Fournier, Pierre Simon; Hutt, Allen

FOURNIER, the Compleat Typographer.

Pp. xiv+90(last blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations, decorations and facsimiles (some full page), index; cr. 4to; brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, the bottom fore-corner of lower board faintly bruised; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle split; outer leaves and edges lightly foxed; Frederick Muller Ltd., London, 1972. First edition. The Ars Typographica Library. *From the library of David Levine, Sydney, with his book label on the upper pastedown above the earlier bookplate of Philip Gard Titcombe. A biography of Pierre Simon Fournier, 1712-1768, the outstanding typographer of his age. Item #164814

Price: $65.00