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Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1981-82.. Prospectus, 6.5" x 4.5", Letterpress On Laid Paper with Deckled Edge, Very Good+. "The Arif Press is pleased to announce as the first in a series of Printer's Chapbooks." This is the Prospectus for a book, not the book itself.
THE IDEAL BOOK, OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL, A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustrations and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James | decorations by Ray F. Coyle - 1916
by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James | decorations by Ray F. Coyle
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THE IDEAL BOOK, OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL, A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustrations and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James | decorations by Ray F. Coyle
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. [6], 13, [1], [4] pp. First edition, thus; number 152 of 165 copies. As issued, in buff paper over boards with a printed paper title label on front and rear board; text in black, title and shoulder notes in red. Binding is a trifle soiled including some staining to fore-edge of the front board at the bottom corner; contemporary gift inscription on the first blank; contents are clean.
Stunningly reprinted, perhaps no other printer at the time had such a similar aesthetic Cobden-Sanderson's Dove Press--clean and elegant in type and page design. Nash really does capture the spirit of the original. Cobden-Sanderson thought so as well and wrote Nash: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it! Paper, type, arrangement, all combined under your clever hands to a while which is at once a thing of beauty and a symbol of that great order touched with delight which I am never tired of finding to be the supreme characteristic of the universe itself" (quoted in O'Day Catalogue p.1-2). The praise goes on. . . . Uncommon. This copy with November 1918 gift inscription from Sylvia Loeb to Ruth Eddy. We are uncertain, but the presenter is perhaps Sylvia Loeb Weil who co-authored with Rosetta Goldsmith several children's puzzle books.
Stunningly reprinted, perhaps no other printer at the time had such a similar aesthetic Cobden-Sanderson's Dove Press--clean and elegant in type and page design. Nash really does capture the spirit of the original. Cobden-Sanderson thought so as well and wrote Nash: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it! Paper, type, arrangement, all combined under your clever hands to a while which is at once a thing of beauty and a symbol of that great order touched with delight which I am never tired of finding to be the supreme characteristic of the universe itself" (quoted in O'Day Catalogue p.1-2). The praise goes on. . . . Uncommon. This copy with November 1918 gift inscription from Sylvia Loeb to Ruth Eddy. We are uncertain, but the presenter is perhaps Sylvia Loeb Weil who co-authored with Rosetta Goldsmith several children's puzzle books.
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Format/Binding Hard Cover
- Book Condition Used - Very Good binding
- Quantity Available 1
- Publisher John Henry Nash
- Place of Publication San Francisco
- Date Published 1916
We have 4 copies available starting at A$38.54.
The Ideal Book Or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration And On The Book Beautiful As A Whole.
by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson; Arif Press; Wesley Tanner
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San Francisco, California, United States
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The Ideal Book, Or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole.
by Arif Press; Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
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- Hardcover
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San Francisco, California, United States
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Berkeley, CA.: Arif Press, 1981.. PROSPECTUS. 18mo. Single Sheet, Very Good with some staining, minor creasing. Letterpress on laid paper. "The Arif Press is pleased to announce as the first in a series of Printer's Chapbooks. Twenty Pages Letterpress. Sewn In Wrappers or Hand Bound In Decorated Boards."
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THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL: A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing and Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James
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- very good
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- Used - Very Good
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- Reprint
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Roosevelt, New Jersey, United States
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(Pisgah Forest, North Carolina): (Ecusta Paper Corp.), 1950. Reprint. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (ii) Preface, 8, (1), colophon. Bound in white rag wrappers, now tanned at the edges. 9.25" x 6.25". Laid in is a 12.25" x 9" broadside promotion for Ecusta Fine Flax Papers, showing distributors in the US. Reprinted here, using text from the original title-page and colophon.
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Ideal Book or Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration and on The Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James)
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- Paperback
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- Limited edition
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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Berkeley: Arif Press, 1972. Limited edition. Wraps. Near Fine. One of 350 copies sewn in wrappers (of a total edition of 500). Cover drawing by Sarah Zelmanovic. 12mo, pp. unnumbered. Head and heel of spine and corners lightly bumped, light sunning and dustsoiling to wrappers.
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