Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens by Alastair Johnston

Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens

Alastair Johnston

213 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

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Specimen books issued by typefounders to show their styles of type available for sale also revealed a lot about the reading habits, politics, amusements and whimsies of the British and North American founders in the nineteenth century. Combing typ...

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