[Rarebooks] Offered: Morison Splendour of ornament - Graham Pollard's copy

[Nina W. Matheson]

Friends and Colleagues

On this quiet Sunday morning we offer

Morison, Stanley. Splendour of ornament, specimens selected from the 
Essempio di recammi, the first Italian manual of decoration, Venice, 
1524 by Giovanni Antonio Tagliente. London, Lion and Unicorn Press, 
1968. Original specially woven gold cloth boards. Book-plate of 
bibliographer Graham Pollard on the front pastedown. Cloth lightly 
rubbed at the head and foot of the backstrip and corners, otherwise 
bright, attractive, near fine. 72 pp. Illustrations in 
color.  Preface by Berthold Wolpe. Introduction by Stanley Morison. 
"Giovanni Antonio Tagliente, c.1465-c.1527" by Esther Potter. One of 
400 numbered copies. This copy unnumbered. Appleton / The writings of 
Stanley Morison 231. A handsome book.  (66926) $75.00

Warm regards,

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