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ANCIENT BOOKS AND MODERN DISCOVERIES
Kenyon, Frederic G.
First edition, limited to 350 copies printed by Bruce Rogers at the press of William Edwin Rudge. (Haas 141). The collotype plates were made by Emery Walker. Six chapters on early bookmaking including discussions of 12 early types of book material, writing on vellum, paper and libraries. Rubbed along edges and tips.
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MATRIX 8.
Limited to 900 copies of which this is one of the 800 copies of the trade edition bound in a pattern paper by Vance Gerry. Filled with tipped-in plates and other illustrations. Articles by Michael Taylor on Douglas Cleverdon, David Butcher on the Curwen Press, Tanya Schmoller on The Fancy Paper Company, David McKitterick on Edward Bawden, Mark Arman on Printing on the Normandy Beach-Head in 1944, and many others. Small tear in paper wrappers along top of front cover.
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