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Author: HARDING, ALISON
Title: Ornamental alphabets and initials
Description: New York : Thames and Hudson (1983) 1983. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler. CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009). ex-Faber executive was also a printer. typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 96 pages; Description: 96 p. : 142 ill. (14 col.) ; 26 cm. Subject: Alphabets. Initials. Decoration and ornament.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Title: Ornamental alphabets and initials
Description: New York : Thames and Hudson (1983) 1983. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges slightly nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler. CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009). ex-Faber executive was also a printer. typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 96 pages; Description: 96 p. : 142 ill. (14 col.) ; 26 cm. Subject: Alphabets. Initials. Decoration and ornament.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Price: EUR 12.95 = appr. US$ 14.07 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 219719
- Book number: 219719