kynoch press (8 Ergebnisse)

cloth, dust jacket. Kynoch Press (illustrator). large 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 240 pages. PHYINV. First edition. The history of the Kynoch Press that Caroline Archer offers is a result of exhaustive research, enriched by personal accounts from surviving staff which give a fascinating perspective on the half-century from 1930 to 1980. This work contains very detailed listings of the types held by the press at every period.

FIRST EDITION, pp.xii,222; illustrations & facsimiles throughout; new in dust-wrapper; now reduced from £35. Type Printing History.

First edition. Small octavo. Unpaginated. 12 full-page drawings, title-page vignette and endpapers, very much in the manner of Edward Bawden, by Douglas Woodall. Linen-backed paper boards.Lettering of spine partially rubbed away. Corners a little rubbed. Very good. Scarce.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Printed in russet and black on medium quality wove paper.15 line illustrations, 2 full-page. Quarter maroon cloth, orange paper-covered boards, titled in white and maroon. Neat ownership signature on the front cover. A very good copy with a compliments slip loosely inserted. 'The illustrations to this year's Notebook are taken from the sketchbook of R.J. Beeching of our London Office, and stand as a record of his service with the R.A.F. through North Africa to Tunis, Italy and Austria.'.

Patterned cloth, small 4to, Unpaginated, approximately 128 pp, ills One weekdiary on each spread plus introductory pages of printing and publishing related material and several engravings. Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 12 full-page and 12 smaller drawings of flowers reproduced in colours, pictorial endpapers in white and pink. Printed in black and blue, typographic title-page. Multicoloured paper-covered boards, black cloth spine title in white, original wraparound and box. Box a little soiled, otherwise a fine copy. Cover and typographic design by Roger Denning.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Printed on grey toned paper in red, blue, green and orange. Title-page vignette, 4 full-page engravings, 13 head- and tailpieces. Quarter green cloth with grey pictorial boards, rubbed at corners. A good copy with a few MS notes. Attractive wood-engravings of animals, representing seasons.

2 vols, cloth-covered 'Mult-o' loose-leaf binders with metal rings, gilt cover-titles within decorative borders, vol I: approximately 104 pp; vol II: approximately 176 leaves (printed on rectos only). The last and largest of the three major type specimen books produced by the Kynoch Press ("all other items are either broadsheets, small leaflets or booklets, or else they take the form of lists that appear within other publications" - Caroline Archer, 'The Kynoch Press : the anatomy of a printing house, 1876-1981'). Very Good in strong board slipcase as issued.