British Printer Vol 1902 (1 results)

Hardcover. KAVE (illustrator). (Original). The original decorative, color-illus. title page and all contents, bound into maroon cloth/boards; maroon leather with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Marbled page ends. Pages numbered consecutively throughout, 324 in total, followed by 72 pp. advertisements and (presumably) the back covers for each issue. Only one front cover (Nov.-Dec.) is bound in. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations. Housed in a board folio covered in blue chambray/linen with decorative paper lining. Blue grosgrain ribbon tie. A bit overweight at 6 pounds and may require extra postage. The entire volume for 1902. No individual covers, but title pages are bound in. Includes an index for 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. Hinges cracking. Solid text block. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Plates are in pristine condition.