Introduction to Typography.

Simon (Oliver).

Published by First edition, 8vo, pp.xi[1],137 + 1 folding plate, London: Faber and Faber, 1945.

About this Item

Illustrated with type specimens etc. Beige cloth, decorated in blue, titled in red, typographic dust-jacket (a little soiled). A very good to fine copy of a classic work, printed at the Curwen Press and subsequently reprinted many times. Roger Senhouse's copy, with his ownership signature. Roger Henry Pocklington Senhouse (1899 -1970) was an English publisher and translator, and a member of the Bloomsbury Group of writers, intellectuals, and artists. The private letters of openly gay writer Lytton Strachey reveal that Roger Senhouse was his last lover, with whom he had a relationship in the early 1930s. In 1935, Senhouse became co-owner with Fredric Warburg of the publishing house which became Secker & Warburg, rescuing it from receivership. The firm translated several works by the French novelist Colette and The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir. It also published major writers and works of the era including George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm, Theodore Roethke, Alberto Moravia, Günter Grass, Angus Wilson, and Melvyn Bragg. Seller Inventory # 10139

Bibliographic Details

Title: Introduction to Typography.

Publisher: First edition, 8vo, pp.xi[1],137 + 1 folding plate, London: Faber and Faber, 1945.

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition