These beautiful, simple stationery sets are printed by hand in limited runs at the Cary Collection, drawing from our historical collection of metal and wood type. Sheets are blank, with a color illustration at top. Colors may vary. 4 sheets with envelopes.

Sign painting at the turn of the twentieth century was an art form that required the skill of a trained artisan, as letters played a key role in the beautification and decoration of shop exteriors. The French master sign painters, Ducompex and Fleury, issued exquisitely chromolithographed alphabet model books to serve as inspirations for their fellow tradesmen. This perpetual calendar reproduces a selection of their alphabet plates in mix-and-match fashion.

Sign painting at the turn of the twentieth century was an art form that required the skill of a trained artisan, as letters played a key role in the beautification and decoration of shop exteriors. The French master sign painters, Ducompex and Fleury, issued exquisitely chromolithographed alphabet model books to serve as inspirations for their fellow tradesmen. This calendar reproduces a selection of their alphabet plates; showing richly varied typographic styles—from curvilinear Art Nouveau and Gothic types in extreme perspectives to subtly shaded italic and roman forms.

Enjoy this calendar featuring reproductions of vivid hand-colored lithographic plates that illustrated 19th-century horticulture catalogs. During this era, Rochester, New York was a leading American nursery center, and as a result, the area printing trades supported the production of high-quality plant plate books that traveling "Nurserymen" used to sell their wares. Each luscious fruit and blooming flower is represented here in a stylized, yet vibrant manner that is sure to keep you smiling throughout the year.

This durable cotton tote bag is printed with a bright and cheery print of two peaches. It has plenty of room to carry your books, clothes, or groceries — you name it! Natural cotton cloth with four-color image.

The illustration is from a color plate printed by C.M. Search of Rochester, NY, for a nurseryman's fruit and flower catalog. Search was active from 1880-1900 and often used watercolors and a stencil process to produce his lush and evocative images of horticulture products. The original is held in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection at RIT.

Color plate printed by C.M. Search of Rochester, N.Y., for a nurseryman's fruit and flower catalog. Search was active from 1880 - 1900 and often used watercolors and a stencil process to produce his lush and evocative images of horticulture products. Held in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed in color on front, blank inside.

8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.

Color plate printed by C.M. Search of Rochester, N.Y., for a nurseryman's fruit and flower catalog. Search was active from 1880 - 1900 and often used watercolors and a stencil process to produce his lush and evocative images of horticulture products. Held in Melbert B. Cary, Jr. Graphic Arts Collection.

Cards printed in color on front, blank inside.

8 cards, 2 each of 4 designs with envelopes.

The four pamphlets in the letterpress printed set includes Clay in the Potter's Hand by Jan Tschichold, Errors of the Press ch. XVIII from Correct Composition by Therodore Low De Vinne, An Older Typophile in the Nineties: A Typophile Keepsake by Alexander Lawson, and Relief Printing Rollers by Lee Engdahl.

A reproduction of Mr. Bruce's anecdotal account of the history of American typefounding through the 1880s. The preface recounts the history of Bruce's manuscript as an important link in the early twentieth-century research of Henry Lewis Bullen and Douglas C. McMurtrie. Laborious annotations by James Eckmann provide excellent context for the transcribed document.

A joy for the bibliophile! This distinctive is letterpress-printed and features frequent tip-ins printed from John De Pol’s original Hammer Creek Press wood engravings.

Bound in quarter cloth with marbled paper sides, with a special color-illustrated insert at back. Inside are reprints of two articles on the work of John Fass, and an annotated checklist of his oeuvre. Each copy of the edition of 100 is unique as the marbled binding papers vary in color and pattern.