A Typographical Commonplace Book by Monroe Wheeler Harrison of Paris 1932

WHEELER, Monroe. A Typographical Commonplace Book. Paris: Harrison of Paris, 1932.
 
Tall octavo. 45pp. Unbound in the original sewn gatherings, as never bound, with exposed sewing to the spine. Some light handling, occasional spotting and minor edge creasing, but complete and sound. The colophon limitation space is left blank. Very good. 
 
The eleventh publication of Harrison of Paris, designed by Monroe Wheeler and printed in Paris by Ducros and Colas. A particularly attractive production, conceived as a typographical exercise, with quotations from Jane Austen, Sheridan, Spinoza, La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, Cocteau and others, each presented in a different arrangement of type and ornament. The edition comprised 18 copies on Imperial Iridescent Japan vellum, five copies on China paper for the designer, 595 copies on Montgolfier Annonay vellum, and ten copies not for sale. This example appears to be on the regular Montgolfier paper.
 
An unusual survival in an apparently unfinished production state, retaining the original gatherings and sewing and never having been placed into the publisher's binding. A Harrison of Paris curiosity.