9780571094431 - Private Press de Cave, Roderick (9 résultats)

Etat : Very Good. 1st edition. Cloth, dj, F/VG. 376pp, b/w frontis, 60pp b/w plates showing 72 illustrations, 83 text figs, index, dustjacket a little rubbed & grubby, internally a fine copy. A history of the amateur printer & publisher who , with their own printing press have been fascinated by producing their own books & broadsides. From the early days of moveable type when scholars such as Tycho Brae printed their own theories to the modern private press which produces finely printed works. 1400 grams.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression with no statement of further printings. A nice copy of the first edition. Boards rubbed at tips else fine, jacket shows some edgewear and a couple closed tears. Quarto, orange boards, 376 pages, pictorial jacket. 0571094430.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj defective, part of spine missing). From the library of Marianne Delvaux-Diercxsens (bookplate mounted on front free endpaper). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses of these different kinds, examining the equipment they used and the books they produced. Particular attention is paid to the growth of printing as a middle-class hobby in Victorian England, and to the postwar revival of printing for pleasure. As editor of the Private Libraries Association's annual bibliography Private Press Books, the author is particularly well qualified to describe and assess the work of contemporary private presses in Britain and the United States." (from the blurb).

Hardcover. Etat : Fair. 376 p.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 4to (25.5 cm), front., 376 pp, 72 plates. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (dj slightly rubbed at extremities). "Ever since Gutenberg's invention of printing from movable types five hundred years ago, as well as commercial printers there have been amateurs who have been fascinated by the authority which printing confers on the written word. Previous studies have in the main been limited to those private presses which from William Morris's Kelmscott onwards have been concerned with the production of fine books. Roderick Cave examines the earlier presses as well, from those set up by penurious scholars to print their own books to those of aristocrats like Horace Walpole or Frederick the Great who had presses as playthings; from the presses which have operated secretly to avoid censorship to those which regarded printing as a fine art. He describes representative presses of these different kinds, examining the equipment they used and the books they produced. Particular attention is paid to the growth of printing as a middle-class hobby in Victorian England, and to the postwar revival of printing for pleasure. As editor of the Private Libraries Association's annual bibliography Private Press Books, the author is particularly well qualified to describe and assess the work of contemporary private presses in Britain and the United States." (from the blurb).

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 376p.,62plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 26 cm. Subject; Private presses History. 1 Kg.

Etat : Used - Very Good. 1971. 1st. Cloth, dj., small quarto, 376 pp., illust. Light shelf wear top jacket. Otherwise in excellent condition. Fine.

First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed and inscribed. Physical description; 376p.,62plates : ill., facsims.,ports. ; 26 cm. Subject; Private presses History. 1 Kg.

1971. Faber & Faber. Hardback. Book - VG. Ex-lib. DJ - Good.