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- Title Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens
- Author Alastair Johnston
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 213
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, DE
- Date 2000
- ISBN 9781584560098 / 1584560096
- Weight 1.91 lbs (0.87 kg)
- Dimensions 11.28 x 8.78 x 0.83 in (28.65 x 22.30 x 2.11 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99048068
- Dewey Decimal Code 686.224
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