The Curwen Press Miscellany. by CURWEN PRESS. SIMON, Oliver, editor.

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~ The Curwen Press Miscellany.

London published for The Curwen Press by The Soncino Press Publishers 1931

No.199 of 275 copies. Full of sample pages, type specimens, initial letters, borders and printers’ flowers & ornaments, headpieces, vignettes etc designed by Edward Bawden, Claudia Guercio amongst others as well as numerous examples of illustration including pochoir, hand colouring and colour lithography by McKnight Kauffer, Bawden, Barnett Freedman, wood engraving by Gill, John Nash etc. Sm. folio, original brown cloth patterned with red and blue borders, blue lettering on spine and upper cover. Slight darkening to cloth with a few marks but generally a very good copy.

A fabulous sample book from the Curwen Press at the height of its powers. Includes an essay by Paul Nash on The Stencil.
Booklabel of Heinrich Jost on front pastedown. Jost (1889-1948) was an important German typographer and graphic designer, being the art director of the Bauer type foundry from 1923 until his death.

Stock ref: 12897
Keywords: Book, Illustrated, Printing Typography & Lettering
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