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Genius and Art Past and Present. Also, Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking and Printing
by Smith, Henry
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Reydon, Suffolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Torquay: Andrew Iredale, 1894. 50, [4] pages, 2 plates. Half title, frontispiece and plate printed in red, title page printed in red and black, diagrams, adverts to rear. Original green cloth-backed pictorial boards (split at upper joint, some staining, edges rubbed), offsetting to prelims., old illegible signature to front endpaper. The '' Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking.'' constitute an extended attack on William Morris, the Arts and Crafts movement as applied to printing and, by implication, the Kelmscott Press which had been founded three years before the book's publication, although it is never mentioned by name. Scarce, 4 only on Worldcat. [727] . First Edition.. Cloth Backed Boards. Very Good. 230mm. x 180mm.. Book.
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- Bookseller
- William Glynn
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 015669
- Title
- Genius and Art Past and Present. Also, Common Sense Remarks on Bookmaking and Printing
- Author
- Smith, Henry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Andrew Iredale
- Place of Publication
- Torquay
- Date Published
- 1894
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- ART CRITICISM ESSAYS
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
- Size
- 230mm. x 180mm.
Terms of Sale
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Reydon, Suffolk
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