Title: Modern Fine Printing
Author: Stanley Morison
Date Published: 1925
Publisher: Ernest Benn, London
Edition: Number 33 of a limited edition of 650 in English
Other: Includes advertisement for Second Series
Price: £250
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An Exhibit of Printing Issued in England, the United States of America, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia, Holland and Sweden during the Twentieth Century and with few exceptions since the outbreak of the war. Number 33 of 650 copies in English (this edition includes 200 copies in French, 150 copies in German, and 15 deluxe copies).

Morison considers the subject of the modern printed book, with particular interest in typography and allied crafts, and a focus on books printed between 1915-1924. His selects 328 fine books, each depicted on plates and catalogued by country of origin.

Includes a separate advertising sheet offering an option to order "Fine Modern Printing, Second Series, to be published one year from the present date".

Elephant folio, lxivpp, plus 328 plates, several printed with colour, some with tissue guards, and index.

Bound in original buff and black cloth with title on buff label on the upper cover.

Corners a little bumped, no dust jacket. Tissue and some pages slightly discoloured, mild foxing to a few pages.

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