Modern Lettering and Calligraphy by Rathbone Holme & Kathleen M. Frost
1954. First Edition. 144 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages remain bright and clean with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding slightly loose. Minor pencil inscription and water staining to front free endpaper. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing, fraying and tearing to spine ends and edges. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Book has strong forward lean. Boards are slightly bowed.