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Harold Curwen: The Careful Printer. An address delivered by Herbert Simon at the 219th dinner of the Double Crown Club at Kettners Restaurant. 27th March 1973. One Hundred and Twenty Copies have been printed at The Curwen Press Plaistow at The Behest of Charles L. Pickering for presentation to members of The Double Crown Club and some of their friends. April 1974. Strung bound in blue wrappers with paste down title label to cover. In lovely condition with light mark to rear cover and slight rippling to front cover. Internally in fine condition with clean and crisp pages. 15pp. 'Started in 1924, the Double Crown Club was, and still is, a dinner club and society of printers, publishers, book designers and illustrators. With a select, invitation-only membership, they meet "no fewer than four times a year, but no more than six", for dinner and drinks, rounded off with a talk'.
AuthorAn address delivered by Herbert Simon
Date1974
BindingSoft Covers
PublisherThe Curwen Press
Illustrator_
ConditionNear Fine
Pages15pp

Price: £40.00

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