Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1941
Description: Good. No Jacket. Yellowish cloth covers with darkened spine and red titles. Owner's name on both front pastedown and ffep. Endpapers are darkened. Clean interior; 142 pages. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. : Cambridge University Press, 1921.
Description: -12mo, red cloth with pictorial frame in black on front cover. Rubbed & soiled; spine faded. 154 pp. Owner's ink name on front endpaper. Page edges slightly darkened. B&W frontispiece & 10 B&W plates. Good. Third printing. read more
Description: Cambridge no date, 1930? 6.5x 4.75, 155 pages, indexed, ; 1920 newspaper clipping laid in, shows spine wear top and bottom and the red cloth is lightly faded, still, else a GOOD+ copy. read more
Edition: 3rd Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng. ]: University Press
Date Published: 1951
Description: Description: vi, 141 p. illus. 18 cm. TBibliography: p. [129]-131. Subjects: Books. Printing--History. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. 1. pp. 141. read more
Edition: 3rd Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge [Eng. ]: University Press
Date Published: 1951
Description: Description: vi, 141 p. illus. 18 cm. TBibliography: p. [129]-131. Subjects: Books. Printing--History. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. read more
Edition: Revised Ed.
Binding: hb
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1947
Description: 12mo, pp. 141. General shelfwear; very good-in rubbed & shelfworn, good+ dust jacket with discoloration to spine & chip to rear. Deals "with the history of printed books from the beginning, with production methods and processes, illustration, binding, and the care of books". black & white illustrations. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, London
Date Published: 1947
Description: 15 Full Page Illustrations. Very Good/Good. 4.75" By 7" Tall Printing. Original yellow cloth with red lettering on spine. Previous owner's neat name on ffep. Dust wrapper 1closed tear of 1" a few nicks at extremities with minimum loss. Some marks to front and back dw.142 pages. Contents clean and tight. read more
Description: Cambridge 1941. Illus, 7x4.5", cloth, 141 w/index, covers a bit darkened else ok in torn and worn dw. 2nd ed, revised by John Carter and E.A. Crutchley. read more
Edition: 3rd
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press, London
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good+ in good- jacket. 12mo. light shelf wear, slight damp stain to front lower corner. pos and details to fpd. dj worn at extremities with chips. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, third edition, revised
Date Published: 1951
Description: Bookplate of Frank Broomhead on front pastedown endpaper, name and date on front free endpaper, otherwise Very Good in a sightly rubbed and chipped dustwrapper. Cloth, small 8vo, 18 cm, vi, [4], 141, [1] pp, plates. From the blurb: "The new edition of this manual has been extensively revised in the light of new facts and knowledge. The pages on modern book production have been brought up to date, and the first chapter, dealing with the origins of printing in Europe, a subject on which new light ... read more
Description: VG. 2nd ed, revised and brought up to date by John Carter and E A Crutchley. Cambridge, 1941. 141 pages, hardbound, very good condition, no jacket. read more
Edition: first edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, reprint of 1916
Date Published: 1921
Description: Name on front free endpaper, otherwise Good. Cloth, small 8vo, 17 cm, 154 pp, plates, ills. Contents: The advent of printing. --The spread of the art. --The fifteenth-century book. --The scholar-printers of the sixteenth century. --English books, 1500-1800. --The modern book. --The construction of a book. --Illustrations. --Bookbinding and bookbindings. --The handling and mishandling of books. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1916
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a study copy. Ships within 24 hours., 350grams, ISBN: read more
Description: Good; Collectible. This is a lovely little first edition hardback copy of this book. It was published by Cambridge University Press in 1916. Adlis documents perhaps one of the most significant developments in human history, the development of printing in Europe. It allowed knowledge to be accessed like never before. Dispite the old educated elites from trying from time to time to censor and restrict public access. The book is in a good overall condition. Spine in good condition, slightly faded ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE
Date Published: 1929
Description: Published by CAMBRIDGE in 1929, reprint, hardback with D/J, small size, good in poor D/W, faded, internally good, endpapers foxed, boards good, faded title on spine, red cloth, illustrated frontispiece, black & white plates, text illustrations, index, bibliography, some pencil annotations, spineless dust jacket. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE
Date Published: 1916
Description: Published by CAMBRIDGE in 1916, 154 pages, hardback (no D/J), small size, no D/W, stained, internally good, owners inscription, index. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE
Date Published: 1916
Description: Published by CAMBRIDGE in 1916, hardback (no D/J), medium size, wear to edges, board faded, internally good, corners bumped, wear to head & tail of spine, spine sunned & faded. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
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