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IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Bookman.
de Orcutt, William Dana (1870 - 1953)
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket. /brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no
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Boston:: Little Brown,, 1926.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket. . First trade edition. Includes chapters on printing, typography, illustrations and much more - illustrated with a full color frontispiece with a captioned tissue guard and many plates throughout the book, Orcutt, who designed the type face 'humanistic' was the manager of University Press in Cambridge and Plimpton Press in Norwood and he has been credited with advancing printing as an art form. Top edge gilt. List of illustrations. Index. 316 pp plus colophon.
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 65038
- Título
- IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Bookman.
- Autor
- Orcutt, William Dana (1870 - 1953)
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Hardcover first edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket.
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Little Brown,
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1926.
- Palabras clave
- typography, aldus, grolier,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Books about books;
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
