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Lot 168

Sale 5183 - Books & Manuscripts
Feb 18, 2021 5:00AM ET
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[Typography] Goudy, Frederic W. The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretative Designs Drawn and Arranged with Explanatory Text and Illustrations

New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1918. First edition, one of 1,000 copies. Small folio. (ii), 44, (2) pp. Presentation copy, with rare "Keepsake" broadside laid in: "The Anderson Galleries, New York/(device)/This Keepsake/is the first impression made in America on/the hand-press formerly owned by William/Morris, now the property of Frederic &/Bertha Goudy, and is printed by them for/visitors at an exhibition of that press and/of their work at The Village Press./March, M, cm, xxiv". Inscribed, "Compliments Fred W. Goudy/6/10/27", bottom left; additionally signed and dated (6/10/27) by Goudy on colophon. Illustrated with frontispiece, 27 plates, and in-text illustrations. Original black cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges untrimmed; in quarter brown levant slip case and chemise.

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