Glaister G A (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. London: Allen & Unwin, 1979. 4to. Pp. [xv], 484. 12 plates incl. specimens of collotype, photogravure, and four mounted specimens of marbled papers. Numerous b.& w. illusts. Orig. qtr. buckram, cloth sides. D.w. Nice copy of the first edition. Still useful.

2nd Ed. with illusts. 551pp. lar.8vo. paperback.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1900grams, ISBN.

Two-tone cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 26 cm, slipcased, xv, 551 pp, [8] pp of plates, ills, facs. A completely revised edition. From the preface : ".Of the 3,269 original entries [in the first edition] 481 of diminished interest have been omitted. Of the remaining 2,788 most two or three-line entries remain unchanged beyond minor additions, deletions or updating to maintain their usefulness, but 1,050 have been rewritten and extended as sample word-counts will show: arabic type (from 38 words to 1,364), Bible printing in England (240 to 2,985), Caxton (330 to 2,053); Benjamin Franklin (123 to 363), morocco (41 to 284), pharmacopoeia (180 to 469). Revised entries on Intertype, Kodak, Linotype, Ludlow, 'Monotype' and Photon machines have been supplied by their makers. Elsewhere revision has included the excision of mechanical data from some entries and the clarification of others. Of the 3,932 entries in this edition 1,144 are new. Random examples are Bengali printing and typography (3,076 words), ethiopic type (1,412), Hebrew printing before 1600 (2,077), Islamic bookbinding (986), manuscript book writing (2,100), Persian illumination (1,030) and toy books (408). " Fine in dustwrapper in Very Good slipcase.…