Juzo Takaoka — My Study of Letterpress Typography

Tokyo, Uyou Shorin Co. Ltd. 2013. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition of this illustrated study of letterpress typography from Japanese letterpress printer Juzo Takaoka, in the original Japanese. Japanese with English print. First edition, first printing. With an insert that reads: "With the compliments of Juzo Takaoka Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts." Illustrated in colour throughout. A study of the letterpress typography of Juzo Takaoka, a Japanese letterpress printer specializing in Western typesetting. He was advisor to the Kazui Press Limited, a letterpress company in Tokyo, Japan, and a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, UK. This work, created by Takaoka himself, contains much of his work from the 1970s providing a key insight into the art at the time and his development of different techniques. While working as a commercial printer, Takaoka created several collections of letterpress studies that were highly regarded overseas. These works are included in this volume. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is very smart with light wear to the extremities with the odd small mark. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Near Fine.