The Penrose Annual Review of the Graphic Arts Vol. 38 1936 by FISHENDEN, R. B. (ed.) - 1936

New York: Hastings House. Fine copy. 1957. 1st. hardcover. 4to .

New York And London: Pitman Publishing Corporation. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1950. Hardcover. DJ spine ends chipped; some wear to DJ ecxtremeities. Owner name on endpaper. .

Lund Humphries, 1937T. hardcover. Good. . Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, soiling. Gift inscription on the ffep. Pages lightly tanned and clean, minor foxing on the edges.

London: Lund Humphries, 1957. 1957, 164pp + plates, illus.,slight shelfwear to cover, ding to bottom edge of front ocver, slight soiling to pg edges, no dj, contents clean.. Cloth. Very Good -/No Jacket.

GB: Lund Humphries, 1955. Very clean tight text in sound covers BUT spine and parts of covers bit faded and worn. Book is in good double plus condition with noticeable signs of wear and/or age. SPECIAL POSTAGE RATES APPLY (GB 2020 £8) Packed weight 2400g. . 1st Edition. Hardback. G++/No DW.

New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1954. Hardcover. Very good+/fair. Gilt stamped red cloth boards in dust jacket, quarto [8.5" x 11.25"], illustrated in color and b&w. Book has mild toning and wear to spine ends and corners, binding tight, faint paper clip indentation to top edges of front endpapers, text clean and unmarked. DJ has large missing piece to top front panel, edgewear that includes chips tears and their related creases, flap hinges worn and front flap clipped at top corner, now in archival mylar.

New York & London: Pitman Publishing Corporation, 1955. Near Fine condition in a Good only dust jacket. The jacket is largely intact but has a few small chips and closed tears. Some of the tears have been reinforced with clear tape on the blank side. Partially price clipped. NO owner's name or bookplate. Sharp corners. Hinges are perfect. Pages are clean and crisp. NO underlining. NO highlighting. NO margin notes. PENROSE ANNUAL, VOLUME 49. 1955. First Edition. Lavishly illustrated. Scores of impressive color plates. Among 40 chapters are WILL BRADLEY by Paul Bennett, CLAUD LOVETT FRASER by James Laver, BURIN ENGRAVING ON METAL AND WOOD by John Buckland-Wright and NINETEENTH-CENTURY BROADSHEETS. Contributors include John Dreyfus, Will Carter (Rampant Lions Press), Sir Kenneth Clark, and Charles Rosner. Bound in the original grayish-blue cloth with bevelled edges, stamped in yellow and black. Includes dust jacket. Oversize Hardcover. 8.5" wide by 11.25" tall.… Read More

New York: Hastings House, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 4to 11" - 13" tall. Massively heavy, oversized volume, bound in mustard cloth, a bit worn along extremities, but clean of interior, published in First Edition. Slight smudging of bottom page tips. Printed, illustrated dust jacket present, protected by a Gaylord, but with two large chips missing. An important volume from this annual review of the Graphic Arts, considered by some art historians to be a forerunner of "Matrix" journal. Many hundreds of illustrations in text, in full-color and black-and-white, plus a lengthy range of additional illustrations at rear. xii, 154 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Lund Humphries London 1951. 29.0 x 19.5cms, 140pp + append, Illusts, very good hardback & scrappy dustwrapper This review has articles on: Swiss printing, Swiss posters, 18th cnetury booksellers & stationers' trade-cards, fashion editors & illustrators, American typesetting, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the Society of Industrial Artists, UNESCO boooks, the festival of Britain, the illustrations for "The Forsyte Saga', the Herkomer lithographic technique as well as articles on mid 20th century printing technologies.

1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket . No dustwrapper. QUARTO. - Board covers worn and badly stained and marked - Moisture damage to a few places w/ a large area of the front cover affected - Edges rubbed and chipped - Corners bumped and frayed - Spine heavily tanned and stained w/ lettering faded - Spine ends bumped and chipped w/ boards exposed - Edges of text block tanned w/ shelf wear to bottom edge - Endpapers a little stained and creased to corners - Moisture damage to the red rear free endpaper which has leaked onto and stained the bottom edges of some of the last pages - Content toned - Book has a slight musty aroma - Book ow/ solid - lviii/154/20 pages