These initials were designed by noted Dutch book and type designer Jan Van Krimpen (1892-1958) in 1925 for use by Harold Curwen's Curwen Press. The alphabet shown here appears in The Curwen Press Miscellany, edited by Curwen's typographer Oliver Simon (1895-1956) and published in London for the Curwen Press by the venerable Jewish publishing house Soncino Press in a limited edition of 275 copies in 1931.
Our copy, a gift from the estate of our late friend Dennis Bayuzick (1946-1922), is from the collection of the English book collector Major John Roland Abbey (1894-1969) with his bookplate designed and engraved by Sir Henry John Fanshawe Badeley (1874-1951) in 1920.
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