Selections from His Writings and Including a Portion of an Hitherto Unpublished Notebook; Edited and Prefaced by Gerald M. Stevenson, Jr.

Iowa City: Qara Press, 1961. First edition, number 16 of 190 copies on Curtis Rag. A near-fine copy. 4to (25.5 x 18.8 cm). 33, [1] pages. Two small mounted portraits of Cobden-Sanderson in text. Original grey paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label, binder's ticket of Boxwood Bindery, Lexington, Kentucky on rear pastedown (spine and board edges toned). Hand set and printed by Gerald McMonies Stevenson, Jr. as a part of Special Projects in Typography in the School of Journalism at the University of Iowa. The idea of the book was suggested by Harry Duncan who felt that C-S had been neglected. The journals reflect on C-S's relationships with many (truncated) colleagues, and his work for the Kelmscott and Doves Presses. "Candidly, I do not think that William Morris himself is a great printer: that his work is remarkable & in itself constitutes an epoch, is, again, another matter..." (p. 25). (Inventory #: 410732)