Christopher Plantin by CLAIR, COLIN - 1987

Cassell, 1960. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1960. First Edition. 302 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over brown cloth. Black and white illustration plates. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Some marginalia. Minor pencil inscriptions to endpapers. Boards have light shelf wear with minor corner bumping and crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering to spine is slightly dulled. Boards are slightly bowed. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears, chipping and creasing. Some tanning and foxing to all surfaces, particularly to spine.

London, Cassell & Company, (1960).. First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvi, 302; numerous b/w illustrations, bibliography, index; original cloth, rubbed dustjacket, flecking to page edges, price clipped, foxing to free endpapers, a good copy.

London: Plantin Pub. 1960. First Edition. Paperback, Near Fine+; 302 pp. .

Cassell & COmpany 1960. Ex library, super octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

London: Cassell & Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/very good. Inscribed by Clair to Pittsburgh printer Tom Pears! First edition, 1960, hardcover with brown cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 302pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG+ with mild wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, text clean and unmarked but gently toned throughout. DJ VG with rubbing, mild edgewear, toning, tape reinforcements to verso side, now in archival mylar wrap. Pears was Pittsburgh's greatest printer.

[London]: Plantin Publishers, 1987. Paperback edition, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 302; gray printed paper wrappers; wrappers starting to tone, else fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.

London: Cassell & Co., 1960. xv., 302 pages, b/w illustrations, bibliography. Minor wer to covers, rustmarks to front endpaper, some spotting to edges, soiling, edgewear, spotting to unclipped dustjacket. [775]. First Edition.. Brown Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 255mm. x 160mm.. Book.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: Cassell & Company, 1960 8vo (25 cm), XV, 302 pp, 16 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at top, blind collector's stamp on the front free endpaper, paper somewhat toned). Christopher Plantin (c.1520-1589) was one of the most successful printers and publishers of the sixteenth century. This biography, the first published in English, offers an account of his life and work, placing him in the context of the religious and political upheavals of the period. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including Plantin's own papers, the book provides a fascinating insight into the world of the Renaissance printer.

London, Cassel & Company. 1960. Original publisher's brown cloth hardback, gilt title spine, large 8vo: xvi, 302pp., 24 illustrations, footnotes, bibliographical notes, appendices, general notes, bibliography, index. First edition. Very fine copy.