Printing Presses History and Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times by Moran James (28 results)

Condition: Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition; First Impression. With plates & illustrations. Decorated endpapers. Library stickers and stamps on front blank leaf and copyright page. 'George Stephenson College' written in ink on edges of book block. Slight wear to spine, covers & corners. Dustjacket in clear plastic cover. Bottom fore edge of dustjacket somewhat creased and torn, mended neatly with tape. ; 28.3 x 19.3 x 3.4 cms; 260 pages Original blindstamped gilt decorated cloth.

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paperback. Condition: Good. Univ of California Press [Published Date: 1978]. Soft cover, 263 pages, 50 unnumbered pages of plates, black and white illustrations. First paperback printing, (with full number line). In good+ condition. Glossy tan illustrated paper covers have light bumping and creasing to edges and corners and light overall scuffing and soiling. Light fading to spine. Binding tight. Pages lightly aged but otherwise unmarked. Black and white illustrations. [From Introduction] This book deals with the development of the relief printing press from its inception in the middle of the fifteenth century until approximately 1940, when it may be said to have reached its zenith. I occasionally mention developments after that date, but the five hundred years happily make a neat and convenient period to cover. During the world war of 1939 - 45 and for some ten years thereafter there was little new in printing-press manufacturing technique, but during the next decade the seeds were sown for completely new approaches which will, no doubt, come to fruition in the last quarter of this century. I have resisted the temptation to prophesy at any length about these changes, firstly because it is impossible to be specific, and secondly, if previous experience is anything to go by, many of the existing types of press will continue in operation for many years to come. I have also limited myself to the relief or letterpress press and machine, and have not dealt with either the lithographic or gravure processes. Much of the development in these two processes as far as the press was concerned was on the same lines as that in relief printing and (particularly with regard to lithography) the greatest changes may yet be to come. . . While there have been books published on this subject over a period of nearly three hundred years I think I may claim that this is the most comprehensive, but, even so, in order to keep the book within reasonable bounds, I have had to omit descriptions of some presses, which were made in large numbers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. . .

1st edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 3-263, [48] pages illustrations, facsimiles 29 cm. Contents: Introduction and acknowledgement -- The beginning -- Improving the wooden press -- The Stanhope press -- The Columbian press -- The iron hand press after Stanhope and Clymer -- The Albion press -- Koenig and the cylinder machine -- The bed and platen press -- The first stages of the cylinder machine -- The jobbing platen -- The cylinder machine takes over -- Rotary printing: the background -- The type-revolving machine and the development of the modern rotary -- Reel-fed flatbeds and sheet-fed rotaries -- The rotary press : final stages -- Apotheosis deferred -- Plates -- Appendix I. Miniature, 'toy', amateur and card presses -- Appendix II. The proof press. Subjects: Printing presses History. Printing Technological innovations. Printing machinery and supplies History. Technological change. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Green buckram gilt, DW, 4to., 263 pages, 109 illustrations. Printed by Vivian Ridler at the University Press, Oxford. A fine copy in a fine DW.

large octavo, printed wrappers. First Softbound Edition. First Softbound Edition. large octavo, printed wrappers. 263 pp. University of California Press, A concise survey of the development of the relief printing press providing a solid foundation for those wishing to assess the societal impact of continuous technical breakthroughs in the dissemination of knowledge. Numerous illustrations. Spine and edges of wrappers faded, minimal pencil notations in margins.

stiff paper wrappers. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 263 pages with 108 illustrations in the text and 64 plates. First paperback edition. An essential book for the student of printing history. Spine lightly faded, else near fine.

4to, 263pp, 64 b/w plates, 109 figures to text, pictorial endpapers, orig. cloth gilt. A fine copy in slightly rubbed dustwrapper which has a few small nicks on extremities.

stiff paper wrappers. tall 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 263 pages with 108 illustrations in the text and 64 plates. First paperback edition. An essential book for the student of printing history. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: No jacket, as issued. First Edition Thus. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1992. A beautiful, pristine HARDCOVER copy of James Moran's PRINTING PRESSES : HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. PERFECT condition. Brand New. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and free of any markings. Illustrated with 109 figures in the text + 64 plates. Pictorial endpapers. This is the best and most comprehensive work on printing presses and their history from the 15th century until about 1940. Among the presses detailed here are the wooden press, Stanhope, Columbian, Albion, bed and platen, jobbing platen, cylinder, type-revolving, and modern rotary presses. An indispensable book for anyone interested in the technology of printing. 7" wide by 10.25" tall. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in shiny gold. Originally published in 1973, this is the first University of California Press printing (1992?) with complete number row (1234567890) on the copyright page. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. New/No jacket, as issued. 264pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

London (1973). 4to. Or.cl. Gilt. d.w. (264pp.). With 109 text illusts., 64 plates and illust. end-papers. Fine.

First paperback edition, 8vo, pp. 263, [1]; illus. throughout; very good in original pictorial wrappers with some creasing. With a bibliography, general index and index of presses and machines.

*: London, Faber & Faber, 1973, lg in-8°, 263 pp, 109 ills., 48 pl. h/t, bibl., index, publ. gold decorated cloth, orig. dust wrapper. Fine (nearly mint) copy of the hardback edition. (also first edition).

Pp. 264(last blank), 48 plates, numerous text illustrations (several full page), pictorial endpapers, appendices, bibliography, indices; impl. 8vo; dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, edges a trifle rubbed; top edges pink; dust wrapper, soiled and lightly foxed, edges worn and chipped, with a few small tears; a little light foxing; Faber, London, 1973. First edition.

*: London, Faber & Faber, 1973, lg in-8°, 263 pp, 109 ills., 48 pl. h/t, bibl., index, publ. gold decorated cloth, orig. d.w. . Fine copy of the hardback edition. (also first edition).

First American edition, tall 8vo, pp. 263, [1]; illustrated throughout; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. With a bibliography, general index and index of presses and machines.