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HUNT ROMAN: THE BIRTH OF A TYPE
Zapf, Hermann and Jack Werner Stauffscher
Foreword by George H.M. Lawrence.

   

- Pittsburgh : The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles 1965
- oblong small 8vo.
- boards, paper spine label, dust jacket.
- 24 pages followed by illustrations showing the development of this type face.
- Order Nr. 15542
- Price: $ 90.00



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First edition, limited to 750 numbered copies. Also has "A Note" from Jack Werner Stauffacher. Presentation from Stauffacher on half-title dated 1965. Dust jacket age darkened on spine with some soiling.

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CHAMBERS'S EDINBURGH JOURNAL: NEW SERIES.
by Chambers, William and Robert (editors)

(Union List of Serials 2, 975; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature 3, 1813). New Series began publication in 1844. Topics included essays, poetry, tales, biographical sketches, "instruction and entertainment" and anecdotes. A weekly 16 page magazine, first series commenced publication in 1832. Jointly edited by brothers William and Robert Chambers. Biographies of the Chambers brothers in DNB, IV, 23 and 27. Continued as Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1854. Each volume includes index of articles, arranged alphabetically by subject. Previous owner's name, H. N. Johnson, inscirbed on front free endpaper in each volume. Water damage to edges, back free endpapers, and board of Volume I only.




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