Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering
Edward Johnston | Noel Rooke | [Eric Gill]
Sold by North Books: Used & Rare, Manchester, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since May 7, 2012
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Add to basketSold by North Books: Used & Rare, Manchester, NH, U.S.A.
AbeBooks Seller since May 7, 2012
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketStated "Second Edition, Revised." 4.75 x 7.5in. xxxii. 510pp. "8pp. examples in red & black and 24pp. of collotypes." Publisher's quarter buckram over paper-covered boards. Signed and inscribed by the author, Edward Johnston, at the half-title page: "Given to H.C.D.C. by E.J. 14. June 1908." Directly above the inscription is the former owner's initials in gold leaf, designed, cut and "worked in" by Johnston himself. The former owner, Henry C. D. Chorlton (1887-1929), was an artist and member of the Northern Art Workers Guild, who visited Johnson at his home in Hammersmith. His bookplate at the front paste-down briefly details the visit and Johnston's extraordinary gift of a monogram in manuscript. An extraordinary copy of the masterpiece by the father of modern calligraphy, which remains the definitive history and manual of the art. VERY GOOD. Shows an additional small bookplate noting this book at one time bequeathed to Chorlton's niece, at the back paste-down bookplates for the Athenaeum Graphic Club and Baylis House, the book itself with slight handling and shelf wear, marginal shelf rubbing of the extremities, fore-edge alone is lightly foxed, slightly over-opened at the signature, otherwise the binding is strong and tight, the text is clean and unmarked, and the boards remain bright and distinct. As pictured.
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