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Physical description; 376p.,62plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 26 cm. Subject; Private presses — History.
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Descriptions of the work of modern private presses in Britain and the United States are included in this illustrated history of amateur printing since Gutenberg's invention.
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Private Press :
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4°, Leinen. Condition: Sehr gut. Auflage: First Edition :. 376 Seiten : Altersgemäß angedunkelt, leichte Gebrauchsspuren B08-02-06J Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1357. Seller Inventory # 1896661
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The Private Press
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good condition hardback book with dust jacket. First edition published 1971. An ExLibrary book but minimal stamps - one barcode on flyleaf page and one small stamp on title page. All other pages complete and very clean. Black and white glossy photographs/plates. The cover boards are intact and unmarked. The dust jacket is complete and clean with plastic cover. Seller Inventory # 004350
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The Private Press
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with no statement of further printings. A nice copy of the first edition. Boards rubbed at tips else fine, jacket shows some edgewear and a couple closed tears. Quarto, orange boards, 376 pages, pictorial jacket. 0571094430. Seller Inventory # ABE-1645149888950
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The Private Press
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Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 376pp, b/w frontis, 60pp b/w plates showing 72 illustrations, 83 text figs, index, dustjacket a little rubbed & grubby, internally a fine copy. A history of the amateur printer & publisher who , with their own printing press have been fascinated by producing their own books & broadsides. From the early days of moveable type when scholars such as Tycho Brae printed their own theories to the modern private press which produces finely printed works. 1400 grams. Seller Inventory # 26429
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1971. Faber & Faber. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib. DJ - Good. Seller Inventory # 51948
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. From the Library of John Russell Taylor. Seller Inventory # PL-972-24_2
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj defective, part of spine missing). From the library of Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens (bookplate mounted on front free endpaper). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses of these different kinds, examining the equipment they used and the books they produced. Particular attention is paid to the growth of printing as a middle-class hobby in Victorian England, and to the postwar revival of printing for pleasure. As editor of the Private Libraries Association's annual bibliography Private Press Books, the author is particularly well qualified to describe and assess the work of contemporary private presses in Britain and the United States." (from the blurb). Seller Inventory # 006516
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Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 376 p. Seller Inventory # NT0009
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Seller: Leopolis, Kraków, Poland
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses of these different kinds, examining the equipment they used and the books they produced. Particular attention is paid to the growth of printing as a middle-class hobby in Victorian England, and to the postwar revival of printing for pleasure. As editor of the Private Libraries Association's annual bibliography Private Press Books, the author is particularly well qualified to describe and assess the work of contemporary private presses in Britain and the United States." (from the blurb). Seller Inventory # 008916