A Tally of Types - with Additions by Several Hands

MORISON, Stanley (edited by Brooke Crutchley)

ISBN 10: 052109786X / ISBN 13: 9780521097864

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973

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Tall 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 137pp on thick paper, index etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked and unread copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Tally of Types - with Additions by Several Hands
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 052109786X
• ISBN 13: 9780521097864
• Binding: SOFTCOVER
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus.
• Condition: Fine

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Synopsis

The Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953, achieving a fame and influence wholly disproportionate to the comparatively small number of copies in existence. In 1973 Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, making this classic of typographical history and practice available to a wider readership; it is this edition we have reprinted here. Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time.

Book Description

Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period.