Text from 'Compositers Trade' from Moxon's 1683 'Mechanick Exercises' in Davis & Carter's edition Image

[The Old School Press] [Ephemera]

Title Text from 'Compositers Trade' from Moxon's 1683 'Mechanick Exercises' in Davis & Carter's edition
Date Seaton: 2026
Publisher The Old School Press,

Description

One of an edition of 40 copies printed, 'for the use of the Press', in 14 pt, 18 pt and 24 pt Zapf's Hunt Roman on blue Abbey Mills laid paper; a further 90 copies were printed for inclusion in the folio of the deluxe copies of Parenthesis 50. A single sheet folded in four to produce a piece of ephemera 295 x 210 mm with the text printed on one half of the inner side of the full sheet, an illustration on one of the outer quarter sheets and a description of the item on the other outer quarter sheet.

Condition

An item of ephemera in Fine condition.
Price: £25.00

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