LANSTON MONOTYPE. MEYNELL, Gerard T. ~ Pages from Books.
Special edition on handmade paper and in a special binding. 92 illustrations of pages printed using ‘Monotype’. Includes specimens of Baskerville, Bodoni, Fournier, Plantin and Poliphilus, among others, together with several decorative borders and ornaments. Printed at the Westminster Press. First edition. Pp. 94. 4to., original half vellum over blue buckram boards, decorative design and titles in gilt to upper cover and spine, t.e.g, in the original blue dust jacket. Housed in the original worn and darkened blue patterned slipcase. Jacket is faded and worn at spine, otherwise a very good copy.
On the dust jacket is the publisher’s note: “The pages appearing in this volume have been chosen almost entirely by the publishers of the books themselves. All the leading publishers were asked to send what they considered the best produced books they had issued in recent years. A choice was then made, leaving out pages that were too similar for our purpose...