Frederic W GOUDY / The Story of the Village Type Limited 1st Edition 1933

  

The Story of the Village Type. Title: The Story of the Village Type Publication: New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1933 Edition: First Edition Limited to 450 copies on Arnold Unbleached handmade paper.

Description: large octavo, original paper boards and cloth with printed paper labels on front cover and spine. Goudy designed the Village type and founded the Village Press.

The main text pages are printed in red and black with the title page in red, black and with a silver vignette of a piece of type depicting Goudy's initials. Original printed presentation slip from The American Institute of Graphic Arts laid in. Included is a complete list of the types designed by Goudy.

A very fine, clean copy. Subject: Books About Books, Fine Press. The Colophon Book Shop specializes in the fields of antiquarian and in-print books about books, literary first editions, and military history, especially World War I Aviation and World War II Aviation.

The Colophon Book Shop was established in 1971 in LaGrange, Illinois, by Robert and Christine Liska. The move to New Hampshire was made in 1982 and we are now located in Exeter, New Hampshire, one hour north of Boston. This listing was created by Bibliopolis.