THORP (Joseph) Apropos the Unicorn. A few candid notes. The Curwen Press, Plaistow, London, n.d. [1920]. 147 x 39 mm. Pp. 29. Printed in black and colours. Two tipped in colour plates and one large folding monochrome plate. Including decorations by Macdonald Gill, C. Lovat Fraser, Aldo Cosomati and others. Curwen device by Paul Woodroffe. Orig. orange and yellow patterned boards designed by Lovat Fraser. A nice copy. Scarce. £120
The first 'house' advertising booklet produced by the Curwen Press and one of the harbingers of the inter-war typographic revival. Herbert Simon, Song and Words,1973, pp. 138-41.
