ARS Typographica

The Marchbanks Press, Douglas C. McMurtrie and Press of the Woolly Whale. Quarto. This periodical deals with book and magazine printing, type design and type founding, decorative designs for typography, advertisements, etc. Articles on history and development of types and printing, facsimiles of old title pages and manuscripts, hand letterings of distinctions, bits of curious typographic lore. Marchbanks Press: Vol. I:- #1 Spring 1918, Vol. 1: #2-Summer, 1918, Vol. 1, #3. Spring, 1920, and Press of the Woolly Whale: Vol. 1, #4 Autumn 1934 (prospectus laid in) This issue was dedicated to the memory of Hal Marchbanks Printer [1877-1934] of Numbers one, (truncated) two and three. Douglass C. McMurtrie Press. Vol. II, #1 July 1925; Vol. II, #2-October 1925; Vol. II, #3, January 1926 (damp stain to rear wrapper and Vol. II, #4 April 1926.; Vol. III, #1, July 1926. A very nice set bound in lettered and decorated paper wraps with either: some chipping or small spits to a few spines, a few tiny edge tears to the yapped edges, some toning or finger soiling. All in very good condition. Previous owner's names include: Louis J. Rerra; Curtis E. Lakeman and Lester Douglas. (Inventory #: 023180)