Antiquarian Book - The Fleuron, a Journal of Typography

Description Cambridge & New York, 1926. (xiii), 205, (19) pp. Full cloth binding designed by Emil Rudolf Weiss who also designed the back pages. Edition limited to 1370 copies, this is one of the 1250 copies laid on antique paper. The Fleuron is considered one of the most remarkable typographical periodicals of the twentieth century. It achieved an international reputation, not only for the quality of its articles, but also for the quality of its production. As quoted by Grant Shipcot in 'Typographical Periodicals Between the Wars', the core of the contributors to 'The Fleuron' were also 'taking the typographical initiative of the time; This applied particularly to Stanley Morison, who exerted a very great influence as a typographical advisor to the Monotype Corporation and later to Cambridge University Press. Among the contributors to the current volume we find Julius Rodenberg on Klinspor with lists of books and various tipped in type and page copies of Koch, Harwerth, etc.; Paul Istel on Laboureur with original engravings and page copies; Paul Beaujon (Beatrice Warde) on Garamond and Stanley Morison, whose article is titled: "Towards an ideal italic".