Margerie,P.de. Éloge de la Typographie. prononcée à l'ouverture de l'exposition: Le Salon des Bibliophiles à Berlin le XII. Octobre MCMXXIX. paros. Edition de Cluny. February 1931, printed by the Cranach-Presse in Weimar. 28 x 18 cm. 4, 12, 4 p. With a large init. by Erich Gill. Erich Gill, figuratively ornamented by Aristide Maillol, this verg. a. heightened with lapis lazuli. Original red morocco with gilt fillets on cover, standing and inner edges and gilt title in slipcase. (signed O.Dorfner - Weimar) (slipcase with 3 small stains). One of 115 num. On Monval laid paper with the watermark MK. One of the rarer copies in which the initial by Max Goertz was heightened with lapis lazuli. - A good copy. Edges of endpapers with flaking of leather edges.

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