[Rarebooks] FS: Cobden-Sanderson, The Ideal Book, John Henry Nash, 1916

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COBDEN-SANDERSON, THOMAS JAMES (1842-1922). 

_The Ideal Book: Or Book Beautiful a Tract on Calligraphy Printing &
Illustration & on the Book Beautiful as a Whole_. 

San Francisco: Privately Printed, 1916. 

4to. 10 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches. [ii], (14) pp. Title page vignette and
headpiece by Ray F. Coyle, title page printed in red and black, marginal
notes printed in red; text clean, unmarked. Plain paper over boards,
wrap around title label near head of spine, added mylar dust-jacket;
binding square and tight. SCARCE in the market. Fine. 

$ 300 

LIMITED EDITION of 165 copies, this is number 95, printed by John Henry
Nash for private distribution only. First line: "The Ideal Book or Book
Beautiful is a composite thing made up of many parts and may be made
beautiful by the beauty of each of its parts - its literary content, its
material or materials, its writing or printing, its illumination or
illustration, its binding and decorations - of each of its parts in
subordination to the whole which collectively they constitute...." So
begins Cobden-Sanderson's influential treatise on the ideal book which
inspired may fine and private press printers since its publication in
1900, reproduced here by San Francisco's John Henry Nash. 

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