Author: WILLIAMSON, HUGH ALBERT FORDYCE
Title: Photocomposition at the Alden Press, Oxford : a printer's type-specimen book
Description: London : Bodley Head : for the Alden Press. Oxford 1981. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Copy previously owned by Vivian Ridler with his uninked embossed personalised stamp to front free endpaper. Vivian Ridler. CBE (2 October 1913-11 January 2009). ex-Faber executive was also a printer. typographer and scholar in Britain. He was Printer to the University of Oxford at Oxford University Press from 1958 until his retirement in 1978; and also established his own Perpetua Press. Vivian Ridler's complimentary copy with ephemera loosley inserted. Additional leaflet of 1981 Metal Type inserted. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 156 pages; Description: xiii. 156 p. : ill. ; 20 x 25 cm. Subject: Type and type-founding -- England -- Specimens. Phototypesetting.Alden Press.Weight in Kg appr.:

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