Collection of books on the history of private press, printing, typography. To include The Ladies of Gregynog, 1984, limited edition numbered 9 of 105, featuring loosely inserted sheet of signatures from the Executive Committee of Cardiff Civic Society, quarter cloth; Cockalorum: A Bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, 1948, brown cloth, dust-jacket; The Printer and the Poet, by Nicholas Barker, Cambridge: Privately Printed, 1970, one of 500 copies, quarter-cloth; Exordium: Daedalus Press 1968-1983, Wymondham: Brewhouse Private Press, 1983, final offering from Daedalus Press limited to 150 signed and numbered copies, this being a review copy, gilt brown cloth; Typography, by Francis Meynell, London: Pelican Press, [1923], blue buckram with paper title label; Tributes to Edward Johnston, Kent: Privately Printed, 1948, loosely inserted signed letter from the Principal of Maidstone College of Art, 1951, full cloth; John Cheney and His Descendants: Printers in Banbury Since 1767, Banbury: Printed for Private Circulation, 1936, loosely inserted letter from Cheney & Sons, 1949, brown cloth with dust-jacket; The Romance of a Century: The House of Bemrose, 1926, stiff card covers; The University Printing House at Cambridge, Cambridge: University Press, 1962, one of 500 copies, red cloth with slipcase; A Bibliography of The Black Sun Press, New York: G. R. Minkoff, 1970, one of 1250 copies, black cloth; Ichabod Dawks, by Stanley Morison, Cambridge: University Press, 1931, pencil note attributing the gift inscription to 'RLA' from Beatrice Warde, gilt brown buckram, dust-jacket; On Type Faces, by Stanley Morison, London: Medici Society & Fleuron, 1923, numbered 588 of 750, quarter-cloth with marbled boards; Biographie de Thierry Martens, 1852, in paper wrappers, loose as found; The House of Enschede, Haarlem: Enschede, 1953, paper boards, and others, including booklets (37)
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