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RICCARDI PRESS -- Robert STEELE (editor). The revival of printing. A bibliographical catalogue of works issued by the chief modern English presses. London: Riccardi Press, Charles T. Jacobi for Macmillan & Co. and Philip Lee Warner (publisher to the Medici Society), 1912. 4 o (226 x 155 mm). PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of 12 copies. Riccardi Press roman type (14-point), Greek type designed by Selwyn Image First line of title in blue ink; 9 letterpress facsimiles on vellum and 9 type-pages, borders and initials reproduced in collotype facsimile on paper. Original flexible vellum binding, gilt lettering, green fabric ties, top-edges gilt, the others uncut, original printed blue-grey dust-jacket. Provenance : Bromer Booksellers 2000 (description laid in). The edition was limited to 350 copies on laid paper and 12 COPIES ON VELLUM. Following Robert Steele's general introduction are chapters on the Daniel, Kelmscott, Vale, Eragny, Ashendene, Essex House, Doves, Cuala, Merrymount, Florence and Riccardi Presses, as well as on the Cambridge Type and Robert Proctor's Greek Type. FINE CONDITION.