Book by Johnston Alastair
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One of the most peculiar classes of lierature in the 19th century was the specimen book, issued by typefounders to show the styles of type available for sale. This entertaining survey combines typographic scholarship and literary criticism to discuss hundreds of examples of text, from the arcane to the mundane and the texts can be read with a poetic as well as a typographic sensibility.
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Destinations, frais et délaisVendeur : Antiquariaat Schot, Hendrik-Ido-Ambacht, Pays-Bas
Original publisher's red-brown cloth hardback, gilt title spine and frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 4to: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, title-page illustration, [10]pp., 214pp., very richly illustrated, side-notes & references, acknowledgements, list illustrations, appendices: lineages of British & American typefounders, list type specimens consulted, names & seizes of types, general bibliography, index. Very fine copy - as new. N° de réf. du vendeur 150027
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Maroon Cloth, Gilt. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. First Edition. viii., 213 pages, b/w illustrations, glossary, bibliography. Minor wear, unmarked, sunned spine to unclipped dustjacket. [757] Size: 290mm. x 225mm. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 016342
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Vendeur : Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, Etats-Unis
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Vendeur : MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlande
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 213 pages; Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index. Subjects: Type and type-founding --United States --Great Britain --History --English literature --19th century --History and criticism. Summary: This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co- founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the apparently random texts employed by British and North American typesetters to display their typefaces actually reflected the typesetters' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane, and that they had plenty to say as well about the reading habits, politics, amusements, and whimsies of the day. Includes a number of reproductions of texts. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 155587
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Vendeur : MW Books, New York, NY, Etats-Unis
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 213 pages; Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index. Subjects: Type and type-founding --United States --Great Britain --History --English literature --19th century --History and criticism. Summary: This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co- founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the apparently random texts employed by British and North American typesetters to display their typefaces actually reflected the typesetters' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane, and that they had plenty to say as well about the reading habits, politics, amusements, and whimsies of the day. Includes a number of reproductions of texts. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 155587
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Vendeur : Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, Etats-Unis
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