Introduction Stanley Morison (18 results)

hardcover. Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition hardback with dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Light wear and loss to jacket with minor wear to boards. Light foxing to textblock with main text in good clean condition.…

2nd (revised) edition. 8vo. 342pp. B/w. illustrations. Occasional slight foxing. Original boards. Rubbed and chipped grey d/w. lettered in red and black, spine browned. US$15.

Hardcover. 8vo. Black cloth with gilt spine lettering, dust jacket. 342pp. Numerous full-page plates. Near fine/near fine. Jacket spine faintly age toned. Outstandingly tight and lovely revised third edition of this well-illustrated 1924 classic.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter parchment-paper gilt with Cockerell marbled-paper sides, large 8vo., (vi), 31, (1) pages. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press. Prospectus laid in. Bookplate, an attractive, very good copy with light wear, in archival mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. 342 pp. Original black cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Binding very bright and clean. Corners slightly bumped. Light foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. DJ lightly soiled. Spine sunned. Illust. w/ b/w plates. Contents very nice.…

First edition, first printing. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. Gilt-lettered white parchment-backed beige, grey, red and tan patterned boards; in plain white dust jacket. Fine, as-new! Octavo. 32 pages. First printing of a paper read before the Art Workers Guild in London by Stanley Morison (1889-1967), one of the leading experts of the twentieth century on typography. Type New Times Roman linotype. An exceptionally nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Revised Edition. Four Centuries of Fine Printing is a landmark survey of the art of printing, presenting 272 outstanding examples from renowned presses between 1465 and 1924. Introduced by Stanley Morison, it traces the evolution of typography, book design, and fine printing through four centuries of craftsmanship. 51 pages essay by Morison, 272 plates, index. Original lettered cloth, with a dustwrapper. Page edges a little foxed, but the contents are clean and firm. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Varied Books; Books on Books; New Arrivals. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

4to, 20pp., original typographical printed wrappers, stitched as issued.

Hardcover. Condition: VG. CLEAN COPY, OVERSEAS ORDERS WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Quarter vellum gilt with red decorated paste paper-covered boards, 8vo, xvi, 62, (1) pages. Facsimile reproductions of Arrighi's La Operina (1522) and Il Modo de Temperare le Penne (1523), with a 16 page introduction by Stanley Morison printed in Arrighi "Vincentino" italic. One of 300 copies designed by Frederic Warde and printed by Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola on mouldmade Zanders paper. One of two books Mardersteig printed in collaboration with Warde (the other being "Crito") and the first of a number of Renaissance writing books printed at the Officina Bodoni. This copy signed by Frederic Warde at the colophon. Name of Douglas H. Smith, spine uniformly toned, light edgewear and soiling, else a clean very good copy in archival mylar. Signed by Designer. …

First Edition. Illustrations Rear blank removed, otherwise a nice copy.

4to, 20pp., original boards, gilt stamp on upper cover, untrimmed, a fine copy. From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Ohne Stempel, keine An- und Unterstreichungen. Vorsätze erneuert. Rücken und Seitenränder des Einbandes mit geringfügiger altersbedingter Bräunung. Innen tadellos. Kopfgold. Unterschnitt unbeschnitten. Hardcover. Original geprägter grüner Moire-Stoff.

Copy number '62' of an edition limited to 105 copies. The texts were hand-set in Sabon-Antiqua foundry cast types, and printed on Arches Vélin Blanc and Zerkall Ingres paper on a Korrex Hannover press and a Schelter & Giesecke Pheonix IV platen press. Burgundy quarter cloth over blue printed paper covered boards, blue paper label to the spine, burgundy endpapers. 340 x 230 mm, pp. [32]. Illustrated with a linocut portrait of Claude Garamond by John Watson printed on remnants of Barcham Green 'Bodleian' hand-made paper; three plates showing types cut by Le Bé I and II, together with Jean Jannon. A book in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…

Two hundred and seventy-two examples of the work of presses established between 1465 and 1924. Pp. 342, numerous plates (within pagination), index; demy 8vo; black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, cloth a trifle flecked, edges lightly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, the backstrip browned and damp stained, edges a trifle rubbed and split; edges of leaves lightly foxed and damp stained; Benn, London, 1949. Second (revised octavo) edition. *First published in 1924, in a limited folio edition of 400 copies.…

in Gothic Letter and derived founts. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Pp. [iv]+[iv]+28+152 plates+[2](blank, colophon), the facsimile title page and many of the plates printed in red & black, one plate printed in colour; cr. folio; pictorial cream cloth, lettered and decorated in black; book label of David Levine, Sydney, above the earlier bookplate of Paul E. Butcher on the upper pastedown, a little pale foxing; Hacker Art Books, New York, 1975. *A facsimile, with new half-title and title pages, of the volume originally published by Gollancz, London, in 1928.…

In folio piccolo, antiporta e frontespizio in inchiostro rosso e nero, nel testo illustrazioni con i diagrammi per la costruzione delle capitali. Opera in edizione limitata in una dell 40 copie stampate su carta india. Legatura in mezza pelle rossa con titolo impresso in oro al dorso e custodia in tela rigida.…

Slim Folio. 2 parts. [xxx] + 23pp. text + [i]. 15 double page facsimile plates. Text bound in red limp card wrapps. with paper title label to upper wrapp., lower leading corner of leaves bumped, plates unbound as issued in black card folder with paper title label; together in worn splitting and sl. squashed pale grey presentation box. From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (19232017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor. US$111. …