THE PRINTED BOOK OF THE RENAISSANCE.
Three lectures on Type, Illustration, Ornament. Pp. viii+94(last blank)+[32](plates and captions), 8 plates (most double page), title page decoration, text figures (several full page, a couple printed in red & black), index; demy 4to; red cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the boards with mottled fading, spine uniformly faded; t.e.g., others uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled and worn, edges rubbed and split, the backstrip browned and torn at head and foot; book label of David Levine, Sydney, and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, the free endpapers offset, scattered foxing; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1950. First edition, limited to 750 copies.. Item #164607
Price: $120.00