letter forms typographic scriptorial two de morison stanley (15 résultats)

Hardcover. Etat : Good. Nattali & Maurice 1968 first edition, ex-library copy. Library markings to first few pages, text clean and bright, binding coming away from front board, minor shelf wear to dust jacket. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

boards, dust jacket. small 8vo. boards, dust jacket. xii, 167 pages. First combined edition, English imprint. Dust jacket price-clipped, else fine in fine jacket. Reprints of essays that appeared in 1963 and 1962 with a new introduction by John Dreyfus and a reprint of Beatrice Warde's recollections which appeared in the Sunday Times.

24.5 x 14.5cms 130pp Morrison relates the history of classifying typographical variations and delves into the literature on letterforms. He analyses the significance of the Horfei manuscript. It celebrates the ''fine art of distinguishing between things that differ''.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Hardback book (167 pages) illustrated with b/w reproductions. Classine dust jacket has several small tears at edge. Bookseller since 1995 (ULChest-Top-End) rareviewbooks.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Set in Fournier with illustrations and specimens of types. Paperback copy rebound in red cloth with original covers inset on spine and upper board. Fine. On the classification of Typographial Variations; On some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Red cloth gilt, DW, tall 12mo., xvi, 167 pages. Chap Book 45. With an introductory note by John Dreyfus and recollections by Beatrice Warde. Printed, without attribution, at the Cambridge University Press. Fine copy in fine glassine DW, in archival mylar.

1997, XIII,129pp, Illustrated. Paperback. In very good condition. "To understand the language and development of type is to know its history. Letter Forms is a collection of essays by and about Stanley Morison, adviser to Monotype, and the greatest type historian of our time. An essay by Beatrice Warde is an illuminating introduction to the man referred to as a "typographic firmament." In his own words Morison then relates the history of classifying typographical variations and delves into the literature on the subject of letterforms. Finally, the author uncovers the significance of the discovery of a 16th century manuscript by Horfei in the Vatican Library.".

Harley & Marks Publihsers, Point Roberts 1997. XIII, 129, (1) pp. Paperback. Bookplate. Good condition.

Hard Cover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in red cloth, stamped in gold in the original near fine cello dust jacket (now protected in mylar). Beautiful copy of this book by the Typophiles. This is Chapbook #45. Previous owner's neat bookplate to front endpaper. 167 pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo., 167pp. Spine faded, else Fine. Well packaged in a box, ships with tracking.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 12mo (18.5 cm), X, 167 pp, 4 plates. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). Two essays by an influential British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison (1889-1967). The first essay, "On the Classification of Typographical Variations", written at the request of John Dreyfus, was originally published as part of "Type Specimen Facsimiles". Sections include: The Dutch Romans; The 'modern' face; The rise of English type founding; The type of Baskerville, 1754; The vogue of Bodoni; William Morris and Emery Walker 1892; A modern scholarship: D. B. Updike 1922; The analysis of script in the 19th century. The second essay, "On some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries", was written for Carla Marzoli's catalogue of early writing books, 1962.

Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. 8 plates. Grey paper boards, blocked in gilt on spine and upper board. A fine copy in like dust-jacket. (Appleton 230a).

12mo, pp. xiv-[xvi], 167, 13 facsimiles in text; spine slightly faded else fine in orig. red cloth. The essays, "On the classification of Typographical Variations" and "On Some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries," originally appeared separately in 1962 and 1963. Here they are reprinted along with Beatrice Warde's "Recollections of Stanley Morrison." Typophile Chapbook no. 45.

16mo. pp. x, [1 leaf], 167. 4 double-sided plates.several full-page text illus. bds. wrs. First Edition Thus.

Etat : Sehr gut. XIV, 167 S.mit Abbildungen (Typographische Muster); Original-Leinenband; 8°. Sehr gutes, schönes Exemplar. Auf dem Innendeckel Exlibris ders Typographen "Horst Heiderhoff".