- Seller's Description:
- As New. No Jacket As Issued. Book. 4to-over 9"-12" tall. BC06A Copy 121 of 150. A very sharp copy. All is as new in as new slipcase. Large quarto, light brown cloth with silver titling to burgundy morocco leather label on spine. x, 76pp on mould-made Rives paper. It has a tipped-in image of John Anderson and Frederic Goudy. With 20 plates showing Anderson's work including work using color. An excellent look at American typography during the 1940s onward with glimpses into Frederick Goudy, Peter Beilenson, Arthur Rushmore, Robert Middleton, Elmer Adler, Sol Hess, Joseph Blumenthal, Grant Dahlstrom, Claire van Vliet and John DePol. An excellent tribute to John Anderson, perhaps the "last of the great commercial letterpress printers working on the East Coast."
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