Letter Forms. Typographic and Scriptorial. Two Essays on Their Classification, History and Bibliography
Published by The Typophiles, New York, 1968
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Seller: Colophon Book Shop, ABAA, Exeter, NH, U.S.A.Colophon Book Shop, ABAA
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First Printing of this edition. small octavo, red cloth. (xii), 167pp. The Typophiles, With an Introductory Note by John Dreyfus and Recollections of Stanley Morison by Beatrice Warde. Dreyfus explains that these essays have appeared only once before in origiinal, limited editions. The first was commissioned to inaugurate a series of type- specimen facsimiles, duplicating all pre-1800 designs of known origin and the second focuses on Italian scripts of the XV and the XVI centuries as illustrated in contemporary printed writing books. Illustrated. Spine faded, edges of text block slightly foxed. Contents clean.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Letter Forms. Typographic and Scriptorial. Two Essays on Their Classification, History and Bibliography
- Author
- MORISON, Stanley
- Publisher
- The Typophiles, New York
- Publication year
- 1968
- Binding
- small octavo, red cloth
- Edition
- First Printing of this edition.
- Seller catalogs
- Books About Books, History Of Printing, Typography
Colophon Book Shop, ABAA
Exeter, NH, U.S.A.
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