The British Printer, Vol. X - 1897

Published by Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd, London, 1897

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The original, illus. title page, frontis and all contents, bound into 3/4 black leather with blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Decorative green end papers. Pages numbered consecutively throughout, 312 in total. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations. A few vibrant chromolithograph plates are included. Two folding plates. The last section is 49 pages of advertisements, A bit overweight at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. The entire volume for 1897. Includes an index to the entire volume. Raithby & Lawrence: Leicester printing firm (later, London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.), noted for its printing of the widely disseminated and influential periodical, The British Printer. Through the efforts and exacting standards of its foreman and chief typographic designer (a new profession for the time) George W. Jones, then Robert Grayson, the firm developed the so-called Leicester Free Style which was England’s answer to the artistic printing movement. (Dictionary of 19th-Century Journalism). Contents VG- clean and tight, but with foxing to end papers and to the very occasional additional page, mostly at top margin. Hinges loosening. Leather areas rubbed. Solid text block but Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Plates are in pristine condition. …

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Title
The British Printer, Vol. X - 1897
Publisher
Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd, London
Publication year
1897
Binding
Hardcover
Illustrator
KAVE
Edition
(Original).
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Mullen Books maintains a very active computerized inventory which grows by 2-300 titles per week. Our specialties include the Humanities, with an emphasis on Art, Architecture, Photography, Decorative Arts, History, as well as Periodicals related to those areas. We have very rare as well as fairly common titles. Current inventory is approximately 79,000 titles. We have about 1000' of backlog in our specialties numbering over 30,000 items (including 20,000+ smaller and ephemeral catalogues devoted to individual artist exhibitions). Current stock occupies over 2.3 miles of shelving. We are active buyers as well as very active sellers, and supply entire reference libraries as well as individual titles. We ship books almost everywhere, with the exception of China due to restrictions. Our website mullenbooks.com maintains our entire database of over 150,000 titles dynamically, so you can submit "wants" for books which are listed, but not currently in-stock. It is a major research tool. Despite what Google may indicate, we are only open to visitors by appointment, as our schedules are dynamic depending upon the needs of our valued employees.…

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