Signature: A Quadrimestrial Of Typography And Graphic Arts No.15 December 1940

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Softcover. PP.36. Vol 15. December 1940, from the Original Series of Signature, a thrice yearly journal devoted to typography and graphic arts. Limited to 550 copies. Printed at The Curwen Press. Contents include - 'Anton Janson Identified', by Stanley Morison. 'Napoleon's Books', by Desmond Flower. 'Berthold Wolpe', by Nicolette Gray, plus Indexes to Signatures vols. 1 - 15 of Subjects, Book Reviews and Artists. An Editor's note states, 'The current number of Signature is the last for the time being. We have decided to suspend publication until after the War'. Oliver Simon was later to write, 'Production was finally suspended with volume fifteen, which went to press on the night of October 7 1940, when during production a bomb fell on the Curwen Press destroying the offices and removing the roof of the machine room. The weather remained fine and dry and the final number of Signature, a mere five hundred and fifty copies, was printed under a bright blue sky'. An exceptionally fine copy of this rare issue. N° de ref. del artículo 1885

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