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Price: US$5.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Single sheet printed as 4 pages, near fine condition, top edge slightly creased. Sold with a fair/good copy of the prospectus for The Art of the Bookbinder and Gilder, 1972, single folded sheet printed as 4 pages, creased and spotted.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
James Moran.. Heraldic Influence on Early Printers Devices.. Elmete Press, Leeds, 1978, 1978.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Hardback. Large octavo. xv, 104pp. Original brown cloth with gilt titles and illustrations. A fine copy. Limited edition of 475 copies. No jacket, as issued.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
MORAN, James.. HERALDIC INFLUENCE ON EARLY PRINTER'S DEVICES.. The Elmete Press,, Leeds,, 1978.
Price: US$38.50 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardback. No Dustjacket. Small 4to. Original publisher's ictorial cloth gilt illustrated on cover lettered gilt at the spine . Issued without dustjacket. pp xvi, 108 with 63 reproductions of printers devices. One of 475 numbered copies on mouldmade paper. ISBN 0950336785 Fine.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Set in Garamond and printed in reddish-brown and black on St Cuthbert's Mill all rag paper. Number 57 of 475 copies. 63 illustrations in text. Brown cloth, leather spine label gilt, upper board ornately stamped in gilt, gold top. A fine copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.38 + shipping
Description: Illustrations One of 475 copies on mould-made paper, this being a review copy. Printed in red and black 4to Fine copy
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Moran, James. HERALDIC INFLUENCE ON EARLY PRINTERS' DEVICES. Elmete Press, Leeds, 1978.
Price: US$93.75 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 104 pages; Copy #8 of 35 bound in full leather from total edition of 475. (this information from the publisher's prospectus. ) a bit of rubbing along bottom edge, else about fine. In the publisher's clear plastic cover.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Description: One of 35 copies (this number from the prospectus) bound in full leather from a limited edition of 475 numbered copies. Leather, gilt-blocked cover decoration, small 4to, 26 cm xv, 104, [1] pp, 63 ills A copy in the superior (leather) binding, the book also having been issued in cloth: the prospectus indicates that 35 copies were to be bound in leather and 440 in cloth. Attractively printed in black and crimson. "This is not merely another book on the subject of printers' devices but one on a particular aspect, which raises the question of why the first devices took the form they did. We cannot be sure why Fust and Schoeffer chose their distinctive shields and at that particular time (1462) but we can have a good guess. They were men of their time and were influenced by prevailing ideas. The first printer's device consists of what are known as 'bürger-wappen' (burgher arms), a Germanic development which did not take hold in Britain, perhaps due to a more flexible social system. For many hundreds of years in mainland Europe there was the attachment to the idea that armorial bearings and nobility were linked, whereas in Britain for a long time it has been possible for a person of good standing - a 'gentleman' - to be granted arms. The rising middle class in Europe began to devise their own arms, often basing them on trading marks, which they used to assert their equality with genuine armigers. If Fust and Schoeffer's device were adopted as a gesture of status, and its timing suggests it was, for how long did printers view it in this light, and for how long did the attitude last?" - from the preface. Copy No. 18. Prospectus loosely laid in. Slightly rubbed at extremities and minor scuffs to boards, otherwise Fine.
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Moran, James. Heraldic Influence on Early Printers' Devices. Leeds: The Elmete Press, 1978.
Price: US$133.25 + shipping
Description: 1978. Limited ed (440). Gilt stamped cloth, small quarto, 104 pp. with 63 figures. Printed in red and black. Printed on all rag mould-made paper. Fine. #198 of 475.
Seller: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.