May 12, 2021 - Sale 2567

Sale 2567 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 325
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500
DE VINNE, THEODORE LOW, A.M 1. A Treatise on… Plain Printing Types — 2. Treatise on Title-Pages — 3. Correct Composition (second edition) — 4. Modern Methods of Book Compostion.
New York: The Century Co., 1900, 1902, 1902, 1904.
4 titles from The Practice of Typography. 4 volumes.
12mo, approx 7 5/8 inches tall, illustrated, graphs, charts, etc. in publisher's brown cloth lettered in gilt at spine with lettering pieces, top edges gilt (general visible rubbing to edges, lettering pieces a bit rubbed and faded, soiling, dusting to bulked edges, else solid, practice of typography a bit shaken, overall about very good copies).

Additional Details

Provenance: 1. Hal Marchbanks bookplate to front paste-down, "Jeseph F. Weiler… From Emily Connor" penned note. — 2. Tholenaar bookplate at front paste-down. — Hal Marchbanks bookplate and pen notation "Joseph F. 3. Weiler from E.E.C. at front paste-down. — 4. "From the books of Crosby Gaige" label pasted down to front paste-down, "Bought at Auction - Joseph F. Weiler" in pen at top of front paste-down.