A handbook of type and illustration : with notes on certain graphic processes and the production of illustrated books / John Lewis
1956, First Edition. London : Faber & Faber. Very good copy in the original colour-printed boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Near fine dust-wrapper, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled. Item #454673
Physical description; ix, 203 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. Contents; Illustration : the reproduction of drawings -- Typefaces : notes on the book faces -- Titling : initial letters, printers' flowers, etc -- Letterpress and offset : direct methods of reproduction -- Letterpress : photographic methods of reproduction -- Offset lithography : photographic methods of reproduction -- Binding : methods and treatment -- Book jackets : typography and production -- Appendix I: Production data for letterpress and offset printing, and for binding -- Appendix II: Specimen pages of text settings from A memoir of Thomas Bewick. Subjects; Printing Specimens. Illustration of books. Color printing. Type and type-founding.
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