MORRIS, HENRY — Vignettes Volume II: An Eclectic Assemblage of Anecdotes About Papermaking, the Private Press, Printing and Its History, Book Collecting, Numismata Typographica and Much More

Newton, PA, Bird & Bull Press. 1999, Limited, Numbered Edition. Cloth, Folio. Hard Cover, No. 99 of 155 copies; As New in slipcase, with prospectus laid in; 77p. including eleven pages of black and white illustrations and two pages of color inserts; a 7 X 11" sample sheet of the original 1958 Bird & Bull handmade paper is tipped in along with twenty additional tip-ins, most of which are in color. An adjunct to the article "Better Late Than Never" is a pair of clay impressions with human figures and cuneiform inscriptions taken from ancient Babylonian cylinder seals. The seals date from 1900-1600 BC, and the two clay impressions, about 1 X 2" in size, are in a recess inside the front cover of the clamshell box. A color insert shows (for the first time in the recorded history of the private press) how the production run of these impressions was accomplished by the Bird & Bull engineering staff in charge of reproduction of ancient artifacts; also included with this copy is a laid-in Appendix to "A History of Die Cutting", without which no copy of this title is complete; book and clamshell bound by the Campbell-Logan Bindery in identical light to medium brown cloth. Fine.