Editor: R. Herbert Spencer
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Publication: 1969, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 292
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
(Preface) 'GREETING, TO OUR WORLD-WIDE CIRCLE OF CUSTOMERS We tender you a hearty greeting, and the sincerest thanks for your past support, which candidly is our greatest desire, and we look to you equally for favours to come. Our aims are not philanthropic, but purely commercial. It is not our business to give you something for nothing...'
Illustrated throughout with various printed tip-in samples.
Contents:
- Captivating the road knights by P. G. Ryan
- The motor-car in photography A portfolio collected and introduced by Eric de Maré
- Role call by Ann Gould
- The design of the London Underground diagram by Ken Garland
- Book restoration after the Florence floods by Peter Waters
- The impact of Stanley Morison by John Dreyfus
- The use and abuse of photographs by Eric de Maré
- Printing in the seventies by James Moran
- Design practice in the seventies by Dorothy Goslett
- Graphic output by Richard Guyatt
- Wanted: a new deal in art schools? by Stuart Brisley
- Draw me a thought by Anthony Page
- Optical letter spacing by David Kindersley
- Sensation on the street by Sarah Whitcombe
- Semiotics - not semi-idiotics by F. H. K. Henrion
- The ink-water relationship in lithography by C. C. Mill
- Linotron 1010, page maker by V. M. Corrado
- Standardized invoicing by T. B. Ward
- Export outlook for print in the seventies by A. E. Walsh
- The future role of research in the printing industry by G. L. Riddell
- Early Japanese printing and technique in Ukiyo-e by Robert Austin and Charles Pomeroy
- The Printing Historical Society by Berthold Wolpe
- The link between Garamont and Van Dijck by G. W. Ovink
- Sixteenth-century French typefounders: the Le Bé memorandum by James Mosley
- A checklist of Penrose articles 1895-1968 Compiled by John Taylor
Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing, marking, tanning to dust jacket. Light spotting to outer edges. Light tanning to outer edges of interior pages.
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