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1921-58 Penrose's Annual the Process Year Book & Review of the Graphic Arts
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Description
Colour Plates, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
A run of twenty-nine volumes of 'Penrose's Annual', for the years 1921-1940, 1949-1956, and 1958.
Uncommon to find as a set.
The publication was issued almost annually from 1895 to 1982, encapsulating the rapid technological development in the printing industry.
Penrose offers a unique look into the record of print media and its various uses, such as photography and advertising.
Each volume is profusely illustrated, lavishly in both colour and monochrome, with many striking illustrations and photographs that embody the process of the graphic arts across the years.
The illustrations are incredibly unique, distinguished, and vary much in style.
Volumes XXVIII, XXXIX, XLIII, XLV, XLVI, XLIX, and L in the original unclipped dust wrappers.
Including; Volume XXIII, 1921. Volume XXIV, 1922. Volume XXV, 1923. Volume XXVI, 1924. Volume XXVII, 1925. Volume XXVIII, 1926. Volume XXIX, 1927. Volume XXX, 1928. Volume XXXI, 1929. Volume XXXII, 1930. Volume XXXIII, 1931. Volume XXXIV, 1932. Volume XXXV, 1933. Volume XXXVI, 1934. Volume XXXVII, 1935. Volume XXXVIII, 1936. Volume XXXIX, 1937. Volume XL, 1938. Volume XLI, 1939. Volume XLII, 1940. Volume XLIII, 1949. Volume XLIV, 1950. Volume XLV, 1951. Volume XLVI, 1952. Volume XLVII, 1953. Volume XLVIII, 1954. Volume XLIX, 1955. Volume L, 1956. Volume LII, 1958.
Including articles such as 'The Causes of Mottle in Photogravure', 'Merchandising Through Packaging', 'The Wood-Engravings of Eric Ravilious', 'Booksellers and Stationers' Trade-Cards of the Eighteenth Century', 'Impressions of the Typesetting Industry in America', 'Theoretical Overlaying', 'The Reform of the Title Page', 'The Pioneer Work of Fox Talbot', 'Multiple Screen Patterns', 'Printing in China', 'Fashion in Fashion Photography', 'Nineteenth Century Broadsheets', 'The Maturing Tastes of the Mid-Century', 'By Command of the Queen...', 'The Jean Berte Process for Colour Printing', ‘Fine Edition Books in France’, ‘The Half-Tone Process: Improvements in Technique’, ‘Symmetry vs. Asymmetry in the Newspaper Title-Piece’, ‘The King Penguin Books’, ‘Advertising Art in an Atomic Age’, ‘Business Bohomie’, ‘Chinese and Japanese Printing in England’, ‘American Graphic Design’, ‘A Renaissance of Wood Engraving’, ‘Realism and Fantasy in Advertisement Presentation’, ‘London Transport Publicity’, ‘Kodak Flexichrome Process’, ‘Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c1700’, ‘An Outline of the Knudsen Process’, and more fascinating articles, both technical and general in subject.
With publisher's adverts to each volume.
Edited by William Gamble from 1895 to 1933, Richard Bertram Fishenden from 1934 to 1957, and Allan Delafons from 1958 to 1962.
Condition
In the original publisher's full cloth binding, Volumes XXVIII, XXXIX, XLIII, XLV, XLVI, XLIX, and L in the original unclipped dust wrappers. Volume XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX, XXXI, and XXXII are in a quarter cloth binding with patterned paper to the boards. Some light marks to the boards and spines, heavier to Volume XXXV. Spine of XXXIV is discoloured with the spine label lifting a little. Spines of XXIV and XXXV are faded. Rear board of XXX is a little faded. A little bumping to the extremities. Text to the spine has rubbed off a few volumes. Pencil mark to the front board of XLII, some heavier marks to the boards. Dampstain to the spine of Volume XLIV. Front hinges of XXIV, XXXIII, and XL are starting but firm. Rear hinge of XXXI and XLIV is starting but firm. Hinges of XXXVI are starting but firm. Volume XLIV lacking front endpaper. Volume XLV dust wrapper is a little edge worn with one tape repair to the reverse, with some spots and discolouration to the wraps and a closed tear to the front joint and chip to the rear wrap. XLIX dust wrapper is edge worn with chips causing loss and closed tears. XXXIX dust wrapper with heavy loss to the spine and extremities, a little discolouration to the wraps and a few closed tears. Volume XXVIII dust wrapper is age-toned with some marks, and light edge wear, resulting in a chip to the tail of the spine and a closed tear to the spine. Volume XLIII is edge worn with a large chip to the rear wrap, a little discoloured and some light marks, and an ink blot to the tail of the spine. XLVI dust wrapper is edge worn with some large chips and closed tears, a few light marks to the wraps. L dust wrapper a little edge worn with a few small chips and closed tears, wraps a little age-toned. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only the occasional light spot. Prior owner's ink inscription to the half-title of Volume XXXVII.
Very Good
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