A Token to an Ornamentalist Enemy / Uriel Cidor

A Token to an Ornamentalist Enemy / Uriel Cidor

Broadsides

FA.FFS34.3330
Fine Art Collection
31 x 43 cm; 12" x 17"
2017
Uriel Cidor
letterpress printing
A letterpress printed sheet, being leaves four and five (i.e. pages 8, 9, 10 and 11) of Uriel Cidor's "First part" edition of excerpts from "An essay on typography" by Eric Gill. The 'recto' of the sheet (pages 9 and 10) are blank, and the 'verso' of the sheet contains the content of pages 11 and 8, respectively; page '11' (on the left) has a frame of ornamental type, containing the text "A token to an ornamentalist enemy." Page '8' (on the right) contains a page of text starting with the line "Whether or no industrialism has 'come to stay' is not our affair ..." CBA has two copies, this is copy 1, signed and dated at bottom right "Cidor. 2017."