Private Press & Typography (30)

Private Press & Typography

Officina Bodoni (The):

The Operation of a Hand-press during the first six years of its work,

number 182 of 500 copies, 12 full-page woodcut illustrations by Frans Masereel, illustrations and specimens tipped in, some light offsetting and foxing, original cloth, gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, original decorated dust-jacket, slightly dusty and a little foxed, 4to, Paris and New York, At the Sign of the Pegasus, printed by the Officina Bodoni in Verona, 1929; Morison (Stanley) Eustachio Celebrino Da Udene, number 40 of 175 numbered copies, original cloth, gilt, dust-jacket, slightly dusty and jacket slightly rubbed on upper edge, sample and prospectus laid-in, The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1929; The Treatise of Gerard Mercator, Literarum Latinarum, quas Italicas, cusoriasque vocant, scribendarum ratio. Edited by Jan DenucA, with a note by Stanley Morison, number 37 of 280 copies, original cloth, dust-jacket torn with a little loss, prospectus laid-in, Antwerp: De Sikkel & Paris: Pegasus Press, 1930 § Curwen Press (The) Almanack 1926, number 21 of 425 copies, original cloth backed boards, dust-jacket, The Curwen Press, 1926 § The First Edition Club: A Bibliographical Catalogue or the First Loan Exhibition of Books and Manuscripts held by the First Edition Clube 1922, number 108 of 500 copies, inscribed by A.J.A.Symons to Ambrose Heal, original cloth backed boards, printed paper labels, 1922; together with other Private Press books by Morison, Alfred J. Fairbanks, Rudolph Koch, and others, v.s (30)

***All from the collection of Ambrose Heal [Heals & Sons Ltd], Many with inscriptions, or bookplate.