Printing Types Borders Initials Electros, First Edition (5 results)

Follded Sheet. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 4 pages. Price list dated September 17th, 1929. Soiled, worn, fold mark across centre. [753] Size: 280mm. X 220mm.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Nice copy of this type catalogue.466pp including index. Blue boards have marks to front and rear with water staining at rear ( just cosmetic no damage ) this has affected the top of last few pages with slight staining otherwise contents are fine with no inscriptions.Loosely inserted is gift card from The Mould Type Factory Leyland. Tight binding.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Numerous specimens printed recto and verso, some in two colours: Amongst the recent additions are Festival Text, Granby Family, Glenmoy, Jubilee, Kingston and Kingston Bold, Perpetua and Richmond Family. Again there is a fine selection of borders, ornaments and initials. Quarter blue cloth (spine lacking), light blue paper-covered boards titled in black (bruised at bottom right front cover revealing cardboard underlay). One page torn away, at least one excision. Book label of H.B. Naylor, Stephenson, Blake. About good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Printed on heavy toned art paper in red and black with some occasional coloured plates. Olive-green cloth, spine and upper board titled in gilt, decorative endpapers. Some slight staining to boards and a little wear to edge of spine, but a very good bright copy of a great specimen book Around1925 issue. Pagination is fairly regular, Spartan is present, Mazarin is absent.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Various (illustrator). First edition. A first edition of this unique catalogue issued by Stephenson Blake, looking at their various printing types used in their works. The first edition of this work.An immense catalogue showing the printing types used by Stephenson Blake, an engineering company active as a type founder, beginning operation in 1818. The company was founded by John Stephenson and James Blake, purchasing William Caslon IV's foundry.This volume is decoratively printed throughout in both colour and monochrome. Showing the borders, initials, electors, brass rules, spacing material, and ornaments used by Stephenson Blake in their works.Illustrated with a frontispiece.Bound without some leaves. Pagination runs as; [4], v-xiv , [4], 87, [1], 97-118, [4], 135-140, 151-166, 169-183, 185-186, 189-190, 199-328, 331-350, [4], 383-426, [5], 444-462, [2], 481-496, 501-523, [3], 533-542, 545-562, 565-574,[4], 575-590, 601-616, [2], 621-624, [2], 631-640, [4], 655-658, 661-662, 667-678, [1], 692-702pp. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light marks and discolouration to the boards and spine. Minor bumping to the spine and extremities. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean with some light handling marks. Some pages are detached but present, lacking a couple of leaves, some of the pages have sections excised by a former owner. Good. book.