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An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensable for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information.
This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman & to define their limits."
His thinking about type is still provocative. Here are the seeds of modern advertising unjustified lines, tight word and letter spacing, ample leading. Here, too, is vintage Gill, as polemical as he is practical, as much concerned about the soul of man as the work of man; as much obsessed by the ends as by the means.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing of the facsimile of the 1936 second edition with the Joanna typeface designed by Gill in 1930. 13pp new introduction by Christopher Skelton. Slight age toning to the pages otherwise a fine copy in fine dustwrapper. Appears unread. Seller Inventory # 008042
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile of 2nd ed. published London, Sheed & Ward, 1936. 133 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. Fifth edition. Green boards, unclipped dust jacket. Slight shelf wear to edges, no inscriptions, tight and square binding. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging. Seller Inventory # 017169
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AN ESSAY ON TYPOGRAPHY. Fifth Edition, with a new Introduction by Christopher Skelton.
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8vo, (196 mm), 160p. illustrated with letter samples. A good copy in original green hardback boards, gilt lettered. (Gill, Corey & Mackenzie Eric Gill a bibliography 21 note) A photo-lithograph facsimile reprint of the 1936 edition with the added introductory matter. Skelton's introduction was also set in Gill's Joanna typeface, but on this occasion filmset in Linotron 202 10 on 13pt. A previous [idiot] owner has cut the blurb from the front fold-in of the dustjacket and tipped it onto the front free endleaf. Seller Inventory # 25074
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Facsimile hardback reprint of a the 1936 edition with a new introduction by Christopher Skelton, 1988, in an unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition with only minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket a touch rubbed and toned to spine and edges; boards clean and crisp. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; slight toning to page-ends but text and typographic examples bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book. Seller Inventory # 240700
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