The Nonesuch Century An Appraisal, a Personal Note and a Bibliography of the first hundred books issued by the Press 1923-1934 by Symons, A.J.A & Meynell, Francis & Flower, Desmond - 1936

Nonesuch Press, 1936. Hardback, original green buckram. 31 x 21cm. xi, [4], 80pp. Frontis portrait of Francis Meynell from a drawing by Eric Gill. Tipped-in samples, some in colour, plates and illustrations. Number 733 of an edition of 750 copies. Spine faded, otherwise an excellent copy. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

London: The Nonesuch Press, 1936. Hardcover. Very Good. Green buckram with leather spine label gilt, 4to., xi, (1), 80, (8) pages + 6 gravure leaves illustrating bindings, (56) pages of reset text and title pages and 45 two or four-page specimen inserts mounted on charcoal paper. Frontispiece portrait of Meynell from a drawing by Eric Gill. One of numbered 750 copies printed at the Cambridge University Press. Inserted specimens "reset and printed or stenciled" by the original printers. Loosely inserted are the 8-page prospectus for Herodotus, which book immediately followed those in "Century", and "Check List Books of the Nonesuch Press Published Since the 'Century'", the 8 page keepsake published by Gallery 303. A clean, attractive, better than very good copy with slight bumps to the upper tips, minor wear and the usual toning of the spine, which is evenly faded to light brown, in archival mylar.

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. First Edition, one of 750 copies (this copy #200). Profusely illustrated and with numerous inserted sample pages. 1 vols. Tall 8vo. Original green buckram, spine faded. First Edition, one of 750 copies (this copy #200). Profusely illustrated and with numerous inserted sample pages. 1 vols. Tall 8vo.

London, The Nonesuch Press, 1936. . Limited edition, number 29 of 750 copies; folio; 6 photogravure plates of bindings, 44 tipped-in specimen leaves mounted on dark grey paper, 25 of these bifolia and many coloured, 52 pages reproducing illustrative text and title pages, and 3 pages of printer's devices; original green cloth, black morocco spine label with gilt lettering, spine faded to brown, fore-edge uncut, light spotting to endpapers. This bibliography covers the first hundred books and the first ten years of the Nonesuch Press, which was founded in 1923 by Vera Mendel, David Garnett, and Francis Meynell, with the last being in charge of book production. The Press produced a substantial corpus of fine printing, although the books were not produced exclusively to be collectible objects. 'As a piece of typographical design, The Nonesuch Century was highly original and extremely successful. Francis [Meynell] realized that reproductions of finely printed pages cannot convey either the feel of a… Read More

London: Nonesuch Press, 1936. No.440 of 750 copies. Frontispiece portrait of the owner Francis Meynell by Eric Gill, 67 illustrations of devices, bindings, title-pages & texts, 46 original leaves from the books tipped in, usually being reset and printed or stencilled by the original printers of the books from which they have been taken. Printed at the Cambridge University Press by Walter Lewis. Folio, original green buckram with black and gilt spine label, in the rare original dust jacket. Top edge spotted, slight browning to endpapers, dust jacket with some closed tears on flaps and bottom of spine, otherwise very good.||A wonderful, elaborate overview of the first 100 books and roughly the first 10 years of the Nonesuch Press.Booklabel of Clarence B. Hanson, Jr.|