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The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Open Culture 15 June 2026 14h ago
The Splendid Book Design of the 1946 Edition of Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In 1929, the book publisher George Macy founded The Limited Editions Club (LEC), an imprint tasked with publishing finely illustrated limited editions of classic books. In the years to come, Macy worked with artists like Matisse and Picasso, and photographers like Edward Weston, to produce books with artistic illustrations on their inner pages. And sometimes The Limited […]
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