Two Men; Walter Lewis And Stanley Morison At Cambridge

Cambridge: Printed For His Friends By The University Printer, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter red cloth and decorated boards. Fine in fine in near fine slipcase. 48 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. Half title, title page printed in red and black, decorative initial, 14 illustrations, some in color, 6 printing specimens tipped onto stiff blue card stock. Written to commemorate Stanley Morison and Walter Lewis and the impact they had each other and upon the author. This work provided a rare opportunity to present the Barbou type which then existed only in the "English" size used in the last three volumes of "The Fleuron." Patterned paper cover designed by Reynolds Stone.