Fleuron anthology / chosen and with a retrospectus by Francis Meynell and Herbert Simon
1973, First Edition. London: E. Benn. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #393734
ISBN: 0510418503
Physical description: xv, 359 pages illustrations (some color) 29 cm. Notes: Selected from the 7 v. of The Fleuron, published in 1923-30; illus. reproduced in their original size. Includes bibliographical references. Contents: English printing before the Fleuron: a retrospectus -- Printers' flowers and arabesques / Francis Meynell and Stanley Morison -- Claud Lovat Fraser, illustrator / Percy J.D. Smith -- The title page / Oliver Simon -- Emil Rudolf Weiss / Julius Meier-Graefe -- On the planning of printing / D.B. Updike -- Emery Walker / Bernard H. Newdigate -- Mr. C.H. St. John Hornby's Ashendene Press / Bernard H. Newdigate -- Stanley Morison / Frank Sedgwick -- The nonage of 19th century printing in England / Holbrook Jackson -- D.B. Updike and the Merrymount Press / W.A. Dwiggins -- Modern styles in music printing in England / Hubert J. Foss -- Typographical work of Percy Smith / Frank Sedgwick -- On the work of Bruce Rogers / Frederic Warde -- Karl Klingspor / Julius Rodenberg -- Garamond types: XVI & XVII century sources considered / Paul Beaujon.
The work of Rudolf Koch / Albert Windisch -- Geofrey Tory / A.F. Johnson -- On decorative printing in America / Paul Beaujon -- Eric Gill, sculptor of letters / Paul Beaujon -- An unacknowledged movement in fine printing / A.J.A. Symons -- Thomas Maitland Cleland / D.B. Updike -- Decorated types / Stanley Morison. Subjects: Simon, Oliver. Fleuron.
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Image-Making Processes and Techniques. Graphic design (Typography) History Printing Addresses, essays, lectures.
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