By Not Stated
London   Raithby, Lawrence & Co
10" by 8" 120; 48; 52; 52H; 56D; 56M pp
Volume V of the late nineteenth century periodical 'The British Printer', beautifully illustrated with chromolithographs.
By Not Stated

1892 The British Printer, Volume V

London   Raithby, Lawrence & Co
10" by 8" 120; 48; 52; 52H; 56D; 56M pp
Volume V of the late nineteenth century periodical 'The British Printer', beautifully illustrated with chromolithographs.
£120.00
: 2kgs / : 867F3

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Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Scarce

The scarce fifth volume of this periodical, covering the year 1892.

With all six issues published in 1892, from No. 25, January-February, to No. 30, November-December. 

With a chromolithographic general title page and frontispiece.

No. 25 illustrated with five plates, two colour plates, and five advertisement leaves; No. 26 illustrated with seven plates, one colour plate, ten advertisement leaves, and one braille leaf; No. 27 illustrated with two plates, three colour plates, and six advertisement leaves; No. 28 with sixteen plates, one colour plate, and six advertisement leaves; No. 29 illustrated with eleven plates, and nine advertisement leaves; and No. 30 illustrated with ten plates, one colour plate, and five advertisement leaves.

Many of the advertisements are on tinted or toned paper, and printed in partial colour, often advertising printing presses and binding apparatus.

Condition

In quarter calf binding, with cloth covered boards. Rubbing to back strip and joints, with joint heads starting, but boards holding firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages bright and generally clean, but with pencil marks to reverse of a small number of plates. Pages 37-38 torn, with loss to centre of leaf resulting to loss in text.

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