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Born in 1882, Eric Gill was an artist, letter carver, polemicist, and social reformer. In 1925, he had started drawing alphabets and printing books, and in 1931, this plainspoken little book was a fustian and forceful argument for common sense in design, composed for anyone remotely interested in the subtle and evolving challenge of the typographic arts. Set rag right, with tight word spacing, it is a model of composition. The text, like most of Gill's, is exasperating, exorbitant, and exciting. But Gill was, above all, a craftsman, whose work always reflected his philosophy and whose hand always followed his moral convictions.
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Essay on Typography
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David R. Godine, Publisher, 1988
ISBN 10: 0879237627
ISBN 13: 9780879237622
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hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. Boston, 1988; red cloth covered boards; mild spine edge wear; illustrated jacket with minor wear, housed in a Bro-Dart like cover; 12mo - over 6 3/4" to 7 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 133 pages. Seller Inventory # SKU1179097
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Essay on Typography
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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. ***Please Read*** NO Marks on text - My shelf location NOR-2-99*GREIF. Seller Inventory # 260110028
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An Essay on Typography
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ISBN 10: 0879237627
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Hardcover. Condition: VG. Twelvemo. Hardcover. Red boards with gilt stamped titles in illustrated jacket. 133 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. "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."--Book jacket. Seller Inventory # 209991
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First Godine Edition. 133 pages. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. A sharp copy of one of Gill's lasting polemics on typography, originally published in 1931. Seller Inventory # 0016
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An Essay on Typography
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. Hardcover with Dust Jacket. First Printing. 6 7/8 x 4 1/2 inches. 133 pages with introduction by Christopher Skelton. VERY FINE. Not read. All corners pointed. Binding firm and square. Without tears, bumps. creases or chips. But for tanning throughout to paper, not marked and very clean and bright. Dust jacket AS NEW. All books carefully wrapped and sent boxed. AS NEW. All corners pointed. Binding firm, without stress creasing and square. Without tears, creases, bumps or chips. Not marked and very clean and bright. All items carefully wrapped and sent boxed. Seller Inventory # 25101102
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