Trade Catalog Printing (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. 4to. Unpaginated. Filled with illustrations of type faces, half-tone options, and other offerings for compositors. Bound in black textured notebook bound with two posts, printed title label mounted on front cover. A half inch closed tear to fore-edge of title page, which also has the name of a former owner in ink, else Fine. A scarce catalog of type specimens, ornaments, dingbats and related printing. One of the half-tone options utilizes Paramount movie starlet Esther Ralston, whose fame faded with the talkies. Thus,we've dated this catalog to the late 1920s.

First edition. Oblong folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches). [8, including title] pp. of text plus 34 full page illustrations, each with its tissue guard. Publisher's string-tied wrappers with gilt cover lettering and inset color illustration. Some guards with fold or small tears. An excellent copy.A wonderfully vivid catalog of the printing capabilities of this venerable French printing house. Jules Ceas & Fils seem to have specialized in art books and finely printed matter (including advertisements). The text speaks of their great mastery of trichromatic printing and various other advances in the art. In the main the book is a demonstration of their abilities. The first 14 full page illustrations are trichromatic (color) and the remaining 20 are full page monochromatic illustrations. Many of the color illustrations are for French firms and a number of fairly famous artists were used, such as G. Camps, M. de Juilly, L. Ageron and others. No copies located by OCLC.