SOME DECORATIVE JAPANESE PAPERS
Language: English
Published by Cuckoo Hill Press, Pinner, 1960
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 375.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Gray paper-covered printed boards bound accordian style comprising 14 page surfaces with 12 mounted and labeled Japanese paper samples. Printed in an edition of 41 copies by David Chambers at his Cuckoo Hill Press from Monotype Blado and Poliphilus types on a Alexandra hand-press. All papers were supplied by T. N. Lawrence & Son of Bleeding Heart Yard. Produced for the members of the P.L.A. Society of Private Printers and not for sale. Text offers a succinct description of how the papers were made with the advice from and credit to Dard Hunter. This very attractive specimen book is rarely if ever offered on the market, It comes from David Chambers own collection, and is in fine condition.
Seller Inventory # 009820
Bibliographic details
- Title
- SOME DECORATIVE JAPANESE PAPERS
- Author
- Chambers, David (Cuckoo Hill Press)
- Publisher
- Cuckoo Hill Press, Pinner
- Publication year
- 1960
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
Entropy Books
Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
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Entropy Books has issued occasional catalogues and lists over the last 33 years. We specialize in books on books, a wide field encompassing typography, graphic design, bibliography, printing, publishing, binding and papermaking; and fine printing from the 1920s to the present, private presses, small press poetry and printed ephemera. I have experience as a publishers representative and have worked in used and new bookstores.
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Entropy Books
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