Specimen pages of Korean movable types (Charles E. Tuttle’s copy)

A$6,000 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

Collected described by Melvin P. McGovern . Los Angeles : Dawson s Book Shop, 1966. Colophon: Of this edition, three hundred copies have been printed for sale. Of these, ninety-five copies comprise the Primary Edition and are numbered from I to XCV. The remaining copies are numbered from 96 through 300. This copy is number [in manuscript] A, out of series (Tuttle) / For Mr. Mrs Charles Tuttle who have heard much seen nothing these five years. Peter Brogren . Folio, original quarter white cloth over embossed handmade paper covered boards, frontispiece, pp 73, with 22 mounted specimen leaves (in facsimile) from 15th-19th centuries, identified in Korean as well as in English; bibliography; housed in a cloth slipcase; a fine presentation copy from the book s printer, Peter Brogren of The Voyagers Press, Tokyo, produced out of series for the publisher and bookseller Charles E. Tuttle (1915-1993), a pre-eminent figure in the world of books and printing in East Asia in the modern era. In Korea movable wood type was in use by the end of the fourteenth-century, and movable metal type by the beginning of the fifteenth. In this volume, Melvin McGovern, Director of Education at the United States Army Headquarters in Korea, has assembled in a leaf book specimens of Korean printing in a combination of bronze and wood typography, spanning the years 1420 1848. Of the edition of 300 copies, the first 95 are designated the Primary edition , and contain all original specimen leaves from the dat

• Binding: Hardcover

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