Letters of the famous 18th Century Printer John Baskerville of Birmingham
JAY, L.
Together with a Bibliography of Works printed by him at Birmingham. Collected, compiled & printed under the Direction of Leonard Jay.
Published: Birmingham School of Printing Central School of Arts & Crafts, 1932
Stock code: 9654
Price: £80.00
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with a portrait frontispiece; cloth, gilt back, covers lightly age-marked else a very good, bright, clean copy.
With the separately printed corrigenda slip loosely inserted. The wood-engraved frontispiece is by Joyce Francis. The works collects fifteen Baskerville letters followed by the first substantial bibliography of Baskverville's Birmingham editions. Scarce.