Item #097747 THE NONESUCH CENTURY. The Nonesuch Press, A. J. A. Symons, Desmond Flower, Francis Meynell.

THE NONESUCH CENTURY.

An appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press, 1923-1934. Pp. xii+82, plus several examples of devices, bindings, text and title pages, and numerous hand-tipped specimen pages (from 2-4pp. each, several printed in colour or red & black); narrow roy. 4to; full green buckram, gilt lettered black leather title label on spine, the spine cloth lightly faded, fore-corners of boards bruised; uncut; small blind ownership stamp of Sir Thomas Ramsay on upper free endpaper, tiny mark near foot of title page, a couple of spots of foxing; The Nonesuch Press, London, 1936. One of 750 numbered copies. McKitterick 106. *The frontispiece is an Eric Gill portrait of Francis Meynell, the founder of the Nonesuch Press. Item #097747

Price: $1,200.00