[Rarebooks] FS: Cambridge Christmas books

[Nina W. Matheson]

For consideration this spring:


Crutchley, Brooke.   Two men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge.
Cambridge, University Printer, 1968. Original quarter cloth and decorated 
paper boards. Fine in original box bumped at the foot of the backstrip. A 
Cambridge Christmas book. [48] pp., followed by 7 tipped-in specimens. 
Cover design by Re ynolds Stone. A number of the illustrations 
full-page.  $100.00

Crutchley, Brooke.   A printer's Christmas books 1930-58.  Cambridge, 
Privately Printed, 1959. Original marbled paper wrappers, vellum label on 
the front wrapper. Fine. Edition size not indicated, but 500 copies. The 
Cambridge Christmas book for 1959.  $50.00

Morison, Stanley.   A tally of types cut for machine composition and 
introduced at the University Press Cambridge.  Cambridge, privately 
printed, 1953. Original cloth. Lightly bumped at the head of the backstrip, 
otherwise fine. One of 450 copies. Dec. 1953 John Dreyfus t.l.s. to Donald 
D. Jackson, the University of Illinois Press, laid in (conveying the book 
and pointing out the possibility of using the types for books Jackson's 
press might wish to produce). Cambridge Christmas book. Carter / Second 
handlist 152. [102] pp. Types from Centaur roman to The Times New Roman and 
italic.  $150.00

Rylands, George, ed.   A distraction of wits nurtured in Elizabethan 
Cambridge, an anthology selected and introduced by George 
Rylands.  Cambridge, Printed by the University Printer for friends in 
printing & publishing, Christmas, 1958.Original comb patterned beige paper 
boards, red leather label on the backstrip. Fine. Cambridge Christmas book. 
Eleven full-page two-color drawings by Michael Ayrton. One of 500 
copies.  $75.00




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