A tally of types cut for machine composition and introduced at the University Press, Cambridge
by Morison, Stanley
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Cambridge: privately printed, 1953. First edition limited to 450 copies, 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 101, [1]; printed in red and black; original terracotta cloth, gilt-stamped spine; binding slightly skewed and with light wear at the spine ends, otherwise very good and sound, but without the slipcase. From the library of Kim Merker. Each chapter of Morison's Tally is set in the appropriate typeface (17 in all). This is a Cambridge Christmas Book, printed by Brooke Crutchley who provides a Preface.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 62834
- Title
- A tally of types cut for machine composition and introduced at the University Press, Cambridge
- Author
- Morison, Stanley
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- privately printed
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge
- Date Published
- 1953
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- Typography , Type Design , ,
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