The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful: A tract on calligraphy printing and illustration and on the book beautiful as a whole
Boston: Privately Printed / Plimpton Press, 1900. Very Good+. Item #25176
Boston?: Privately Printing / Plimpton Press, n.d., ca. 1900. Small, slim quarto (20cm.); publisher's calf over brown paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spine; [6],13pp. Light wear, else a Very Good or better copy.
From the colophon: "Reprinted for private distribution only by the Plimpton Press for its friends through the courteous permission of the author." Cobden-Sanderson's essay was indeed a perennial favorite for private press keepsakes.
Price: $60.00
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