Morison Stanley Editor (15 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Modest wear to cover, clean pages and sound binding.

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.

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, dust jackets, slipcase. 4to. cloth, dust jackets, slipcase. xxii, 294; xiii, 295-417 pages followed by 126 pages of plates. Edited by David McKitterick. Two volumes. First edition thus. A fine set in near fine slipcase. Reprints 19 of Morison's most important essays, most of which are difficult to find now. Includes many revisions discovered in Morison's private papers and many footnotes indicating further studies on the subject done by other scholars. Beautifully illustrated with over 300 plates and figures. Morison, Stanley (illustrator).…

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. …

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 1000 (1210) printed in Monotype Barbou on wove paper.42 illustrations in text by Eric Gill and Heinrich Holz., other illustrations by Frances Clayton and Denis Tegetmeier. 7 very substantial insets, being specimens of Monotype Bembo, Perpetua, Centaur,Treyford, Antigone, Romanee. Brown cloth, spine gilt, lacking dust-jacket. A very good copy. . This issue contains Beatrice Warde's famous article 'Eric Gill, Sculptor of Letters'; First Principles of Typography, by Stanley Morison; The Passion of SS Perpetua and Felicity (the first specimens of these typefaces); Typography in Holland, by J. Van Krimpen - and much besides. …

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. Only minor cover wear. Very good condition.…

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. Foreword to by Volume V by Charles Douglas-Home. Five volumes in six, totalling approximately 4,500 pages, with 165 plates (including frontispieces, 4 of which are coloured and tipped-in, several other plates folding or double page, a few tipped-in), a couple of text figures, appendices, bibliography, indices; med. 8vo; navy or dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, some of the boards slightly spotted or mottled, spines faintly faded; dust wrapper to Volume V only, backstrip lightly faded; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedowns, minor production (trimming) fault to bottom fore-corner pp. 483/4 in Volume I, a little light foxing; foxed, The Office of The Times, London, 1950-1984. Volumes I-III second impressions; others first editions. *Volume I: "The Thunderer" in the Making, 1785-1841; Volume II: The Tradition Established, 1841-1884; Volume III: The Twentieth Century Test, 1884-1912; Volume IV (in two parts, continuously paginated): The 150th Anniversary and Beyond, 1912-1948; Volume V: Struggles in War & Peace, 19349-1966. Published anonymously, Volumes I-IV were principally written and edited by Stanley Morison. Volume V was written by Iverach McDonald. Three further volumes were published from 1998-2022. …