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326. [TYPOGRAPHY]. Graphic Methods and Colour Printing. A Companion book to Printing in School.Wimbledon. Art Society Press King’s College School. [no date early 1960’s]
£48 Oblong 4to., original spiral bound card boards. A very good copy.
First edition. This copy presented to Sir John Wolfenden on the occasion of his opening a new building at King’s College School Wimbledon.
327. TYPOGRAPHY. LEWIS, John. Typography. Design and Practice. Barrie and Jenkins. 1978.
£28
4to., original cloth with dust wrapper. A fine copy. First edition.
328. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS. [SHAW, G.B.]. EVANS, Herbert M. & Dorothy A. A Visit with G.B.S. Berkeley, University of California Press. 1947.
£48
8vo., pp. 19, original cloth-backed paper-covered boards with gilt silhouette of Shaw on upper board, photographic portrait frontispiece of G.B.S, title-page printed in red and black, bookplate. A fine copy.
Limited edition of 250 copies, this one of 60 for members of the Roxburghe Club of San Francisco. “The account of a visit with Bernard Shaw based upon a diary kept by H.M.E. while on an air trip to Europe, primarily to attend the December Séance Solennelle of the University of Paris.”
With this copy are two ALSs from the authors to Lee Stopple, whose bookplate is in the volume.
329. USC FINE ARTS PRESS. COLUMBUS, Christopher The Letter of Columbus on his Discovery of the New World. Los Angeles. USC Fine Arts Press. . 1989.
£198
8vo., original morocco backed paper covered boards. With vignette map on title-page and 5 full page woodcuts printed in blue. A fine copy.
First edition with an Introduction by Professor Doyce Nunis and Professor Charles Ritcheson, limited edition of 326 copies. With a facsimile of the Stephen Plannck 1494 edition of The Letter reproduced in actual size. The woodcuts are reproduced from the first illustrated edition of The Letter, Basel 1493, and the map reproduced on the title-page is a sketch chart by Columbus of the northwest coast of Hispaniola, made during the first voyage.
With a translation of The Letter by Samuel Eliot Morison. A handsomely printed edition of Christopher Columbus’s letter announcing the success of his voyage to the “islands of the India sea” , one of the most remarkable documents ever published. It is a key document in the social and intellectual histories of both Europe and the Americas.
The first volume printed by the USC Fine Press, designed by Gerald Lange and printed by hand by Robin Price.
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