William Morris Master Printer Lecture Given by Colebrook Frank (9 results)

34p, decorated boards, wood engravings by John Depol, foxing on page edges and half title, book plate neatly removed, spine faded, good. One of 1400 copies printed for Christmas presentation by Blackwell North America, Inc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. One of 1400 of the trade edition. 6 x 9 in. xi + 35pp., with 3 reproductions of John DePol's wood engravings. Grey blue paper over boards, with printed titles on spine and front board. Light fading to the spine and along the top of the boards, else Very Good.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Limited Edition. Blue paper boards with black lettering and illustrations. Spine slightly sunned. Extremites bumped. One of 1400 copies. John Depol (illustrator).

Edition limited to 1400 copies, 8vo, x & 34pp. plus limitation slip and colophon, frontis. and 2 plates; blue-gray paper-covered boards printed in black. This copy with a printed presentation notice on p. [i] from Blackwell North America, as well as a typed letter from Blackwell announcing the publication.…

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. A fine edition of this important lecture by William Morris. With a gift inscription from the editor William S. Peterson. Description: Gray-blue paper over boards, with titling on spine, reprinted Kelmscott Press printer's mark on the front cover. Octavo: 23 × 15 cm; pp. x, [2], 34, [1]. Portrait frontispiece and 2 plates engraved by John de Pol. Ref.: Walsdorf, The Yellow Barn Press, A16 Condition: Spine lightly sunned, else a very good, bright and clean copy. Notes: This copy is identical to the letterpress copies of the original edition. Walsdorf writes that the lecture from which the text of this book is taken is one of the 'most balanced, nonpartisian appraisals of Morris as a printer.'. Widmung des Verfassers. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Yellow Barn Press, 1989. One of 200 copies, of the 1400 printed, retained for sale by the Yellow Barn Press, differing from the remaining 1200 copies only in that the portrait of Morris is printed in two colours (as stated on inserted slip). Edited with a new introduction by William S. Peterson. Wood engravings by John DePol. x[ii]+34[2]p. 3 wood engravings including portrait. Internally fine, bound in blue paper-covered boards, spine sunned. Black Kelmscott Press decoration to upper board. Presentation inscription by Peterson to front free endpaper. Inscribed by Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. [Partial Colophon]: "[-] designed by Neil Shaver at the Yellow Barn Press [-] The text is set in Polihilus and Blado italic types. John DePol designed and engraved the Morris-inspired ornaments. The paper for this edition is Mohawk Superfine, an archival quality sheet." 6 1/8 inches x 9 1/8 in., wood-engraved portrait frontispiece of William Morris, printed in two colors (blue & black), this one is signed in ink: John DePol; x, 34 pp. + colophon page; with the printed slip regarding the 200 copies with the two-color portrait, inserted in this copy; and full-page wood-engravings by DePol: Albion Press & Sussex Cottage. Gray-blue paper over boards, with titling on spine, Kelmscott device on the front cover. Inscribed by Author(s).…

Edition limited to 1400 copies, this being one of 200 retained by the Yellow Barn Press for sale, and with a printed slip laid in reading: "These copies differ only in that the portrait of Morris is printed in 2 colors directly from the engravings. In the other 1200 copies the portrait is in black only and printed offset." 8vo, pp. x, [2], 34, [2]; portrait frontispiece and 2 plates engraved by John de Pol; original blue paper-covered boards, printed in black on upper cover and spine; fine. The lecture from which this book draws its text was one of "the most balanced, nonpartisian appraisals of Morris as a printer." and earlier copies of it quickly became quite scarce. There were two other issues printed, one in an edition of 155, and another of 200. Walsdorf A16.…

Council Bluffs (Iowa), Yellow Barn Press, 1989, 1st ed., 34,(2) pag., colour-woodengraved frontispiece portrait of William Morris and William Morris-inspired ornaments by John DePol, printed by Neil Shaver on dampened Rives mould made paper in black and red out of the Pliphilus and Blado italic in Monotype in 155 numbered copies, original grey canvas cloth with letterpress title-shields on spine and frontcover, quarto (26,1 x 19,3 cm.). = With loosely inserted original prospectus for thsi publication.…