Order Nr. 53020 LETTERS OF CREDIT, A VIEW OF TYPE DESIGN. Walter Tracy.

LETTERS OF CREDIT, A VIEW OF TYPE DESIGN.

  • London: Gordon Fraser, (1986).
  • 8vo.
  • cloth, dust jacket.
  • 223 pages.

Price: $45.00  other currencies

Order Nr. 53020

First edition. Spine of jacket with a hint of fading, else a fine copy in fine jacket.

Part I discusses the aspects of type design - vocabulary, legibility, readability, character spacing, etc. Part II looks at the types of Jan Van Krimpen, Frederic Goudy, Rudolf Koch, W. A. Dwiggins and Stanley Morison.