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| DIRINGER (DAVID) The Hand-Produced Book. Hutchinson’s Scientific and Technical Publications. 1953. First Edition, 603pp., TLS review tipped-in, numerous illustrs., throughout, orig. cloth. Describes both the inside and the outside of books from the earliest systems of writing until the end of the manuscript period. It includes a description of the methods of covering manuscripts and scrolls. From the library of Dr C.E. Wright (former Senior Deputy Keeper Department of Manuscripts, British Museum). GBP 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 44.5 US$ 66.44 | JP 5870] Book number: 17752 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| EDE (CHARLES) EDITOR. The Art of the Book. Some Record of Work Carried out in Europe and the U.S.A. 1939-1950. The Studio. 1951. First Edition, 4to, over 200 illustrs., (many in colour), orig. cloth, d.w. torn. With chapters on commercial binding, hand binding, type design & lettering, printing the text, illustration & graphic reproduction, and a note on book papers. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 | JP 6603] Book number: 19465 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| POLLARD (ALFRED W.) Last Words on the History of the Title-page, with Notes on some Colophons and Twenty-seven Fac-similes of Title-pages. John C. Nimmo. 1891. First Edition, folio, [x],39,[1]pp., one of 260 numbered copies, ex-library, 27 splendid facsimiles of title-pages, including a beautiful hand-illuminated frontispiece of the first page of the Mazarin Bible, library label on front paste down, orig. decorated buckram, slightly spotted, re-backed, corners a little bumped, uncut. A Select Bibliography of the Writings of Alfred W. Pollard. p.28. “To keep control over the form of this book it was set up at the author's cost at the Chiswick Press... Mr. Nimmo not only defrayed the expenses incurred... but of his own motion supplied hand-decorated facsimiles of the first page of the ‘Gutenberg’ Bible by way of frontispiece, to show how books began before title-pages came in fashion. His pluck was rewarded, for the 250 copies offered for sale were all sold within a few days of publication.” Scarce. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 | JP 18343] Book number: 26135 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| JOHNSON (ALFRED FORBES) SELECTED BY. German Renaissance Title-Borders. Facsimiles and Illustrations No. I. The Bibliographical Society, Oxford. 1929. 4to, viii,20pp., title in red and black, 86 plates, orig. cloth-backed boards, uncut, t.e.g. GBP 45.00 [Appr.: EURO 50 US$ 74.75 | JP 6603] Book number: 24393 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. | ||
| VERVLIET (HENDRIK D.L.) EDITOR. The Book Through Five Thousand Years. Introduction by Herman Liebaers. Afterword by Ruari McLean. Phaidon Press Limited. 1972. First Edition, 4to, 496pp., coloured frontis., numerous coloured and monochrome plates and illustrs., (some mounted), orig. cloth, d.w. slightly torn. A richly illustrated history covering four continents and tracing the development of the written and printed word from the incised clay tablets of Mesopotamia to the finely illustrated limited editions, as well as the mass-produced books of our time. GBP 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 138.75 US$ 207.63 | JP 18343] Book number: 18555 Click here to order or inquire at Forest Books. |
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