[Heavenly Monkey]

Metal Type [from the spine label: Some Metal Type Pages]

s.l. [Vancouver]: HM [Heavenly Monkey], 2013 [later binding: 2022]. Tall octavo, 25.5 x 17.9 cm. Cased in blue and grey painted paper over boards, with metallic silver accents. Printed title-label to the spine. Dark moss green Guarro endpapers. Unpaginated [pp. 20]. A fine copy. A selection of type specimens printed on various papers. The typefaces include: Bernhard Modern semi-bold [?], Columbus, Perpetua, American Shadow, Gill Shadow, Bembo, Duensing, Gill Sans, and De Roos, along with a few mysteries (JQB quoting HM quoting Richard Gervais): “these three fonts all came from the same drawer, caps only. I’ve never bothered to definitively identify them because, ‘I just don’t care.’” The papers are unidentified, but may include Barcham Green Bodleian, Van Gelder, Wookey Hole, Roma, and Guarro. This later state, which collects various sheets from the 2013 edition, was cased at HM by Rollin Milroy in 2022. Included are the original half-title and (cancelled) colophon pages. The final (blank) verso is numbered in pencil: ‘3/3’. (cf. This Monkey’s Gone to Heaven, 1.32). Item #393

Price: $385.00