Owed to the Book

Lickfield, William E. edits and compiles

Observations about books ' for a jollie good booke whereon to looke, Is better to me than golde'; expanded from an earlier compilation 'O for a Booke', prepared for the Philadelphia opening of the American Institute of Graphic Arts 'Fifty Books of the Year' exhibit in 1955; 400 copies for Typophile subscribers, 100 sale; printed for Typophile Chapbook XXXIII; title illustration from an early nineteenth century wood engraving.

Publisher: Typophiles. First American edition 1957
Edition: First Edition
Place Published: Philadelphia
Original grey blue cloth. Two pages detached, else fine as issued without dustwrapper.


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