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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Number 194 of 550 copies printed (under the direction of Frederic Warde) on Whatman hand-made paper by Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, in the fifteenth-century type of Peter Schoeffer in that firm's collection. Turquiose balloon linen with gilt spine lettering. Top and tail of spine a little worn. Ownership signature and slight spotting to front endpaper. A very good copy. The colophon describes the type as being probably the oldest in the Collection Typographique (having come into the possession of Enschede in 1768 and previous to that having been kept in Schoeffer's family for 250 years). The colophon, which was presumably written by Warde, then makes an odd error in stating that Peter Schoeffer was Gutenberg's (rather than Fust's) son-in-law. Withal, a literary and typographic gem.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Haarlem, The Pleiad, 1927. Quarto, [viii], 54 pages. Original cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; edges uncut; an excellent copy. Number 18 of only 550 copies (of which only 500 were for sale). Printed in a fifteenth century roman type of Peter Schoeffer von Gernsheim (Gutenberg's son-in-law) under the typographic direction of Frederic Warde.

Hardcover. F. 4to. 1st ed. in this form. 267mm x 184mm. Limited ed. 293/550. 10 litho and 2 hand coloured illustrations by Fernand Giauque. Original cloth binding with gilt lettering to spine. Spine faded, one of the rear blanks torn without loss, pages unopened. Designed by Frederic Warde, Lutetia type designed by J.van Krimpen, printed by Joh. Enschede.

Two single fold, 4 pp., prospectuses: 1] The Silver Book of English Sonnets, 1927 and 2] Fantasio. A Comedy in Two Acts by Alfred De Musset, 1929; each folded at centre, and slightly creased and marked; The Pleiad, London, 1927-1929.