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Lot 66
Sale 873 - Fine Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
May 12, 2021
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[FLEURON]. SIMON, Oliver and Stanley MORISON, editors. The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography. Vols.I-IV: London: The Fleuron, 1923- 1925. Vols.V-VII: Cambridge: University Press and Garden City, NY: Doubleday Doran & Co., 1926, 1928, 1930.
7 volumes, 4to. Numerous plates, specimen leaves and facsimiles, many in color, many mounted, some folding. Original cloth or cloth-backed boards (slight rubbing, slight fading or soiling vol.IV); vol.II with original printed dust jacket (minor soiling and losses). Provenance: Ward Ritchie (bookplates, vols. II-III).
Volumes V-VII LIMITED EDITIONS, the rest FIRST EDITION. Original prospectus laid in to vol. V. WARD RITCHIE’S COPY of Vols. II and III with his bookplate.
[With:] SOMERS, Jeanne. Index to The Dolphin and The Fleuron. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Original publisher’s light blue cloth stamped in white.
[With:] SOMERS, Jeanne. Index to The Dolphin and The Fleuron. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986. Original publisher’s light blue cloth stamped in white.
Property from the Collection of Jack Belcher