THOMAS BEWICK, ENGRAVER; Typophile Chap Book Number Eight
NY: Typophiles, 1943. Bewick, Thomas. One of 365 copies reserved for contributors. Small 8vo, pp. v, 70. Notes. Illustrated with Bewick's engravings. Yellow patterned paper over boards with brown cloth spine. Cover heavily scuffed, o/w a VG tight copy. Item #55014
Colophon reads: "This eighth Chap Book in the Typophile series has been designed by Rudolph Ruzicka, set in his Fairfield type, and printed by Fred Anthoensen at the Southworth-Anthoensen Press, Portland, Maine. The binding, with its Proteus paper by Veronica Ruzicka, was produed by Robert H. Wessmann at the J. F. Tapley Company, New York. Of the 365 copies printed for contributors and subscribers, this is No. ('contributor' hand-lettered). An additional 250 copies, numbered 301 to 550, have been printed for general sale by The Southworth-Anthoensen Press."
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