| Curwen Press: | K17 |
| Curwen Press: | K17 |
| British Library: | 7947.aaa.48 |
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OLIVER SIMON [thin and thick rule] INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY The old artists of the classical school were never egotists. Egotism has been and remains responsible for many defects of modern typography. Talbot B. Reed LONDON FABER AND FABER 1945
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Dedication: engraved block white on black in the style of Reynolds Stone ‘To Ruth’ followed by 2 lines of Hebrew from Ruth 1:16: ‘אל אשׂר תלכי אלך ובאשר תליני אלין׃ עמך עמי ואלהיך אלהי.’ translated: ‘Whither thou goest I will go; and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God.’
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[i-vi] vii [viii] ix-xiii [xiv] 1-32 [33] 34-7 [38] 39-40 [41] 42-63 [64-5] 66 [67] 68-87 [88] 89-90 [91] 92-101 [102-4] 105-7 [108-9] 110-112 [113] 114-6 [117] 118-33 [134] 135-7 [+1].
Demy 8o: 8½" × 5½", trimmed white wove, Basingwerk Parchment; 12(+1)pt. Bembo; line and halftone illustrations, colour printing; casing, light brown cloth, spine and upper cover blocked in blue with decorative frame, and in red up spine: ‘OLIVER SIMON INTRODUCTION TO TYPOGRAPHY’; printed dust-jacket.
It appears, from p.vii line 25, that G. Humphris of Morrison and Gibb set the Hebrew for the Dedication; for later editions of this book see ZLc, ZKj. The Dedication above appears in this 1945 edition only. See Lyttelton 1979 vol.5 p.vii.
A new edition was printed in 1963 in 'Faber paper-covered editions' edited by David Bland, pages xii, 164; this lacks the Dedication given above, and is copyright 1963 by Mrs. Ruth Simon. T.p. as 1945 but without the date.
4/Oct/1945
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 20/Jun/2019