Some Early Type Specimen Books of England, Holland, France, Italy, and Germany - Couverture rigide

Blades, William 1824-1890

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1372455337 ISBN 13 : 9781372455339

Editeur : Wentworth Press, 2016

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Information upou Early Type Specimen Books is only to be obtaiued from the books themselves, and as they are very seldom to be met Adtli, I feel that the many imi)erfectious of the following sketch will be readily excused. At the same time it is urgently requested that any reader who may be able to add to, or correct, the information here given will favour the writer with a communication. Books have their fates as well as nations, and the certain doom of many a fair volume is utter destruction. Those of an ephemeral character, or such as soon become obsolete, have to pass through what, with literal truth, may be called 3l fiery ordeal. That is when they become too antiquated to be of any value to the current generation and yet require a century to pass over theu heads before they have any merit in the eyes of the antiquarian. Perhapg no class of books is more subject to this unkind destiny than the specimens issued by Type-founders, which soon become so worthless in the very eyes of their own parents, that large editions entu ely disappear and leave no track behind, even in the veiy foundries which gave birth to them. I imagine it to be as ti-ue of the Continental as it is of the old Englivsh foundries, that not one of them can show a coj)y of their first si)ecimen books. It may therefore be of some interest to make a note of such specimens anterior to the year 1820 as I have been able to meet with, confimng myself to those issued in our own country. When pi-inters were their ow type-founders their works were their own ty3e-specimens ;but soon after the spread of the art through Europe printers were found who were willing to cut punches and cast for their brethren.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wentworth Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1372455337
• ISBN 13: 9781372455339
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 34
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible