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DESIGNING BOOKS: PRACTICE AND THEORY.
Hochuli, Jost and Robin Kinross

- London : Hyphen Press (1996) - large 8vo. - cloth, dust jacket - 166, (2) pages. - ISBN 0907259081 / Order Nr. 70679 - Price: $ 125.00

First edition thus. A study of book design which is divided into three parts. The first, Book Design as a School of Thought, was originally delivered in German as a lecture and published as a pamphlet in 1991. The second part, Designing Books, was published as a separate booklet by Agfa in 1989, in German. The third part, Books Designed by Jost Hochuli, is new. Co-author Robin Kinross comments on 27 of his works. Illustrated and includes an index of book designers, illustrators, publishers and journals. Only slight jacket wear.

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EARLY GOTHIC MANUSCRIPTS, 1190-1250. With 1250-1285. by Morgan, Nigel First U.S. editions. With 330 illustrations in the first volume and 462 illustrations in the second volume with some in color. Jacket spines faded; chipped around edges.