Morison Stanley Editor (17 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Clean, sturdy copy. No marks on pages. Minor wear of spine and back cover. sg.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 2nd. very good condition, pages are clean and free of markings, minimal wear to cover, has dust jacket where applicable, ships same or next business day.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Square octavo, 85 pages, plastic comb-bound, celluloid printed covers ( a bit darkened ) Here is an extended review of all the work to date with extensive illustrations of Mervyn Peake. It includes a preview of his ALICE, and his forthcoming BLEAK HOUSE. Famed antiquarian bookseller, Percy Muir, has contributed his observations on the centenary of Kate Greenaway, with illustrations - printed from the original wood-blocks by Edmund Evans Limited.

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

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

FIRST EDITION, no.224 of 400 numbered copies; 4to., pp.72 (french-folded); 52 specimens (5 repeated in different colours); a fine copy in original Jacquard woven gold cloth by James Lawson at the School of Textile Design. One of the most attractive productions from Royal College of Art Press. Appleton 231; Law Series 7(1). Design Ornament Lion & Unicorn Press Fine Printing.

4to. xvi+206pp+ tipped in specimens etc. Original yelow cloth (some darkening to backstrip) some foxing to prelims., a very good copy. First edition. Limited to 1250 copies.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

cloth. 4to. cloth. xvi, 205, (21) pages. Vol. V. Limited to 1370 copies. Article on Karl Klingspor by Julius Rodenberg including a list of books printed at the Private Press of the Gebr. Klingspor, articles on Laboureur, Bulmer, and "Towards an Ideal Italick" by Stanley Morison. Small bump along bottom of front cover and small tears at spine ends.

cloth. 4to. cloth. xvi, 205, (21) pages. Vol. V. Limited to 1370 copies. Article on Karl Klingspor by Julius Rodenberg including a list of books printed at the Private Press of the Gebr. Klingspor, articles on Laboureur, Bulmer and "Towards an Ideal Italick" by Stanley Morison. Only minor cover wear. Very good condition.

FIRST EDITION, 4to., 2vol., pp.xxii,294; xvi(295-)417; 187 illustrations in text & 126 plates; top edges gilt; a fine set in dust-wrappers and slip-case of this beautifully produced homage to the principal figure of the 20thC type revival. Includes most of Morison's major essays, written over a period of 40 years, edited with extensive use of his private papers - now deposited in Cambridge University Library. Type Printing Letter forms Calligraphy Typography.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good binding. Dust Jacket Condition: Good dust jacket. Volume No. VII only. With essays on Typography in Holland, Eric Gill, First Principles of Typography, Heinrich Holz, Typography of the Eighteen-Nineties, The Officina Bodoni, Thomas Maitland Cleland, additional shorter essays on typographical history, type reviews, book reviews, and an index at the rear. The volume also with folding facsimile plates, tipped in booklets, and other facsimiles of typographical samples. Slight dusty odor. Mild foxing to the edges of the textblock. Small chips and tears to the dusjacket, with minor loss to the extremities of the spine. Red cloth with a Good dustjacket. Very Good binding / Good dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 191 of 210 (1210) edition de luxe copies printed on handmade paper with two extra inserts. 42 illustrations in text by Eric Gill and Heinrich Holz, other illustrations by Frances Clayton and Denis Tegetmeier. 7 very substantial inserts, being specimens of Perpetua, Centaur Roman, Monotype Bembo and Lutetia. Blue buckram, elaborately blocked in gold on the spine and upper board to a design by Jan van Krimpen. Lacking dust-jacket, slight fading to spine. A very good copy. The final issue, printed in Monotype Barbou and signed by Stanley Morison on the colophon. The issue contains Beatrice Warde's famous essay 'Eric Gill: Sculptor of Letters', this is illustrated with folding plates and other reproductions. Additionally, in this de luxe isse there is a folding photogravure plate of Gill's sculpture `Madonna and Child'. Inset into the essay are 8 pages Initial Letters etc., engraved by Eric Gill, specially printed at the Golden Cockerel Press on handmade paper; this hand-press printing appears only in the de luxe issue. Following the essay is 'The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity', 32 pages with engravings on wood by Gill, and signed by him at the foot of the type specimen. It is the first specimen of Gill's Perpetua type, although there is a school of thought that believes that Gill's signature was provided by Morison. Stanley Morison's Postscript closes with the specially commissioned 'Explicit' engraving by Gill. This final number of `The Fleuron' includes the first printing of Morison's 'First Principles of Typography'; Jan van Krimpen on Typography in Holland; D.B. Updike on T.M. Cleland, and Friedrich Ewald on The Officina Bodoni - this with hand-printed specimens. Magnificent. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. No Jacket. Limited Edition. 4to. Limited edition, #61/160. Orig. teal cloth with gilt stamped spine and fore edge decoration. T.E.R. Roughly cut edges. xiii, 264 pp. Numerous illustrations and fold-outs and typographcial insets. Spine cocked. Rubbing to extremities and boards with some light wear to spine ends and corners. Some light foxing to endpapers and edges of text block. With insert from the Printing Anniversary Committee, American Institute of Graphic Arts for the 500th anniversary of printing. Very scarce. A further 1150 copies were printed on antique wove paper, but only150 copies on hand-made Batchelor Kelmscott paper were offered for sale out of the 160 produced.

4to, pp. [4], xi, [1], 50, 252, [2], 25, [2]; specimins tipped in, facsimiles throughout text, some printed in red and black; tan cloth printed in red and black, fine. A high-quality reproduction of the original 1930 printing, with articles on typography in Holland, Eric Gill, Heinrich Holz, Bodoni, Thomas Maitland Cleland, etc.

Boston, Godine Publisher, 1990, in-8°, 218 pp with b/w ills., publisher's cloth with d.w.

First Edition. Totalling approximately 1,500 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white (several folding, many full page), numerous hand-tipped examples and facsimiles, several decorative initials, patterned endpapers Volumes V & VI, index Volume VII; demy 4to; most volumes black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Volume V beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red & blue, Volume VI green cloth, decorated in gilt and dark green, Volume VII brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, occasionally a trifle marked, a couple of corners faintly bruised; top edges gilt (first 4 volumes) or red (Volume VI), others mostly uncut); dust wrapper for Volume VII only; bookseller's tiny stamp at foot of upper pastedowns Volumes I-VI, 2 small bookplates (David and Hermione Chambers, and James Alan Maclean) and signs of removal of another bookplate on upper pastedown Volume VII, all with the book label of David Levine (Sydney) on upper pastedown, a little faint offsetting from some of the coloured illustrations, occasional light foxing; The Fleuron (Volumes I-IV)/Cambridge University Press (Volumes V-VII), London & Cambridge, 1923-1930. First editions, the first 6 volumes being deluxe editions, printed on handmade paper and limited to between 110 and 160 numbered copies; Volume VII one of 1,000 copies on machine made paper. *A complete set of the major twentieth century British journal on typography and the book arts. Contributors include D. B. Updike, Holbrook Jackson, W. A. Dwiggins, Stanley Morison, Rudolf Koch, A. J. A. Symons, and others, on subjects including the work of Emery Walker, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Bruce Rogers, Frederic W. Goudy, Eric Gill, Claud Lovat Fraser, the Officina Bodoni, script types, decorative papers, and more. From the collection of Australian graphic designer and typographer Eric Maguire, who made the attractive dust wrappers for the first six volumes, each from different Japanese handmade patterned papers, with small volume labels in his distinctive hand. The publisher's printed dust wrapper for the final volume is slightly soiled, with a couple of tiny splits at head of backstrip, and with four small inked underlining to some of the text on the front panel.