Isbn: 9781584562245 - the design & printing of ephemera in britain & america: 1720-1920 (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. A very good clean copy with a tiny repaired closed tear to the jacket. This book explores the closely interwoven printing histories of Britain and America. American colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment, took instruction from the same manuals and were guided by the same exemplars as their British counterparts, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. Following the Civil War, American graphic design and typography began to establish distinctive identities, with developments in color printing bringing an efflorescence of color-rich trade cards, cigar-box labels and other chromolithographed ephemera that was essentially American. Nevertheless, ideas continued to be shared across the Atlantic. American foundries devised entirely original typefaces that were imported into Britain, yet the development of expertise in designing with these new faces depended on printers learning from one another, and the scheme of specimen exchange that successfully achieved this was wholly devised and administered from London. 1.2kg for outside NZ.…

A clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Slight creases in rear panel of dust jacket. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to, 159 pp, 175 illustrations in colour and black and white, cloth some light bumping to the bottom corners and a small tear yo the edge of the dust wrapper else a fine copy.

2008, 159pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 1,1kg. In very good condition.