Original leaves from famous English books
- London: The Folio Society, 1963
London: The Folio Society, 1963. A Panorama of English Printing
The Folio Society's Monumental Collection of Original Leaves from the Great English Presses
[LEAF BOOK]. Original Leaves from Famous English Books. London: The Folio Society, [1963].
One of only 200 sets compiled and issued by The Folio Society.
Large folio (22 x 15 3/4 inches; 560 x 400 mm.). Two introductory letterpress leaves, including a descriptive index to the contents, together with twelve original leaves from major monuments of English printing, each mounted within gray card mats. Housed in the original green cloth clamshell case, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. Some light rubbing and minor marks to case. A few leaves with occasional foxing, light toning, or offsetting from original mounting adhesive. Overall a fine, clean, and highly attractive set.
The leaves comprise a sweeping survey of nearly four centuries of English typography and fine printing:
Pynson's Froissart (1523)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1575)
The King James Bible (1611)
Shakespeare, Second Folio (1632) - As You Like It
Clarendon's History (Oxford, 1701-1704)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755)
Baskerville's Virgil (1757)
Foulis Press Pope (1785)
Bulmer's History of the River Thames (1794-1796)
Chiswick Press Book of Common Prayer (1844)
Kelmscott Press, The Well at the World's End (1896)
Doves Press Milton (1902-1905)
An unusually sophisticated and visually impressive "leaf book," issued at a monumental format and bringing together examples from many of the defining moments in the history of English printing.
Particularly desirable are:
the Shakespeare Second Folio leaf, the leaf from the 1611 King James Bible, the Kelmscott Press specimen designed under the influence of William Morris, and the austere typographic beauty of the Doves Press Milton.
The inclusion of examples from: Richard Pynson, Baskerville, the Foulis Press, Bulmer, Kelmscott, and Doves creates a remarkably coherent historical progression from early Tudor printing through the private press revival of the late nineteenth century.
Unlike many twentieth-century leaf books assembled largely from commonplace material, this Folio Society production was conceived as a serious bibliographical and typographic survey, and remains among the most elegant and ambitious examples of the genre.
The Folio Society's Monumental Collection of Original Leaves from the Great English Presses
[LEAF BOOK]. Original Leaves from Famous English Books. London: The Folio Society, [1963].
One of only 200 sets compiled and issued by The Folio Society.
Large folio (22 x 15 3/4 inches; 560 x 400 mm.). Two introductory letterpress leaves, including a descriptive index to the contents, together with twelve original leaves from major monuments of English printing, each mounted within gray card mats. Housed in the original green cloth clamshell case, spine with gilt-lettered red morocco label. Some light rubbing and minor marks to case. A few leaves with occasional foxing, light toning, or offsetting from original mounting adhesive. Overall a fine, clean, and highly attractive set.
The leaves comprise a sweeping survey of nearly four centuries of English typography and fine printing:
Pynson's Froissart (1523)
Foxe's Book of Martyrs (1575)
The King James Bible (1611)
Shakespeare, Second Folio (1632) - As You Like It
Clarendon's History (Oxford, 1701-1704)
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (1755)
Baskerville's Virgil (1757)
Foulis Press Pope (1785)
Bulmer's History of the River Thames (1794-1796)
Chiswick Press Book of Common Prayer (1844)
Kelmscott Press, The Well at the World's End (1896)
Doves Press Milton (1902-1905)
An unusually sophisticated and visually impressive "leaf book," issued at a monumental format and bringing together examples from many of the defining moments in the history of English printing.
Particularly desirable are:
the Shakespeare Second Folio leaf, the leaf from the 1611 King James Bible, the Kelmscott Press specimen designed under the influence of William Morris, and the austere typographic beauty of the Doves Press Milton.
The inclusion of examples from: Richard Pynson, Baskerville, the Foulis Press, Bulmer, Kelmscott, and Doves creates a remarkably coherent historical progression from early Tudor printing through the private press revival of the late nineteenth century.
Unlike many twentieth-century leaf books assembled largely from commonplace material, this Folio Society production was conceived as a serious bibliographical and typographic survey, and remains among the most elegant and ambitious examples of the genre.
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Original leaves from famous English books
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London: The Folio Society, 1963