Item #078967 ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK. Geoffrey Ashall Glaister.

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK.

Second edition. With a new Introduction by Donald Farren. Pp. xxiv+552(last blank), 8 coloured plates, black & white text illustrations and figures, appendices; roy. 8vo; pictorial glazed paper wrappers; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, DE./London, 2001. Paperback edition. *Standard and comprehensive reference guide, containing over 3,000 alphabetically arranged definitions of the terms used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking, and the book trade; plus biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders, bibliophiles; notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations, customs of the trade, &c. Originally published in 1960 by Allen & Unwin, London, as Glossary of the Book. A second edition (of which this is a reprint, with a new Introduction) was published in 1979 as Glaister's Glossary of the Book. Item #078967

Price: $90.00

See all items in Books about Books
See all items by