Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co, Date: 1970. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. 1st edition thus, 1971 (1970). A Very Good book in a Good+ dust jacket. Folio, 489 pp., burgundy cloth with grey dust jacket. Jacket spine sunned; some small chips and spotting. Text is clean and unmarked; a couple of spots on text edge. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Printed publication date of 1970, errata slip states actual publication date of 1971. 1970. Van Gendt & Co ISBN 9063000162 9789063000165 [US]

Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Date: 1970. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear. 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century. 1970. Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram ISBN 9063000162 US

ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, Amsterdam, London, New York] Hardcover First Edition 4to. 489 pages. Cloth; dust jacket. Collects 40 essays, most concerning Johnson's speciality: the history of books and printing in the 16th century. A near-fine copy with modest shelfwear
[Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]
Show/Hide image

Amsterdam: Van Gendt & Co., Date: 1970. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine.. Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a black cloth spine label stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has chips to the head of the spine and water stains. 1970. Van Gendt & Co. ISBN 9063000162 US

ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam] Hardcover First Edition Bound in the publisher's original red cloth with a black cloth spine label stamped in gilt. The dust jacket has chips to the head of the spine and water stains.
[Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1970]

ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ but actually 1971 ]] Hardcover First Edition Cloth, 4to, 31 cm, xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century; The ...

ISBN10: 9063000162, ISBN13: 9789063000165, [publisher: Van Gendt & Co., Amsterdam, first edition, 1970 [ actually 1971 ]] Hardcover Dark orange -coloured half morocco gilt, marbled endpapers, large 8vo, 31 cm, xi, 491 pp, ills, (2 folding). A collection of 40 essays, the majority concerned with aspects of Johnson's special interest : the history of books and printing in the 16th century. "[Johnson was] first and foremost a bibliographer who happened at the same time to be a historian of typography: of printing and typefounding. He was an early recruit to the company of Daniel B. Updike, Stanley Morison, and others who took the initiative in exploring the history of printing in a new way, by looking at type faces as well as at the printers who used them. A relatively small part of Johnson's studies has gone into books, though no type historian or bibliographer could have done without his Type Designs or his Encyclopedia of Typefaces (jointly with Turner Berry and Jaspert), to name only two. But many of his writings were published in periodicals, yearbooks, and the like that are now hard to come by." - from the introduction. The contents include: Introduction, by Percy H. Muir; The Classification of Gothic Types; A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century; A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century; The Chancery Types of Italy and France (jointly with Stanley Morison); Italian Sixteenth-Century Books; Books printed ...