[Rarebooks] FS: Stauffacher. Janson: A Definitive Collection

[Karen Howell]

Offered today:

Jack Werner Stauffacher.

Janson: A Definitive Collection.  San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1954.

Oblong 8vo.  7 pages of text and 49 pages of specimens.  Printed in two colors with numerous illustrative cuts, ornaments, and specimens, 3 folding plates with 5 figures showing examples of seventeenth and eighteenth century uses of Janson type faces.  Quarter vellum, top cover printed label, spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight, some minor water-staining to outer corners, a few minor flaws on the vellum at the foot of the spine on the rear panel.  Very Good.  

Limited Edition of 350 copies printed on French Rives paper by Jack Werner Stauffacher.  This is a specimen book of Janson types acquired by the Greenwood Press from D. Strempel in Frankfurt am Main.  It is accompanied by a brief "history of the Janson letter and the particular spirit from which it grew."  

$ 250

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