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Morison/Rogers.Fra Luca de Pacioli,1/390,1933

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one of 390 copies on hand-made paper initialled by the author at end of preface, designed by Bruce Rogers and printed in red and black in Monotype Centaur, fine title-page with decorative border, initials, decorations, photogravure portrait and illustrations, tissue guards, prospectus with alternative title-page design and another note about the book loosely inserted, a fine copy in the original vellum-backed patterned-paper boards, t.e.g., others uncut, cloth slip-case (very slightly soiled), [Blumenthal p.147-151], small folio, New York, Grolier Club, printed by Walter Lewis at the University Press in Cambridge, 1933.

***The result of a collaboration of three of the most eminent figures in modern printing: Bruce Rogers, Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison. This book was one of 31 chosen to represent the twentieth century in the Printing and the Mind of Man Fine Printing Exhibition at the British Museum in 1963 (item no.178)..

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