ANNA SIMONS Titel und Initialen für die Bremer Presse Bremer Presse, (Munich), (1926).

Folio. (16) ff. A portfolio of titles and initials designed by Anna Simons for the Bremer Presse. Along with Graily Hewitt, Eric Gill, and Percy Smith, Simons was one of Edward Johnston's star pupils at the Royal College of Art in London, and she has inscribed this copy to him on the title-page in black ink. It was after studying with Johnston, whose Writing & Illuminating, & Lettering she translated into German, that Simons in 1918 went home to Germany to work at the Bremer Presse. During her time at the Presse, she would design many titles and initial sets for them, and in 1926 this portfolio was issued to showcase her work. Each sheet in the portfolio is headed by one of Simons' Bremer Presse title designs, including her titles for the Divine Comedy, Fichte's Reden an Die Seutsche Nation, Chansons d'Amour, Albii Tabulli Elegiae, and others. The titles are followed by the initials she cut for the work.

Housed in a paper-covered portfolio backed in linen, with a paper label to the cover and three cloth tie straps. Portfolio sunned and with some water staining as well as foxing to pastedowns. Sheets with scattered foxing particularly at edges, else about fine. This is a wonderful large-format presentation of Simons' work, all the more special for the close association between her and Johnston. (Die Bremer Presse 51). (21943) $2500.00

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