Selected Essays on Books and Printing Tapa dura - 1970

Van Gendt & Co., 1970-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. .

Amsterdam/London/New York, Van Gendt & Co/Routledge & Kegan Paul/Abner Schram, 1970. Hardcover. Good. Edited by Percy H. Muir.; Tear dust jacket repaired.

Amsterdam / New York: Van Gendt & Co.. 1970. F First Edition Collectible. H Hardcover. Very Good. In light blue jacket with red and black titling over red cloth with gilt titling, folio, 489pp. Illustrated. Light toning and soiling to outer jacket extremities and spine, couple of sm. nicks to jacket at edges).

Amsterdam-London-New York, Van Gendt & Co.-Routledge & Kegan Paul-Abner Schram. 1970. Original publisher's red cloth hardback, gilt title on black label spine, dustjacket, thick 4to: xiv, 490pp., 40 essays, richly illustrated, footnotes, references, bibliographical note, index. Fine copy.

Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co, 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition thus, 1971 (1970). A Very Good book in a Good+ dust jacket. Folio, 489 pp., burgundy cloth with grey dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned; some small chips and spotting. Text is clean and unmarked; a couple of spots on text edge. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Printed publication date of 1970, errata slip states actual publication date of 1971.

Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, 1970. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear. 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century.

Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]. Cloth, 4to, 31 cm,. xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come… Leer más

Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., 1970. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. PERFECT CONDITION. Still housed in the publisher's cardboard shipping carton. NO chips. NO tears. NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1970 [but actually 1971]. First Edition. Illustrations (2 folding). Johnson spent all of his working life in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum, where he enjoyed exceptional opportunities for research. However, most of his work is hard to find today because it originally appeared in specialized periodicals. Forty of these articles are reprinted here, e.g. Geofroy Tory; On Re-reading Updike; English Type Specimen Books; Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; The King's Printers, 1660-1742; English Typography in the Seventeenth Century; 19th Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions. Beautifully printed at the Stamperia Valdonega, Verona, Italy. Oversize Hardcover. 9" wide by… Leer más

Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, 1970 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket. Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, typefounding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp'… Leer más

Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, 1970 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, type founding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp'… Leer más