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The Pen and Type-Design.

A passionate defence of aesthetic typography by the British calligrapher Graily Hewitt (1864-1952), introducing his 'Treyford' type, which sought to represent 'printed letter-forms with due regard to their creation by the pen' (p.31).

First edition, limited to 250 copies printed in Treyford type on Barcham Green hand-made paper; small folio (28 x 19 cm); publisher's red levant, covers tooled in gilt to 'V' design, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, slightly rubbed, offsetting to endpaper margins, occasional slight spotting; [8], 47, [1]pp.

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The Pen and Type-Design.—

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A passionate defence of aesthetic typography by the British calligrapher Graily Hewitt (1864-1952), introducing his 'Treyford' type, which sought to represent 'printed letter-forms with due regard to their creation by the pen' (p.31).

First edition, limited to 250 copies printed in Treyford type on Barcham Green hand-made paper; small folio (28 x 19 cm); publisher's red levant, covers tooled in gilt to 'V' design, spine lettered in gilt, top-edge gilt, others uncut, slightly rubbed, offsetting to endpaper margins, occasional slight spotting; [8], 47, [1]pp.