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London: Senate, 1995. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. xxx, 256 pages. Reprint of the third edition, revised and enlarged. With 254 illustrations of alphabets. A very good copy.

Paperback / softback. New.

London: B.T. Batsford and New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. cloth. 8vo. cloth. xxx, 256 pages. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Shaken, front hinge cracked, minor wear to spine ends. With the private bookplate of Robert Leslie on front pastedown. A very good copy. With 254 illustrations of alphabets.

London: B.T. Batsford, 1898. [Arts and crafts] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[2] xxii; 40 [159 unpaginated plates], 10. SIGNED by the author in black ink to front blank. With 178 illustrations of alphabets throughout. Publisher's red cloth, designs and titles blocked in black to upper and spine. Decorative typographic endpapers. Publisher's advertisements to rear. Binding slightly shaken with gutter visible in a few places. Lightly spotted throughout. Textblock edges toned and spotted. Light toning and marking to cloth with rubbing to joints/extremities. Faint pen stroke to lower corner of upper board. Good. Written by Lewis Foreman Day, a major figure in the Arts and Crafts movement - the book emphasises a connection between art and letters, a matter of when and how an artist may successfully 'tamper with the alphabet.'.