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PRINTING TYPES: THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE
Written by D.B. Updike.
Stock no. 1827615
Published by Oak Knoll Press; The British Library. 4th 2001. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

This is the combined edition, volumes I & II. Foruth Edition, expanded. A classic study of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A fat volume. ISBN: 0712347348. Spine is slightly concave but does not affect overall contents. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

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A HISTORY OF THE CALICO PRINTING INDUSTRY OF GREAT BRITAIN
Written by Geoffrey Turnbull.
Stock no. 1826846
Published by John Sherratt & Son. 1st 1951. Very good condition in a good dustwrapper.

Calico printing is cloth printed with simple designs in one or more colours. A combination of many highly technical processes. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w photos. Uneven fading to top & tail of spine. Foxing to text block and endpapers. Green patterned dustwrapper is heavily edge-worn with loss to corners.

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PRINTING
Written by Harold Curwen. Illustrated by Jack Brough.
Stock no. 1323708
Published by Penguin Books Ltd. 1st 1948. Very good condition.

The history of printing. Colour pictorial paperwraps. Colour & b/w illustrations. Puffin Picture Book no. 70. School ink stamp to front cover (faint) and to top margin of page 31. Contents clean.

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THE SILK SCREEN PRINTING PROCESS
Written by J.I. Biegeliesen; E.J. Busenbark.
Stock no. 1823872
Published by McGraw-Hill Book Company. 1st 1941. Almost very good condition.

A practical manual. Second Edition. Dark navy cloth with gilt inscriptions. Frontis is original silk screen print by second author. B/w photos and sketches. Boards are heavily damp stained to a lighter blue. No signs of damp to contents. Slight mustiness present. Contents lightly browned.

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EDWARDIAN ILLUSTRATION
Written by Martin Steenson; Martin Hardie; G.R. Dennis; et al.
Stock no. 1208608
Published by The Imaginative Book Illustration Society. 1st 2005. Fine condition.

Reprinted pieces from The Booklover's Magazine, including The Illustrative Work of Robert Anning Bell; Miss Jessie M. King; Hand-Printing and the Pear Tree Press. White card wraps. B/w illustrations. 96 pages.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 2109311
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. SIGNED by author. Wrapper is faded to spine, with some edge-creasing and a couple of nicks.

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CHEPSTOW STREET LITERATURE AND EPHEMERA
Written by Ivor Waters.
Stock no. 1603670
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1989. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Limited to 140 copies. B/w illustrations. Revised edition. ISBN: 0906134412. Corners rubbed. Wrapper is faded to spine.

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BIBLIOTHECA CESTRIENSIS
Written by John H. Cooke.
Stock no. 2106650
Published by Mackie & Co. Limited. 1904. Very good condition.

Or a biographical account of books, maps, plates and other printed matter relating to, printed or published in, or written by authors resident in the county of Chester. Illustrated with views of old halls in Cheshire. Compiled by Cooke. Large format. Limited to 200 copies. Some wear to covers; a little scuffing and bumping, damp marking to rear cover, with bad wear to top edge. Copy no. 100 (Royal quarto). Some grubby margin marks and a couple of pages have small nicks to edges.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 822176
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1981. Nearly fine condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. Dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine and has a few marks.

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CHEPSTOW PRINTERS AND NEWSPAPERS
Written by Ivor Waters. Illustrated by Mercedes Waters.
Stock no. 822181
Published by Moss Rose Press. 1st 1981. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

B/w illustrations. Limited to 120 copies. Red cloth. Originally published in shorter form in 1970 and 1977. ISBN: 0906134129. Some minor foxing to outer page edges and endpapers. Dustwrapper is scuffed and lightly sunned.

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A BIBLOGRAPHY OF ARCHERY
Written by Fred Lake; Hal Wright.
Stock no. 818696
Published by The Simon Archery Foundation. 1st 1974. Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

An Indexed Catalogue of 5,000 articles, books, films, manuscripts, periodicals and theses on the use of the bow for hunting, war and recreation from the earliest times to the present day. Large format. Green boards, gilt title to spine. 501 pages. ISBN: 0950319902. Wrapper is unevenly faded.

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MARCH MEMORIES SHARMANS
Written by Trevor Bevis.
Stock no. 597040
Published by Trevor Bevis. 1st 1995. Fine condition.

The story of Sharmans newspaper and general printers. Pictorial card wraps. B/w photos. ISBN: 0901680605.

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