Charles t jacobi (23 Ergebnisse)

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Zustand: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Zustand: Very Good. Fifth edition. Very good plus. The corners of the binding are slightly worn and faded.

Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine. The corners of the binding are slightly worn and faded.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. First edition. Octavo. Cloth. Small owner's label on front pastedow, front free endpapers detached but present, toning on the spine and edges of the boards, and scattered foxing in the text, overall good.

Reprint. 8vo. xi + 173pp. Decorative initial letters. Occasional foxing, tail margin of title page and prelims. marked. Original gilt lettered maroon cloth, spine faded, rubbed to head and tail of spine. US$22.

Zustand: Fair. 1912. No Edition Remarks. 173 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Ink stamp inscription to fore edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Hardcover. 435cc. 68pp+ index; ads. Offsetting to endpapers, else a very good hardback bound in publisher's cream paper backed boards.

8vo, (222mm), [12],173p. including 45 pages of type specimens (printed on one side of the leaf only) and 21 leaves of paper samples, occasional faint spotting. Original red cloth backstrip discoloured; bookplate. A handy guide written by a one-time apprentice of the Chiswick Press who rose to become a partner. This edition is enlarged from the first of 1892 particularly in the section of illustration methods which is thoroughly rewritten to take account of contemporary developments in photomechanical processes.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very good copy in remarkable condition for its age of this treatise on Books and Printing from 1892. No Dust Jacket (as issued?). Includes samples of proof corrected text and typefaces and papers. Cover: cream coloured cloth covered boards with red lettering to spine; clean for its age but some darkening, particularly to spine, reflecting its age; slight rubbing to all edges commensurate with age and use but overall in very good condition for its age. Internally: very clean and tightly bound; no markings, inscriptions or book plates; neatly hand cut page edges, slightly darkened; overall very good. viii, 52 pp text, 38 pp, print samples & 28 pp paper samples.…

Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. First edition. A set of two very scarce issues of Spalding's Quarterly, a magazine devoted to paper and print. Two very scarce issues of this magazine, in the publisher's original paper wraps. This set comprises of Number 9, Volume II and Number 11, Volume II of Spalding's Quarterly: A Magazine Devoted to Paper and Print. These issues discuss the origins of the Chiswick Press, papermaking, William Morris, watermarks and emblems, among other topics.Two pages of facsimiles of various medieval watermarks, reproduced from Le Filigranes, Briquet, to Number 9. One page of facsimiles of "knot" emblems to Number 11. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, generally smart, with sunning to the perimeters of the wraps. Minor edgewear to the lower extremities of the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot. Very Good. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Octavo. (205 x 170mm). Pp. (xxii), 175. Plus 64 numbered copperplates leaves, each with 12 illustrations of coins. Engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait. Handsome woodcut head-and tail-pieces and initials. Title printed in red and black; old inscription in neat contemporary hand to first free endpaper. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary vellum, manuscript lettering to spine. Plates browned as usual in this edition due to stock quality. Overall a fine copy, neatly preserved. ~ The present Berlin edition, printed by Johannes Andreas Rüdigerus, was preceded by the Antwerp editions of 1615 and 1627 (Beller), and followed by the enlarged, 1738 Amsterdam edition (Schagen). B-1. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).…

Hardcover. THREE PARTS in one volume. WITH A TOTAL OF 92 PLATES. Royal quarto (280 x 225mm). I: Pp. (xiv), (iv) half-title, second title-page dated 1737, (viii), 186, (6) index. Plus engraved frontispiece and engraved portrait. [AND:] II: 64 numbered copperplate leaves, each with 12 illustrations of coins, printed on recto only. [AND:] III: Pp. 28, second engraved frontispiece, a suite of 12 splendid copperplate portraits of Roman emperors mounted on horses, with historiated backgrounds, each portrait accompanied by a verse engraved at bottom. Plus a 13th such plate, this with allegorical illustration, concluding the suit. Plus 12 copperplate leaves, each with 12 illustrations of coins, printed on recto only. Main title-page printed in red and black. Footnotes; small chip to blank margin of a single plate, well away from image. HARDCOVER, bound in contemporary quarter goat skin, dyed and glazed, and marbled boards, spine with 5 raised bands; paper on boards rubbed, corner-tips bit worn. In a very good external condition and in fine internal condition. A wide-margined copy, untrimmed. Exceptionally bright interior; crisp plates. ~ The first and only enlarged edition of this work. Beautifully illustrated, this edition has an extended number of plates with a total of 912 coin impressions on 76 copperplates; 2 engraved frontispieces, one engraved bust portrait, and a remarkable suite of 13 exquisite equestrian emperor portraits, engraved by C. de Passe after Johannes Stradanus (Jan van der Straeten, 1523-1605). The work went through several editions, was first printed in Antwerp in 1615 and 1627 (Beller); later in Berlin in 1705 (Rüdiger). In 1738 publisher Martin Schagen got the publishing rights and issued the present copy. He could now reset the entire work and print it in elegant quarto format, add the Johannes Stradanus suite of portraits, extra suite of coin illustrations, and allow the plates the freedom to remain bound separately from the text. The edition was printed on handsome laid paper with ample margins, and the strikes of the plates are remarkably more beautiful than these of their predecessors. B-3. ~ ~ NOTE: THE PRICE OF THIS BOOK IS CURRENTLY REDUCED! ~ ~ (illustrator).…

Illulstrated with quite elaborate typographic ornaments, borders, and initials. First edition, one of 435 copies. 8vo, original grey boards, white spine. London: Made at the Chiswick Press and Issued from the Bodley Head, Vigo St. W. Nelson, BH, 1891.1/16. Boards slighly used and spine darkened, otherwise a very good copy, with a note from a former owner noting its purchase from Grant's bookshop in Edinburgh in April 1919. …

Second edition, new and enlarged, one of 500 copies. The first edition was released in 1892. Provenance: bookplate of the Sherborn Library, loosely inserted Christie's auction ticket from 10 July 1972, lot 103 - Stephen C. Massey. Octavo (213 x 140 mm). Wood-engraved frontispiece in red and black, decorative headpieces and initials, specimens of type and paper to rear; title page printed in red and black. Near contemporary brown half morocco, spine gilt-lettered direct, raised bands ruled in gilt, red straight-grain cloth board ruled in blind, marbled endpapers and edges. Spine sunned, patch of stripping on front board lower corner, a few marks to boards: a very good copy. …

First edition. 8vo. Original quarter vellum over blue paper boards, lettered in red on spine. London: Elkin Mathews, Presentation copy inscribed by the author: 'George Allen Eq. from Charles T. Jacobi, Oct / 97' in black in to the ffep. The recipient, George Allen (1832-1907) was the founder of the publishing firm George Allen & Co., which later became Allen & Unwin, one of the streams that merged to form the mighty river of HarperCollins. An appropriate presentation from one master-printer to another. Jacobi was the managing partner of the Chiswick Press, and was a leading authority on printing and typography.  Bookplate of Frederick Robert Gale. With various newspaper clippings loosely inserted, including two obituaries of Jacobi from April 6 1933 (The Times, British and Colonial Printer and Stationer). Nelson, EM, 1897.8. Very good copy with small rubber stamp on two of the preliminaries and extremely light wear at two corners of fragile paper-covered boards.…

[16]pp, 16mo (11.5 x 7.5 cm). Stitched unpaginated pamphlet, tastefully printed with decorative headpiece to title, and the Press's celebrated device to the colophon. A frail survival, aged, worn and spotted, with one corner of last leaf dogeared. At foot of title-page: 'Any volume will be sent on receipt of Postal Order in advance.' Following the title-page are two pages with a history of 'The Chiswick Press. | Founded 1789.' Then a full-page advertisement for 'A Practical Treatise on the Art of Typography', with a full page containing 'Some Press Opinions'. Similar two-page advertisements follow for 'On the Making and Issuing of Books', 'Some Notes on Books and Printing', 'The Printers' Handbook', 'The Printers' Vocabulary' and 'Gesta Typographica'. Scarce: the only two copies on OCLC WorldCat at the Universities of Cambridge and Michigan.…