Berthold Wolpe book decorations

WOLPE (Berthold) Some book decorations by Berthold Wolpe, discovered in a collection of line blocks belonging to his friend Vivian Ridler [with an introduction and notes]. S.P.Tuohy, The Perpetua Press, Oxford, 2018. Ltd. to 250 copies. Cr.8vo. Pp. 40. 28 plates (one folding). Set in 'Monotype' Bell and printed letterpress on Zerkall mouldmade paper by Evergreen Press. Bound in full cloth by Ludlow bookbinders. New. £38
   This book takes its origin from a collection of line blocks found among the Oxford University Printer Vivian Ridler's extensive collections of his friend Berthold Wolpe's work.
It features sets of decorations for two books dating from early in Wolpe's long career in the Faber production department: 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 1940s of the personal and professional network, based on the London publishing house, which sustained a lasting friendship in printing and book production.