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Author: FAHEY, Herbert & Peter
Published by: Alan Isaac Rare Books (Oxford, 2014)
Octavo, xviii, 82, bibliography & index, 2 coloured & 5 monochromes plates and in-text line drawings. Purple cloth, gilt.
A facsimile re-print of the first edition of 1951, with a new Introduction and Foreword, by Alan Isaac & Maureen Duke respectively. Faheys’ manual on traditional and creative letter formation in bookbinding with instruction on all forms of tooling.
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