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London : Faber & Faber, (1965). First edition. A handsomely produced tribute, with essays on Alfred Fairbank (1895-1982) by Ruari McLean and others, and further essays in the wider field of calligraphy and palaeography by Sir Sydney Cockerell, John Dreyfus, Fairbank himself, Nicolete Gray, Sir Francis Meynell, Osley himself, Jan Tschichold, Berthold Wolpe, Francis Wormald, etc.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xxiv),(288)pp. Forty-eight plates. Numerous illustrations. Original cloth; a few faint marks; one leaf slightly chipped, but otherwise a nice copy in a price-clipped and just slightly used and nicked dust-jacket.

£40

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London : Office of the “Warehousemen and Drapers’ Trade Journal”, 1887. First edition. An interesting Victorian guide to the art of making advertising and display placards, with chapters on tools, card, inks, gilding and silvering, calligraphy, design, mounts, lithographic reproduction, etc.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 62,[x]pp. Illustrations. Specimen alphabets. Original cloth; lightly rubbed; slight vertical crease to upper cover, but a good copy.

£20

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