Intimate Leaves from a Designer's Notebook by Ryder John (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Limited Edition; Roy. 8vo; pp. 151, (1); title page printed in red and black, text with numerous coloured illustrations, limitation page, bound in original quarter white cloth with patterned boards, title lettered in gilt on spine, fine copy. Limited edition of 400 numbered copies, of which 300 copies are in patterned papered boards with cloth spines, this copy being number 192.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 25x16cm, 150pp. With various illustrations and reproductions of lettering by line-block, some in colour. Copy 43 of 80 (400) bound by Alan Wood in quarter-black goatskin over patterned paper-covered boards, title blocked in gilt to the backstrip, in a red cloth-covered slipcase. John Ryder's very readable essays about various aspects of lettering, typography and book design, one of the 80 copies in the handsome and more substantial quarter-leather binding which gives an extra sense of weight and presence to the book. Fine, in a Very Good (faint stains to the backstrip and a tiny black mark to one corner) slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Limited Edition. original half black leather with spine lettered in gilt,illustrated throughout,152 pages,limited edition this being number 47 of 80 copies bound un quarter goatskin. a fine clean copy in marked very good original slipcase.We are a real bookshop with real books,situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Limited edition. 150 pp., 28 pages of illustrations (including a tri-panel illustration) and typographic examples; 8vo, beige linen and decorative boards. Designed by John Ryder and printed by David Esslemont at Gregynog. Edition of 400 copies, this #172 of 300 bound in cloth and boards. A gorgeous production in very good+ condition.

Fine in publishers cloth backed decorated paper boards (as issued). 150pp. Illustrated throughout. 1st edition thus. Number 155 of an edition of 300 copies. ISBN 0948714506.

Copy number 133 of 300 in patterned paper boards with grey cloth spine. 150pp. Loosely inserted prospectus for this edition together with GG compliments slip and a cutting from the Guardian newspaper dated 22nd January 19914 reviewing this book. John Ryder also designed the book. Set in Monotype Baskerville and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper, bound by Alan Wood at Grgynog. Ryder (1917 - 2001) was one of the foremost British book designers of the 20th century. Intimate Leaves reveals the wealth of Ryder's experience as he explores and analyses letter forms, bindings, the printed page, and the very way we read books. Foreword by Jan Morris. Illustrated with drawings by Quentin Blake, Hans-Joachim Burgert, Michael Harvey, Lilly Lee, Hans Schmidt, Maurice Sendak and Posy Simmonds. Condition: fine. Book.

Foreward by Jan Morris. 8vo. Number 286 of 300 numbered copies. Number 286 of 300 numbered copies. Foreward by Jan Morris. 8vo. Written and designed by John Ryder and printed by David Esslemont at Gregynog. The entire edition consisted of 400 numbered copies set in Monotype Baskervbille, printed on Zerkall mould-made paper and bound by Alan Wood at Gregynog (300 in patterned boards, 80 in quarter morocco and 20 in sheets). Original cloth-backed patterned boards.

No.33 of 80 spcially bound copies, of an edition of 400. 29 illustrations. Printed in Monotype Baskerville on Zerkall mould-made paper. 8vo., bound by Alan Wood in quarter goatskin, patterned paper covered boards, spine lettered in gilt, in the original red cloth covered slipcase. A very good copy.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. 149, [5] pages. Folding plate before page 55. Colophon states that this is numbered 385 of the 400 issued. One of the 20 copies issued as unbound sheets. The sheets have been sewn together and the top edges of the pages are gilt. Book.