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A View of Early Typography – Up to About 1600
£30.00
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Author: CARTER, Harry
Published by: Clarendon Press (Oxford, 1969)
8vo., half-title, frontis plate, title, xii, 137p. Illust. 84 plts, Bound in green cloth, gilt lettered to spine. Colour printed d/w, not clipped.
A summary of design and designers of printing type in the 15th & 16th centuries. Well illustrated. An authoritative work by the respected printer. A near fine copy.
Cat. ref: 123
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