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NINETEENTH CENTURY TYPE DISPLAYED IN 18 FONTS CAST BY UNITED STATES FOUNDERS, NOW IN THE CASES OF THE GRABHORN PRESS.
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- San Francisco : David Magee 1959
- oblong small 4to.
- cloth- backed decorated paper-covered boards, paper spine label.
- (x) pages followed by 18 leafs of type specimens.
- Order Nr. 17553
- Price: $ 225.00
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First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies printed at the Grabhorn Press and signed by both Grabhorns (Grabhorn Bibliography 667). A commonplace book in which the Grabhorns have taken 18 fonts of 19th century type and displayed them in a variety of colors and accompanied them by various cuts, ornaments, alphabets, etc. Well preserved copy.
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> Voris, W.R., NOTES ON SOME EARLY GRABHORN ITEMS TOGETHER WITH SOME MORE OR LESS IMPERTINENT COMMENTS
> Wheat, Carl I., A BIBLIO-LAMENT.
> Macaulay, Lord, " ON THE DURABILITY OF AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS," A LETTER WRITTEN BY LORD MACAULAY.
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JOHN DEPOL: A PORTFOLIO OF HIS WOOD ENGRAVINGS.
Limited to only 99 numbered copies. A collection of John DePol's (1913-2004) woodcut engravings. Prefatory note by Henry Morris with a note by DePol on his pattern papers. Listing of individuals and corporations for whom engravings in this portfolio were made. Engravings tipped in introductory volume with 22 tipped-in engravings loosely laid in portfolio. This collection of engravings comes from Oak Knoll Press of New Castle, Delaware, and includes many engravings printed by DePol with some signed and dated by him. Also includes a group of prints of Lynd Ward's wood engravings, made for an exhibition at the Barbizon-Plaza Art Gallery in New York. A wood engraving of DePol by Wesley Bates also included.
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