Chas j strong (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Hardcover, no dustjacket. No notes or highlights. Foxing to title page as well as text block edges. Signed by previous owner on endpaper. A few stains and scuff marks to front cover. Wear to top and bottom of spine. Fraying at top of spine, board exposed.

Greeny/Brown Cloth. Zustand: Good. No Dust Jacket. New and Enlarged Edition. Comprising new ideas and designs of every conceivable sort of interest to the sign painter, card writer and commercial artist, including air brush designs, posters, show cards, business cards, letter heads, sign ends, ribbons, scrolls, panels, book covers, hanging signs, also thirty pages of ornamental work in color and numerous alphabets. Pages not numbered, black & white and colour images, no foxing or other marks to the pages, front hinge just starting to crack, greeny/brown cloth, black lettering to spine and upper board, some marks to boards. Size: 8 x 10.5 Inches. Design. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Detroit, Detroit School of Lettering, 1910. Oblong quarto, [90] leaves (printed rectos only) of designs and commercial art, with 10 leaves in monochrome and 25 in two or more colours. Black textured cloth lettered in gilt on the front cover; cloth slightly worn at the extremities, with a small amount of white paint at the head of the front joint; rear hinge pulled a little, but sound; tears to (mainly the bottom) edges of about 30 leaves, with eight of those tears above a centimetre long now expertly sealed; minor loss to the top edge of one leaf; a few other mild signs of age and use; a very good copy. The lengthy subtitle is worth quoting in full: 'A bewildering collection of Modern Ornamental art bristling with new and up-to-date ideas and designs of every conceivable nature. An invaluable art gem especially adapted to the requirements of the Sign Painter, Show Card Writer and Commercial Artist. Containing in all, air brush designs, show cards, business cards, letter heads, sign ends, ribbons, scrolls, panels, book covers, hanging signs, theatrical designs. Also thirty-three pages of ornamental work (in colors) along with nine brand new alphabets'.…

Pebbled Boards. Zustand: Very Good +. First Edition. Wonderful 1910 book of designs, created by Chas. and L.S. Strong, the founder and president respectively of The Detroit School of Lettering. Beautifully illustrated throughout along each recto, in vivid color and crisp black-and-white. A tight, VG+ copy in its dark, bevelled boards, with bright gilt-titling at the front panel. An oblong quarto, 2 elegant "Detroit School of Lettering" ads at the rear. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Book measures 27x20.5.cm. 83 plates, of which 28 are colored. Bound in original publishers mottled black hardcover, with gilt lettering. Binding in very good clean firm condition. Internally, plates clean. A very nice copy. Size: Oblong 8vo.