The British Printer, Vol. X - 1897

London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd, 1897. (Original). Hardcover. Contents VG- clean and tight, but with foxing to end papers and to the very occasional additional page, mostly at top margin. Hinges loosening. Leather areas rubbed. Solid text block but Art school ex-lib. copy with usual marks. Plates are in pristine condition.. KAVE. The original, illus. title page, frontis and all contents, bound into 3/4 black leather with blue cloth/boards. Gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Decorative green end papers. Pages numbered consecutively throughout, 312 in total. Full of bw, color, and duotone illustrations. A few vibrant chromolithograph plates are included. Two folding plates. The last section is 49 pages of advertisements, A bit overweight at 5 pounds and may require extra postage. The entire volume for 1897. Includes an index to the entire volume. Raithby & Lawrence: Leicester printing firm (later, London: Raithby, Lawrence & Co., Ltd.), noted for its printing of the widely disseminated and influential periodical, The British Printer. Through the efforts and exacting standards of its foreman and chief typographic designer (a new profession for the time) George W. Jones, then Robert Grayson, the firm developed the so-called Leicester Free Style which was England's answer to the artistic printing movement. (Dictionary of 19th-Century Journalism).