miscellany type compiled whittington (2 Ergebnisse)

26/460 COPIES (from an edition of 530 copies) printed on Zerkall mouldmade paper throughout in black and a variety of autumn colours through the browns to orange, all heightened with a selection of illustrations from earlier Whittington books and inserted type facsimiles, pp. viii, 127, folio, original quarter terracotta cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, patterned paper boards, touch of rubbing at extremities, top edge orange, others untrimmed, cloth and board slipcase, near fine. This copy with the additional signature of the book's printer, John Randle, at the colophon. '.this book's purpose is to in some way celebrate [the] typographical renaissance that ended twenty years ago by showing the Monotype faces held at the Whittington Press. The choice of faces, while fairly comprehensive, is inevitably also subjective. the plan has been to show, particularly in the little-seen larger sizes, whole or half-pages to show off Morison's legacy in its true glory. The texts are extracts from books or articles published by the Press since it started in 1971' (Introduction) Typefaces: Baskerville, Bell, Bembo, Bodoni, Caslon, Centaur, Cochin, Fournier & Barbou, Garamond, Gill Sans, Goudy Modern, Lutetia, Modern, Perpetua, Plantin, Poliphilus & Blado, Romulus, Scotch Roman, Times Roman, Van Dijck, Walbaum. (Butcher 105).

Edition limited to 530 copies (this, no. 375), being one of 460 copies quarter-bound; folio, pp. [8], iv, [4], 125, [7]; 3 tipped-in broadsides, illustrated throughout with wood engravings, (largely by Ardizzone, Eric Gill, Robert Gibbings, Gwenda Morgan, Richard Kennedy, Miriam Macgregor, Peter Forster, John Craig, and Hellmuth Weissenborn), line drawings, and a plethora of type styles and ornaments, from 72pt to 12pt; quarter buckram over decorative paper-covered boards, gilt-stamped spine; fine in fine slipcase.