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cloth, dust jacket. small 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 256 pages. First edition. Fine in fine jacket. The Vale Press is the story of typographer, publisher and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) and his famous press. Ricketts was a versatile and innovative practitioner of the printing arts who exerted a powerful influence on the development of modern book design. The Vale Press is the most comprehensive history of this early private press. Beginning with his work as "a designer of books and bindings" for Oscar Wilde, the story of the Vale Press reveals for the first time the nature of Ricketts's collaboration with the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press, and the degree to which his success, both artistic and commercial, depended upon the transformation of his redundant skill as a wood engraver into a positive medium of artistic expression. This work includes a complete bibliography of the Vale Press's books and ephemera and is illustrated in color and black-and-white. Vale Press (illustratore).…

XXIV, 266 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Orig.-Leinen mit Orig.-Umschlag, 4°. - Verlagsfrisches Exemplar. Kommentar: *Erste Ausgabe. -.

FIRST EDITION, 4to., pp.xxiv,266; 36 colour images and 125 illustrations & facsimiles in text; new in original cloth & dust-wrapper. An important new history of Ricketts & the Vale Press with detailed bibliography of its books & ephemera. Published at £65 & now reduced. Fin de Siecle Art Nouveau Private Press.…

Condizione: gut. 2004. The Vale Press: Charles Ricketts, A Publisher In Earnest In englischer Sprache. pages.

First Edition. Pp. xxiv+266, 8 coloured plates, black & white frontispiece portrait and numerous text illustrations, appendices, bibliography, index; demy 4to; dust wrapper; brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle & London, 2004. First edition. *'As a typographer, publisher, and wood engraver Charles Ricketts (1866-1931) was a versatile and innovative practitioner who exerted a powerful influence on the development of modern book design . . . Beginning with Rickett's work as "a designer of books and bindings" for Oscar Wilde, the story of the Vale Press reveals for the first time the nature of Rickett's collaboration with the master printer Charles McCall of the Ballantyne Press' [wrapper blurb].…