THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A BIBLIOGRAPHY. WITH AN INTRODUCTION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF HANDWRITING BY STANLEY MORISON.
Cambridge: University Press, 1931. large 4to. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards, Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. xl, 226 pages, 82 plates (i.e. frontis. + 23 portraits, 93 collotypes on 58 plates). First Edition limited to 300 copies signed by the author. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"). A very small abrasion at tail of spine. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with brown paper. Text, plates, and binding..... READ MORE about THE ENGLISH WRITING-MASTERS AND THEIR COPY-BOOKS, 1570-1800. A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY & A...
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