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Book Description

Frankfurt, 1832. . 6 3/4 x 8. (83) pages plus fold-out price list (dated 1831); printed one side only. Original decorated wraps, cloth spine. A little wear and soiling, two pieces of tape around spine, text block separated at p. 43, one leaf with a tear. Very good, in cloth covered tray case. An elegant specimen, especially for the period. It opens with a tipped in folding price list printed within a florall border in multiple colors. Following is a nice range of roman and italic faces, frakturs, Egyptians, plus Greek and Hebrew. There are 30 pages of decorative material (a few on pink, blue or green paper and two printed in blue). The last page of decorative material shows five multi-colored mosaic-patterned borders. An early use of colored printers' ornaments. The covers are printed with a geometric/mosaic pattern in brown, tan and green. Rare. OCLC locates only a copy in Amsterdam; HOLLIS notes a partial copy at Harvard. Bigmore & Wyman I p. 185.

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