 204 pages ISBN 9781584562672, Order No. 102011, $85.00 Distributed for The American Historical Print Collectors Society interpretive wood-engraving The Story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers by William H. Brandt In the late nineteenth century, wood-engraving was the principle medium of illustration employed by publishers. From this beginning, print collector Bill Brandt goes on to recount the story of the Society of American Wood-Engravers. The lost art of interpretive wood-engraving comes to life in Brandt’s detailed account. The fifty prints reproduced on these pages, scanned from Brandt’s extensive collection with most produced at full size, highlight the astonishing skill and painstaking craftsmanship required of a wood-engraving artist of the golden age. The author profiles many leading personalities on the American wood-engraving scene, including Alexander Anderson,William J. Linton, Anna Botsford Comstock, General Rush C. Hawkins, Timothy Cole, and Elbridge Kingsley. Brandt tells how the Society of American Wood-Engravers burned brightly for almost twenty years, and then faded away in the early days of photoreproductions. Readers, glimpsing the warm glow of a remarkable era, will take pride in this little-known period of American art history. 800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com
Oak Knoll Press 23 PRINTErs’ & publishers’ marks in books for the greek world (1494–1821) by Konstantinos Sp. Staikos This book contains reproductions of the printers’ and publishers’ marks of all those—both Greeks and non-Greeks—who printed or published books for Greek readers from the dawn of typography until just before the outbreak of the Greek War of Independence in 1821. Also reproduced here are the crests and coats of arms of the rulers of the Danubian principalities who actively supported the publication and dissemination of Greek books in the East. Some of the devices are the marks of well-known printing houses, where Greek scholars and calligraphers were largely responsible for the accuracy of the texts and the visual appearance of the book, such as the firms of Aldus Manutius in Venice and Robert Estienne in Paris. The marks are illustrated and described in all their variant forms, complete with bibliographical references, identifications, a general index, and an index of printers and printing houses. They are shown at actual size and presented chronologically. Includes a brief message to the reader by the author, as well as an extensive and detailed introduction. 2009, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.75 x 12.25 inches, 254 pages ISBN 9781584562702 , Order No. 102238, $125.00 Available in Europe from our co-publisher HES & DE GRAAF Printed cookbooks in Europe, 1470–1700 A Bibliography of Early Modern Culinary Literature by Henry Notaker This is the first bibliography to list all known editions of printed cookbooks published in Europe before 1700. More than a hundred titles in at least 650 editions were printed in fourteen different languages. Some household encyclopedias with culinary sections have also been included. Many of the editions described have never before been listed in modern bibliographies. Cookbooks from this period are no longer only of interest to collectors and antiquarians: food history is taught as an academic subject in an increasing number of universities. Information provided here about the locations of known copies, modern reprints, and facsimile editions will facilitate these studies. The bibliography gives the full title and physical description of each work. Annotations provide details about contents, biographical data about authors and publishers, information about the sources of the recipes, translations, and plagiarisms. A historical introduction analyzes the development of the cookbook as a genre during the first two centuries of printing, with reference to authorship, publishing history, didactic methods, culinary processes, and differences in gender. 2010, hardcover, dust jacket, 8.5 x 11 inches, 416 pages ISBN 9781584562535, Order No. 96680, $125.00 Available in Europe from our co-publisher HES & DE GRAAF 800-996-2556 www.oakknoll.com oakknoll@oakknoll.com
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