Handbook Printing Types Notes Style (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good; Ex-Library Copy. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Hc Ex-libro, good, but has a 1/4 abrasion on front bottom edge, has slight shelf wear. Boards illustrated. This book deals with the various types of printing stlyes, from Bodoni, and Plantin to Eric Gill. illustrated with various styles of typeset. Size 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 x 115 pg.

pictorial cloth, clamshell box. Cowell (illustrator). 8vo. pictorial cloth, clamshell box. 116 pages. Second edition. Fine in near fine jacket. With illustrations in color by Henry Moore, John Piper, John Nash, Edward Bawden and others.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. This is a VG, hardcover, first edition copy, no DJ, lovely map image cloth binding, and some nice color illustrations by Henry Moore, etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second edition. 115, [1] pages. Illustrated. Ex Libris of Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago, bookplate inside the front cover. Very nice copy with modest edge wear, and a bright, unclipped dust jacket. W.S. Cowell Ltd was a British printing company that produced a variety of books, including popular children's literature of the 1930s and prestigious coffee table books. Established in 1818, the company played a significant role in the history of printing in Ipswich. ; 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book with illustrated boards in very good condition. Name and 1947 written inside. Book has 95 clean pages. Matching jacket has light edgewear and a chip at the spine top. Will ship in a fresh protective mylar cover.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition. 115 pages. Magnificent and diverse illustrations. Dust jacket has minor chipping to top edge and missing notch at top spine end. Else, fine. (S4).

Condition: Very Good. Ipswich: W.S. Cowell, Ltd. / Faber & Faber, (1948). 2nd Edition. 115 p. Hardbound with DJ. The DJ is edge worn with a chunk missing from the head of the spine and a small tape repair on the verso. Light rubbing to the extremities of the boards. Interior pages are clean and the binding is tight. R. Geoffrey Smith, Cowells compliments of book-plate facing the title page. VG/VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Very good book. 120pp with colour and b/w illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Color-printed cloth, DW, 8vo., 95 pages. Duplicate color Barnett Freedman lithograph laid in. Small bookplate at front pastedown, else very good in DW with one 1/2" chip at top front, two chips top back cover and slight loss at extremities, in archival mylar. Enclosed in a quarter leather and paper-covered drop-back box with spine label.

hardback, 8vo, 95pp, illustrations by Henry Moore, John Piper, Edward Bawden and others, owner's name on endpaper, edges browned, ,contents clean and sound, pictorial cloth, rubbed, Good condition.

Condition: Good. Original pictorial boards, dust jacket, illustrations in colour.; Name on endpaper; dust jacket slightly damaged and repaired.

Tall octavo, 96 pages, illustrated, original illustrated boards, sticky tape residue on endpapers, a very good copy. First edition of this printers catalogue of typefaces. With the signature of notable Australian book designer & illustrator Vane Lindsay.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Distributed by Faber and Faber Ltd. London. Illustrations by Henry Moore, John Piper, Blair Hughes-Stanton, John Nash, Barnett Freedman, Edward Bawden, Graham Sutherland, Isotype Institute and Lynton Lamb. Illustrated boards, Spine faded and slightly worn at ends otherwise good.

Condition: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,350grams, ISBN:

(2nd ed) Or.colour-decorated boards. 116pp. Many col & b/w ills. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Pages clean, no markings, wear to edges. Dust jacket unclipped with light edgewear. We are closed 14th-23rd July items ordered after 9:00am on the 13th July will be shipped on 25th July, shipping times have been updated. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Second Edition. Previous owner's signature. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 115 p. : ill ; 23 cm. Notes: Some extracts in French. Subjects: W.S. Cowell Ltd. Type and type-founding, England, Ipswich ; Specimens. Printing Specimens. 3 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Illustrated in colour. Cowells, 1947. Very good in dust wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Second Edition. Size: Octavo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books on Books; Inventory No: 72822. For further information on this title or for further photographs, please click on the "Ask Seller a Question" button directly underneath this listing. We aim to reply within three working days. Buyers from OUTSIDE of the UK are strongly recommended to make contact, to ask for an accurate shipping cost, BEFORE buying.

Second Edition. Previous owner's signature. Near fine copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 115 p. : ill ; 23 cm. Notes: Some extracts in French. Subjects: W.S. Cowell Ltd. Type and type-founding, England, Ipswich ; Specimens. Printing Specimens. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Printed in black with much use of colour especially with the ornaments; Decorated paper-covered boards with matching dust-jacket (slightly torn).Neat ownership signature, but spotting to endpapers. A very good copy indeed. An excellent specimen book. The combination of text in letterpress and litho is particularly good and not easy to differentiate.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st W. S. Cowell, 1947. hardcover.; unclipped unsunned jacket over pictorial boards of the same design. Octavo. 95 pp. ; slight foxing to inner back flap of jacket otherwise a very good plus copy in a very good plus unclipped and unsunned dust jacket; inside has superb reproductions by leading British artists of the day including John Piper and Henry Moore.

Ipswich, W. S. Cowell ltd., 1947. Hardcover with dustwrappers. 95 pp. Good copy.

hardcover. Condition: Good. 1947 FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 2nd class tracked post within 12 hours of receipt of order.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 8vo. 95 pp. With 13 colour illustrations by such luminaries as Piper, Bawden and Moore, some full page. In the publisher's decorated cloth, the design taken from Speede's 1610 map of Suffolk and printed in seven colours. A faultless copy save for the mildest of corner-bumping and neatest ownership signature to the ffep.