[Rarebooks] Biblio-Typographica

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Johnston,  Paul.  Biblio-Typographica:  A Survey of Contemporary Fine  
Printing Style.  NY:  Covici-Friede, 1930. First  Edition Ltd. 1050.  Sm 4to, pp. 
303.  Full-bound salmon boards,  paper-label spine, top-edge salmon, partially 
uncut, partially unopened.   Illustrated.  Tight, intact, text-block clean.  
Endpapers foxed,  slight edgewear & fading.  Very Good+ condition. 
William Morris and Modern Printing  Style; Printing Style:  The Whittinghams 
to Morris; Pickering's Influence  on American Printing; English Fine Printing 
Since William Morris; Later Trends  in American Typographic Style; The Use of 
Illustration in Fine Book Design;  Revivals of Letter Forms and Type Designs; 
the Literature of Fine Books and  Printing; Modernism in Types and Typographic 
Style; Fine Books and the Pleasures  of Collecting; Fine Books, Readers, and 
Book Collectors; Fine Books, Precious,  and Limited Editions; Fine Books and 
the Business of Publishing; Typographhy and  the Elements of Book Design; a 
Note on the Work of the Laboratory Press; Fine  Books and the Process of Book 
Binding; Index.
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