Original publisher's red-brown cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, title-page illustration, [10]pp., 214pp., very richly illustrated, side-notes & references, acknowledgements, list illustrations, appendices: lineages of British & American typefounders, list type specimens consulted, names & seizes of types, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new.

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Titel: Alphabets to Order. The Literature of Nineteenth-century Typefounders' Specimens.
Verlag: London, British Library-Oak Knoll Press 2000
Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 1584560096
ISBN-13: 9781584560098
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co-founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the apparently random texts employed by British and North American typesetters to display their typefaces actually reflected the typesetters' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane, and that they had plenty to say as well about the reading habits, politics, amusements, and whimsies of the day. Includes a number of reproductions of texts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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