Penrose’s Pictorial Annual (The Process Year Book), Volume 09, 1903

Cover and title page designed and modelled by Mr. George Stuart Littlejohn

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  • Format Book
  • Year 1903
  • Client/Publisher A. W. Penrose & Co.
  • Size 185mm x 245mm
The Penrose Annual
Penrose’s Annual was an annual survey of printing and reproduction processes, documenting the technical and aesthetic development of the graphic arts

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Penrose’s Pictorial Annual (The Process Year Book), Volume 09, 1903
Penrose’s Pictorial Annual (The Process Year Book), Volume 09, 1903
Volume nine of the British Penrose Annual, that documented print process, technology and art and design progression.
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