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TUER, Andrew W. (1838-1900). Quads for Authors, Editors, & Devils. London: Field and Tuer, 1884.
142 x 107 mm. Collation: A-F8. PRINTED ON VELLUM, one of 12 copies. Frontispiece, title-border and vignettes. Original gilt-printed parchment boards, "Quads within Quads", the volume padded at the end with paper stuck together, into which a sunken panel is cut to contain a VELLUM COPY of the "Midget folio" edition of the same text, mostly quired in eights; it too is bound in parchment boards, with fabric ties.
THE ENLARGED EDITION ON VELLUM LIMITED TO TWELVE COPIES. It offers a collection of printer's jokes, with a serious glossary of printing terms at the end. Quads are pieces of blank metal for filling up spaces in the type-page. COMPLETE with the miniature book let into the padded back cover. Field & Tuer advertised it as follows: "This little volume or rather two volumes in one ... is likely in future ages to rank high amongst the treasures of the book-collector. A book and a box, or rather two books and a box, and yet after all not a box at all, but a book and only one book. The explanation of this paradox is simple. Quads within Quads is the larger edition of Quads bulked out at the end with extra leaves of paper fastened together and hollowed out in the centre, and in the little nest so formed reposes a copy of the miniature or midget-folio Quads..."
142 x 107 mm. Collation: A-F
THE ENLARGED EDITION ON VELLUM LIMITED TO TWELVE COPIES. It offers a collection of printer's jokes, with a serious glossary of printing terms at the end. Quads are pieces of blank metal for filling up spaces in the type-page. COMPLETE with the miniature book let into the padded back cover. Field & Tuer advertised it as follows: "This little volume or rather two volumes in one ... is likely in future ages to rank high amongst the treasures of the book-collector. A book and a box, or rather two books and a box, and yet after all not a box at all, but a book and only one book. The explanation of this paradox is simple. Quads within Quads is the larger edition of Quads bulked out at the end with extra leaves of paper fastened together and hollowed out in the centre, and in the little nest so formed reposes a copy of the miniature or midget-folio Quads..."