The Fleuron No. VII. Deluxe edition
by Morison, Stanley, editor
Price: $500.00
- Bookseller: The Veatchs Arts of the Book
- Seller Inventory #: 15275
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: London, 1930.
Book Description
London, 1930. . 8 1/2 x 11. 253, 25 (ads) pages plus inserts. Illustrated. Blue cloth, gilt lettering by Jan van Krimpen. Spine faded to brown. One of 210 copies on English handmade paper. The final number of the Fleuron, this contains an Index to all seven. Van Krimpen writes of typography in Holland; D. B. Updike on T. M. Cleland; Ewald on the Officina Bodoni; . There are "type reviews" of Centaur, Bembo, Treyford, Antigone, Bernhard, Goudy Modern and Romanée types, with an inserted specimen of each. Beatrice Warde's article on Eric Gill is accompanied by the first showing of Perpetua type, in a 30-page insert illustrated by Gill. This deluxe edition contains Christmas cards by Cleland and a photogravure of a Gill sculpture--not in the regular edition.
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