MOTIFS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.

(Cheshire County Training College.)

MOTIFS OF ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS.

Description: lino-cut decoration to title-page and 10 lino-cuts printed direct from the block in different colours, pp. [12], 8vo, sage green boards, the upper board with lino-cut illustration on brown paper with a partial ground in green, a few very faint spots around the spine, marbled endpapers, very good

Publication Details: Alsager: Cheshire County Training College, [1964]

Notes: An unrecorded and impressive example of school-printing at a mid-twentieth century college – at Alsager, near Stoke-on Trent and the border with Staffordshire. Beyond the prelims (title-page, list of illustrations and colophon), the work is entirely visual and very attractively so. No other examples of printing from the college could be traced, and no names are attached to the work here – which includes examples from China, Persia, India, Greece, Japan, Egypt, and New Guinea. The College would merge with its counterpart at Crewe in the next decade; both subsequently became campus location...moreAn unrecorded and impressive example of school-printing at a mid-twentieth century college – at Alsager, near Stoke-on Trent and the border with Staffordshire. Beyond the prelims (title-page, list of illustrations and colophon), the work is entirely visual and very attractively so. No other examples of printing from the college could be traced, and no names are attached to the work here – which includes examples from China, Persia, India, Greece, Japan, Egypt, and New Guinea. The College would merge with its counterpart at Crewe in the next decade; both subsequently became campus locations for Manchester Metropolitan University. HIDE