Package and Print, The Development of Container and Label Design by Davis, Alec - 1968

NY: Clarkson N. Potter (1968). Stated First American Edition; 4to.; cloth covered boards, hardcover; black and white and color illustrations; page edges are lightly sunned else a very good clean tight copy in a very good dust jacket.

New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1968. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages plus 209 plates. First American Edition. A book about packaging before the word "packaging" was invented. History of the development of packaging and container and label design from the sixteenth century. Light wear to jacket.

(London): Faber and Faber, 1967. cloth, dust jacket. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 112 pages plus 209 plates. First Edition. A book about packaging before the word "packaging" was invented. History of the development of packaging and container and label design from the sixteenth century. Jacket chipped along edges and is price clipped.

London: Faber & Faber, 1967. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Grey hardcover with title in silver on front cover and spine. Condition: Very good with light shelfwear to covers. Binding sound. Previous owners name and the date 1974 neatly written at top of front endpaper. Dustjacket condition: Good, with light shelfwear, not price-clipped. 112pp. 208 b/w illustrations. Loosely enclosed is a fold-out exhibition leaflet for The Pack Age, an exhibition of packaging design held at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London from 11 Dec 1975 to 31 Jan 1976. The first book on the history of packaging, the author shows how 20th century packaging sprang from crafts and industires as separate as bottlemaking and bookbinding, pottery and printing..