Author: Edward Everard
Title: A Bristol Printing House Spoken of in Several Fragments
Description: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co. c1903. Cloth. A scarce, fascinating work on Edward Everard's Printing Works, a Bristol-based historical printing press designed in the Art Nouveau style. A fascinating historical and topographical work on the Bristol-based printing house, Everard's Printing Works. Described and written by Edward Everard himself in nine fragments, or sections, including 'Concerning Bristol', 'A Ceramic Street Front', 'Oil Painting - Cartoons and Panels', 'Arts and Crafts', 'Paternoster Road', 'Present Day Illustrations', 'Machinery', 'The Linotype Machine and Type Making', and 'Artisanship&apos.Containing a frontispiece and four plates illustrated in colour, two of which are folding. Also containing numerous chromolithograph and photogravure in-text illustrations.Collated and complete. Enclosed in the publisher's original folio binding. Containing two loosely inserted articles about the Everard Printing House, dated 2007. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding with pictorial paper covered boards. Externally, smart, with some light shelf wear and some scuffs to the boards. Enclosed in the publisher's original cloth folio. Internally, binding is generally firm, with just slight straining to page 36. Pages are generally bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

Keywords: bristol printing house everard history printing house fragments Not Stated


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