Type designs of the past and present
1926, First Edition. London : the Fleuron. 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. Item #219881
Price: €100.00