Some line blocks from designs by Berthold Wolpe (4)

Decoration from Walter de la Mare, Collected Poems, 1942, title-page & p.135

The book I've put together from the collection of line blocks featured in my posts of 13th and 15th July and the 25th August 2016 is now in active production and should be published early next year.

The title is Some book decorations by Berthold Wolpe, discovered in a collection of line blocks belonging to his friend Vivian Ridler and it is published, with an introduction and notes, by S.P. Tuohy in association with The Perpetua Press, Oxford. 

Limited to 250 copies. Crown octavo (185 x 123mm). 40pp. set in 10/12pt ‘Monotype’ Bell and printed letterpress on Zerkall mouldmade paper by the Evergreen Press and case-bound in full cloth by Ludlow Bookbinders.

The principal contents are sets of decorations Wolpe made for two books published early in his long career as a designer in the production department of Faber & Faber: Walter de la Mare’s Collected Poems (1942) and a cookery book by F. Le Mesurier, Sauces, French and English (1947). Adding a number of new details to the established record, a concise introduction explores the background to the drawings and traces the formation in the late 1930s and early 40s of the personal and professional network, based on the London publishing house, which lay behind a lasting friendship in printing and book production.

Price: £38 (£35 pre-publication). Trade terms: one third. Postage extra at cost.

Orders to: S.P. Tuohy, 45 Warwick Street, Oxford OX4 1SZ, UK.

'English sauces', from F. Le Mesurier, Sauces, French and English, 1947