Editor: R. Herbert Spencer
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Publication: 1968, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 274
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
(Preface) 'Regular readers of Penrose (and they number well over 6000, dispersed throughout virtually every country in the world) need no introduction to an annual that has come to be recognized as 'the natural forum in which to describe, discuss or illustrate the most significant developments in the graphic and reprographic arts' (Times Literary Supplement)...'
Illustrated throughout with various printed tip-in samples.
Contents:
- Geoffrey Ireland: poet with a camera by Aaron Scharf
- Typographic design and the computer by Maurice Goldring
- Designing Australia's decimal currency notes by Alistair Morrison
- New notes, new techniques by M. F. W. Brown
- Sabon: the first 'harmonized' type by John Dreyfus
- Supergraphics by Ken Baynes, Ann Roberts and Steve Storr
- Print for poor-vision readers by Alison Shaw
- Reform of the English writing-system by John Downing
- Documentation, print and the relevance of hardware by Herbert Coblans
- A general purpose type fount suitable for use with optical reading equipment by G. G. Scarrott
- The role of dichromated colloids by W. B. Hislop
- The change to metric measures by Lyndon B. Wainwright
- Ink to match the machine by F. W. Stoyle
- Programmed monochrome reproduction by Clive Nash
- IARIGAI by Kenneth Hoare
- New uses of stamping foils by H. L. Hunter
- The editorial revolution by N. I. Korman
- Advertising for a type foundry by J. J. de L. Meyer
- Programmed learning in the printing industry by B. W. Blunden
- The abstracting process and the British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books by John Commander
- Electrophotography today by G. R. Mott and S. F. Royka
- Photocopying and copyright by Ronald E. Barker
- Types of the sixties by Kenneth Day
- Harmonic system for computer-controlled type-setting by Louis Rosenblum
- Research on paper for printing by Michael H. Bruno
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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