Price: £40
Subject: Modern First Edition
Published Date: 1979
Stock Number: 69390
Ryder (John)
The Case for Legibility.
Description: FIRST EDITION, illustrations showing various examples of book design, pp. 78, foolscap 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt with very slight lean to spine, dustjacket with very gentle fading to backstrip panel, very good
Publication Details: The Bodley Head, 1979
Notes: Inscribed by the author to the half-title: 'Susan Le Roux's, from John R, July '79'. The recipient was an Oxford-based book illustrator. A fascinating and earnest book on the importance of various aspects of design to the appreciation of a text. Ryder worked in the capacity of designer at the Bodley Head.
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