The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy & Printing & Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole

Published by Privately Printed, San Francisco, 1916

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Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA

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Small 4to. Beige paper over boards with small printed wraparound front board/rear board paper label. 13pp. Near fine. Outstanding first thus of this early John Henry Nash production and one of his best known, in which he reprints the English bookbinder and printer's statement summing up the Arts & Crafts aesthetic first published by Doves Press in 1900. Cobden-Sanderson not only granted Nash permission to print it, but upon seeing it penned him a rave review, reading in part: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it!" As are we, for this tight and bright copy is one of 165 numbered copies (#77) as colophon at rear noted. Front pastedown bears fine custom bookplate of Walter Hervey Gardner. Very scarce. O'DAY 2.

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Title
The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy & Printing & Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
Author
COBDEN-SANDERSON, T.J.
Publisher
Privately Printed, San Francisco
Publication year
1916
Binding
Hardcover
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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts has been buying and selling quality books, autographs and ephemera since 1991. We specialize in general antiquarian, first editions, signed books and autographs and documents. We are members of the Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA), Midwest Antiquarian Booksellers Association (MWABA), Universal Autograph Collectors Club (UACC) and The Manuscript Society.

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Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.

9304 Saturn Ln
Galena, IL U.S.A. 61036