Monotype Borders Williams, Bernard Typography

small folio. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper cover label. pp.173-178. Showing variou Monotype borders / ornaments and examples of Cloister, Cloister Italic, Imprint, Garamond, Ancient Black, and Baskerville typefaces. Covers with uneven soiling and fading along the edges. Minor shelfwear. Free endpapers are heavily age-darkened, else the interior in near fine condition. A very scarce, beautifully printed book. Contains an introduction. According to an auction record from 1979, this book is one of 45 copies (CATALOGUE OF ART REFERENCE BOOKS, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, 1979). Designed and printed by Herbert Simon of The Kynoch Press, with all of the borders being executed on the Monotype "Keyboard" by Bernard Williams. Includes a title-page of Kisses Being the Basia of Iohannes Secundus (The Nonesuch Press, 1923). This book was commissioned by the Lanston Monotype Corporation for display at the Printing Exhibition of 1925. It was with the reintroduction of Caslon Old Face that would mark The Kynoch Press as it's entry into the field of lithography, and would be a printing house that used both letterpress and lithography as their methods of printing. The Kynoch Press continued to have success well into the second-half of the 20th century. For more information on this printing house, see The Kynoch Press: The Anatomy of a Printing House. 1876-1981, by Caroline Archer, The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 2000. quarter cloth over paper-covered boards, paper cover label