The Penrose Annual: A Review of the Graphic Arts (Volume 51) by FISHENDEN, R. B. (ED) - 1957

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.

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

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

London: Lund Humphries. Near Fine in Very Good- dust jacket. 1951. Hardcover. Edited by R.B. Fishenden. London: Lund Humphries, (1951). 11 x 8.25 in. Blue cloth stamped in red and white. Book in near fine condition; dj moderately worn (frayed, small chips, short tears, lightly soiled), very good minus. Illustrated throughout in color and b&w, printing on examples of various paper stock. Among the articles: Carter, Books for Exhibitions; Burke, Black and White-Smith: W.A. Dwiggins; Heal, Booksellers & Stationers' Trade-Cards of the Eighteenth Century; Withers, Artist and Fashion Editor; Parsons, Design in Publisher's Bindings; Gresham, British Darkroom Cameras.; 11 X 8.25 inches .

Percy Lund, Humphries & Co. Ltd 1956. LACKS D/W; Quarto, yellow cloth boards, red lettering to spine & front board, black wreath motif to spine, frontispiece, 154pp + unpaginated Illustrations of the Year section + 54pp Advertisments section at rear, illus colour plates, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, boards sl. cocked, occasional light creasing plus light soiling & tanning to page edges)

Lund Humphries & Co. Ltd 1953. Quarto, green cloth boards, black & white lettering to spine & front board, frontispiece, 140pp + unpaginated Illustrations section + 52pp Advertisements section at rear, illus colour plates, VG- (moderate scuffing & soiling to boards, light cracking to hinges, light-moderate foxing & tanning to pages, moreso prelims/terminals)

London: Lund Humphries, 1955. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Fair. 4to. Frontis., 131 pp., illus. + adverts. (58 pp.). Profusely illustrated with black and white and colour illustrations, tipped-in plates, paper and printing samples. With articles by John Buckland Wright (Burin Engraving on Metal and Wood").

1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good . In Good Dustwrapper. QUARTO. - Covers faded and rubbed w/ toning to edges - Edges of text block tanned and a little grubby - Endpapers foxed and stained - One of the tissue guards is detached and loose in the book - Content toned and faded throughout - Dustwrapper worn and rubbed w/ tears to edges and corners including a 4cm tear to top front corner - Corners chipped w/ some small sections missing - Edges rubbed and frayed - Front flap has significant price clip w/ large section missing - Flaps heavily creased and toned - Some repairs have been attempted w/ masking tape, which is particularly evident along bottom edges - Book ow/ solid but does have a slight musty aroma - x/131/60 pages

London: Lund Humphries, 1957. Bound in green cloth in remarkably good condition, very minor wear only. Jacket a little more worn, small nick at one corner, sunned slightly on spine. Contents clean, sound, bright; illustrated variously in black and white, two-tone, full colour, with occasional pages with embossed designs, tipped-in plates, etc.. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Used.