Pica Roman Type in Elizabethan England by W. Craig Ferguson ISBN 13: 9780859677189

Scolar Pr. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1989. First Edition; First Printing. Oversized hardcover. 0859677184 . 1 x 11.75 x 8.25 Inches; 240 pages .

Scolar Press. Used - Very Good. 1989. Hardcover. Very Good. (Subject: Medieval, Early Printed Books & Cartography).

Ashgate Publishing, Limited. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside.

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989. 171 plates. Illustrated Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. 1st Edition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Scolar Pr, 1989-05. Hardcover. Good.

Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. FIRST EDITION. 4to. 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches. [viii], 33 pp. Half-title, figures, 9 tables, index, 171 black-and-white plates; text clean, unmarked. Black cloth, spine titled in gilt, dust-jacket in archival mylar; binding square and tight, jacket cover with minor shelf wear. Fine. In this book, Professor W. Craig Ferguson of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario studies the type faces in use in England from 1550 to 1610 to reveal the makers of the fonts and those who used them.

Aldershot [England] Brookfield, Vt., USA : Scolar Press ; Gower Pub. Co, 1989. First Edition. Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. . Physical description; 33, [1] p., [190] p. of plates : ill. ; 31 cm. Subjects; Type and type-founding — England — History — 16th century. Roman type. Pica type. Printing — England — History — 16th century.

Scolar Press, UK, 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 240 pages. Dustcover is lightly marked. Scholars have been too quick to abandon their efforts to identify the types used by Elizabethan printers. Differences among letter forms do exist, and do sort themselves out into recognizable patterns bt which families of types can be identified and, within the families, individual founts and their owners singled out. The most widely used type face was roman, which during the second half of the 16th century replaced blackletter as the standard face in English books. The most widely used size of type was pica. The book starts in the early 1550s, when punchcutters first came to England. It end at 1610, for soon after that date the shops were flooded with the new Dutch faces which gave an entirely different appearance to later 17th century printing. Professor Ferguson illustrates his arguments with facsimiles, tables and line drawings of Elizabethan letter-forms, to show the reader how the… Read more