NEWLY DISCOVERED TREATISE ON CLASSIC LETTER DESIGN PRINTED AT PARMA BY DAMIANUS MOYLLUS CIRCA 1480, REPRODUCED IN FACSIMILE WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY STANLEY MORISON.|A

Paris: At the Sign of the Pegasus, 1927. quarter vellum with paper-covered boards, gilt embellishments on front and rear boards, gilt lettering on spine. Officina Bodoni. 8vo. quarter vellum with paper-covered boards, gilt embellishments on front and rear boards, gilt lettering on spine. 81, (3) pages. First edition, printed by Giovanni Mardersteig at his Officina Bodoni in an edition limited to 350 copies of which only 300 were offered for sale (Mardersteig, no.21). Covers lightly spotted, else a near fine copy.



Introduction by Stanley Morison. The original publication, which is the first printed treatise on the construction of Roman capital letters, is included here in facsimile. The original text and type specimens are reproduced in collotype by Albert Frisch of Berlin on mould-made paper. Original text also translated into English. This is the last book printed by Mardersteig in Mantagnola, Switzerland, before his move to Verona, Italy.