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MARGERIE, Pierre. Éloge de la typographie [running title]. Weimar: Die Cranach Presse, sold by Éditions de Cluny, 1931.

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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). 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, top edge gilt, grey dustwrapper, slipcase (light offsetting on free endpapers, short tears and small holes on dustwrapper, corners of slipcase slightly rubbed).

LIMITED TO 129 COPIES, THIS NUMBER 25 OF 115 ON PAPIER DE MONVAL. Gill Eric Gill (1991) 347a; Müller-Krumbach 'Katalog' 53.
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