Typography from Capricedardour

A selection of writings and talks by Beatrice Warde / Paul Beaujon [pseudonym]. - London, The Monotype Corporation, 1970, 4to, pp. 58 (2); sewn in limp card wrappers. Special issue (Volume 44, N° 1) of the Monotype Recorder entirely devoted to Beatrice Warde (1900-1969), typographer and typographic scholar, who established herself a reputation with the publication of new revelations concerning… Saber más sobre este artículo

Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1956, 8vo, pp. (ca. 75); all edges tinted dark blue; orig. cream boards. Uncommercial edition of a birthday calendar, printed to give to friends of the House at Christmas. - Illustrated with 17th and 18th century woodcuts and 19th c. zodiac signs. Printed in green, red and black, with the 16th c. Civilité type,… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, (designed by Mardersteig and printed in Verona at the Officina Bodoni for) the Lanston Monotype Corporation, (1928), 4to, pp. (2) 65 (5); orig. brown cloth gilt. - The new letter designed by Edouardo Cotti after Francesco Pastonchi; with thirteen specimens in various settings, text illustrations and 2 tipped-in plates. Mardersteig's introduction occupies nine pages. A copy of the trade… Saber más sobre este artículo

London, printed at the John Roberts Press for members of the Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1968, 23 x 13cm, pp. vii, 19; sewn with thread in card covers. Finely printed in red and black with Rogers' Centaur type (and the accompanying Arrighi italics by Warde); limited: 350 numbered copies on creamy cartridge paper. In fine condition. - This report of… Saber más sobre este artículo