Last Words on the History of the Title Page
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Last Words on the History of the Title Page
With Notes on some Colophons and twenty-seven Fac-similes of Title Pages
Pollard, Alfred W.
Published by John C. Nimmo, Strand, 1891
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Large quarto, (350x260x20mm.), original brown cloth, blocked with large initial in red, slightly stained, 157/260 copies, coloured frontispiece, pp 39 text, interspersed with the full page facsimiles, deckle edged pages, internally very good.
“The title page, besides fulfilling its function of announcing the subject or name of the work, and its author, gives to the book the general tone of its typographical treatment.” Oliver Simon in the Fleuron.