The Book of Specimens [Limited Edition]

Boston: F.H. Gilson Company, 1905. Very Good. Boston: F.H. Gilson Company, 1905. First Edition, Limited to an unspecified number of copies of which this is no. 51. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's black three-quarter morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; xvi,[2],452pp.; frontispiece, facsimile autograph letter and double-paged color-printed map tipped in, illustrated examples throughout including music, eighty (80) cloth and leather samples mounted to later leaves, including Turkey Morocco, Seal Grain Cow, and Ooze Calf. Binding leather rather dried and scuffed along spine edges with brief exposure at corners, faint contemporary ownership rubberstamp to front flyleaf verso, textblock a shade toned, else Very Good and sound.

Massive display of the type-faces and binding types used at the Stanhope Press, best-known as the publisher of music books, though also known for dabbling in children's literature, genealogies, navigational texts, and many other subjects. (Inventory #: 32335)