Italic Quartet. A record of the collaboration between Harry Kessler, Edward Johnston, Emery Walker and Edward Prince in making Cranach Press Italic

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Cambridge Christmas Book, Cambridge. 1966. viii, 50 pages. Small 4to (25,5 x 16,5 cm). Cloth binding, only top edge cut, in slip case. The art nouveau decorations in the book were designed by Martin Battersby, and the cover cloth printed at his studio in Brighton. With John Sparrow’s book plate by (Reynolds Stone 1909–1979 no. 277). 10 collotype plates. One of 500 copies on mould-made paper. (Crutchley page 33).
The fascinating story when this remarkable quartet collaborated in making the italic press type ”Cranach Press Italic”.