THE FLEURON. A journal of typography. Volumes I to VII, complete

Simon, Oliver [Editor]; Morison, Stanley [Editor]

Edité par The Fleece Press, London, 1923

Totalling approximately 1,500 pages, profusely illustrated in colour and black & white (several folding, many full page), numerous hand-tipped examples and facsimiles, several decorative initials, patterned endpapers Volumes V & VI, index Volume VII; demy 4to; most volumes black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, Volume V beige cloth, lettered and decorated in red & blue, Volume VI green cloth, decorated in gilt and dark green, Volume VII brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, occasionally a trifle marked, a couple of corners faintly bruised; top edges gilt (first 4 volumes) or red (Volume VI), others mostly uncut); dust wrapper for Volume VII only; bookseller's tiny stamp at foot of upper pastedowns Volumes I-VI, 2 small bookplates (David and Hermione Chambers, and James Alan Maclean) and signs of removal of another bookplate on upper pastedown Volume VII, all with the book label of David Levine (Sydney) on upper pastedown, a little faint offsetting from some of the coloured illustrations, occasional light foxing; The Fleuron (Volumes I-IV)/Cambridge University Press (Volumes V-VII), London & Cambridge, 1923-1930. First editions, the first 6 volumes being deluxe editions, printed on handmade paper and limited to between 110 and 160 numbered copies; Volume VII one of 1,000 copies on machine made paper. *A complete set of the major twentieth century British journal on typography and the book arts. Contributors include D. B. Updike, Holbrook Jackson, W. A. Dwiggins, Stanley Morison, Rudolf Koch, A. J. A. Symons, and others, on subjects including the work of Emery Walker, T. J. Cobden-Sanderson, Bruce Rogers, Frederic W. Goudy, Eric Gill, Claud Lovat Fraser, the Officina Bodoni, script types, decorative papers, and more. From the collection of Australian graphic designer and typographer Eric Maguire, who made the attractive dust wrappers for the first six volumes, each from different Japanese handmade patterned papers, with small volume labels in his distinctive hand. The publisher's printed dust wrapper for the final volume is slightly soiled, with a couple of tiny splits at head of backstrip, and with four small inked underlining to some of the text on the front panel. N° de réf. du vendeur 163420

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : THE FLEURON. A journal of typography. ...
Éditeur : The Fleece Press, London
Date d'édition : 1923
Edition : First Edition.