About this title: Writing to the Monotype Recorder in 1933, Eric Gill stated that "a private press prints solely what it chooses to print, whereas a public press prints what its customers demand of it". Although the most famous private presses came out of the arts and crafts movement, in the 100 years since the formation of Morris's Kelmscott Press, "fine printing" ...
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Edition: 1st edition.
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: The British Library
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780712347228ISBN:0712347224
Description: Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+267pp, 73 b/w illustrations, index, slight mark to the upper panel of the dustjacket, spine sunned, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of 29 essays on the art of typography & fine printing. The Essays look at individual presses from around the world & the fine books they have produced. read more
Edition: 1st edition.
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: The British Library
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780712347228ISBN:0712347224
Description: Cloth, dj, F/F. xii+267pp, 73 b/w illustrations, index, edges bumped, otherwise a fine copy. A collection of 29 essays on the art of typography & fine printing. The Essays look at individual presses from around the world & the fine books they have produced. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: British Library, London, first edition
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780712347228ISBN:0712347224
Description: As New in dustwrapper. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xii, 267 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This volume brings together for the first time some of the important and thought-provoking lectures and articles by Roderick Cave, whose The Private Press (1971, revised edition 1983) remains a standard history in the field. Several of these essays have previously appeared only in American or Australian publications, and many only in very limited editions. Several of the papers included here have not before been ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: British Library, London, first edition
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780712347228ISBN:0712347224
Description: As New in dustwrapper. Cloth, 8vo, 24 cm, xii, 267 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This volume brings together for the first time some of the important and thought-provoking lectures and articles by Roderick Cave, whose The Private Press (1971, revised edition 1983) remains a standard history in the field. Several of these essays have previously appeared only in American or Australian publications, and many only in very limited editions. Several of the papers included here have not before been ... read more
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