printers grammar introduction art printing di stower (8 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Facsimile Reprint Edition. Small octavo (8vo); xviii, 530pp, followed by Specimens of Printing Types. A very good Gregg Press facsimile of the edition originally published in London for B. Crosby in 1808.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint of 1808 text. Part of the "English Bibliographical Sources" series, edited by D.F. Foxon of the British Museum, Series 3: Printers' Manuals. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated frontispiece, and illustrated throughout with diagrams, drawings, and reproductions of etchings in black and white, including one fold-out, intact. Previous owner's signature on front free endpaper. Sunning to spine and very minor rubbing to corners. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. 530 pages plus appendix.

cloth. 8vo. cloth. xviii, 530, (48) pages. Reprint of the 1808 first edition. (See Bigmore & Wyman II, 403). With an appendix showing specimens of printing type.

No Binding. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition of a seminal book on printing with all illustrations present. No boards. Most of the spine survives. This book has a leather label which indicates it was owned by a famous Canadian, Flavien Vallerand one of the editors of the newspaper Le Canadien and an advocate for Quebec independence. A relic of Quebec printing and political history.

No Binding. Condizione: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition of a seminal book on printing with all illustrations present. No boards. Most of the spine survives. This book has a leather label which indicates it was owned by a famous Canadian, Flavien Vallerand one of the editors of the newspaper Le Canadien and an advocate for Quebec independence. A relic of Quebec printing and political history.

Hardcover. Condizione: Poor. 1st Edition. Seven (of eight) inserted plates. With an inserted leaf, numbered 506*-507*, between pp.505 and 506, and a 32-page appendix of specimens of printing types at end. Many illustrations within the text. With an index. Lacking pages i-xviii, including the title-page and the engraved frontispiece of a Stanhope Press. Excellent series of type specimens from both Fry and Caslon foundries. Boards loose, lacking spine. Generally very good internally and despite being defective, still with some remarkable content. The specimens are: Fry & Steele printer's flowers (29 pages); Fry & Steele Printing Types (19 pages), and Caslon & Catherwood Printing Types (10 pages). The book itself is based on J. Smith, The Printer's Grammer, 1787.

thick 8vo. contemporary half calf stamped in gilt. xviii, 530, (48) pages. Enlarged edition of the sixth English printer's grammar which was first published in 1755. (Appleton p.67; St. Bride Cat. p.870; Bigmore & Wyman III,403). Containing a Concise History of the Art, with the Improvements in the Practice of Printing, for the last Fifty Years. With a history of printing mostly taken from Moxon and Luckcombe with the addition of some new text and a practical discussion of all facets of producing the printed book. Included are twenty-eight pages of printer's ornaments by Fry and Steele, thirty-two pages of type specimens by the same firm and others by Caslon and Catherwood. Stower also has sections on printing ink, the different types of printing presses, lists of typefounders, printer's joiners and an abstract of acts relative to printers. Rebacked half leather over decorated paper boards. Frontis has been lined. Spine sunned. Leather has been lightly spotted on covers and spine, else near fine. contemporary half calf stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Seven (of eight) inserted plates, lacking the Stanhope Press frontispiece. With an inserted leaf, numbered 506*-507*, between pp.505 and 506, and a 32-page appendix of specimens of printing types at end. Many illustrations within the text. With an index. Modern blue buckram with printed spine label. Excellent series of type specimens from both Fry and Caslon foundries. Title-page a bit soiled and chipped. On the whole, very good condition. The specimens are: Fry & Steele printer's flowers (29 pages); Fry & Steele Printing Types (19 pages), and Caslon & Catherwood Printing Types (10 pages). The book itself is based on J. Smith, The Printer's Grammer, 1787.