In Quest of the Perfect Book by William Dana Orcutt

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+, Dust Jacket: Very Good. 1926. Little, Brown and Company. 2nd Reprint. Illustrated.

Includes chapters on printing, typography, illustrations and much more - illustrated with a full color frontispiece with a captioned tissue guard and many plates throughout the book, Orcutt, who designed the type face 'humanistic' was the manager of University Press in Cambridge and Plimpton Press in Norwood and he has been credited with advancing printing as an art form.