Linen-covered portfolio, lettered in black on upper board and spine; in slipcase; contains 10 type specimens (complete alphabets, plus a quotation), each a loose leaf with printed wraps, plus 4 pages of text. Presentation copy, with bookplate of the American Printing History Association on front paste-down. Quotes by Robert Frost, Paul Valery, Herman Melville, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Walt Whitman, Sir Thomas Brown, and Henry David Thoreau. A lavish production.

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Bibliographic Details

Title

Studies in Type Design, Alphabets with Random Quotations

Publisher

Friends of the Dartmouth Library / [The Meriden Gravure Company], Hanover, New Hampshire

Publication Date

1968

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

Fine

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