Printed Ephemera : The Changing Use of Type and Letterforms in English and American Printing.

Lewis, J.N.C.

Published by Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1962, 1962

Cloth, large 4to, 29 cm, 287, [1] pp, 713 ills (many in colour). The first edition, which is much larger than the later abridged paperback reprint. From the blurb: " Mr Lewis describes the development and changing uses of type and letterforms in English and American printing. Apart from a brief look at the earliest of all ephemeral printing, the Papal Indulgences of the fifteenth century and the sixteenth century proclamations and decrees, and a slightly longer look at the charming engraved billheads and trade cards of the eighteenth century, he is mainly concerned with letterpress printers' jobbing work. He traces its development from the vivid typographic vernacular developed in the first half of the nineteenth century, through its decline in both England and America during the next hundred years or so, to its sudden flowering today, when in art schools and amateur print shops on both sides of the Atlantic designers have rediscovered the wonderful material available in wood and metal letters, in borders, furniture and ornament.This is a book for collectors and bibliophiles, for typographers and designers, publishers and printers, for advertising men and commercial artists, film and TV directors, as well as for anyone interested in social history. It contains a fully illustrated chronological type glossary and a fully classified index under six headings." Part I Miscellaneous Ephemera covers such items as: Indulgences and Proclamations; Licences and Certificates; Official notices and election printing; Rewards and Wanted notices; Almanacks; Booksellers lists and broadsheets; For Sale notices; Travel notices; Entertainment notices; Sporting posters; Programmes, Menus and Wine Lists; Tickets: Travel; Tickets: Functions and Exhibitions; Invitations and Announcements: Funerals, births and weddings; Invitations and Announcements: Dinners and functions; Invitations and Announcements: Exhibitions; Trade Cards; Stationers and Ex Libris labels; Change of Address and Compliments slips; Receipts, Order forms and Billheads. Part II Labels, Wrappers and Packs covers packaging for such items as: Tobacco;; Tea, Coffee and Grocery; Beers, Spirits and Wines; Pharmaceutical and Perfumery; Hardware. Slight browning to endpapers, otherwise Very Good in a used and worn dustwrapper with loss to the rear panel. Seller Inventory # ABE-62169

Bibliographic Details

Title: Printed Ephemera : The Changing Use of Type ...
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, first edition, 1962
Publication Date: 1962
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st Edition