Main entry:

Meynell, Francis, 1891-1975, author.

Title & Author:

English printed books / Francis Meynell.

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

London : Collins, 1948.
Northampton : Printed ... by Clarke & Sherwell Ltd.

Description:

46 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), facsimiles (some color) ; 23 cm

Series:

Britain in pictures.
The British people in pictures.

Notes:
"With 8 plates in colour and 21 illustrations in black & white."
Includes bibliographical references (page 48).
List of [color] illustrations: The Pitt Press, Cambridge, water colour by George Belton Moore, c. 1835 -- The strange adventures of a dog-cart, colour lithographs by Randolph Caldecott from his Last 'Graphic' Pictures, 1888 -- Children's illustrated books, Kate Greenaway's Marigold Garden, 1885 -- The first revival of the "chap-book" style, hand coloured woodcuts by Joseph Crawhall from Isaac Walton His Wallet Booke, 1885 -- The painter as illustrator, coloured woodcut by William Nicholson: the barmaid from W. Henley's London Types, 1898 -- The painter as illustrator, colour-stencilled drawing by Paul Nash, 1932, for Sir Thomas Browne's Urne Buriall -- A Modern technique, linocut by M.R.H. Farrar for the Nonesuch press Comus, 1937 -- The painter as illustrator, colour lithograph by Eric Ravilious: chemist's shop at night from J.M. Richards' High Street, 1938.

Subject:

Printing England History.
Early printed books England Bibliography.
Printing Great Britain History.
Imprimerie Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Imprimerie Angleterre Histoire.
Livres anciens Angleterre Bibliographie.
Early printed books
Printing
Great Britain
England

Form/genre:

Bibliographies
History
Books.
Case bindings (Binding)
Decorated papers (Binding)
Dust jackets (Binding)
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) PPT

Added entries:

Britain in pictures.
British people in pictures.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 69761
Call No.: 0006803 Z151.M4; ID:86-B10843
Status: Available