[Rarebooks] FS: The Daniel Press in Frome

[John Howell]

Just cataloged and offered today:

[Daniel Press] CHAMBERS, David and OULD, Martyn.  

The Daniel Press in Frome.  

Bath: The Old School Press, 2011.  

8vo.  9 1/4 x 7 inches.  x, (62) pp.  Half-title, typographic decoration on the title page, printing sample from the Daniel Press tipped-in at page x, 2 portraits of John Daniel, family tree, 48 plates (many with printing samples), bibliography; text clean, unmarked.  Tan cloth spine, blue paper over boards, printed paper spine label; binding square and tight, very minor shelf wear to covers.  SIGNED by the authors.  Near Fine.  

$ 250

LIMITED EDITION of 175 copies, this is number 73, SIGNED by the authors on the colophon.  Main text machine-set in 12 point Caslon and printed on T. Edmonds laid paper at the Old School Press; facsimiles printed from blocks on a Ruthven press, binding by Ludlow Bookbinders.  Chambers and Ould collected and cataloged more than a thousand items produced at the Daniel Press and added significantly to the material known to Madan, The Daniel Press, 1921.  


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