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IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Bookman.
by Orcutt, William Dana (1870 - 1953)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket. /brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no
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About This Item
Boston:: Little Brown,, 1926.. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket. . First trade edition. Includes chapters on printing, typography, illustrations and much more - illustrated with a full color frontispiece with a captioned tissue guard and many plates throughout the book, Orcutt, who designed the type face 'humanistic' was the manager of University Press in Cambridge and Plimpton Press in Norwood and he has been credited with advancing printing as an art form. Top edge gilt. List of illustrations. Index. 316 pp plus colophon.
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- Bookfever.com, IOBA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65038
- Title
- IN QUEST OF THE PERFECT BOOK: Reminiscences and Reflections of a Bookman.
- Author
- Orcutt, William Dana (1870 - 1953)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- brown cloth with gilt stamping (rubbing to lettering on spine, previous owner's name), no
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Little Brown,
- Place of Publication
- Boston:
- Date Published
- 1926.
- Keywords
- typography, aldus, grolier,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books about books;
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- Colophon
- The colophon contains information about a book's publisher, the typesetting, printer, and possibly even includes a printer's...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
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