RICCARDI PRESS. RUSSELL FLINT, William. ~ The Song of Songs which is Solomon’s.
One of 17 copies printed on vellum, this no. 11 (there were were also 500 copies on paper). 10 colour illustrations by Russell Flint tipped in, each preceeded by a caption page, title page vignette by Russell Flint printed in blue. Printed in the Riccardi Font by Chas T. Jacobi on vellum. 4to., original full vellum with green silk ties by Henry Young & Sons of Liverpool, title lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, vellum thongs and gilt dots where the silk ties are visible. An extremely good, bright copy.
The Riccardi Press was the imprint used by Philip Lee Warner for the Medici Society publications, which were also sold from 755 Boylston St in Boston. The font used, the Riccardi font, was designed by the typographer and designer Herbert Horne who was in the vanguard of the Arts and Crafts movement when he edited and designed the Hobby Horse magazine in the early 1880s. Horne based the design of the Riccardi typeface on the 1492 Florence edition of Horace and the cutting was done by Edward Prince who had done the same work for the Kelmscott Press.
The actual printing was done by the ever capable Charles Jacobi at the Chiswick Press.