Sutton James and Bartram Alan (14 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Some wear to edges, bottom corner slightly soiled. The technical and historical background of typefaces and book design-- with examples of famous designers; 100+ examples of type-- monotype and linotype; style guidelines; copyfitting charts; symbols; bibliography. 288 pages, oversized.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 125 pages, illustrated in b&w. "When this book was first published in 1968, the typesetting and printing revolution was just about to begin. The authors here trace and and lavishly illustrate the history of the development of typeform, starting with the Roman and medieval letterforms and scripts which were the starting points for the alphabet designs we know today, and giving examples of the various stylistic changes that have taken place throughout the centuries." FINE- HARDCOVER, VERY GOOD DUST JACKET. Size: Elephant Folio - over 15" - 23" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: as new. Chartwell Books, 1986. 123pp., black and white illustrations throughout. Folio. As new hardcover, as new d/j.

Later edition. F-/F- condition. Full page illustrations in black and white.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. 123pp. Very good hardback in a very good dustjacket.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 288p large paperback, small curl to corner of back cover, photographs and facsimiles throughout text, very good Language: English.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 288 pages, black and white illustrations (mostly of title-pages) and displays of type, fine condition with dust-wrapper. Heavy book - additional shipping will be requested for destinations out-with the United Kingdom. Signed by Author(s).

cloth, dust jacket. folio. cloth, dust jacket. 116, (8) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. "An attempt to show by illustration, rather than by explaining in words, the main changes in type forms over 500 years of printing.".

First edition. The British Library, London. 1990. Large square paperback. Illustrations. Index. Clean and sound.

New York, New Amsterdam Books 1990. First edition. 4to. 27,5 x 27 cm. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cloth with dustjacket (FINE/FINE). 288 pages. ; 50 plates of pages fom books and over 100 type specimens. NEW COPY [Typografie / Typography [Typografie] ].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth printed in navy blue and white, tall folio, 116, (6) pages, fold-out leaves. Examples of type specimens, many enlarged, with photos of the actual use of the types. This copy presented by John (Ryder) to Anthony (Mackay Miller) in 1988. A very near fine copy with slight edgewear.

cloth, plastic dust jacket. folio. cloth, plastic dust jacket. 118 pages followed by a foldout specimen. First edition. Max Caflisch's copy with his pencil notation on the front free endpaper. A fine copy. "An attempt to show by illustration, rather than by explaining in words, the main changes in type forms over 500 years of printing." This large format first edition is much better produced that the small format reprints.

Condition: Wie neu. 116 pages. Mit zahlreichen Schwarz-Weiß- Abbildungen. In EXCELLENT shape. - U.a.: Roman inscriptional lettering; scripts; Johann Gutenberg; gothic & roman; Venetian; old face Italian; old face French; old face Dutch; early transitional; transitional; late transitional; modern; display; fat face; Egyptian; Clarendon; decorative display; William Morris; 20th century roman; grotesque; index of typefaces. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200 Originalpappband mit Original-Schutzumschlag.

London, The British Library, 1990, 288pp. original linen binding with original dustwrapper in good state, many illustrations.