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Published: 1952. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by author. DESCRIPTION: Dark brown block titled DJ over red cloth. Language: English. Book Condition: Good: Light wear to corners, edges and spine ends. Clean cloth. Tightly bound with lightly spotted and toned intact endpapers. Strong hinges. Author inscription and signature dated 1952 to ffep. Clean unmarked pages. DJ Condition: Poor: Very heavy wear and large losses to upper and lower edges. See photos Pages 160. Size: 27cm by 20cm. PROVENANCE: INSCRIPTION: Tom Balston. Thomas BalstonOBE(1883-1967) was a director of the publishersDuckworth and Co. , and a noted scholar of English book production and illustration. He was also an amateur painter, having studied under Mark Gertler. Born at Bearsted,Kent, fourth son ofWilliam Edward Balston and Emily Julia (née Whitehead)who had been paper-makers since the 18th century. Their success in business led to social prominence and the Balstons were regarded as being amongst the gentry of their county. Educated atEtonandNew College, Oxford before beingcalled to the barin 1909. From 1912 to 1914, he was secretary to the publisherT. Fisher Unwin. Awarded theMilitary Crossand anO. B. E. His service in theSecond World Warcame to an end when he was invalided out after three months due to suffering frompneumonia. At Duckworth from 1921 to 1934, Balston promoted the work of Englishwood engravers. He produced several books on the history of the subject. AUTHOR: In 1940, an exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge began celebrating the quincentennial anniversary of printing. The name in its list of acknowledgements is that of John Dreyfus. Educated at Oundle and Trinity College he had been fascinated by the physical form of books and print from an early age. Taken with the new type and layout with which Morison (his future mentor) transformed The Times on 3 October 1932 Dreyfus joined the Cambridge University Press seven years later. Whilst the exhibition had been inspired by Alois Ruppel, the task of organising it fell to the Assistant Printer, Brooke Crutchley, and Dreyfus. In 1949 Dreyfus became Assistant University Printer to the Cambridge University Press, the same year his first book came out, The Survival of Baskervilles Punches. At the end of WWII, he had been the first to seek out the Dutch typographer Jan van Krimpen and make sure that he was all right. This led to a friendship and that to Dreyfuss second book, The Work of Jan van Krimpen, finely printed in van Krimpens own types in 1952. In 1954, when Stanley Morison (his mentor), decided to retire, Dreyfus was his natural successor. In 1956 he also became consultant to the Limited Editions Club of New York, specialising in fine printing, rather as the Nonesuch Press had before the war. In 1963, the great "Printing and the Mind of Man" exhibition, was staged at Olympia and the British Museum. Dreyfus had a large hand in this, and his design for the catalogue was a masterpiece of simple but logical typography. From 1968 to 1973 Dreyfus was President of the Association Typographique Internationale. He organised the Printing Historical Societys conference to celebrate the quincentenary of Caxton in 1976, becoming its president in 1991. He became general editor of the series Type Specimen Facsimiles (1963-71). Dreyfus was much in demand in the United States as well as Europe. His particular subjects were the fine printing of the last century, from William Morris and T. J. Cobden-Sanderson to Harry, Count Kessler. He was awarded the Goudy Prize of the Rochester Institute of Technology and the laureateship of the American Printing Historical Society in 1984. In 1994 the British Library published Into Print, his selected papers, and in 1996 he received a final accolade in the Mainz Gutenberg Prize. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9822
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