Lamb C M Editor (12 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Faber & Faber PAPERBACK. Heavy scuffing and rubbing to wraps. Stain spot to fore edge. Pages tanned but clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Faber and Faber, Published 1956. Hardcover, 252 pp.; 23 cm; First Edition; illustrated with 50 plates and 52 text figures. In Very Good condition, no dust jacket. Blue cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine. Small nick and fraying to cloth at top corner of spine; mild shelf wear with a hint of color loss along edges. Binding tight. Previous owner's name, address, and date (1963) on front free endpaper; endpaper mildly toned. Otherwise unmarked. Ten technical essays on the calligrapher's craft, prepared for the Society of Scribes and Illuminators as a memorial to Edward Johnston and Colonel J. C. H. Crosland by pupils and followers of Johnston. Covers pens and inks, pigments and media, skins and papers, gilding, the design of formal scripts and manuscript books, heraldry in illuminated manuscripts, cursive handwriting, and the binding of manuscripts. A standard reference for calligraphers, illuminators, and book artists. Contents: Pens, Pencils, Brushes, Knives (William Bishop); Pigments and Media (Dorothy Hutton); Ink (M. Therese Fisher); Skins, Papers, Pounces (Margaret L. Hodgson); Gilding (Irene Base); The Design of Formal Scripts (John Woodcock); The Design of Manuscript Books and Inscriptions (M. C. Oliver); Heraldry in Illuminated Manuscripts (William M. Gardner); Cursive Handwriting (Alfred Fairbank); The Binding of Manuscripts (Sydney M. Cockerell); appendices on the development of illumination, illumination and decoration, and simple binding; bibliography; index.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 2nd edition, our photos, binding is solid, light edge wear on covers, text is free of markings, no previous owner name, we ship quickly with tracking.

Condition: Acceptable. Used - Acceptable. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library with wear and barcode page may have been removed. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Binding is solid, no dust jacket, light shelf wear on boards, text is free of markings, university library markings, we ship quickly with tracking.

paperback. Calligraphy (illustrator). 8vo. paperback. 253 pages. Second edition. A near fine copy. Essays by Oliver, Bishop, Woodcock, Fairbank, Fisher, Cockerell, Hodgson, Gardner, Hutton, Wolpe and Base. Bishop covers the use of pens, pencils, brushes and knives; Hutton discusses pigments and media; Fisher discusses ink; Base discusses gilding and Cockerell and Wolpe cover binding. With fifty-two figures and fifty plates.

Paperback. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. 2005; Massachusetts; black cloth covered boards with silver titles; mild shelf wear; dust jacket lightly rubbed; interior clean and unmarked; 8vo - over 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 493 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good. Hardcover, rubbed at spine ends and corners, cover lightly worn, spine and pages lightly browned.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 128 pages. Stephen Spender "A. Modern Writer In Search Of A Moral Subject" / C E M Joad "A Philosopher Looks At America" / E V Lucas "Recollections Of Charles Lamb" / W B Yeats "Supernatural Songs" (poetry) / W G Constable "Art In Industry - At Burlington House" / Julian Ward "Courage" / Arnold Palmer "The Two O'Clock At Manchester" / G R Malloch "The Hero".

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!