1947 ZEm

[A]⁶ B-F⁸; inserted leaf after [A]1 and pair around section B.

[6] 1-5 [6] 7-8 [9] 10-5 [16] 17-59 [60] 61-73 [74] 75-83 [84-5] 86.

Crown 8^o: 7¼" × 4¾", trimmed, white wove, no mark, inserts of loaded paper; 11(+1)pt. Garamond; halftone illustrations on loaded leaves, line blocks and halftones in text; casing, buff cloth blocked in red-brown up spine: ‘COBBETT PRESS [space] HISTORY [space] V. GORDON CHILDE’, and on upper cover: ‘[within 3-rule border] HISTORY | V. GORDON CHILDE’; printed dust-jacket.

• Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892–1957 NPG ODNB
• Cobbett Press, London
• Garamond
  • 1530, by Claude Garamont (a type-founder for Robert Estienne among others), the first design where the roman and italic belong together; his consistent preferred spelling was 'Garamont', but the 20th-century types wrongly ascribed to him continue to use the 'Garamond' spelling.
  • See Simon 1973 p.169, Moran 1971 p.22
  • 1922, Monotype revived 'Caractères de L'Université', based on designs by Jean Jannon of Sedan which had been wrongly attributed to Garamond.
• Garamond, 11pt.
• Past and present series