The Printed Book

Cambridge University Press, 1929. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1929. Reprinted. 154 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over pictorial cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Well bound and clean pages, with mild tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers with inscriptions to front. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light… Read more about this item

Pink cloth binding decorated cloth in black line print, Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. Frontispiece, 3 leaves, 154 pp, 1 leaf; 10 illus.; ads. Original cloth. Very good. Cambridge Manuals of Science and Literature.

Cambridge: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1916 Salmon Pink cloth boards with ornate black blocked decs. and titles.165 x 125 mm approx. [iv] + 156 pp. Frontis + 10 further illustrations on 9 plates as called for.First Edition 1916. The 89th volume in series under the editorship of P Giles and A C Seward. VG (Book- Spine a little sunned, offset browning… Read more about this item

Cambridge At The University Press, 1947. Hardback. Second edition, 1947. Yellow cloth with red lettering to spine. Good minus condition; boards lightly rubbed with some marks, bumps to corners and spine, foxing to fore edges, pages clean and tightly bound in Good minus unclipped dust jacket; edgeworn with some marks, chips and small tears, sunned to spine. Published: Cambridge… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1916. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1916. No Edition Stated. 154 pages. No dust jacket. Pink cloth with black lettering. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Binding remains firm.Pages and plates are moderately tanned. Pen inscription to front free end paper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and noticeable rubbing to surfaces.Major tanning to spine and… Read more about this item

Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. 2nd ed, revised and brought up to date by John Carter and E A Crutchley. Cambridge, 1941.. 141 pages, hardbound, very good condition, no jacket. .

NY: G.P. Putnam’s,, 1916.. Later edition.. 154 pp w/index. Neat inked name to front free endpaper, spine sunned, else near fine in full decorated cloth.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1941. The Second Edition revised and brought up to date by John Carter and E. A. Crutchley. Pp. [x]+142, 11 plates, title page decoration and 2 full page text illustrations, appendix, further reading list, index; f'cap. 8vo; cream cloth, spine lettered in red, faintly soiled, edges of boards a trifle bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. The original manual by Harry G. Aldis revised and brought up to date by John Carter and Brooke Crutchley. Pp. [xii]+142, 14 plates, 2 full page text illustrations, appendix, further reading list, index; f'cap. 8vo; boards a trifle soiled; partly unopened, with a few leaves carelessly opened; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly foxed, edges lightly… Read more about this item

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951. Hardcover. 16mo. Tan cloth with red spine lettering, price-clipped dust jacket. vi, 141pp. Illustrations. Fine/very good. Quite mild jacket edgewear only. Handsome revised third edition of this diminutive history first published in 1916, as updated by John Carter and Brooke Crutchley. Truly a lovely copy.

London: Cambridge University Press. Very Good/Good. 1947. Reprint. Hard Cover. 4.75" By 7" Tall Printing. Original yellow cloth with red lettering on spine. Previous owner's neat name on ffep. Dust wrapper 1closed tear of 1" a few nicks at extremities with minimum loss. Some marks to front and back dw.142 pages. Contents clean and tight.… Read more about this item

Cambridge University Press, 1916-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Not Ex-Library. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition.

Great Britain: Cambridge at the University Press, 1947. Hardcover. The Printed Book. Shelf wear to edge of D/J. Browning to spine of D/J. Printing has seen great developments in the last thirty years, both in the practice of typography itself and in the study and appraisement of the past. hence the need for a new edition of this well-known and… Read more about this item

New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The The Printed Book.

Paperback / softback. New. This short 1916 guide to the history of the printed book traces the development of printing in Western Europe, from its origins in the hand-written manuscripts of fifteenth-century Germany, to the rapid growth of mechanised printing in the period following the Industrial Revolution, offering insights into early twentieth-century methods and tools.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.