| British Library: | 11901.I.13 |
| Curwen Press: | M3 |
| British Library: | 11901.I.13 |
| Curwen Press: | M3 |
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ON TYPE FACES EXAMPLES OF THE USE OF TYPE FOR THE PRINTING OF BOOKS : WITH AN INTRO- DUCTORY ESSAY & NOTES BY STANLEY MORISON. PUBLISHED JOINTLY BY THE MEDICI SOCIETY OF SEVEN GRAFTON ST. LONDON W. AND THE FLEURON WESTMINSTER MCMXXIII [in blue, the circular badge of the Medici Society]
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Entrelac of the Riccardi Press.
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Of this book 750 copies have been printed for sale in the British Empire and the United States of America, the preliminary pages and the introduction being in the 14 point Riccardi fount. This copy is No.
[a]4 b4 [1-4]4 [5]2 [6-14]4; [14]4 is pastedown, but at front of book a normal pair of endleaves is used.
[4] v-xii [xiii-xiv, 1-2] 3 [4] 5 [6] 7 [8] 9-21 [22] 23 [24] 25 [26] 27-31 [32] 33-59 [60] 61-3 [64] 65-7 [68] 69-77 [78] 79 [80] 81 [82] 83 [84] 85-9 [90] 91 [92] 93 [94] 95-7 [98] 99 [100] 101-3 [+7].
Royal 4o: top edge only trimmed and coloured blue-grey, 12½" × 9⅝", white wove, VGZ Holland; 14pt. Riccardi lent by Medici Society and hand-set; type specimens in many different faces, some set abroad, Merrymount (p.23) is reproduced by line block; casing, spine black buckram, gold-blocked across foot: ‘MEDICI SOCIETY’ and near head of spine upwards: ‘ON TYPE FACES — MORISON’, boards in marbled paper, light and dark blue and some pink, upper cover bears label of puce laid paper: ‘ON TYPE FACES STANLEY MORISON’
Curwen copy was not numbered; B.L. copy marked Presentation copy.
13/Jul/1923
ODNB
Robin Phillips, 1963