quarter cloth, cloth sides, dust jacket
1948 · (Nottingham
(Nottingham: Thos. Forman & Sons), 1948. quarter cloth, cloth sides, dust jacket. Forman & Sons Ltd, Thomas. 4to. quarter cloth, cloth sides, dust jacket. 167 pages. Limited to only 200 numbered copies. Contains tipped-in color frontispiece, many tipped-in half-tones and is printed on handmade paper. A largely pictorial history of the firm that was founded in 1710. A brief essay, Centenary by Frank Fuller, is followed by a chronologically arranged sequence of facsimiles of a selection of the firm's printings, including title-pages, brochures, advertising posters from 1714 to 1948. Jacket rubbed with chipping. Empty pocket mounted on back pastedown. (Inventory #: 80219)