Fleuron Journal Typography by Simon Oliver (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Ex-library copy with usual stamps and marking. Please note this is the 1924 edition of NUMBER 3, including essays by W. A. Dwiggins, Harold Child, and Frank Sidgwick, among others. This is a damaged book. May be ex-library, water-damaged, or spine creased/broken. Acceptable, Reading copy only, with writing/markings and heavy wear. Oversized. …

Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; light gray dust jacket with red lettering, 164 pp (18), bw illustrations. Contents include: On Script Types; Robert Bridges, George Moore, Bernard Shaw, and Printing; The Typographical Work of Percy Smith; Contemporary Printers: II. Emery Walker; Tendencies in German Book-Printing Since 1914; On the Work of Bruce Rogers; Book Reviews; Typographical Reviews. In addition to the illustrations in the text there is a collotype plate facing page 30. Good+ (foxing on block and end pages, text and illustrations are otherwise very clean. Dust jacket has soiling and overall wear.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Inserted examples; illus., 11 x 8.5", cloth backed boards, 127pp + "Examples" and "Advertisements", covers, toned, worn and stained, spine is chipped and torn at ends, endpapers spotted, some finger soiling to text, but textblock is good, with errata slip inserted at front, and "Medici Society" address label affixed on title page for this American edition. SWAF.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Hardback, green cloth, gilt title to spine. 28.5cm x 22.5cm. 164pp. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, tipped-in specimens, papers, facsimiles, some folding. Printed at the Curwen Press. Spine faded. Foxing to edges and end-papers, occasional foxing to contents. Bookplates of Will and Sebastian Carter to front pastedown. Private ownership. A heavy book, additional postage may be required for orders outside the UK. (bs6).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Seven volumes, complete. Cloth and quarter cloth with paper-covered boards. large 4to., illustrated with numerous color and monochrome illustrations, , line blocks, mounted plates and booklets, facsimiles, type samples, with inserted specimens and extensive type and book reviews. A good set, with significant wear to the covers, soiling and spotting to some prelims as expected. The first four volumes were printed at the Curwen Press, and the last three at the Cambridge University Press. This well used set is from the library of Swiss typographer Max Caflisch, as evidenced by his signature in several places and an invoice in one volume. Many of the articles have been annotated and with words translated by him, in pencil in his attractive, very minute hand. This renowned and influential journal is known for it's superior quality and articles from the most prominent typographers and writers of the day. A sumptuous production that is becoming somewhat difficult to assemble complete. Prospectus is loosely inserted in volume VII. Volumes 1-4 are in archival mylar.…

hardcover. Condition: Good. cover shows minor wear, tear, staining. pages lightly tanned and clean.

Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. One of 1,000 (1,120) copies printed on Abbey Mills antique laid. Numerous illustrations within the text. Green cloth, spine gilt, lacking dust-jacket. Spine faded. A near very good copy. The 'Bruce Rogers number'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. shows minor wear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. Hardback, green cloth, gilt title to spine. 28.5cm x 22.5cm. 164pp. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, tipped-in specimens, papers, facsimiles, some folding. Printed at the Curwen Press. Spine discoloured. Foxing to edges and to inside. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown.…

4to viii+168pp+ tipped in specimens etc. Original green cloth (some spots on backstrip) some foxing to prelims., a very good bright copy. First edition.

Condition: Good. London: The Fleuron, 1923. 1st edition. No. 1. 4to hardcover. viii+127pp+examples and ads. Good book. Boards and endpapers slightly dampstained. Williams & Wilkins Company bookplate on front pastedown. Errata slip tipped in on half title page. (Typography, Graphic Design) Inquire if you need further information.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good condition. No jacket, as issued. First Greenwood edition. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1970. Numbers 1 and 2, bound as 1 book. Very Good condition. Covers lightly finger soiled. HARDCOVER. 1970. Facsimile reprint of this periodical's first 2 numbers (1923-1924). Beautifully illustrated, with much in gorgeous full color. THE FLEURON is the most important English language periodical devoted to the history and practice of typography. Included here are significant articles by Francis Meynell, Stanley Morison, Holbrook Jackson, Daniel Berkeley Updike, Bruce Rogers, etc. This impressive edition REPRODUCES EVERYTHING and even DUPLICATES ALL OF THE ORIGINAL EDITION'S TIPPED-IN FULL COLOR PLATES, FOLD-OUTS, AND SPECIMENS. Ulrich/Kup describes THE FLEURON as: "A significant, learned and copiously documented periodical. THE FLEURON, under intelligent editorship, marched from effort to perfection. Fine printing, book illustration, printer's profiles, challenging reviews of new printing types. A periodical once consulted-never forgotten. the leader of modern typography. It devoted all of its efforts to the promotion of the highest standards in design and printing." Hart 247 says, "One cannot give this undertaking too much praise, for the articles are most informative and of interest to all appreciators of fine printing." Bound in the original cream-color cloth, stamped in red and black. A volume from the publisher's ART OF THE BOOK series. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11.25" tall by 1.5" thick. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. First Greenwood edition. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good condition/No jacket, as issued. 2 volumes, bound as 1. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 28 x 22 cm. Quarto. Complete set, mixed edition. Some foxing in volume 1 &2. Cloth spine of volume 1 faded, scuffed on front cover. Volumes 1 & 2 are quarter cloth with paper over boards. Volumes 3 & 4 are bound in black cloth. Volumes 3-7 are limited editions on hand-made paper while volumes 1 & 2 are of the standard edition, 1/1000 copies on Antique Cream Laid paper. Vol III: 48/125, vol IV: 78/120, vol V: 90/110, vol VI: 11/160, vol VII: 128/210 Small closed tears to spine of volume 4. Volumes 5, 6, & 7 are in dust jackets. The deluxe limited editions feature additional illustrations not present in the standard edition. Volume 6 with a pamphlet of Greek type specimen "The New Hellenic" which has an engraving signed by David Jones (pamphlet mounted opposite page 231). The final volume is signed by one of the editors, Stanley Morison, on the colophon page, as well as artist Eric Gill on his Perpetua type specimen preceding page 51. Jackets with a few small closed tears. Extensively illustrated throughout with type specimens, engravings, portraits, head and tail pieces, and high quality color facsimiles of pages from finely printed books. Tipped inclusions in volumes 5,6 & 7. One of the most important and influential typographical periodical. Many of the most important people in the book arts and typography for the time period are discussed and illustrated such as Karl Klingspor, Rudolf Koch and J. E. Laboureur. Beatrice Warde's (writing as Paul Beaujon) important scholarly article on Garamond typefaces appears in volume 5. Reference: Grant Shipcott. Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars: A Critique of The Fleuron, Signature and Typography. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 7 vols. 4to. 28 cm. Insets. Plates. Illusts. Vol. 1 qtr. cloth, otherwise full cloth. Vol. 1 boards foxed, some spotting elsewhere, but generally a nice, crisp set, vols 2 & 3 in the orig. d.w. (vols. 2 chipped). Additional postage required, charged at cost. 'For me, collecting volume VII of The Fleuron from Zwemmer's in the Charing Cross Road was as heady an aesthetic experience as my first sight of Venice. For others, too. That notable wood engraver, Reynolds Stone, told me.of a similar experience. Entering the Cambridge University Press as a trainee.he discovered that one of the printers there.Mr Nobbs, had a complete set of The Fleuron. That journal of typography changed Stone's life, as it changed mine.' Robert Harling, from the Foreword to Grant Shipcott, Typographical periodicals between the wars, Oxford, 1980. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 4to, illustrated, quarter cloth with paper sides (nos. 1 and 2) and full cloth (nos. 3 to 7); original dustjacket for no. 3 only, all other dustjackets are later-made with title and volume number printed on the spine panel (presumably by a previous owner). With numerous color and black-and-white illustrations, tip-ins, and specimens, some fold-out. Printer and typographer Bernard Newdigate (1869-1944) positively gushes over the first volume in his "Book Production Notes" for The London Mercury: "The first number of The Fleuron is a brilliant piece of book-production. The book itself is a sumptuous production of the Curwen Press and shows, both in its general appearance and in nearly every detail, the care and skill and good taste which have conspired to the splendid achievement" (quoted by Ruari McLean in "The Most Underrated of Typographers," Matrix 6, pp. 172-3). "The Fleuron was an occasional journal of the arts of the book, in hardback form; it was a sumptuous publication which included the writings of many contemporary scholars as well as original work by artists, and specially composed type specimens of many types as they appeared. It had sprung from conversations between [Stanley] Morison and Oliver Simon, designer at the Curwen Press" (Sebastian Carter, in "Stanley Morison and Jan van Krimpen," Matrix 8, p. 117). Volume 5 with the booklabel of Charles Antin, proprietor of the Serendipity Press, on rear pastedown; prior owner signature on vol. 6 pastedown. Contents generally very good to near fine. Most condition issues are with the covers: some wear to head and/or foot of spine of all volumes except vol. 3 (most heavily in vol. 5); vols. 1 and 5 rear hinge has short or partial split; vol. 2 has horizontal inch-length heavy crease along top of both boards and one-inch split at the hinge; light cover edge wear to vols. 1, 2 and 4; some light soiling to covers, except vol. 5, which is heavily soiled; spines to vols. 2 and 4 a bit faded. Pastedowns and first and last few leaves foxed. Dustjackets show some chipping; vol. 1 spine jacket panel partially repaired.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 7 volume set, all issued. Volumes 1 & 2, quarter cloth with paper covers boards, volumes 3 to 7 full cloth. Volumes 1 to 4: 28 x 22cm, volume 5 to 7: 28.5 x 22.5cm. Numerous colour and monochrome illustrations, tipped-in specimens, papers, facsimiles, some folding. All with a little wear to extremities. Volume 4 a little stained to base of spine, volume 5, small abrasion to rear boards. Bookplate to front pastedown in volume 2. A very heavy set, additional postage required for delivery outside the UK. …