Printing of To-Day. An illustrated Survey of Post-war Typography in Europe and the United States. With a General Introduction by Aldous Huxley
by SIMON, Oliver & Julius Rodenberg
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London & New York. Peter Davies Limited & Harper & Brothers. 1928. folio. 34cm, xix,83 p., with 122 specimen plates, japon velum backed decorated boards, gilt spine titles, ex-library copy with black call number on the foot of the spine and occasional stamps, boards edges worn, binding dust worn, internally sound, good to very good (ds1). ~ Essays include: Printing in England. (Simon); Printing in the United States. (Paul Beauion); Continental Printing (Rodenberg). With extensive plates of title-pages, book illustrations & type faces. The state of printing in the ninety twenties with significant introduction by Aldous Huxley.
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- Patrick McGahern Books, Inc. (ABAC)
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- 38979
- Title
- Printing of To-Day. An illustrated Survey of Post-war Typography in Europe and the United States. With a General Introduction by Aldous Huxley
- Author
- SIMON, Oliver & Julius Rodenberg
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- London & New York. Peter Davies Limited & Harper & Brothers. 1928
- Keywords
- books on books printing shakespeare head cambridge university press golden cockerel curwin oxford university kynoch merrymount bruce rogers pynson harvard university chicago university holton bauersche giesserei norstedt prague industrial printing
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