Pages from Books.
by LANSTON MONOTYPE. MEYNELL, Gerard T
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, Greater London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Lanston Monotype Corporation, 1927. Special edition on handmade paper and in a special binding. 92 illustrations of pages printed using ‘Monotype’. Includes specimens of Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Plantin and Poliphilus, among others, together with several decorative borders and ornaments. Printed at the Westminster Press. First edition. Pp. 94. 4to., original half vellum over blue buckram boards, decorative design and titles in gilt to upper cover and spine, t.e.g, in the original blue dust jacket. Housed in the original worn and darkened blue patterned slipcase. Jacket is faded and worn at spine, otherwise a very good copy.||On the dust jacket is the publisher’s note: “The pages appearing in this volume have been chosen almost entirely by the publishers of the books themselves. All the leading publishers were asked to send what they considered the best produced books they had issued in recent years. A choice was then made, leaving out pages that were too similar for our purpose...|
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8298
- Title
- Pages from Books.
- Author
- LANSTON MONOTYPE. MEYNELL, Gerard T
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Lanston Monotype Corporation
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Lanston Monotype;Typography;Gerard Meynell Book,Printing & Typography
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Glossary
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Buckram
- A plain weave fabric normally made from cotton or linen which is stiffened with starch or other chemicals to cover the book...
- Vellum
- Vellum is a sheet of specialty prepared skin of lamb, calf, or goat kid used for binding a book or for printing and writing. ...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...