BOGTRYKKETS FORTID OG NUTID.
- Copenhagen: New Nordic Publishing House Arnold Busck, 1952.
- large 8vo.
- patterned paper-covered boards.
- 107, (3) pages.
Price: $20.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 51890
Two short works in one volume. A fine coyp. In "Calligraphy and Book Type" (pp.9-50), E. Philip discusses medieval calligraphy and the typefaces of incunabula and early 16th-century books. Following this, C.V. Nordlunde, in "From Kelmscott Press to Penguin Books" (pp.51-101), discusses the development of modern book typography with William Morris to Penguin Books productions of the late 1940's. Both with index, bibliography. (In Danish).
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