The book: the story of printing & bookmaking

London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967. Third revised edition under present title… ninth printing (originally published as The Golden Book in 1927), thick 8vo, pp. xxx, [2], 676; 12 plates printed recto and verso and profusely illustrated in b&w throughout text (mostly facsimiles, many full-page); a few light pencil underlinings in text, otherwise a very good copy in original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine, and price-clipped dust jacket with some soiling, staining, and chipping. (Inventory #: 26112)