Little Book of Alphabets. With an Introduction by Michael Taylor.

75/150 COPIES (from an edition of 156 copies) printed on Barcham Green handmade paper and initialled by Graham Williams, with printed and wood-engraved title-pages, the latter on a deep purple ground, also 12 engraved alphabets, each on a different coloured ground, all engraved by Leo Wyatt, the 12 alphabets include: Uncial; Gothic; Lombardic; Decorated Roman; Modern; Incline Roman; Calligraphic Roman; Calligraphic; Block Letter; Copperplate; Pen Script and Flourished Script, pp. [14] + Plates, small 4to, original quarter claret morocco with cream boards, the upper board with inset morocco label lettered in gilt, backstrip lettered in gilt, very faint spot to left-margin of upper board, edges untrimmed, very good. '.Printed by hand on two Albion presses, from the original wood blocks in Betty Wyatt's collection. The text is handset in Original Janson Antiqua. This is the first use both of a paper made specially for The Florin Press by Barcham Green and of the device engraved by Simon Brett. The coloured inks were largely ground by hand from dry pigment and prepared varnish. Bound by Smith Settle.' (Colophon).…