TYPE FOUNDERS OF THE 18th CENTURY - Four Specimen Type Broadsides - Chicago 1931
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TITLE: Four reproductions of type specimen broadsides of the eighteenth century : two by William Caslon, London; one by Alex. Wilson and Sons, Glasgow; and another by the University Printing House, Oxford, with a brief introductory note by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
AUTHOR: Douglas McMurtrie
PUBLISHER: Chicago: Privately Printed
DATE: 1931
EDITION: "Seventy copies privately printed."
DESCRIPTION: 5 leaves ; 31 cm. A [1] page introduction signed by author. Four specimen leaves, described in text on the leaves. All rectos only.
CONDITION NOTES: FINE leaves in a GOOD portfolio. Portfolio has a long crease tear to the spine (about half way up the spine), as well as soiling.
BINDING: Loose sheets in portfolio
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"There are here reproduced in considerable reduction four specimen broadsides of the eighteenth century English type founders." An effort to draw attention to the beauty of 18th century typography, the facsimiles are not strictly derived from original imprints, but composed in the 1930s from good authority and original copies by a leading bibliography and print historian.
