Introduction by stanley morison (13 resultados)

hardcover. Condición: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Good condition hardback with dust jacket. Ex library copy with usual stamps and stickers. Light wear and loss to jacket with minor wear to boards. Light foxing to textblock with main text in good clean condition.…

2nd (revised) edition. 8vo. 342pp. B/w. illustrations. Occasional slight foxing. Original boards. Rubbed and chipped grey d/w. lettered in red and black, spine browned. US$15.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Quarter parchment-paper gilt with Cockerell marbled-paper sides, large 8vo., (vi), 31, (1) pages. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press. Prospectus laid in. Bookplate, an attractive, very good copy with light wear, in archival mylar.

First edition, first printing. One of 400 copies printed at the Black Vine Press by Harold Seeger and Albert Sperisen. Gilt-lettered white parchment-backed beige, grey, red and tan patterned boards; in plain white dust jacket. Fine, as-new! Octavo. 32 pages. First printing of a paper read before the Art Workers Guild in London by Stanley Morison (1889-1967), one of the leading experts of the twentieth century on typography. Type New Times Roman linotype. An exceptionally nice copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 2nd Revised Edition. Four Centuries of Fine Printing is a landmark survey of the art of printing, presenting 272 outstanding examples from renowned presses between 1465 and 1924. Introduced by Stanley Morison, it traces the evolution of typography, book design, and fine printing through four centuries of craftsmanship. 51 pages essay by Morison, 272 plates, index. Original lettered cloth, with a dustwrapper. Page edges a little foxed, but the contents are clean and firm. Size: 14 x 22 cms. Category: Varied Books; Books on Books; New Arrivals. This item may require more postage than the rates shown for delivery outside the UK. If extra postage is required we will contact you before processing your order and you will be given the details and option to decline the extra cost. Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.…

4to, 20pp., original typographical printed wrappers, stitched as issued.

Hard Cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. Second Edition Revised. Dust jacket price clipped with small closed and open tears to edges. Jacket now in plastic protective sleeves. Some foxing on jacket front. Black boards with gold titles to spine. No ownership markings. Black and white photographic plates. 342 pages clean and tightly bound. Size: 8vo. …

Hardcover. Condición: VG. CLEAN COPY, OVERSEAS ORDERS WILL REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Quarter vellum gilt with red decorated paste paper-covered boards, 8vo, xvi, 62, (1) pages. Facsimile reproductions of Arrighi's La Operina (1522) and Il Modo de Temperare le Penne (1523), with a 16 page introduction by Stanley Morison printed in Arrighi "Vincentino" italic. One of 300 copies designed by Frederic Warde and printed by Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni in Montagnola on mouldmade Zanders paper. One of two books Mardersteig printed in collaboration with Warde (the other being "Crito") and the first of a number of Renaissance writing books printed at the Officina Bodoni. This copy signed by Frederic Warde at the colophon. Name of Douglas H. Smith, spine uniformly toned, light edgewear and soiling, else a clean very good copy in archival mylar. Signed by Designer. …

First Edition. Illustrations Rear blank removed, otherwise a nice copy.

4to, 20pp., original boards, gilt stamp on upper cover, untrimmed, a fine copy. From the private press reference library of David Chambers (1930-2025), with his bookplate.

Ohne Stempel, keine An- und Unterstreichungen. Vorsätze erneuert. Rücken und Seitenränder des Einbandes mit geringfügiger altersbedingter Bräunung. Innen tadellos. Kopfgold. Unterschnitt unbeschnitten. Hardcover. Original geprägter grüner Moire-Stoff.

Copy number '62' of an edition limited to 105 copies. The texts were hand-set in Sabon-Antiqua foundry cast types, and printed on Arches Vélin Blanc and Zerkall Ingres paper on a Korrex Hannover press and a Schelter & Giesecke Pheonix IV platen press. Burgundy quarter cloth over blue printed paper covered boards, blue paper label to the spine, burgundy endpapers. 340 x 230 mm, pp. [32]. Illustrated with a linocut portrait of Claude Garamond by John Watson printed on remnants of Barcham Green 'Bodleian' hand-made paper; three plates showing types cut by Le Bé I and II, together with Jean Jannon. A book in Fine condition, now in a clear, archival quality, protective display pocket.…