british printer vol 1898 (1 resultados)

Hardcover. KAVE Ilustrador. (Original). The original decorative, color-illus. cover and all contents, bound into 3/4 brown leather with 5 raised bands and gilt lettering; dark moss green cloth/boards. Pages numbered consecutively throughout, 320 in total. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations. Housed in a board folio covered in blue chambray/linen with marbled paper lining. Blue grosgrain ribbon tie. A bit overweight at 6 pounds and may require extra postage. The entire volume for 1893. No individual covers or title pages are bound in. 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 VG0. Leather rubbed; front hinge separating, and back cover detached but present. Solid text block but with front cover detaching. Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Plates are in pristine condition.