Mar 02, 2023 - Sale 2628

Sale 2628 - Lot 313

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(TYPOGRAPHY.) Oliver, Simon and Morison, Stanley (eds.). The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography. 7 volumes, complete. Hundreds of tipped-in, mounted, and folding plates and illustrations, plus additional inserts and plates in the text; adverts at end of each volume. 4to, various cloth bindings: Volumes 1-4 full black cloth, top edges gilt, boards lightly scuffed, vol. 3 with repairs to front joint, few bumped corners; vol. 5 in tan decorated buckram, spine darkened with minor frays; vol. 6 in green cloth gilt, bright and clean; vol. 7 in gilt-lettered navy cloth, spine and portion of covers faded, rear board scuffed; ex-collection Harold Hugo, director of Meriden Gravure, with his bookplate in several volumes. Deluxe editions on handmade paper. Limitation ranges from 110 to 210 copies, with final volume signed by Morison. Simon was the editor of the first four (produced by Curwen Press), with Morison the editor of the last three (produced by Cambridge Univ. Press). Complete sets of this handmade paper edition quite scarce. London, 1923-1930