Fleuron Journal Typography The: Signed (4 results)
More imagesPublished by The Fleuron, Printed at the Curwen Press / Cambridge University Press, London 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.Midway Book Store (ABAA)
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Quarto. Complete set, mixed edition. Some foxing in volume 1 &2. Cloth spine of volume 1 faded, scuffed on front cover. Volumes 1 & 2 are quarter cloth with paper over boards. Volumes 3 & 4 are bound in black cloth. Volumes 3-7 are limited editions on… hand-made paper while volumes 1 & 2 are of the standard edition, 1/1000 copies on Antique Cream Laid paper. Vol III: 48/125, vol IV: 78/120, vol V: 90/110, vol VI: 11/160, vol VII: 128/210 Small closed tears to spine of volume 4. Volumes 5, 6, & 7 are in dust jackets. The deluxe limited editions feature additional illustrations not present in the standard edition. Volume 6 with a pamphlet of Greek type specimen "The New Hellenic" which has an engraving signed by David Jones (pamphlet mounted opposite page 231). The final volume is signed by one of the editors, Stanley Morison, on the colophon page, as well as artist Eric Gill on his Perpetua type specimen preceding page 51. Jackets with a few small closed tears. Extensively illustrated throughout with type specimens, engravings, portraits, head and tail pieces, and high quality color facsimiles of pages from finely printed books. Tipped inclusions in volumes 5,6 & 7. One of the most important and influential typographical periodical. Many of the most important people in the book arts and typography for the time period are discussed and illustrated such as Karl Klingspor, Rudolf Koch and J. E. Laboureur. Beatrice Warde's (writing as Paul Beaujon) important scholarly article on Garamond typefaces appears in volume 5. Reference: Grant Shipcott. Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars: A Critique of The Fleuron, Signature and Typography.
Published by Cambridge at the University Press and New York: Doubleday Doran & Co. 1928
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. The copy on offer is the Deluxe Edition printed in an edition of 160 copies of which 150 were for sale. Printed on hand-made paper and containing several tipped in exhibits that were not in the regular edition, including an illustration by David Jones that is pencil signed accompanying The Flying… fisherman that is reproduced within the volume. Also, there is a copperplate engraving accompanying De Compensatione Rerum, a prize essay for the Chancellor's Latin Prose at the University of Oxford, 1922. Some slight wear to the tips but overall a beautiful collector's copy of one of the most acclaimed typographic journals of the 20th century. Book.
Published by Cambridge University Press; Cambridge, first edition, edition de luxe, 1930 1930
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Signed
Seller: Wykeham Books, LONDON, , United KingdomWykeham Books
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Limited Edition of 210 de luxe copies on handmade paper (from a total edition of 1210). Cloth, gilt-stamped cover titles and cover device,4to, 29 cm, xii, 253, 24 pp plus inserts, plates (some colour). The last and greatest issue of The Fleuron, Stanley Morison and Oliver Simon's showcase for the typographic arts, here in one of… the "de luxe" copies. This differs from the ordinary copies in that it has a binding designed by Jan Van Krimpen, it includes some additional illustrations, and has some of the illustrations printed direct from the original plates, and it is printed on English handmade wove paper and signed by Stanley Morison. Grant Shipcott in his informative book "Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars" enthused:about the volume. Contents include Typography in Holland, by J. Van Krimpen, Haarlem; Eric Gill, Sculptor of Letters, by Paul Beaujon, London with A List of Books with lettering and illustrations by E. G. compiled by Douglas Cleverdon; also The Passion of SS. Perpetua & Felicity in a new translation by W. H. Shewring with engravings by E. G.; First Principles of Typography, by Stanley Morison, London; Heinrich Holz, by Rudolf Koch, Offenbach; An Unacknowledged Movement in Fine Printing, by A. J. A. Symons, London; The Officina Bodoni, by Friedrich Ewald, Hannover; Thomas Maitland Cleland, by D. B. Updike, Boston; Footnotes To Book Production : Early Italics in the German Empire, by A. F. Johnson; Epitaph upon "Period" Printing, by Paul Beaujon; Baskerville's Jobbing Work, by Graham Pollard; The Trusler Script Types, by Stanley Morison; The earliest known work of Arrighi, by Stanley Morison. Also : Type reviews (with specimen works printed in the types) of Centaur roman, Bembo roman, Treyford roman and italic, Antigone greek, Bernhard roman, italic and script, Goudy Modern roman and italic, Romanée roman, Perpetua roman and italic.; Book reviews; Index to the Fleuron I-VII, etc. etc. Copy No. 198, numbered and signed by Stanley Morison, and with the Perpetua type specimen signed "Eric G." [=Gill]. Covers a little rubbed with fading to the lower edge and lower spine-corner of front board, very minor bumping to spine, otherwise Good in a dustwrapper which is chipped and somewhat browned and soiled with tears to the lower front hinge (tape repair on reverse).
Published by Cambridge: At The University Press & Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1930. 1930
- Hardcover
- Signed
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, CanadaD & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB)
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Hardcover. 4to. pp. xi, [1 leaf], 40, [8], 41-50, 28, [4], 51-188, 19, 189-252, [1], 25(ads), [1 leaf]. 1 folding photogravure, 2 folding collotypes, 5 mounted plates (4 colour), 3 text engravings & 12 inserts (some with illus.). numerous text illus. & type examples (some in red & black). cloth (spine faded). Limited to 1210 cop…ies, this one of 210 de-luxe copies on English hand-made wove, with an extra plate, 2 mounted plates in colour, & 3 text engravings printed from the original zinc plates rather than reproduced in offset, numbered & signed by Stanley Morison. Including articles on typography in Holland by J. Van Krimpen, Eric Gill by Paul Beaujon, the first principles of typography by Stanley Morison, the Officina Bodoni by Friedrich Ewald, &c. Signed by Author(s).
