Curwen Press Simon Oliver (5 results)

8vo, (195x130mm), 88p +13p. adverts. Original quarter linen, colour-printed paper-covered sides, slightly soiled, bookplate. Printed at the Curwen Press and containing Harold Williams Book Clubs and Printing Societies, Herbert Read, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and Lascelles Abercrombie Bothwell's End. Please note that the advised postage is based on an average book, if necessary the postage will be reduced to the correct amount and you will be notified by email.

315 copies (this copy out-of-series), 8vo, (195mm), [8],68p +13p. adverts. Original quarter linen, colour-printed paper-covered sides, slightly soiled Printed at the Curwen Press and containing Holbrook Jackson The Reliquiæ Woottonianæ, Harold Child Ego et libri mei, Osbert Sitwell Festas, W.J. Turner On reputation, and Frank Sidgwick Modern printing exhibit at the British Museum.

Tall 8vo. xiii + [3] + 156 pp. Bound in original cloth gilt, in decorative dust wrapper which is a little chipped and worn, especially at head and tail of spine. Some browning of endpapers but otherwise a very good copy. Loosely inserted are correspondence to and from the author, including his signature, and newspaper cuttings, including reviews of this title, etc. Illustrated by portrait frontispiece, 4 collotype plates and throughout by 37 text figures, some in red and green and including facsimiles. The first part of this book was printed in the journal Signature. Oliver Simon (1895-1956) was an accomplished book designer and typographer who became director of the Curwen Press, originally established in 1863. The Press was associated with many famous artists and graphic designers of the day, including John Piper, Paul Nash and Edward Bawden. It went into receivership in 1984 but was revived again in 2011. TYPOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY TYPOGRAPHY AUTOBIOGRAPHY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED TYPOGRAPHY.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. One of 275 copies (this marked "For Office Use No.5") printed in red and black on mould-made paper (with inset leaves on blue paper) and decorated throughout with printers' ornaments. Initials designed by J. Van Krimpen; decorations by Edward Bawden, Claudia Guercio and Celia Fiennes; headpiece engraving by Barnett Freedman; wood engravings by Eric Gill, John Nash, Rene Ben Sussan; Colour stencil illustrations by E. McKnight Kauffer, Edward Bawden and Barnett Freedman. Buff cloth (a little soiled at the spine), printed and ruled in red and blue, marbled endpapers. A very good copy The Miscellany is a supplement to the typographical material assembled in the 'Specimen Book of Types' (1928). It includes essays by Paul Nash (The Stencil), Harold Curwen (On Printing from the Wood) and Harry Carter (Sans Serif Types), illustrations of work printed by Curwen and a record of the Curwen Sans and other faces, vignettes and borders. The high point for most people will always be the drawing ('Homage to Dicky Doyle') by Edward Bawden, specially done to show the use of colour applied by the stencil process at the Curwen Press. As on other 'Office Copies' of this magnificent book, the stock numbers of vignettes, strips, borders, etc., have all been neatly altered in red ink.

Printer (1895-1956). 8vo. "I enclose some samples of papers we have in stock. The price works out at about 4d. per sheet, and the size of a sheet is 18 1/2 x 25 inches." Atractive letterhead. See Image.