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Author: MORISON, STANLEY
Title: Type designs of the past and present
Description: London : the Fleuron 1926. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Vivian Ridler with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. 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. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 70 pages; Description: 70 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subject: Printing -- Specimens. Type and type-founding. Printing.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Title: Type designs of the past and present
Description: London : the Fleuron 1926. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn and dust-dulled dw. now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and strong. Provenance: From the library of Vivian Ridler with his personalized bookplate to front pastedown. 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. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 70 pages; Description: 70 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. Subject: Printing -- Specimens. Type and type-founding. Printing.Weight in Kg appr.:
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Price: EUR 100.00 = appr. US$ 108.68 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 219881
- Book number: 219881