Éloge de la Typographie, [In Praise of Typography]. by CRANACH…

No. 49 of 115 copies on Monval paper, 15 of these were hors commerce and there were an additional 14 copies on vellum. Opening initial engraved by Eric Gill, ornamented by Aristide Maillol with a female nude emitting rays and heightened in gilt and lapis lazuli on a dark reddish background by Max Goertz. Printed in red and black on Maillol-Kessler handmade paper with the Méditerranée watermark. Designed by Harry Kessler in his Jenson-Antiqua typeface and Johnston italic types, composed by Walter Tanz and Hans Schulze and printed by Max Kopp, under Kessler’s direction. Pp. 13. 28.3 x 17.8 cm, 4to., unusually this copy is in the original deluxe binding used for the vellum copies, signed by Otto Dorfner of full red morocco, with gilt fillet borders on each side and gilt lettering on the upper, spine in compartments with raised bands, turn-ins with double gilt fillets, housed in a later clamshell box with morocco and gilt spine label. Some offset from turn-ins on free endpapers, otherwise in extremely good condition.