Printing Types, Their History, Forms and Use, A Study in Survivals

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1966. Very Good EX-LIBRARY in Very Good dust jackets (NO library markings on the jackets). Blank front flyleaves neatly excised. 2 volumes, complete. 338pp/345pp. Sharp corners. 1966. Second printing of the Third edition. This edition adds a new 6-page PREFACE by Lawrence C. Wroth, but is otherwise unchanged from the Second edition. 367 illustrations, some folding. According to Webber (p.126), this work by the head of the Merrymount Press "is not likely to be superseded as a standard authority on typography." Hart 25 says: "These volumes are without doubt the result of the most scholarly research that has been done in the history of the development of printing and the numerous illustrations have been carefully selected." In his article in THE PRIVATE LIBRARY (Summer 1989), Robert Jones of the Glad Hand Press wrote, "If I were King, I would decree, that no personal printing would be permitted until an applicant had studied the following volumes." He then lists this as one of five books that are "all the guidelines one will ever need." Uniformly bound in the original maroon cloth, stamped in gold on the spine. Oversize Hardcover (heavy). This heavy 2 volume set will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments. But for media mail, you pay only our standard charge for 1 volume and we ship the other volume at no extra cost.. Third edition, with new preface. Oversize Hardcover. Very Good EX-LIBRARY/Very Good dust jackets. 2 volumes: 338pp/345pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.