Search Results: Titles starting with M from Georg Schneebeli :: Rare Books & Prints

First edition, number 261 of 750 numbered copies.
Description: Paperback in glassine wraps. Duodecimo: 18.5 × 14 cm; pp. 61, untrimmed. Illustrated with 3 woodcuts by Jean Kéfalinos.
Condition: Covers in good condition. Spine somewhat discoloured. Internally in very good condition.

A brief history of the Doves Press, the famous Doves typeface and the destruction of the punches and matrices by Cobden-Sanderson. One of 350 copies, signed by the author.
Description: Bound in Morris 'Willow', purple and cream patterend paper covers. Tall octavo: 26.5 × 17 cm; pp. 23. Printed from Monotype Caslon on Sommerville laid paper.
Condition: A very good clean sound copy.

A carefully designed and beautifully printed booklet of poems about the trials and tribulations of working with typesetting and printing presses.
Description: Card covers with pictorial papers wrappers. Octavo: 22 × 15 cm; pp. 11 leaves all but one printed on one side only. Printed from 'Bembo' and 'Old Face Open' (frontispice), 2 illustrations.
Condition: An excellent copy.
Notes: This slim booklet, with a wonderfully minimalist cover, was written by John Frederick Bell (1922–2008), a senior editor at Oxford University Press. The poems were originally published, according to the introduction, in The Lantern, OUP's house magazine, in 1951–1953. The booklet was printed by the Perpetua Press, a side project of the university printer Vivian Ridler, in an edition of 200 copies, according to the colophon.