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PRINTING DESIGN AND LAYOUT. The Manual for Printers, Typographers and all Designers and users of Printing and Advertising. Including specimens of over five hundred typefaces and a series of thirty-six type calculation charts. With a foreword by Beatrice L. Warde. Profusely illustrated with examples and diagrams
by STEER. VINCENT
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Virtue & Co. Ltd. London. Circa 1934. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo. (11.3 x 8.7 inches). Fine copy in a fine leather binding of full dark green morocco. Spine with raised bands, decorated in gilt. Compartments ruled, decorated and lettered in gilt. Decorative double gilt borders on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges dyed green. A few minor white marks on the front board otherwise a near fine mid twentieth century leather binding. Not signed but certainly by a master binder.
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- Bookseller
- Paul Foster Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10252
- Title
- PRINTING DESIGN AND LAYOUT. The Manual for Printers, Typographers and all Designers and users of Printing and Advertising. Including specimens of over five hundred typefaces and a series of thirty-six type calculation charts. With a foreword by Beatrice L. Warde. Profusely illustrated with examples and diagrams
- Author
- STEER. VINCENT
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Virtue & Co. Ltd. London. Circa 1934
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fine bindings;
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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...
- 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....
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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