Title: Fournier on typefounding :
Authors: Fournier,; Carter, Harry,
Date: 1930
Publisher: Published by the Soncino press,
Physical description: xxxvii, [3], 323 p. : ill., double plates, port. ; 19 cm
Language: English
LC classification: Z
Contents: Short bibliography -- Biographical note -- Table of body-sizes -- Specimens of extant types. -- Fournier on typefounding: Introduction -- Punchcutting: general principles -- The face gauge -- Punches and counter-punches -- Cutting large letters -- Cutting flowers -- Cutting plain-chant -- Cutting red and black plain-chant -- Cutting old-fashioned music -- Cutting the new music -- Hardening -- Striking matrices -- Justifying matrices -- Founding letters: general principles -- A general view of Letter-founding -- Typemetal -- The regulus of Antimony -- Typographical points -- Height-to-paper -- Alignment -- The set -- The nick -- Poetry face -- Two-line letters -- Founding flowers, etc. -- Leads -- Fractions -- Founding music-types -- The prototype -- The letter-mould -- The rule-mould -- The lead mould -- The mould for furniture -- The dressing-block -- The caster's furnace -- Schemes -- Typography -- Appendix: Introduction to specimens; The principle Letter-foundries of Europe -- Preliminary notice to the Modéles de Caractéres of 1742 -- Explanatory note on the plates.
Notes: "This edition consists of 200 copies for sale in England by the Soncino press and 60 copies for sale in the United States by Random house inc." No. 21.
Subject headings (LCSH): Printing--France--Specimens--Early works to 1800.; Printing--Specimens.; Type and type-founding--France--Early works to 1800.; Type and type-founding.