Gratton edward (2 risultati)

Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler, CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009), ex-Faber exec, was a printer, typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages; Physical desc.: 262 p. ill., 18 cm. Subject: Printing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Facsimile reprint of The Printer's Manual a practical guide for compositors and pressmen by Thomas Lynch. Series: Series: Garland Press Nineteenth-century book arts and printing history. 1 Kg. Fine Facsimile Reprint published by Garland Publishing in 1981.…

Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler, CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009), ex-Faber exec, was a printer, typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 262 pages; Physical desc.: 262 p. ill., 18 cm. Subject: Printing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. Facsimile reprint of The Printer's Manual a practical guide for compositors and pressmen by Thomas Lynch. Series: Series: Garland Press Nineteenth-century book arts and printing history. 1 Kg. Fine Facsimile Reprint published by Garland Publishing in 1981.…