Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing (1683-4). Edited by Herbert Davis & Harry Carter.
London: Oxford University Press, 1958. 8vo. First edition thus. Rebound by Eric Sweet in 2008 in quarter blue goatskin with marbled paper boards, parchment-tipped corners and a printed paper label to the front board. Housed in a multi-coloured cloth clamshell box. 40 plates including two folding. A few early pages have the neat ink stamp of Birmingham College of Art Library in the lower margin. Fine. Item #8607
A typically idiosyncratic binding by 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.
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Price: £225.00