An Essay on Typography
by GILL, Eric
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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Lewes, East Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Messrs. Sheed & Ward, 1931.. Limited edition, one of 500 copies signed by both Gill and Hague on the limitation page. Small 8vo. (4), 120, (2) pp. Original red buckram, gilt lettered to spine, dust jacket, not price clipped. 25 figures representing typographical examples, mostly set into the text. Some marking to the uncommon jacket, a little more so to the spine and rear panel, a little light edge wear, very good overall. Printed by René Hague & Eric Gill at the latter's residence, Piggotts, near Hughenden, Buckinghamshire. Evan Gill, 21.
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- Bookseller
- Bow Windows Bookshop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45462
- Title
- An Essay on Typography
- Author
- GILL, Eric
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Messrs. Sheed & Ward
- Date Published
- 1931.
- Keywords
- Art Typography
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Bow Windows Bookshop
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Lewes, East Sussex
About Bow Windows Bookshop
Bow Windows Bookshop has a large general stock of old and fine books and maps. Owned in partnership by Ric Latham and Jonathan Menezes, we buy and sell all manner of titles from early leatherbound volumes to modern first editions. We exhibit at bookfairs in the UK and North America and issue regular printed catalogues. Located in the beautiful county town of Lewes in the south-east of England, we are open six days a week. All our books are described as accurately as possible and we abide by the Code of Good Practice of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Glossary
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- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...