The Work of Jan Van Krimpen. A record in honour of his sixtieth birthday. With a foreword by Stanley Morison.
Haarlem and Utrecht: Joh Enschede en Zonen and W. De Haan, 1952. 4to. First edition. Original maroon cloth, gilt. Top edge stained green. Illustrated by reproductions of drawings, specimens of types, lettering and bookwork. Covers a little dulled. Erratum slip loosely inserted. Bookplate of Eric Sweet on the front pastedown. Endpapers a bit foxed. Contents clean. The unclipped d/w is tanned on the spine, chipped and torn. Very good + in good - d/w. Item #8594
The jacket refers to the publisher as Sylvan Press, London but they appear only to have distributed it in the UK. Loosely inserted is a sewn pamphlet (one of 250 copies) An Extract from The Work of Jan Van Krimpen by John Dreyfus, printed in Birmingham in 1995 for Richard Russell Chairman of Wynkyn de Worde Society.
From the collection of Eric Sweet (1929-2024) a keen collector of Fable and Private Press books from his youngest years until his 90s, and a lifelong student of the book arts: paper, type, illustration and bookbinding. His career began at Brighton College of Art in the 1950s. He then spent some years in London as a lettering artist and typographer for various advertising agencies before a move to Birmingham where he became head of the Birmingham School of Printing.
Price: £95.00