Ornamented types
Subtitle: twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Pouchée.
Contributors: Pouchée, Louis John, 1782 or 3-1845.; Mosley, James.; Mortimer, Ian.; I.M. Imprimit (Firm); St. Bride Printing Library.
Publisher: I.M. Imprimit in association with St Bride Printing Library
Published: 1993
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Pouchée, Louis John, 1782 or 3-1845.; Type ornaments -- Specimens.; Type and type-founding -- England -- Specimens.; Alphabets.
Notes: "Designed by Ian Mortimer and printed and produced by his press, I.M. Imprimit, London. The complete edition comprises a Solander box containing the 25 ornamented alphabets on 26 sheets, a title-page, a two-sheet Printer's Note, a two-sheet visual index, and a colophon; and this book with its slip-case"--Colophon.
"The edition is limited to 200 sets for sale, numbered 1/200 to 200/200. There are ten sets out of series, numbered as follows: numbers I/X to V/X are for the St Bride Printing Library; numbers VI/X to X/X are for I.M. Imprimit"--Colophon.
LC has set no. 148/200.
Source: Purchase, Dec. 20, 1994 (DLC# 95/4527)
Table of contents: title: Introduction / James Mosley; title: The specimens : printed from the original wood-engraved blocks in the St Bride Printing Library : with two additional alphabets from other sources.