typography type specimens grouped displayed (2 Ergebnisse)

Hard Cover. Zustand: Good. 8vo. 96 pp + 2 folding pls, second impression (with additions), the two folding plates printed in red and black and specimen sheets displaying a variety of type faces. Pages of text within different decorative borders and section of borders printed in red and black. Blank endpapers foxed, some light browning and faint spoadic foxing, good in original pale green cloth, bevelled boards, paper label to spine, spine sun faded, moinor markings to boards, label rubbed, good. please see photos supplied. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Printed in blue, red and black, decorated with borders, specimens and initials. Green buckram boards with printed label. Slight spotting to endpapers. A very good bright copy. (Rogerson 149b.)The second edition, enlarged and reset. Additional faces include Naudin, Neuland, Semisat and Koch Italic. The introductory text `The Written Word and the Printed Word' is a reprint, with minor alterations, of Stanley Morison's `The Craft of Printing'.