TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES Reproductions of Fifteen Type Specimen Sheets issued between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Accompanied by notes mainly derived from the researches of A.F. Johnson, Harry Carter, Matthew Carter, Netty Hoeflake, Mike Parker. General Editor John Dreyfus, with an introductory essay by .

Morison, Stanley. (Introduction).

Published by Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd, 1963

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Slim Folio. 2 parts. [xxx] + 23pp. text + [i]. 15 double page facsimile plates. Text bound in red limp card wrapps. with paper title label to upper wrapp., lower leading corner of leaves bumped, plates unbound as issued in black card folder with paper title label; together in worn splitting and sl. squashed pale grey presentation box. From the Library of Glyn Tegai Hughes (1923 2017) Welsh scholar, writer and literary critic. He was a Liberal Party politician and Welsh nationalist. From 1964 to 1989 he was warden of the Gregynog Centre, University of Wales. In 2000 he was made a fellow of the University of Wales Aberystwyth. In 2004 he was made an honorary fellow of the University of Wales Bangor. US$111.

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• Title: TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES Reproductions of Fifteen Type Specimen Sheets issued between the Sixteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Accompanied by notes mainly derived from the researches of A.F. Johnson, Harry Carter, Matthew Carter, Netty Hoeflake, Mike Parker. General Editor John Dreyfus, with an introductory essay by .
• Publisher: Bowes & Bowes Publishers Ltd
• Publication Date: 1963
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