Editor: R. Alan Delafons
Publisher: Lund Humphries
Publication: 1958, First Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 164
Size: 215 x 285
Text: English
Includes Swissair Douglas DC-7C Leaflet/Poster (605 x 420), designed by Kurt Wirth.
With fifty-one volumes and sixty-three years behind it, through which it has recorded advances in processes of graphic reproduction, and, in the last twenty-five years particularly, aspects of the graphic arts themselves, THE PENROSE ANNUAL enters a new stage in its own progress.
Illustrated throughout with various printed tip-in samples.
GENERAL SECTION:
- Trend and taste in English typography
- Advertising art in an atomic age
- The wallpaper designs of C. F. A. Voysey
- The magic power of magazines
- A new look for news
- Fine binding: a craft and its craftsmen
- A gentleman of Verona
- L'École de Lure
- An approach to type designing
- Business bonhomie
- What lies ahead?
- The unresolved problem
- Management training: the new concept
- New light on copyright
- 'Graphic ' 57'
- Graphic arts book list
TECHNICAL SECTION:
- Research in retrospect
- Printing quality: an international review
- Examination of photogravure cells
- Bank-note engraving
- Colour web offset on newsprint
- Colour correction: the control of variables
- The fluffing of litho papers
- Litho from xero plates
- Map production in the Ordnance Survey
- Newspaper ROP Colour
- Chromatic giant
- Electronic colour correction
- Nylon printing plates
- Screen rulings and print quality
- Filmsetting for letterpress printing
- Notes on a filmset 'Penguin'
Condition: Very Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing, marking, soiling to dust jacket. Light spotting to outer edges. Light tanning to outer edges of interior pages.
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