Item #7855 Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]. Type Specimens, Leonard Baskin.
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]
Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]

Cancelleresca Bastarda Displayed [Cover Title]

[Northampton]: Gehenna Press, 1965. First edition, number 63 of 100 signed copies. 16x13cm, [16]ff, printed rectos only in several colors. Signed by Baskin at the colophon. Stitched between two boards covered in marbled paper with printed label on front cover. Toning to paper and a natural crease down the center of spine between the boards. Clean internally and very good.

Scarce and beautiful book from Baskin which prints 11 aphorisms in Latin using several colors and sizes of Jan van Krimpen's Cancelleresca Bastarda type.  The mottos are shown in English at the rear and include:

"The smell of money is good, whencever"


"Even a fly has a spleen"

"God deliver me from a man of one book"

and others.  

Printed on pre-WWII Amalfi paper from Bruce Rogers, with the marbled paper over boards by Peter Franck.
. Item #7855

Price: $750.00

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