British Printer Vol 1896 (3 results)

Green library cloth, gilt spine- title, original printed wrappers bound in at end, edges sprinkled red, 4to, 56, 48 + [57] -108, 44 + [109] -160, 56 + [161]-214, 44 + [215] - 266, 50 + [267]-318, 48 pp, numerous ills (many in colour), some additional unpa Includes all six bi-monthly issues for 1896, with a frontispiece, title-page and cumulated index at the beginning, and the original printed wrappers for the six issues bound in at the end. The issues are : No. 49 Jan-Feb 1896 to No. 54 Nov - Dec 1896. Each issue comprises approximately 52 pp of editorial material and illustrations (many in colour) followed by a similar number of advertisement pages (typically largely illustrations). The journal advertised itself as "The Educator of the Craft. Always up-to-date: Contains Portraits and Biographies of Eminent Printers - Specimen Jobs in Colour and Monochrome - Fine Art Picture Supplements - Instructive Technical Papers - Valuable Hints and Trade Information - Reports of the Technical Classes and of the progress of Technical Education for Printers" - a journal for the printing trades". Bookplate of De Montfort Press Technical Library on front pastedown endpaper, otherwise Near Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Numerous illustrations, including chromolithograph plates, duotone, colour and b+w illustrations; half leather; front cover loose; internaly very good. Heavy book.

Hardcover. KAVE (illustrator). (Original). The original, illus. cover and all contents, bound into 3/4 black leather with blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Decorative green end papers. Pages numbered consecutively throughout, 318 in total. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations. A few vibrant chromolithograph plates are included. The last section is 48 pages of advertisements, A bit overweight at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. The entire volume for 1896. Individual issue title pages (but not covers) are bound in. Includes an index to the entire volume. Raithby & Lawrence: Leicester printing firm (later, London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.), noted for its printing of the widely disseminated and influential periodical, The British Printer. Through the efforts and exacting standards of its foreman and chief typographic designer (a new profession for the time) George W. Jones, then Robert Grayson, the firm developed the so-called Leicester Free Style which was England's answer to the artistic printing movement. (Dictionary of 19th-Century Journalism). Contents VG- clean and tight, but with foxing to end papers and to the very occasional additional page, mostly at top margin. Front hinge loosening. Leather areas rubbed and with a pock where leather meets cloth binding, about in the middle. Solid text block but Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Plates are in pristine condition.