Description
This book has been set in Monotype Centaur and Arrighi: Centaur was designed by Bruce Rogers and first cut in 1929. Arrighi was designed by Frederic Warde and first cut in 1929. The type was set and printed letterpress by Michael and Winifred Bixler. The paper was handmade at Velke Losiny in Moravia especially for this edition and is the first sheet to bear a Thornwillow Press watermark. Frontispiece and printer’s mark are reproduced line art and collage drawings by Luke Ives Pontifell.
Binding: Full brown morocco with blind tooling. Top edges gilt. Five raised bands on spine; ‘B’ tooled in one compartment. Brown decorated endpapers, pastedowns surrounded by tooling. ‘THORNWILLOW PRESS’ and binder’s stamp part of tooling on back paste down. Black linen clamshell box, lined with tan suede, and ‘THE BILL OF RIGHTS’ gilt on spine. Also issued in quarter brown morocco and brown handmade paper boards, with morocco exposed very slightly at corners. This variant does not include Warren E. Burger’s signature.
