Kundig albert editor (1 risultati)

Eight volumes (titles below) printed in French in different fonts and sizes (cr. 4to to miniature), all with printed stiff paper wrappers; some uncut and partly unopened; housed in individual compartments within a post 4to drop box of qr. vellum and cream marbled paper, spine lettered in black, tiny surface graze to lid, the fore-corners a trifle worn; the box within a matching papered slipcase, edges lightly rubbed; Albert Kundig, Geneva, 1945. Edition limited to 400 numbered sets; this one of 200 for sale. *Produced to demonstrate different book sizes and formats. The volumes, sizes and fonts are: 1. Amours. [anthology of poems, wrappers faintly faded], 4to, Plantin; 2. Rousseau: Quatre lettres . . . 8vo, Didot; 3. Calvin: Sermon . . . [on women's modesty]. 12mo, Bodoni. 4. La Fontaine: Lettres a sa femme. 16mo, Elzevir. 5. Racine: Lettres a son fils . . . 32mo, Bodoni. 6. Amiel: Fragments du Journal Intime . . . 64mo, Elzevir; 7. Montesquieu: Portrait par lui-meme. 128, Roman; 8. La Rochefoucauld: Maximes choisie. 'miniscule', 256.…