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Faber & Faber, 1971. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,1400grams, ISBN:0571094430
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- Title The Private Press
- Author Roderick Cave
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 376
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Faber & Faber, London
- Date 1971
- ISBN 9780571094431 / 0571094430
- Library of Congress subjects Private presses - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 75884877
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.2
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The Private Press
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Faber & Faber, 1971. 1st edition.. Hardback. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 376pp, b/w frontis, 60pp b/w plates showing 72 illustrations, 83 text figs, index, dustjacket a little rubbed & grubby, internally a fine copy. A history of the amateur printer & publisher who , with their own printing press have been fascinated by producing their own books & broadsides. From the early days of moveable type when scholars such as Tycho Brae printed their own theories to the modern private press which produces finely printed works.
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The Private Press
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Faber and Faber. Used - Very Good. 1971. 1st. Cloth, dj., small quarto, 376 pp., illust. Light shelf wear top jacket. Otherwise in excellent condition. Fine. (Subject: Books on Books.)
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The private press / Roderick Cave
by Cave, Roderick
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London (3 Queen Sq., WC1N 3AU) : Faber and Faber Ltd , 1971. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 376p.,62plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 26 cm. Subject; Private presses � History.
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Faber and Faber, 1971 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj defective, part of spine missing). From the library of Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens (bookplate mounted on front free endpaper). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses…
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Faber and Faber, 1971 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses of these different kinds, examining the equipment they used and the books they produced.…
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