$350
Estimate: $500 - $800
Auction: February 18, 2021 10:00:00 AM EDT
New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1918. First edition, one of 1,000 copies. Small folio. (ii), 44, (2) pp. Presentation copy, with rare "Keepsake" broadside laid in: "The Anderson Galleries, New York/(device)/This Keepsake/is the first impression made in America on/the hand-press formerly owned by William/Morris, now the property of Frederic &/Bertha Goudy, and is printed by them for/visitors at an exhibition of that press and/of their work at The Village Press./March, M, cm, xxiv". Inscribed, "Compliments Fred W. Goudy/6/10/27", bottom left; additionally signed and dated (6/10/27) by Goudy on colophon. Illustrated with frontispiece, 27 plates, and in-text illustrations. Original black cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges untrimmed; in quarter brown levant slip case and chemise.
"Only eight books were published by Kennerley in 1918...The most important was 'The Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretative Designs Drawn and Arranged with Explanatory Text and Illustrations by Frederic W. Goudy'. The Master's treatise on type design, it was set in Kennerley and Forum by Bertha M. Goudy and printed by William Edwin Rudge, with 27-full-page plates." (p. 125, Matthew J. Bruccoli, The Fortunes of Mitchell Kennerley, Bookman, 1986)