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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Number 191 of 210 (1210) edition de luxe copies printed on handmade paper with two extra inserts. 42 illustrations in text by Eric Gill and Heinrich Holz, other illustrations by Frances Clayton and Denis Tegetmeier. 7 very substantial inserts, being specimens of Perpetua, Centaur Roman, Monotype Bembo and Lutetia. Blue buckram, elaborately blocked in gold on the spine and upper board to a design by Jan van Krimpen. Lacking dust-jacket, slight fading to spine. A very good copy. The final issue, printed in Monotype Barbou and signed by Stanley Morison on the colophon. The issue contains Beatrice Warde's famous essay 'Eric Gill: Sculptor of Letters', this is illustrated with folding plates and other reproductions. Additionally, in this de luxe isse there is a folding photogravure plate of Gill's sculpture `Madonna and Child'. Inset into the essay are 8 pages Initial Letters etc., engraved by Eric Gill, specially printed at the Golden Cockerel Press on handmade paper; this hand-press printing appears only in the de luxe issue. Following the essay is 'The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity', 32 pages with engravings on wood by Gill, and signed by him at the foot of the type specimen. It is the first specimen of Gill's Perpetua type, although there is a school of thought that believes that Gill's signature was provided by Morison. Stanley Morison's Postscript closes with the specially commissioned 'Explicit' engraving by Gill. This final number of `The Fleuron' includes the first printing of Morison's 'First Principles of Typography'; Jan van Krimpen on Typography in Holland; D.B. Updike on T.M. Cleland, and Friedrich Ewald on The Officina Bodoni - this with hand-printed specimens. Magnificent. Signed by Author(s).