HARDBACK "VOLUME ONE ONLY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd . Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1937 * Publisher: Humphrey Milford for the Harvard University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Crimson lake cloth, gilt title to spine only. Spine slightly darkened. Minor bumps to corners. Some wear to corners and to head & tail of spine. Slight marks to boards. GD++.* Jacket condition: No original dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: Not ex-library but with "Print Shop," stamps to several pages. Binding tight with no reading wear. Minimal paper colouration throughout especially to page edges & margins, a good legible reference copy. GD++.* Illustrations: B/w facsimile prints and print examples throughout. One two-page print sample to this volume.* Pages: 276pp. text.* xviipp. supplementary notes & blank pages to rear.* Description: In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Mr Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The numerous illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers.* This is a NEAR VG text copy with some age & shelf wear. No dust wrapper.* (Volume 2. also available separately from this seller).* 1937-09-01. Seller Inventory # 8971

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Title: Printing Types, Their History, Forms, And ...

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

Publication Date: 1937

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: VG/VG/ND

Edition: y 2nd. Edition, 1st Imp.

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Cocksparrow Books are a small on-line second hand book sellers which originated 25 years ago with a high street second-hand Book Shop in Wadhurst, East Sussex.
We specialise in non-fiction, collectible first editions of hardback fiction and first impression issues of un-usual paperbacks. We also carry a range of good condition ex-library books. We tend to avoid bestsellers and airport fiction.
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