AMERICAN WOOD TYPE, 1828-1900, NOTES ON THE EVOLUTION OF DECORATED AND LARGE TYPES AND COMMENTS ON RELATED TRADES OF THE PERIOD.
- New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., (1969).
- 4to.
- cloth, dust jacket.
- 350 pages.
Price: $175.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 17436
First edition. Spine slightly faded, else a near fine copy in near fine jacket. With more than 600 types of wood type described and 100 specimens shown. Contains a list of known wood type specimen books. Bibliography, index. . Includes chapters on wood type designers and printers, manufacturing details, wood type styles, chronological development, and competition with other types of printing illustration.
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