Typefaces Examples Use Type Printing by Morison Stanley, Used (1 results)

Condition: Near fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Limited edition. 4to, 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches (317 x 247 mm). xiii, 103, (3) pp. Quarter bound black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, boards covered in tan, blue-grey and black marbled paper, tan title label with black lettering pasted on front board, pages untrimmed, with very light edge toning. Cream dust jacket is torn and toned but present; board edges are somewhat worn. Copy 421 of 750 copies, as inked in limitation page (half title page verso). R. C. Bald estate. Includes an introductory essay and notes by Stanley Morison. Contents: Venetian school: Venetian, Cloister, Incunabula, Riccardi, Merrymount, Montallegro -- Old face school: Garamond, Plantin, Fell, Caslon, Fleischmann, Van Dyck, Janson, Baskerville, Old style, Imprint, Kennerley, Nicolas Cochin, Cochin -- Titling letters: Lyons, Fry's open, Fournier-le-jeune, Moreau, Forum, Hadriano, Narcissus. STANLEY ARTHUR MORISON (1889 - 1967) was a British typographer, printing executive and historian of printing. He promoted higher standards in printing and an awareness of the best printing and typefaces of the past, with particular attention to the middle period of printing from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century, and creating and licensing several new type designs that would become popular. He is probably best know for commissioning Times New Roman, and became closely connected to The Times newspaper as an advisor on printing, he became part of its management and the editor of the Times Literary Supplement after the war, and late in life joined the editorial board of Encyclopædia Britannica. From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 - 1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago 1952 - 1965.