By Frederick Harrison
London   John Murray
7.5" by 5" viii, 264pp.
The first edition, second printing of Frederick Harrison's informative illustrated work about the art of making books, in the very scarce dust wrapper.
By Frederick Harrison

1943 A Book About Books

London   John Murray
7.5" by 5" viii, 264pp.
The first edition, second printing of Frederick Harrison's informative illustrated work about the art of making books, in the very scarce dust wrapper.
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First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, second printing. 

Illustrated with a monochrome frontispiece, monochrome vignettes and full page illustrations and thirty-two monochrome plates. Collated complete. 

In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper.

This work was written by Frederick Harrison, the Chancellor and librarian of York Minster, and provides a detailed history of bookmaking, from illuminated books and the invention of printing to contemporary book production.

Published during World War II, the dust wrapper features an advertisement for the BBC radio broadcast from London, Describing its importance in providing crucial and factual information on the war and talks from the leaders of Britain's allies.

Condition

In the publisher's original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally lovely with minimal bumping to the tails of the boards. Light offsetting to the endpapers. The wrap is generally smart with sunning to the spine, marks, chipping and closed tears to the extremities and small scattered tidemarks. Internally firmly bound with clean and bright pages.

Fine

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