Creator
Stanley Morison & John Dreyfus
Title
Type Specimen Fascimiles 1-15.
Coverage
London
Publisher
Bowes & Bowes and Putnam
Date
1963
Subject
Folio
Description
When it comes to delving into the history of type, not much is as useful as a type specimen. One could look at types used in printed books and other matter, but in type the fonts used would be worn and often not very well printed. Type specimens virtually always present type in a pristine state, and type founders were careful to print their wares as well as possible.
Typographic scholars realized the importance of such items, and therefore in the mid-twentieth century a group in England set about to produce a collection of facsimiles of the most important type specimens, intended to span several volumes. Only two were published, but they formed a key resource for all interested in the deeper study of typefaces.
Typographic scholars realized the importance of such items, and therefore in the mid-twentieth century a group in England set about to produce a collection of facsimiles of the most important type specimens, intended to span several volumes. Only two were published, but they formed a key resource for all interested in the deeper study of typefaces.
Relation
PROVENANCE: Inscribed by the editor John Dreyfus to Jerry Kelly