Ten Sermons, Preached by that Late, Learned and Rev. Divine, John Donne, Doctor in Divinity, once Dean of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul's.; Chosen from the whole body of Donn'es Sermons by Geoffrey Keynes....
London: The Nonesuch Press, 1923. Limited Edition. 4to; 11 5/8 x 8 inches (295 x204 mm); Pp. [8] 162 [2]; Monotaype Garamond and decorated initials, titles and biblical text at chapter heads in red; printed on Dutch mould-made paper. Quarter natural canvas with brown Inges paper covered boards and matching endpapers, edges untrimmed, paper label on spine, toned, as is the spine; spare label tipped to back endpaper. Copy no. 453, in pencil on limitation page, of 725.
[Dreyfus 9].
The NONESUCH PRESS was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett who was a bookseller in Soho's Gerrard Street, in the basement of which the press began. It was unusual among private presses as it used a small hand press to design books, but had them printed by commercial printers, in order to produce book designs with the quality of a fine-press but available to a wider audience at lower prices. Meynell also wanted to demonstrate that "mechanical means could be made to serve fine ends." He believed that the production of exquisitely designed and produced books was not the preserve of the private press predicated upon the example established by William Morris's Kelmscott Press, which emphasized the primacy of the hand press printed book.
Condition: Near Fine.
Item number: 1131
Price: $125.00
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