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12mo (18.5 cm), X, 167 pp, 4 plates. Publisher's boards and dust jacket (minor shelf-wear). Two essays by an influential British typographer and historian of printing Stanley Morison (1889-1967). The first essay, "On the Classification of Typographical Variations", written at the request of John Dreyfus, was originally published as part of "Type Specimen Facsimiles". Sections include: The Dutch Romans; The 'modern' face; The rise of English type founding; The type of Baskerville, 1754; The vogue of Bodoni; William Morris and Emery Walker 1892; A modern scholarship: D. B. Updike 1922; The analysis of script in the 19th century. The second essay, "On some Italian Scripts of the XV and XVI Centuries", was written for Carla Marzoli's catalogue of early writing books, 1962. Seller Inventory # 006464
Bibliographic Details
Title: Letter Forms: Typographic and Scriptorial, ...
Publisher: Nattali & Maurice, London
Publication Date: 1968
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
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