Printing Types

New York: Dover, 1980. 2d ed. Octavoa with brown wraps; illustrations; plates; 326p; index; chronology; 23cm Both very good (-); spines are sunned to light blue; some faint edgewear and small closed tear at head of spine on Vol. II; Vol I has light edgewear as well mostly at head of spine and circular pink sticker on verso of cover; pages are clean and binding is tight; both very readable with crisp printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0846239292

"This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged republication of the second (1937) edition of the work as published by Harvard University Press, Cambridge."

Contents of Volume 2: Types of the Netherlands, 1500-1800. Spanish types, 1500-1800. English types, 1500-1800. Types used in the American colonies, and some early American specimens. Nineteenth century "classical" types, Bodoni and the Didots. English types, 1800-1844. Revival of Caslon and Fell types. English and American revival of early type-forms and its effect on continental types. The choice of types for a composing-room. Industrial conditions of the past and their relation to the printer's problem to-day. Notes: "The lectures on which this book is based were delivered as part of a course on the Technique of printing in the Graduate school of business administration of Harvard university, during the years 1911-1916"--Preface. "Chronological list of specimens": vol. II, p. [297]-298.

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