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10 broadsides of author quotations designed by Ruzicka using various alphabets each housed in a paper folder. Housed together with title page, introduction by Ruzicka and contents list. Quotation plates printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Folio, original grey portfolio with black lettering and a matching slipcase. A very good copy. The quotations are from works by Robert Frost, Paul Valà ry, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Browne and Henry David Thoreau. With a 'Compliments of the American Printing History Association' book label.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Linen-covered portfolio, lettered in black on upper board and spine; in slipcase; contains 10 type specimens (complete alphabets, plus a quotation), each a loose leaf with printed wraps, plus 4 pages of text. Presentation copy, with bookplate of the American Printing History Association on front paste-down. Quotes by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Brown, and Henry David Thoreau. A lavish production.

First Edition. Folio. 10 unbound sheets in boards, slipcase. Near Fine.

Hardcover. First edition. Folio, 36 x 28 cm. Ten folded sheets in two or three color type, alphabets and varying type formats, the calligraphy chosen suit the varying ten titles and authors. Each sheet housed in their own titled paper portfolio. Also laid-in the prospectus noting sale price of $25.00 per copy. First author is Frost, and last, Henry David Thoreau. Printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. Orig. beige cloth portfolio, spine lettered in black. Fine in fine matching slipcase.

Condition: Very Good. Hanover, NH: Friends of the Dartmouth Library, 1968. Folio. 4pp, 10 plates. Very Good book. Near Very Good slipcase. (type, type-founding) Inquire if you need further information.

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Condition: Fine. No jacket. 10 loose small folio-sized samplesin a cloth folder and housed in a slipcase.

Folio; 10 separately-printed sheets in a variety of fonts, printed on heavy stock in various colors and laid into printed sleeves, plus title and table of contents, all loosely laid into cloth portfolio and publisher's slipcase; a fine copy. Handsomely reproduced and printed by Meriden Gravure. This copy from the library of Kim Merker, with a bookplate noting "Compliments of the American Printing History Association," a typed letter to Merker from APHA noticing his support for APHA and enclosing a "premium" - likely, this publication.