Friday 12 April 2024

WOLPE (Berthold) Some book decorations by Berthold Wolpe. Oxford: S. P. Tuohy in association with The Perpetua Press, 2018. 250 copies printed in Monotype Bell on Zerkall mouldmade paper. Crown octavo, 187 x 122 mm. Pp. xiii, [25]. 28 plates, one folding, most from the orig. zinc line blocks. Printed by the Evergreen Press and bound by Ludlow Bookbinders. Red cloth. Gilt titles in Albertus Light. New. £35

A reprint from the original line blocks, discovered in the typographic collections of Wolpe's friend Vivian Ridler, used for illustrations to Walter de la Mare, Collected Poems, 1942, and F. Le Mesurier, Sauces, French and English, 1947. With notes and a broadly contextual introduction by Steven Tuohy.













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