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Berkeley, CA.: Arif Press, 1981.. PROSPECTUS. 18mo. Single Sheet, Very Good with some staining, minor creasing. Letterpress on laid paper. "The Arif Press is pleased to announce as the first in a series of Printer's Chapbooks. Twenty Pages Letterpress. Sewn In Wrappers or Hand Bound In Decorated Boards."
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The Ideal Book, Or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole.
by Arif Press; Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson.
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The Ideal Book Or Book Beautiful. A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration And On The Book Beautiful As A Whole.
by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson; Arif Press; Wesley Tanner.
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Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1981-82.. Prospectus, 6.5" x 4.5", Letterpress On Laid Paper with Deckled Edge, Very Good+. "The Arif Press is pleased to announce as the first in a series of Printer's Chapbooks." This is the Prospectus for a book, not the book itself.
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THE IDEAL BOOK OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL: A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing and Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James
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(Pisgah Forest, North Carolina): (Ecusta Paper Corp.), 1950. Reprint. Original Wrappers. Very Good. pp: (ii) Preface, 8, (1), colophon. Bound in white rag wrappers, now tanned at the edges. 9.25" x 6.25". Laid in is a 12.25" x 9" broadside promotion for Ecusta Fine Flax Papers, showing distributors in the US. Reprinted here, using text from the original title-page and colophon.
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Ideal Book or Book Beautiful: A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustration and on The Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, T. J. (Thomas James)
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Berkeley: Arif Press, 1972. Limited edition. Wraps. Near Fine. One of 350 copies sewn in wrappers (of a total edition of 500). Cover drawing by Sarah Zelmanovic. 12mo, pp. unnumbered. Head and heel of spine and corners lightly bumped, light sunning and dustsoiling to wrappers.
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Cobden-Sanderson and the Doves Press: The History of the Press and the Story of its types told by Alfred W. Pollard. The Character of the Man Set Forth by his Faithful Scribe Edward Johnston. With the Ideal Book or Book Beautiful by Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. And a list of the Doves Press printings
by Pollard, Alfred W.; Edward Johnston, Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1929. First Edition thus. Flexible boards. Folio; xviii, 35, [2]pp; printed in black and red (side-heads in red) in Cloister Lightface roman and italic type on VanGelder paper; with tipped in leaf from the Doves Press edition of Goethe. Bound in full limp vellum, with spine lettered in gold & top edge gilt. Vellum covers somewhat mottled with slight splaying, else a Fine copy. #282 (the edfition was limited to 339 copies); lacking slipcase. O'Day p. 68-9. From the library of John Henry Nash with his bookplate to front pastedown (offsetting to facing page).
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THE IDEAL BOOK, OR BOOK BEAUTIFUL, A Tract on Calligraphy, Printing & Illustrations and on the Book Beautiful as a Whole
by Cobden-Sanderson, Thomas James | decorations by Ray F. Coyle
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San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1916. Hard Cover. Very Good binding. Quarto. [6], 13, [1], [4] pp. First edition, thus; number 152 of 165 copies. As issued, in buff paper over boards with a printed paper title label on front and rear board; text in black, title and shoulder notes in red. Binding is a trifle soiled including some staining to fore-edge of the front board at the bottom corner; contemporary gift inscription on the first blank; contents are clean. Stunningly reprinted, perhaps no other printer at the time had such a similar aesthetic Cobden-Sanderson's Dove Press--clean and elegant in type and page design. Nash really does capture the spirit of the original. Cobden-Sanderson thought so as well and wrote Nash: "What a perfectly beautiful book you have made of The Book Beautiful! I am enchanted with it! Paper, type, arrangement, all combined under your clever hands to a while which is at once a thing of beauty and a symbol of that great order touched with delight which I am never tired…
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