The British Printer, Vol. 4 - 1891

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The original decorative, color-illus. card cover and all contents, bound into 3/4 black leather with gilt lettering and decoration. Each issue approx. 39 pp. followed by multiple pages numbered 40 A,B,C, etc. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations; some full-page plates and some folding. Several chromolithographs included, and many are decorated in gilt. The last section is 104 pages of advertisements, each page numbered but not consecutively and very oddly. It could be that all the adverts for each issue were just stacked together and bound into the back of the volume in no particular order, although they could just be examples, as some pages are numbered 80-100. The bound volume contains all issues for the year 1891 (complete Vol. IV): January/February (No. 19); March/April (No. 20; May/June (No. 21; July/August (No. 22); September/October (No. 23); November/December (No. 24). Each issue contains an index of articles, various announcements of competitions, numerous examples of ornamentation, lettering, and all things print. Raithby & Lawrence: Leicester printing firm (later, London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.), noted for its printing of the widely disseminated and influential periodical, The British Printer. Through the efforts and exacting standards of its foreman and chief typographic designer (a new profession for the time) George W. Jones, then Robert Grayson, the firm developed the so-called Leicester Free Style which was England's answer to the artistic printing movement. (Dictionary of 19th-Century Journalism). Contents NF, if ever read. Leather rubbed on corners, hinge, and head/tail of spine. Solid binding. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. A section of 20 pp. is curled just at the bottom right corner. Plates are in pristine condition. N° de ref. del artículo 158056

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