[Rarebooks] FS: 3 by FWG & a bibliography

[Nina W. Matheson]

Some highlights of books by and about Frederic W Goudy available on our 
website:  http://www.mathesonbooks.com :

Goudy, Frederic W.  What printing is.  Chicago, Messinger Paper Company, 
1940. Original tied green wrappers, printed paper label on the front 
wrapper. Fine. 11 pp. Printed in Goudy's Deepdene type. Prepared as a 
keepsake for friends of Messinger Paper Company on its seventh-fifth 
anniversary.  #65889.  $25.00
Goudy, Frederic W.   The capitals from the Trajan Column at Rome.  New 
York, Oxford University Press, 1936. Original quarter gray cloth and 
lighter gray paper boards.Fine. [21] pp., followed by 25 plates drawn and 
engraved by the author.  #66695.  $100.00
Goudy, Frederic W.  Typologia: studies in type design & type making, with 
comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility and 
fine printing.  Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 
1940. Original quarter leather and vellum-paper boards. Joints rubbed, 
leather on the backstrip lightly marked, otherwise near fine in publisher's 
box. One of 300 numbered copies signed by Goudy. 169 pp. Illustrated. Set 
in California Old Style types designed by Goudy for the exclusive use of 
the University of California Press and here used for the first 
time.  #66697.  $200.00
Cary, Melbert B., Jr.  A bibliography of The Village Press. Including an 
account of the genesis of the Press by Frederic W. Goudy and a portion of 
the 1903 diary of Will Ransom, co-founder.  New York, N. Y., The Press of 
the Woolly Whale, 1938. Original gold-stamped blue cloth, label on the 
backstrip. Fine. One of 260 numbered copies. [207] pp. Illustrated. 
Tanselle / Basic Collection.  # 65055.  $150.00


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