Cobden-Sanderson (T.J.).

Ecce Mundus. Industrial Ideals and the Book Beautiful.

First edition. Small 4to., a good copy in original quarter vellum, lettered in black, pale brown boards a little bumped at top fore corner, fore and bottom edges uncut. London, Printed at the Chiswick Press … Sold by the Hammersmith Publishing Society, 1902.

£120.00

Cobden-Sanderson on his soap box, yelling in apparent frustration that “the idea to be communicated by the book comes first, as the thing of supreme importance”, emphasizing and re-emphasizing that “the Book Beautiful…should be conceived as a whole”.

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