Letter Forms: Typographic and Scriptorial, Two Essays on Their Classification, History and Bibliography

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.