Pages Books Set Monotype Composing (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. [xii], 97 pp; illustrated; small folio; original brown cloth; gilt title on spine. The follow-on volume to the work of the same name issued in 1927. A selection of page specimens from books that were composed by a Monotype system. English commercial presses represented here include Macmillan, William Collins, Eyre & Spottiswoode, Methuen, and William Heinemann. A very good, well-preserved copy overall, with some faint uneven toning on the covers and light foxing on title page; interior otherwise fine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. La. 4to. 32 cm. Pp. [xi], 97. Orig. buckram. V.g.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Brown cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; 4to; pp. 97. Spine tips and corners bumped; boards very faintly water-stained; some very faint foxing on prelims and terminals, otherwise internally bright and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Used. Hardcover with minor bumps/wear at edges/corners. Pages are clean and bright. Spine is straight and tight. Overall a very good edition and wonderful addition to your collection.

Cloth, large 4to, x, 97 pp. Aims to demonstrate the versatility of the monotype composing machine by illustrating examples of numerous different types of book-printing involving difficult technical requirements, including for example "children's books, in which the type must be of the best and clearest design and large in size; dictionaries and linguistic text books requiring a variety of type sizes and characters; illustrated books, often calling for unusually wide, narrow, or irregular measures, large composition sizes, and a type face well matched to the style of illustration; mathematical settings requiring a large number of special sorts and the flexibility of separate type; pamphlets, etc., requiring frequent sub-headings, marginalia, etc.; scientific books, often requiring tabular settings and special treatment to allow of accurate illustration, characters, signs, etc." Head and tail of spine worn, otherwise Good.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Brown buckram, title gilt on spine, printed dust-jacket. A near fine copy. Printed at the Pelican Press. Of the 97 pages from books reproduced, 35 are set in typefaces revived by Stanley Morison.

Condition: Very Good. No Dj. 4to pp. 96. book.

Full brown buckram. First Edition. 97 specimens Printed at the Pelican Press 4to Fine copy.

Second volume. 97 examples printed using 'Monotype. Includes specimens of Bembo, Centaur, Clarendon and Lutetia, among others, together with a number of decorative borders and ornaments. Printed at the Pelican Press. Pp. 99. 4to., original brown buckram lettered in gilt to spine, in the original buff dust jacket. A good copy, in a worn jacket with a few short tears to corners, chipping to spine ends. The second volume of examples of pages from books printed using the 'Monotype' system, the first having been published in 1927.…