Photocomposition at the Alden Press, Oxford : a printer's type-specimen book
1981, First Edition. London : Bodley Head : for the Alden Press, Oxford. 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. Item #219728
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