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BIBLIOGRAPHIES AND REFERENCE BOOKS
"European, English and American Literature - The Fine Arts, including Painting, Engraving and Architecture - Genealogy & Heraldry - Incunabula - Manuscripts - Dictionaries and Vocabularies - The Arts of teh Book, including formation of libraries, the Book Trade, Typography, Illustration and Binding - mainly from the library of Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, the noted 19th century historian and collector, co-founder of the Philobiblon Society, and authority on Spanish art INCLUDING a large selection of priced auction catalogues of many of the most important late 18th and early 19th century libraries AND a separate section of Americana, including an extensive group of bibliographies and special studies by José Toribio Medina, as well as auction, dealer and private catalogues of great Americana collections." (from the title page). Contains 898 entries and an author index.
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FLEURON, A JOURNAL OF TYPOGRAPHY.
by Morison, Stanley
Limited to 1210 copies of which this is one of 210 numbered copies signed by Morison bound thus and printed on hand-made paper. The deluxe version also differs from the ordinary copies in that it has a binding designed by Jan Van Krimpen, includes more illustrations and has some illustrations printed direct from the original plates. The last issue of the Fleuron. With articles by Van Krimpen, Warde on Eric Gill, Morison, Koch, Symons, Ewald on The Officina Bodoni and Updike on Cleland. One of the plates in Eric Gill's essay "The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity" is signed by Gill. Spine faded and covers rubbed in places.
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