SPLENDOR OF ORNAMENT Specimens Selected from the Essempio Di Recammi, the First Italian Manual of Decoration, Venice 1524 By Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
Language: English
Published by Lion and Unicorn Press, London, 1968
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Entropy Books, Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.Entropy Books
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
Condition: Used - Fine
US$ 145.00
Quantity: 1 available
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Gold Jacquard woven cloth, square 4to., 72 French-folded pages, illustrated with 52 specimens printed in four colors. One of (400) numbered copies printed from Bembo type on Basingwerk paper at the Lion and Unicorn Press. A fine copy of this colorful and nicely printed book, in archival mylar.
Seller Inventory # 008307
Bibliographic details
- Title
- SPLENDOR OF ORNAMENT Specimens Selected from the Essempio Di Recammi, the First Italian Manual of Decoration, Venice 1524 By Giovanni Antonio Tagliente
- Author
- (Lion and Unicorn Press); Stanley Morison and Esther Potter; Preface By Berthold Wolpe
- Publisher
- Lion and Unicorn Press, London
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Seller catalogs
- Printing History, Private Press, Typography
Entropy Books
Ferndale, MI, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since November 6, 2009
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Private Presses, Bibliography, Graphic Design, Typography, Papermaking, Publishing, Printing, Books about Books, Printed Ephemera, Small Press Poetry, Fine Printing from the 1920s to the PresentSeller's business information
Entropy Books
MI, U.S.A.
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