Stanley morison editor (7 Ergebnisse)

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Square octavo, 85 pages, plastic comb-bound, celluloid printed covers ( a bit darkened ) Here is an extended review of all the work to date with extensive illustrations of Mervyn Peake. It includes a preview of his ALICE, and his forthcoming BLEAK HOUSE. Famed antiquarian bookseller, Percy Muir, has contributed his observations on the centenary of Kate Greenaway, with illustrations - printed from the original wood-blocks by Edmund Evans Limited. …

Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 1000 (1210) printed in Monotype Barbou on wove paper.42 illustrations in text by Eric Gill and Heinrich Holz., other illustrations by Frances Clayton and Denis Tegetmeier. 7 very substantial insets, being specimens of Monotype Bembo, Perpetua, Centaur,Treyford, Antigone, Romanee. Brown cloth, spine gilt, lacking dust-jacket. A very good copy. . This issue contains Beatrice Warde's famous article 'Eric Gill, Sculptor of Letters'; First Principles of Typography, by Stanley Morison; The Passion of SS Perpetua and Felicity (the first specimens of these typefaces); Typography in Holland, by J. Van Krimpen - and much besides. …

4to. xvi+206pp+ tipped in specimens etc. Original yelow cloth (some darkening to backstrip) some foxing to prelims., a very good copy. First edition. Limited to 1250 copies.

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good.

Hard Cover. Zustand: Very Good binding. Good dust jacket. Volume No. VII only. With essays on Typography in Holland, Eric Gill, First Principles of Typography, Heinrich Holz, Typography of the Eighteen-Nineties, The Officina Bodoni, Thomas Maitland Cleland, additional shorter essays on typographical history, type reviews, book reviews, and an index at the rear. The volume also with folding facsimile plates, tipped in booklets, and other facsimiles of typographical samples. Slight dusty odor. Mild foxing to the edges of the textblock. Small chips and tears to the dusjacket, with minor loss to the extremities of the spine. Red cloth with a Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.…

4to, pp. [4], xi, [1], 50, 252, [2], 25, [2]; specimins tipped in, facsimiles throughout text, some printed in red and black; tan cloth printed in red and black, fine. A high-quality reproduction of the original 1930 printing, with articles on typography in Holland, Eric Gill, Heinrich Holz, Bodoni, Thomas Maitland Cleland, etc. …

Boston, Godine Publisher, 1990, in-8°, 218 pp with b/w ills., publisher's cloth with d.w.