JOHNSON, Alfred Forbes. (Curwen Press printing). ONE HUNDRED TITLE-PAGES. Selected and arranged with an introduction and notes.. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$57.64 + shipping

Description: 4to, (285mm), xxiv,101p. 100 illustrations (including 6 printed in red & black & 13 collotypes). A good, clean, ex-library copy in original quarter black cloth marbled paper boards, these rubbed at the corners. A display of some of the finest or most typographically interesting examples of title-page design produced between 1500 and 1800. Johnson provides brief notes which discusses the relevant points of each example selected and prefaces the illustrations with an historic survey of the development of title-page design. Printed at the Curwen Press with collotypes produced by Whittingham & Griggs. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based and we may request additonal postage. Overseas customers are advised to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and charges.

Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom

JOHNSON, ALFRED FORBES. One Hundred title-Pages 1500-1800. Selected and arranged with an Introducton and Notes by A.F. Johnson. London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Folio, original quarter cloth gilt, boards, bit worn in worn, faded dust jacket mended in over a dozen places (not by us) with cellotape which is old, but has not caused the normal damage one would expect, having only turned a medium tan without turning the underlying paper darker as one would expect. This work has been printed at the Curwen Press. First edition

Seller: G. W. Stuart, Jr., ABAA(emeritus), Yuma, AZ, U.S.A.

Johnson, Alfred Forbes. One hundred title-pages, 1500-1800 : selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by A. F. Johnson. London : Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$323.40 + shipping

Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt titles and gilt-decorated raised bands to spine. An exceptional copy. Some very light foxing to prelims.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; Physical desc. : xxiv p : 100 pl. (facsims. , incl. Front. ) ; 29 x 23 cm. Subject: Title-pages. Printing - Specimens. Title within ornamental border. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Johnson, Alfred Forbes. One hundred title-pages, 1500-1800 : selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by A. F. Johnson. London : Bodley Head, 1928.

Price: US$364.00 + shipping

Description: Finely bound in modern aniline calf over marble boards. Gilt titles and gilt-decorated raised bands to spine. An exceptional copy. Some very light foxing to prelims.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 100 pages; Physical desc. : xxiv p : 100 pl. (facsims. , incl. Front. ) ; 29 x 23 cm. Subject: Title-pages. Printing - Specimens. Title within ornamental border. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.