Order Nr. 4201 ITALIAN OLD STYLE, A NEW TYPE DESIGNED BY FREDERIC W. GOUDY AND PRODUCED BY THE LANSTON MONOTYPE MACHINE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA. Lanston.

ITALIAN OLD STYLE, A NEW TYPE DESIGNED BY FREDERIC W. GOUDY AND PRODUCED BY THE LANSTON MONOTYPE MACHINE COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA.

(Type Specimesn).
  • Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype, 1924.
  • 4to.
  • paper wrappers
  • 16 pages.

Price: $30.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 4201

First edition thus in an edition of around 11,600 copies (Jackson 42 for Dibdin essay). Covers detached, minor edgewear, else a near fine copy. The type is demonstrated by reprinting part of Thomas Frognall Dibdin's Early Printers in the City of Venice from THE BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DECAMERON.

Printed by Rudge in Mount Vernon New York with the Italian Old Style type & ornaments arranged by Bruce Rogers.