Tally Types Cut Machine Composition by Morison (5 results)
A Tally of Types: Cut for Machine Composition and Introduced at the University Press Cambridge 1922-1932
Stanley Morison; with a preface and postscript by Brooke Crutchley
Language: English
Published by Privately Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, 1953
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Zebra Books, Cambridge, United KingdomZebra Books
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Earthy red buckram cloth boards with gilt titles and decorations to spine. Cloth a little marked and worn. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Text unmarked. Light tan to edge of page block.
Language: English
Published by Privately Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, 1953
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Red cloth decoratively gilt, small 4to., vii, 101, (1) pages. One of 450 copies printed for friends of the University Printer as the Cambridge Christmas Book for 1953. 17 monotype faces discussed by Morison and printed in the typeface under discussion. Very slight use to the cloth, else a clean,…near fine copy in archival mylar.
Published by Privately printed, Cambridge, 1953
- Hardcover
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. One of 450 copies printed. First edition. La. 8vo. 27 cm. Pp. vii, 102. Set in Centaur, Bembo, Poliphilus, Blado, Garamond, Fournier, Baskerville, Bell, Goudy Modern, Perpetua and Times. Introduction and postscript by Brooke Crutchley. Cambridge Christmas Book. Titles pieces by Reynolds Stone, printed… in red. Orig. red cloth. Small ownership signature on front f.e.p. Nice copy.
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Published by Cambridge: Privately Printed at the University Press, 1953
- Hardcover
- First Edition
- Art / Print / Poster
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Add to basketFirst edition, large 8vo, 102pp., one of 450 copies, signs of label having been removed from verso of title and base of spine, orig. cloth. Morison describes the collection of types cut under his direction at Monotype between 1922-32, and adopted by the Cambridge Press.
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Published by Privately Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, 1953
- Hardcover
Seller: SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB, LONDON, United KingdomSOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS, ABA, ILAB
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Add to basketOne of 450 copies, printed at Christmas for presentation by the University Printer, Brooke Crutchley, to his friends in printing and publishing, and with his preface and post script. Pp. vii [1] 101 [3]. Large 8vo., original russet cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Spine very slightly faded, some minor wear to head of spine, own…er inscription to front pastedown, a good copy, lacking slipcase. With the prospectus for the 1973 collector's edition loosely inserted. Morison's fascinating account of 17 typefaces, and why they were cut at his instigation and under his supervision by the Monotype Corporation between 1922 and 1932. From the library of Robert L. Leslie, American doctor, graphic designer and typologist, with his bookplate to front pastedown.
