[Valenti Angelo | Illuminated] The Court of the Printers' Guild Drop 3 Original printed wrapper with unbound

Original printed wrapper with unbound and uncut pages printed on Unbleached Arnold handmade paper with the Vale Press watermark

Eighteen full page illustrations (a few double-page)

and floral stamp to middle compartment

Whether you kept a copy of this example of your able and conscientious workmanship I don't know -- but I take my genuine pleasure in sending this to you in my own book

(signed on inner turn-in) with gilt tooling at corners

[Valenti Angelo | Illuminated] The Court of the Printers' Guild Drop 3 Original printed wrapper with unboundLoftus, Hare W. The Court of the Printers' Guild. New York: Valenti Angelo, 1949. Limited edition of 200 copies, of which this is #29. Handset in Goudy Tory, printed and illuminated, by Valenti Angelo. Signed by him on the colophon. Title page illuminated in gold and blue, along with with initials executed in red and blue watercolors. Plain wrapper over boards, spine lettered in red. Measures approx. 3. 25" x 4. 75". Small bookplate of Elisabeth Post