HARRILD & Sons [Printers’ suppliers] New & abridged specimens of wood-letter, corners, borders, &c. ‘Fleet’ Works, 25 Faringdon Street, London EC. N.d. [c.1890]. La. 4to. Page size 310 x 245mm. 2 leaves of prelims & 140 leaves of specimens printed one side only. 8 leaves of two-colour designs shown in 10-line, four to the page, and six leaves of double-page specimens of two-colour designs, shown in various sizes.
Approximately a dozen pages (including two of the pages in colour) written on by a child in pencil, black crayon, and occasionally blue ink. These marks, though distracting, seldom stray into the image area. Orig. brown cloth gilt, front board buckled at some point, worn and stained, torn remnants of an informal paper cover sticking to front and back. Inner joints weak. Lower free end-paper frayed at foredge. The case sound.
A rare nineteenth-century wood letter catalogue complete as issued and for the most part internally clean and bright. SOLD
