David R. Godine, Inc.

David R. Godine is the founder of David R. Godine, Inc.

• Gassendi, Pierre. “Peiresc & His Books.” (1970) Boston: D. Godine. Translation of an excerpt from book 6 of: Viri illustris Nicolai Claudii Fabricii de Peiresc, senatoris Aquisextiensis, vita. An edition of 1,000 copies printed from Bembo on Ingres Paper and bound in Roma paper. Illustrations printed by The Meriden Gravure Company. Seventh in a series of poems, tracts, and broadsides published and printed. UMCP has a complimentary copy. Special Collection Stacks Z989 .P37 G37.


• Freeman, Arthur. Assays of Bias. (1970) Boston, MA. An edition of 1,275 copies printed from Monotype Bembo. 75 copies were printed on a specially made Monadnock paper, bound in quarter leather and signed by the author, and numbered I-LXXV. UMCP has an unnumbered and unsigned copy. Special Collections Stacks PS3511 .R425 A9.


• Hopkins, Gerard Manley. The Wreck of the Deutschland. (1971) Boston. Introduction by James Dickey. Limited edition of 1,250 copies printed from Lutetia type on Hahnemühlebütten, and printed by Jon. Enschedé en Zonen. Bound by Van Rijmenam. R.D. Remley Collection. UMCP has copy numbered 1,005.  Special Collection Stacks PR4803 .H44 W68.


• Browne, Thomas , Sir. “A Letter to a Friend Upon Occasion of the Death of his Intimate Friend”. (1971) Boston. Edited with a postscript by Geoffrey Keynes.  An edition of 750 copies printed from handset Fell types. Printed in Great Britain at the University Press, Oxford by Vivian Ridler. UMCP has an unnumbered. R. D. Remley Collection.Special Collections Folio PR3327 .A86.


• Poe, Edgar Allan. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. (1973) Boston: D. R. Godine. Introduction by Richard Willbur. Illustrations by Gerry Hoover. An edition of 3,000 copies printed at the Crimson Printing Company from Linotype Jansen on Warren's Old Style Wove paper. 150 deluxe copies bound by Arno Werner. UMCP has copy numbered 30. Special Collections Folio PS2618 .N27.


• Wilbur, Richard. “Seed Leaves: Homage to R.F. [Robert Frost]”. (1974) Boston, MA. Prints by Charles Wadsworth. Limited edition of 160 copies printed from Palatino type and printed on Glastonbury Sage Antique paper. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, England and bound by John P. Gray using a marble paper by Ingeborg Borejson, Stockholm. Signed by artist and author. Issued in case. UMCP has copy numbered 111. Special Collections Stacks PS3545 .I32165 S43.


• McCrillis, John O.C.  Printer's Abecedarium. (1974) Boston. Edited by Susan C. McCrillis. Designed by the author and printed on Mohawk Superfine Softwhite paper. Printing by The Meriden Gravure Company; the binding by Robert Burlen & Sons. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collection Stacks Z124 .M23.


• Lathem, Edward Connery. Robert Frost 100. (1974) Boston: D.R. Godine. Catalogue of 100 items representative of Frost's printed works which formed a traveling exhibit, May-Dec. 1974 at Princeton University Library and others, commemorating the centennial of Frost's birth. Printed by the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, VT. Typography by Joseph Blumenthal. Special Collections Stacks PS3511 .R94 Z916.


• H.D. (Hilda Doolittle). Tribute to Freud. (1974) Boston: D.R. Godine.  Foreword by Norman Holmes Pearson. Introduction by Kenneth Fields. Originally published in 1956 in a shorter version that contained only "Writing on the wall." This updated version also includes its sequel, "Advent," published here for the first time. KA Porter Stacks RC504 .D66.


• Gunn, Thom. To the Air. (1974) Boston: D.R. Godine. First Godine poetry chapbook series, number 6. Designed by Carol Shloss. Signed by the author. Special Collections Stacks PR6013 .U65 T57.


• Frost, Robert. Robert Frost's Tribute to E.A. Robinson from the Introduction to King Jasper. (1974) Boston: David R. Godine. An edition of 1,000 copies printed from Monotype Centaur and Bembo types on Mohawk Superfine paper. The facsimile printed by the Nimrod Press of Boston. Number three in a series of manuscript facsimiles published in collaboration with the Dartmouth College Library. Special Collections Folio PS3535 .O25 Z658.


• McLean, Ruari. Jan Tschichold, Typographer. (1975) 1st U.S. Edition. Boston, D.R. Godine. Designed by Herbert Spencer and Christine Charlton; jacket designed by author. Set in Monotype Garamond type with Sabon and Sabon semi-bold types used on jacket. Publisher's announcement laid in. Clothbound, with dust jacket. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collection Stacks Z232 .T863 M3.


• Augustino, da Siena. Augustino da Siena: the 1568 edition of His Writing Book in Facsimile. (1975) Boston: D.R.Godine. With an introduction by Alfred Fairbank. Facsimile reprint of the 1568 edition of Augustino da Siena's Opera, published by F. de Tomaso di Salo, Venice. An edition of 750 numbered copies; 1-300 published by Merrion Press, London; 301-750 by David Godine, Boston. Two prospectuses laid in. Designed by Montagu and Susan Shaw. UMCP has copy numbered 376.  R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collections Stacks Z43 .A3 A8.


• Warren, Marrion E. and Mary Elizabeth. The Train's Done Been and Gone": an Annapolis Portrait, 1859-1910.(1976) Boston. A photographic collection with an introduction and text by Mary Elizabeth Warren; with essays by Arthur C. Townsend and others. Maryland Stacks F189 .A6 T72, also located in the National Trust Library Stacks.


• Koch, Rudolf . ABC Büchlein. Or: The little ABC book of Rudolf Koch. (1976) Boston. A facsimile. With a memoir by Fritz Kredel, and a preface by Warren Chappell. Typophile Chap books, no. 53. Photo reprint of the 1934 edition published by Insel-Verlag, Leipzig, with new prefatory material in English. Limited edition of 2,500 copies designed by Warren Chappell, set in Trajanus and printed by Meriden Gravure on Mohawk Superfine paper. R.D. Remley Collection. Special Collection Stacks NK3620 .K62.


• Blumenthal, Joseph. The Printed Book in America. (1977) Boston: D. R. Godine. Special Collections Folio Z208 .B56.


• Rothenstein, John, Sir. Victor Hammer, Artist and Craftsman. (1978) 1st edition. Boston: D.R. Godine. Companion volume: Victor Hammer, artist and printer (1981). Limited edition of 500 copies designed by Martino Mardersteng and printed from Dante type. Printed at the Stamperia Valdonega. UMCP has copy numbered 219. Special Collections Folio N6537 .H34 R68.


• Harris, Elizabeth. The Common Press: Being a Record, Description, & Delineation of the Early Eighteenth-Century Handpress in the Smithsonian Institution, with a history & documentation of the press. (1978) Boston: D.R. Godine. Drawings and advice on construction by Clinton Sisson. Issued in a slipcase. Special Collectins Folio Z249 .H28.


• Osley, A. S. Scribes and Sources: a Handbooks of the Chancery Hand in the Sixteenth Century. (1980) Boston: D.R.Godine. Texts from the writing-masters. Selected, introduced, and translated by A.S. Osley, with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe. Special Collections Stacks Z43 .S36, also located in UMCP off-site shelving and in McKeldin Library Stacks.


• Humez, Alexander. Alpha to Omega: the Life & Times of the Greek Alphabet. (1983, c1981) Boston: London: Godine. Special Collection Stacks PA273 .H8.


• Humez, Alexander, and Nicholas Humez. A B C et cetera: the Life & Times of the Roman Alphabet. (1985) 1st edition. Boston: D. R. Godine. Special Collection Stacks PA2125 .H86.


• De Hamel, Christopher, editor. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. (1986) 1st U.S. Edition. Boston: D. R. Godine. UMCP has two copies. Special Collections Folio ND2900 .D36.


• Bettmann, Otto, editor. The Delights of Reading: Quotes, Notes & Anecdotes. (1987) 1st edition. Boston, MA: D.R. in association with the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Selected by Otto L. Bettmann with a foreword by Daniel J. Boorstin. Special Collections Stacks Z1003 .D34.


• Gill, Eric. “An Essay on Typography.” (1988) Boston: D.R. Godine. With an introduction by Christopher Skelton. Special Collections Stacks Z116 .A3 G54.


• Dreyfus, John. Into Print: Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production. (1995) Boston: David R.Godine. Special Collections Stacks Z124 .I55.


• Hutner, Martin. A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books From 1900 to 1999. (2004) Danbury, Conn.: Grolier Club; Jaffrey, N.H.: David R. Godine. Special Collections Folio Z1033 .F5 H87.


• Harris, Elizabeth M. Personal Impressions: the Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century Amerrica. (2004) Boston: David R. Godine; London: Merrion Press. Special Collections Stacks Z231 .5 .L5 H377.


• DePol, John. Five Decades of the Burin: the Wood Engravings of John DePol. (2004) Jaffrey, N.H.; D.R. Godine:[Delaware]: University of Delaware Library. With a foreword by Timothy D. Murray and an introduction by David R. Godine.  Special Collection Stacks NE1112 .D46 A4.

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