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Bracken Books 1989. (5580) HEAVY hardback. Overseas buyers will require extra postage. Before ordering please contact us direct for a postage quote. 676 pages. B.w. illustrations. Fine in brown boards with gilt lettering on black cloth spine, in a fine d.w. with slight fading to spine - shelf exposure. Ex shop stock - UNREAD BOOK. ISBN: 1-85170-326-8.
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- Title Book, The
- Author McMurtrie, Douglas C.
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First in This Ed
- Pages xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrati
- Publisher Bracken Books, London
- Date 1989
- ISBN 9781851703265
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Bracken Books, London, 1989 reprint of 1943 third edition. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. From the blurb: "Mr. McMurtrie's approach to his subject is historical. The Book covers the origin of writing and of the alphabet; the beginnings of printing in the Far East; writing materials; the genesis and early history of paper; books in manuscript and their scribes and illustrators; the European invention of printing and its dissemination; type design and its development; book illustration and decoration; bookbinding and the work of celebrated binders; the work of eminent printers, such as Jenson, Aldus, Plantin, Baskerville, Didot, Bodoni, Benjamin Franklin, William Morris, and their more recent successors; the private presses; and finally, contemporary book designing, typography, and illustration,…
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Bracken Books, London, 1989 reprint of 1943 third edition. Cloth-backed boards, 8vo, 24 cm,. xxx, 676 pp, numerous illustrations. An excellent and highly readable general history of printing and everything to do with the making of a book, by an acknowledged expert. Extensively illustrated. From the blurb: "Mr. McMurtrie's approach to his subject is historical. The Book covers the origin of writing and of the alphabet; the beginnings of printing in the Far East; writing materials; the genesis and early history of paper; books in manuscript and their scribes and illustrators; the European invention of printing and its dissemination; type design and its development; book illustration and decoration; bookbinding and the work of celebrated binders; the work of eminent printers, such as Jenson, Aldus, Plantin, Baskerville, Didot, Bodoni, Benjamin Franklin, William Morris, and their more recent successors; the private presses; and finally, contemporary book designing, typography, and illustration,…
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