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First Edition. Chosen with a Retrospectus by Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon. Pp. xvi+360(last colophon), numerous illustrations (mostly full page, several coloured or tinted, some printed in red & black); demy 4to; navy cloth, spine lettered in silver, slightly marked and rubbed, corners bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed and split; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, edges of leaves faintly soiled, a few corners slightly creased; Ernest Benn, London, 1973. First U.K. edition thus. *Seven volumes of The Fleuron - a Journal of Typography were published from 1923 to 1930. This selection includes articles by Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson, Oliver Simon, D. B. Updike, W. A. Dwiggins, A. J. A. Symons, and others, on topics including the Ashendene Press, and the work of Claud Lovat Fraser, Emery Walker, Bruce Rogers, and Eric Gill.