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MARGERIE, Pierre. Éloge de la typographie [running title]. Weimar: Die Cranach Presse, sold by Éditions de Cluny, 1931.
8° (282 x 173mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Headlines printed in red. Woodcut impressed initial by Eric Gill after Aristide Maillol, printed in red and blue and gilt by hand by Max Goertz. Original crushed red morocco gilt by Otto Dorfner, covers with borders of single gilt fillets, titled in gilt on the upper cover, gilt-ruled turn-ins, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt edges, slipcase.
LIMITED TO 129 COPIES, THIS NUMBER III OF 14 ON VELLUM. Margerie's Éloge ... was given at the opening of 'Le Salon des bibliophiles' exhibition in Berlin on 13 October 1929. Gill Eric Gill (1991) 347a; Müller-Krumbach 'Katalog' 53.
8° (282 x 173mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM. Headlines printed in red. Woodcut impressed initial by Eric Gill after Aristide Maillol, printed in red and blue and gilt by hand by Max Goertz. Original crushed red morocco gilt by Otto Dorfner, covers with borders of single gilt fillets, titled in gilt on the upper cover, gilt-ruled turn-ins, spine divided into compartments by raised bands, gilt edges, slipcase.
LIMITED TO 129 COPIES, THIS NUMBER III OF 14 ON VELLUM. Margerie's Éloge ... was given at the opening of 'Le Salon des bibliophiles' exhibition in Berlin on 13 October 1929. Gill Eric Gill (1991) 347a; Müller-Krumbach 'Katalog' 53.
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