The Typographic Arts

London: Sylvan Press, 1949. 1st edition. Hardcover. Provenance: Bookplate of North-East Essex Techical College & School of Art. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 106 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates: illustrations, facsimiles; 24 cm. Notes: Both lectures are reprints but with revisions… Read more about this item

Sylvan Press, London, 1949. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first collected edition. 8vo. 106pp. White cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated with thirty-two plates of facsimile reproductions. Binding a little sprung. A good copy in a rather ragged and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper with some internal taped repair. A new two-page preface by the author precedes… Read more about this item

London : Sylvan Press, 1949. First combined edition. Includes "The Typographic Arts", first printed at Edinburgh in 1944, and "The Art of Printing", first printed in the Proceedings of the British Academy in 1938 - but here with fresh illustrations. Medium 8vo (24cm). 106pp. Plates. Original cloth; a few slight marks, but a very good copy in a slightly… Read more about this item

London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1949. Limited edition. Full Leather. very good. 24 x 16.5 cm. 106pp. 32 illustrations. Limited to 250 copies of which this is #178. Bound in full brown leather with gilt lettering and design to covers. TEG. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards.

London:: Sylvan Press,. Very Good. 1949. Hardcover. B003LDM1T6 . First edition. Age darkened along the spine, moderate edge wear, else very good in white cloth. No dust jacket. .

London : Sylvan Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 106 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 24cm. Subjects: Printing -- History. Typography.

London: Sylvan, 1950. 1st. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Bound in publisher's original white cloth with spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated with 22 black and white photographic reproductions. Bumping to corners. Light wear to dust jacket edges with small chips at corners and head and foot of spine. 6 1/4 x 9 1/8 inches. 106 pages.

London: Sylvan Press, 1949 8vo (23.5 cm), 106 pp, 16 ff of plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly frayed at extremities, ownership entry on the free endpaper). Two lectures by an influential British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison (1889-1967): "The Typographic Arts" (1944) and "The Art of Printing" (1937). "Both discuss the written and printed book,… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press. Used - Good. Good condition. Poor dust jacket. (printing, great britain, history) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.

London: Sylvan Press. 1949 Sylvan Press first edition hardback; good+ clean and sound copy, cream linen boards with slight darkening to spine, no dj; UK dealer, immediate dispatch . Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1949.

London: Theodore Brun Limited, 1949. A gorgeous GIFT QUALITY copy. Limited to 250 copies, this being #235. Bound in the original full black polished leather, stamped in bright and shiny gold on the front cover and spine. Fine condition. The leather is remarkably well preserved. Clean, square and tight. Sharp corners. Hinges are… Read more about this item

Harvard University Press, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Edges, spine browned. From the library of Kay Amert, last director of Univ. of Iowa Type Lab (ancestor of the current UI Center for the Book) and publisher/printer at Seamark Press.

Book. Good. Binding see description. Edinburgh, James Thin, 1944. Wrs. loose. [Appleton 170]. (ex-libris H. van Krimpen on inside front cover)..

Harvard Univ. Press, 1950.. hbk 106pp illus lacks dj but now in custom acetate jacket altogether a very good clean tight text

Harvard University Press, 1950T. hardcover. Like New. 1st 1950 Harvard HB; no dust jacket; wear to boards on spine but hinges present; inside clean with no stamps etc

Hardback. New.

Paperback / softback. New.

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

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

Hassell Street Press. hardcover. New. 6x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing