Item #901441 A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise of English Typography. Talbot Baines Reed, A. F. Johnson.
A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise of English Typography
A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise of English Typography
A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise of English Typography

A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise of English Typography

London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1952.
Second Edition. Hardcover.

Second Edition, First Printing. A new edition of Reed's 1887 work revised and enlarged by A. F. Johnson and first published in 1952.

This revision of Reed's classic and important work on the history and development of printing type in England includes new information, corrections, and illustrations unknown to Reed at the time of his initial publication.

Item #901441

7-3/4 x 11-1/8", blue-green cloth, red top-edge, xiv, 400pp, bibliography, index, folding frontis. illustration, 95 illustrations in the test.

A little crimping to spine ends, near fine in very good spine-darkened dust wrapper with a few short edge-tears and paper tape reinforcement to edges, in protective mylar.

Price: $150.00

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