Order Nr. 142632 TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES. John Dreyfus.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.
TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.

TYPE SPECIMEN FACSIMILES, REPRODUCTIONS OF FIFTEEN TYPE SPECIMEN SHEETS ISSUED BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES. TWO VOLUMES.

(Type Specimens).

Accompanied by Notes Mainly derived from the Researches of A.F. Johnson, Harry Carter, Matthew Carter, Netty Hoeflake, Mike Parker. With an Introduction by Stanley Morison. Two volumes.

  • London: Bowes & Bowes, The Bodley Head, 1963, 1972.
  • folio
  • stiff paper wrappers, paper cover label, paper folder with cover label, cloth, dust jacket
  • xxix, 23 pages and accompanied by plates, ix, 15 pages followed by 40 unpaginated pages (incl. 30 collotype plates)

Price: $250.00  other currencies

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Limited to 760 numbered sets (Appleton 220, Baudin 144). Complete set (1-15, 16-18). Clamshell box cracked and worn at corners, else a near fine copy. Type Specimen Facsimiles I (Nos. 1-15): 15 separate large folded broadside specimens, inserted in a black paper portfolio. Type Specimen Facsimiles II (Nos. 16-18). Shows work of Berner, Fievet, Voskens, etc.

This work "is the digest of a lifetime's reading, of a life spent largely in reading and building-up an unequalled erudition on its subject, an encyclopaedic article, retailing other peoples' discoveries and opinions." -Harry Carter.

...as well as "a highly original essay on the history of the study of typography." -Nicolas Barker.

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