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Book Typography 1815-1965 in Europe and the United States of America
by Day, Kenneth
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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About This Item
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1966. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Large 8vo 9" - 10. Fine-looking, structurally sound hardcover, big, heavy, and bound in an Imperial octavo format, with little discernible wear, bright interior, clean, unmarked, seemingly unread. Bright and shiny printed dust jacket, little worn. First U.S. edition, first published in Holland by Thieme in Holland, in Dutch. Various authors discuss book typography for different countries including Handover on British Book Typography and James Wells on Typography in the U.S. The book covers 150 years of typographic history in Belgium, France, Germany, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and America. Among the contributors are F. Baudin, G. Blanchard, P.M. Handover, G.W. Ovink, Franco Riva, Willy Rotzler, Georg Kurt Schauer, Maximilien Vox, and James Wells. xxiii, 1-3-401 pp., including a long range of 24 black-and-white plates in facsimile, quite fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 353006
- Title
- Book Typography 1815-1965 in Europe and the United States of America
- Author
- Day, Kenneth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago
- Date Published
- 1966
- Size
- Large 8vo 9" - 10
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Book typography F. Baudin G. Blanchard P.M. Handover G.W. Ovink Franco Riva Willy Rotzler Georg Kurt Schauer Maximilien Vox James Wells
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Reprint
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- Facsimile
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- Fine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- G
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