Three Classics of Italian Calligraphy.
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1953. 8vo. First edition thus. Rebound by Eric Sweet in 1997-8 in quarter blue goatskin over printed paper boards. Marbled endpapers. Housed in a multi-coloured cloth clamshell box. Fine. Item #8609
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.
Price: £125.00