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SO LONG, HOT-METAL MEN
de Nova Villa, Henricus
The Comprehensive Bird & Bull Type Specimen Book
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Limited to an edition of 140 numbered copies. This book represents a full year of daily work creating a type specimen book that not only shows type faces ranging from the very rare to the common but also contains wonderful Henry Morris quotes composed in type. While there are serious entries, many, if not most, exhibit Morris's finely-tuned humor. How often does one get immense reading pleasure, to say nothing of a good laugh, from an exquisitely executed type specimen book? The alphabets shown range from the gargantuan 84-pt. to a miniscule 4-pt. There is ornamental material from the last days of the great German type founders, which is rarely seen in American private presses, much of which was designed by Hermann Zapf and others of equal ability. "I've seen many of the type specimen books of the twentieth century and I believe I have come up with a novel way of doing this. I predict the idea will be copied, but this is the original and no serious collection should be without it." (from the prospectus). Set in numerous types printed on Frankfurt paper.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AUSTRALIA
by Ferguson, John Alexander
Volumes I and 2 are facsimile editions and the rest are original editions. This set is the standard reference work for printed matter relating to Australia. Volume I: introduction by G. Chandler, with 32 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 2: covers the years 1831-1838, and includes 39 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 3 covers the years 1839-1845 and is the original 1951 edition published by Angus and Robertson Ltd., with 37 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 4 covers the years 1864-1850 and is the original 1955 edition with 38 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 5 covers the years 1851-1900, entries A-G. It is the original 1963 edition with a frontispiece, 35 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 6 covers the years 1851-1900, entries H-P, and is the original 1965 edition with a frontispiece, 36 black-and-white illustrations and an index. Volume 7 covers the years 1851-1900, entries Q-Z and is the final volume in the set. It is the original 1969 edition with a frontispiece, 36 black-and-white illustrations and an index. All volumes have some minor wear and rubbing at extremities, and spine ends are bumped. Volume 3 is missing the dust jacket.
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