Beatrice L Warde (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some wear to boards with chafing at corners. Previous owner's gift inscription in front. Number 536 of 850 copies. Typophile Chap Book No. 5, designed by Bruce Rogers.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with black leatherette boards. 412 pp. Green painted text-block. No notes or highlights. Foxing to first several and last several pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. No dust jacket. Tight binding, solid boards with rubbed corners, bright gilt lettering to spine, clean, unmarked pages throughout. "EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES OF THIS FIFTH CHAP BOOK IN THE TYPOPHILE SERIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED: 350 FRO SUBSCRIBERS & CONTRIBUTORS, AND 500 FOR GENERAL SALE. THIS IS COPY NO. 710. In archival quality polyester cover.…

Condition: Good. 16vo. 100 pp. Black and white plates. Hard cover. Very good.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. New York: The Marchbanks Press, 1957. 8vo, 11 p., original sewn wraps. An address delivered by Warde before the British Typographers' Guild at St. Bride's Institute, London. Wraps lightly scuffed else NF.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The first edition of this well researched and expansive guidebook to printing design with illustrations. First edition of Printing Design and Layout, The Manuel for Printers, Typographers and all Designers and Users of Printing and Advertising by Vincent Steer.With a foreword by Beatrice L. Warde.Illustrated throughout the text with examples and diagrams. Includes specimens of over five hundred typefaces.Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper dated 1934.Undated, dated through Jisc and guided by the inscription. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, excellent. There is some very slight wear to the extremities. Prior owner's ink inscription to the first free endpaper dated 1934.Internally, firmly bound. The pages are very bright and clean. Near Fine. Not stated (illustrator). book.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. First Edition. London: Monotype Corporation 10 nonconsecutive issues. April 1934 - Nov 1971: 2 copies of #12 (April 1934); #36 (July 1938), #37 (September 1938), #38 (February 1939), #39 (May 1939), #40 (August 1939), #41 (December 1939), #86 (December 1969), #90 (November 1971). These issues contain advertising, fold-out type specimens, news and reviews of the printing trade, etc. Also some interesting comments about the rise of Hitler in Germany, e. g. ".Tyrants always begin by persecuting the printers." Several of these issues are imprinted in red with the beautiful calligraphic signature of B. L. [Beatrice Lamberton] Warde (1900 -1969). Warde was marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation from 1929 until her retirement in 1960. Warde authored the classic, THE CRYSTAL GOBLET: SIXTEEN ESSAYS ON TYPOGRAPHY. As Alan Hutt wrote in 1969: "She was an original typographical scholar of the first rank (the 'Paul Beaujon' Garamond and other studies in THE FLEURON and THE MONOTYPE RECORDER); she was a practicing typographer of sure taste and a calligrapher of elegance; for over 30 years she was a brilliant editor of the RECORDER and the MONOTYPE NEWSLETTER, as part of her devoted service to The Monotype Corporation as its publicity manager; she was Stanley Morison's inseparable and incomparable lieutenant in the great work of Britain's typographical renaissance; she was beyond peer as a public expositor, and propagandist for, good typography." 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 10 issues. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…