[FILBY P W & MINER, Dorothy E & SWARZENSKI, Hanns]

CALLIGRAPHY: CATALOGUES OF THREE AMERICAN EXHIBITIONS. (1) P W Filby Intro. Calligraphy & handwriting in America 1710-1962. with (2) Dorothy E Miner et al. Two thousand years of calligraphy. and (3) Hanns Swarzenski Intro. Illuminated & calligraphic manuscripts. 3 volumes in 1,

      Publisher: Baltimore: Peabody Institute Library; & Baltimore Museum of Art;4to, (275x207mm), [84];201;[130]p. profusely illustrated, and preserving the original printed wrappers of each catalogue. The three catalogues with an added general title page, bound by Peter Isaac in full red morocco, with a painted fore-edge by Chris Daunt, preserved in an archival board box and including the binder's diary and notes on the execution of the binding between November 1990 and January 1992. The catalogues of three major exhibitions bound together in one volume. The painted fore-edge harks back to late-mediæval and renaissance models rather than the hidden fore-edge paintings of more recent centuries.