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Glaister's Glossary of the Book by Glaister, Geoffrey - 1979

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Glaister's Glossary of the Book

by Glaister, Geoffrey

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London: Allen & Unwin, 1979. Second Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No d/j as Published. Type: Book N.B. No dust jacket. Previous owners small bookplate to ffep. Top edge of pages a little marked. (BOOK ARTS)
  • Bookseller Fireside Bookshop GB (GB)
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  • Book Condition Used - Very Good
  • Jacket Condition No d/j as Published
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  • Edition Second Edition
  • Binding Hardcover
  • ISBN 10 0040100065
  • ISBN 13 9780040100069
  • Publisher Allen & Unwin
  • Place of Publication London
  • Date Published 1979

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Glaister's Glossary of the Book : Terms Used in Papermaking, Printing, Bookbinding, and Publishing. With Notes on Illuminated Manuscripts and Private Presses

by Glaister, G.A

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George Allen & Unwin Ltd, London, second edition, 1979. Two-tone cloth, gilt cover device, 8vo, 26 cm, slipcased,. xv, 551 pp, [8] pp of plates, ills, facs. A completely revised edition. From the preface : "..Of the 3,269 original entries [in the first edition] 481 of diminished interest have been omitted. Of the remaining 2,788 most two or three-line entries remain unchanged beyond minor additions, deletions or updating to maintain their usefulness, but 1,050 have been rewritten and extended as sample word-counts will show: arabic type (from 38 words to 1,364), Bible printing in England (240 to 2,985), Caxton (330 to 2,053); Benjamin Franklin (123 to 363), morocco (41 to 284), pharmacopoeia (180 to 469). Revised entries on Intertype, Kodak, Linotype, Ludlow, 'Monotype' and Photon machines have been supplied by their makers. Elsewhere revision has included the excision of mechanical data from some entries and the clarification of others. Of the 3,932 entries in this edition 1,144… Read More
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