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Paperback. Condition: Very Good condition. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. London: Monotype Corporation 10 nonconsecutive issues. April 1934 - Nov 1971: 2 copies of #12 (April 1934); #36 (July 1938), #37 (September 1938), #38 (February 1939), #39 (May 1939), #40 (August 1939), #41 (December 1939), #86 (December 1969), #90 (November 1971). These issues contain advertising, fold-out type specimens, news and reviews of the printing trade, etc. Also some interesting comments about the rise of Hitler in Germany, e. g. ".Tyrants always begin by persecuting the printers." Several of these issues are imprinted in red with the beautiful calligraphic signature of B. L. [Beatrice Lamberton] Warde (1900 -1969). Warde was marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation from 1929 until her retirement in 1960. Warde authored the classic, THE CRYSTAL GOBLET: SIXTEEN ESSAYS ON TYPOGRAPHY. As Alan Hutt wrote in 1969: "She was an original typographical scholar of the first rank (the 'Paul Beaujon' Garamond and other studies in THE FLEURON and THE MONOTYPE RECORDER); she was a practicing typographer of sure taste and a calligrapher of elegance; for over 30 years she was a brilliant editor of the RECORDER and the MONOTYPE NEWSLETTER, as part of her devoted service to The Monotype Corporation as its publicity manager; she was Stanley Morison's inseparable and incomparable lieutenant in the great work of Britain's typographical renaissance; she was beyond peer as a public expositor, and propagandist for, good typography." 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. 10 issues. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

Paperback. NOT a library discard (illustrator). First Edition. London: Monotype Corporation Very Good condition, except as noted. 1929 - 1960. Lot of 18 nonconsecutive issues as follows: No. 228 (Jan-Feb 1929, small hole in rear wrap); No. 244 (Mar-Apr 1932); Vol. XXXII, No. 1 (Spring 1933); Vol. XXXII, No. 3 (Autumn 1933); Vol. XXXII, No. 4 (Winter 1933, front wrap separated); Vol. XXXIII, No. 4 (Winter 1934-35); Vol. XXXIV, No. 1 (Spring 1935); Vol. XXXIV, No. 2 (Summer 1935); Vol. XXXIV, No. 3 (Autumn 1935); Vol. XXXV, No. 2 (Summer 1936); Vol. XXXVI, No. 2 (Summer 1937); Vol. XXXVI, No. 4 (Winter 1937-38); Vol. XXXVII, No. 3 (1939); Vol. XXXVIII, No. 1 (Spring 1939); Special Number, The Fifth Centennial of the Invention of Typography (September 1940); Vol. 39, No. 4: Special Number of Typographic Transformations (Summer 1952); Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring 1958); Vol. XLII, No. 1 (Spring 1960). Edited and with contributions by B. L. [Beatrice Lamberton] Warde (1900 -1969) [aka Paul Beaujon]. Warde was marketing manager for the British Monotype Corporation from 1929 until her retirement in 1960. Warde authored the classic, THE CRYSTAL GOBLET: SIXTEEN ESSAYS ON TYPOGRAPHY. As Alan Hutt wrote in 1969: "She was an original typographical scholar of the first rank (the 'Paul Beaujon' Garamond and other studies in THE FLEURON and THE MONOTYPE RECORDER); she was a practicing typographer of sure taste and a calligrapher of elegance; for over 30 years she was a brilliant editor of the RECORDER and the MONOTYPE NEWSLETTER, as part of her devoted service to The Monotype Corporation as its publicity manager; she was Stanley Morison's inseparable and incomparable lieutenant in the great work of Britain's typographical renaissance; she was beyond peer as a public expositor, and propagandist for, good typography." Size varies from 8.5" - 8.75" wide by 10.75" - 11.5" tall. Bound in the original stapled wraps. This heavy 18 issue lot will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 issue and we ship the other 17 at no extra cost. First Edition. Softcover (heavy). Illus. by NOT a library discard. 18 issues. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.