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hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Cover and edges shows shelf wear and minor staining. Back cover shows minor tears.Pages shows minor tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.8.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Clean and unmarked.

42.0 x 26.0cms 120pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: Roman inscriptional lettering; scripts; Johann Gutenberg; gothic & roman; Venetian; old face Italian; old face French; old face Dutch; early transitional; transitional; late transitional; modern; display; fat face; Egyptian; Clarendon; decorative display; Williamm Morris; 20th century roman; grotesque; index of typefaces; specimen text settings.

New York, New Amsterdam Books 1990. First edition. 4to. 27,5 x 27 cm. Hardcover with dustjacket. Cloth with dustjacket (FINE/FINE). 288 pages. ; 50 plates of pages fom books and over 100 type specimens. NEW COPY [Typografie /Typography ].

First edition. The British Library, London. 1990. Large square paperback. Illustrations. Index. Clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover edition. Clean, bright, and unmarked.

4to, (265x262mm), 288pp. 66 illustrations and numerous type samples showing paragraph settings of a variety of text types in different point and spacing settings. An good copy in paperback. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based and we may request additonal postage. Overseas customers are advised to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and charges.

Type facsimiles and illustrations; grey canvas with black spine titling, printed dust-jacket. A near fine copy. More than 100 currently available filmset typefaces are displayed in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes bold, roman, italic, small caps and figures. The authors also provide an introduction, including notes on the technical and visual development of typefaces, a comprehensive "family tree" of types related to their historical models, and a long illustrated essay in which many examples of widely various typographic problems and their solutions (all of relevance to today's book designers) are discussed. The book itself is set in a new Monotype face designed by Michael Harvey.

The British Library, London 1990. 288 pages. Illustrated in b/w. Orig. cover. Exlibris (Niels Lund). Name on halftitlepage. Signs of use to cover. Near fine.

Later edition. F-/F- condition. Full page illustrations in black and white.

Imp. 8vo, pp. 288; illus. light card covers; photos, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to covers; light to moderate bruising to edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; light tanning & foxing to prelims & terminals; sl cracking to front gutters; prev ownership inscription in blue to ht).

Reprint of the 1968 Edition. Reprint of the 1968 Edition. small folio, black boards in dust jacket. (123)pp. Chartwell Books, An illustrated history of metal type design, starting with the Roman and medieval letterforms and scripts which were the starting points for the alphabet designs we know today, and giving examples of the various stylistic changes that have taken place throughout the centuries. Minor edgewear to jacket. small folio, black boards in dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Large square quarto hardcover in fine light-grey cloth covers, bindng is square and tight as a book press, pages white and unblemished, Unworn, Unread, else as NEW in as NEW DJ. Crisp crisp crisp. "More than 100 current Monotype and Linotype digitized typefaces are displayed in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes bold, roman, italic, small caps and figures. " Fast shipping in cardboard container for safety; 4to.

cloth, dust jacket. folio. cloth, dust jacket. 116, (8) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. "An attempt to show by illustration, rather than by explaining in words, the main changes in type forms over 500 years of printing.".

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Large hardback first edition, in good condition with some signs of wear and tear due to being ex library stock. Fold-out section to rear. Beautiful history of typography including both images and graphic plates depicting hundreds of Typeforms spanning over 500yrs of print. Measures 42x27 cm.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated throughout with type specimens and half-tones. Blue decorative cloth, titled in white. A fine copy.

Condition: Good. Original decorated blue boards, a lot of examples, folio.

London, The British Library, 1990, 288pp. original linen binding with original dustwrapper in good state, many illustrations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth printed in navy blue and white, tall folio, 116, (6) pages, fold-out leaves. Examples of type specimens, many enlarged, with photos of the actual use of the types. This copy presented by John (Ryder) to Anthony (Mackay Miller) in 1988. A very near fine copy with slight edgewear.

Folio, pp. 116, [8]; illustrated throughout with types, letter forms, books, from antiquity to modern times; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.