Letter forms. Formes de caracteres. Forme typografiche. Formas tipograficas. Buchstabenformen.
by Lambert, Frederick W
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0720648904
- ISBN 13
- 9780720648904
- Seller
-
London, London, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Peter Owen Ltd., 1968 191 printed pages. Introduction in five languages. 150 complete alphabets. Red decorative endpapers. Vintage Foyles bookshop label on paste-down endpaper. 25 x 27.5 cm. Original black cloth with gilt and grey lettering along spine and on upper cover. Corners very slightly bumped. Original printed dustwrapper, torn at spine with bottom 5 cm missing, & with other creases and minor tears. Fred Lambert is an English designer for Letraset, as well as a lecturer at the London College of Printing. Fred Lambert designed Fonts including Annlie (EF), Annlie Extra Bold, Compacta, Compacta (EF), Compacta (Letraset), Compacta (Monotype), Compacta Black, Compacta Bold, Compacta Bold (Letraset), Compacta Light Compressed, and EF Linear. The dense, industrial appearance of Compacta was a popular genre in the early 1960s, and Rolling Stones albums such as Aftermath and 12 X 5 and the Who's I Can See For Miles either use Compacta or are in a similar style, as does the first edition of The Bell Jar. Compacta has remained popular on album covers, being used by The KLF on all their albums. Outside the UK, it was used as the titles and credits font for shows such as Emergency! and The Six Million Dollar Man, as well as on-screen by NBC Sports from 1991 to 1995, in the TV series Baywatch, the logotype to Devo's 2010 album Something for Everybody, and in the logo of Team Fortress 2. This font has been used by the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball team since 1993 as well as the logo typeface for WWF SmackDown! from 1999 to 2001.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4408
- Title
- Letter forms. Formes de caracteres. Forme typografiche. Formas tipograficas. Buchstabenformen.
- Author
- Lambert, Frederick W
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0720648904
- ISBN 13
- 9780720648904
- Publisher
- London: Peter Owen Ltd.
- Date Published
- 1968
Terms of Sale
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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About the Seller
Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
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London, London
About Camden Lock Books, ABA, IOBA.
My online bookselling is Camden Lock books. I own Camden Lock Books & list books that are uncommon, in demand and may be hard to find.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
My book expertise came with four years as Chairman of London P.B.F.A. , many more years of exhibiting at monthly London Rare Book Fairs & owning my own bookshops continuously since 1984.
Every book here was valued by the person who first bought it and will be just as prized by the person who buys it now from my shopping website.
I am an accredited professional & a full member of the ABA, ILAB and the IOBA, "Setting the standard. The books you want...from booksellers you can trust".
You can meet me on my stand at Firsts 2024, London's Rare Book Fair, at the Saatchi Gallery, London SW3 4RY, 16-19 May 2024.
I also am joint owner of Burley Fisher Books , an independent bookshop offering new and secondhand books.
Glossary
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- Paste-down
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- Cloth
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- Dustwrapper
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- Gilt
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- First Edition
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- Spine
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