the roundwood press kineton warwick england (4 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. 1st Edition. Stiff illus. wraps. 5th ptg.: May 1979. Covers are somewhat foxed, with surface soiling to portions of rear cover. Signed by author on half-title, which also shows two gift inscriptions. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. NOT a library discard Ilustrador. First Edition. Kineton, Warwick, England: The Roundwood Press, 1973. BRAND NEW in a BRAND NEW dust jacket. The jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear-plastic sleeve. NOT price clipped (£8.50 net). The jacket has NO creases. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright and shiny. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NO foxing. Fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked - obviously never read. 1973. First Edition. Lavishly illustrated with a full color frontispiece portait of Caslon (from a 1740 painting by Francis Kyte), 68 plates on glossy stock, two Caslon type specimens, 11 pedigrees (genealogical charts), and 14 figures in the text. In this definitive work, Ball traces the technical achievements and history of one of typography's foremost type designers and letter cutters. Caslon's life is profiled in the context of his family and the booksellers, printers, engravers and other craftsmen of the day. Over 65 rare illustrations and 2 foldout type specimens are featured. This beautiful book, has been exhaustively researched and is an essential reference for 18th century calligraphy, printing and typographic history. Three appendices, including a Caslon chronology. Bibliography. Index. Top edge tinted green, as issued. Bound in the original green cloth, stamped in bright gold over a handsome black panel on the spine. From the dust jacket: "Dr Johnson Ball's extensive researches into the background of England's most distinguished letter-founder have produced this definitive biography of the craftsman whose work marked an epoch in English printing. This is the first book to trace Caslon's ancestry. It records his birth at Halesowen, Worcestershire, his apprenticeship and his movements in London when he made tools for book-binders and silversmiths and engraved gun-locks for the Ordnance Office, before he became a letter-cutter of such superlative merit as to write his name imperishably in typographical annals. Ten pedigrees illustrate Caslon's connections. His master, Edward Cookes, was uncle to Shenstone the poet and to Caslon's first wife. Caslon's relations, the artists James, Amos and Benjamin Green of Halesowen link him with Baskerville in Birmingham and Edward Rowe Mores, the eccentric letter-founder historian, at Oxford. Caslon's first commission in letter-cutting was an Arabic fount for the S.P.C.K., founded by Dr. Thomas Bray, in its first enterprise in foreign missions. But earlier, Jonathan Carpenter of Halesowen had married Bray's daughter and his brother John had become Bray's curate in London. However, Thomas Hollis, benefactor of Harvard, had interests in the Minories where Caslon worked and being a close friend of Thomas Guy, founder of Guy's Hospital, Guy was enlisted to recommend Caslon to the S.P.C.K. Newman, the Society's secretary, was an American of Harvard, so when Caslon's success came his types secured an early lead in American printing, the Declaration of Independence being later printed in Caslon. The author reviews the book trade and its related craftsmen, artists, engravers, calligraphers, and explains the terminology of printing and type-founding. He also assists the reader's appreciation of Caslon's technical achievement by rare illustrations, with commentary, and discusses the merits of all Caslon's type-faces from the viewpoint of an artist-calligrapher-historian.". First Edition. Hardcover. New/New. Illus. by NOT a library discard. Thick 8vo. 564pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. First. 1977 First Edition Hardback with Dust Jacket. Book is in near fine condition with minimal shelf wear. Dust Jacket very good condition with unclipped with some creases to edges and small tears around.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Lovely bright copy of the first impression with a gift inscription on the half title page, dated 1977 and clean pages throughout. Fresh looking red cloth boards with crisp title lettering on the spine. Spine has a lean from storage and/or reading (ie. a little cocked.) The dust jacket has not been price clipped, still showing the original price of £3.75 (net in UK) It is clean and bright although there is light edge wear, particularly at the top edge, short tears at the extremities and a little rubbing on the back cover. In all a very decent copy indeed.