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Hardcover edition complete with dust jacket. The latter is faded at spine and slightly frayed along edges but is intact. The book itself is in generally very good condition. Third edition pubished by Oxford University Press 1962. Volume two of a two volume set.

Hardcover edition complete with dust jacket. The latter is faded at spine and slightly worn along edges but is intact. The book itself is in generally very good condition. Please note that this is the third edition published by Oxford 1962.

Cambridge: Harvard Univ. Press, 1922. cloth, top edges gilt. 8vo. cloth, top edges gilt. xl,292; xx,326 pages. Two volumes. First edition. (Appleton p.69). Private bookplate of Crosby Gaige on front pastedown. Wear to the heads of the spines of both volumes, with some loss. Minor wear to the bottom of the spines of both volumes. Minor rubbing to both volumes. Internally sound. Profusely illustrated history. An essential reference book for anyone interested in the history of printing and development of type faces.

Updike, D. B. PRINTING TYPES - THEIR HISTORY, FORMS, AND USE. Belknap/Harvard, 1966 (third edition, second printing). 2 vols., 4to., cloth, DJs, 292 and 325pp. Fine in FIne DJs.

Oxford University Press, 1937. Volume 2. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1100grams, ISBN:

Published by Oak Knoll Press, The British Library, 2001. 4th edition.. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This is the combined edition, volumes I & II. Foruth Edition, expanded. A classic study of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A fat volume. Spine is slightly concave but does not affect overall contents. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

London: Oxford University Press, 1937. xl, 292pp.; (xx), 326pp [Jackets present but worn]. A very nice set, no marks or wear. 2nd edition. blue buckran, gilt. Fine/No Jacket. large 8vo.

London : Oxford University Press, [1951]. Second edition : the second impression of the 1937 American sheets. Originally published in 1922, but here much augmented - Updike's magisterial history and survey of the printing types of the western world - "stands foremost among the classic books of the printing trade" - the invention; the font and its case; the Latin alphabet; fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, the Netherlands, Spain and England; the Aldine italic; type specimens; types and foundries to 1800, country by country; the American colonies; the nineteenth century; English types 1800-1844; the revival of Caslon and Fell; industrial conditions and more. Two volumes. Medium 8vo (25cm). xl,292; (xx),326pp. Over 350 illustrations, facsimiles, etc. Original buckram; just a hint of fading at foot; a few edge-spots; text very faintly tanned in places, but a very good set.