Italian Old Style
Subtitle: a new type designed by Frederic W. Goudy and produced by the Lanston Monotype Machine Company of Philadelphia, 1924
Publisher: Lanston Monotype Machine Co.
Published: 1924
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Printing; Specimens; Lanston Monotype Machine Company
Notes: Title within ornamental border.

"The Lanston Monotype Machine Company has had a second edition of eleven thousand copies (more or less) of this pamphlet printed by Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York, with the Italian Old Style type & ornaments arranged by Bruce Rogers"--Colophon.

Caption title on p. [3]: Early printers in the city of Venice, from Dibdin's Bibliographical decameron, the fourth day.

Pages [3]-12 contain the text of Dibdin; the [4] p. at end contain type specimens.

A separate edition of Dibdin text was also printed by Rogers with title: Venetian printers.

Purchase; Brattle Book Shop; 24 September 2002; 2002HP235; A. Lowell fd., Hofer Trust fd.; Bought with *2002HP-1.

From the library of University Press, Cambridge, Mass., with the "Tolman-University Press" bookplate.

Newberry Library poster for the 3rd Annual Exhibition of Fifty Books of the Year and 2nd Annual Exhibition of Commercial Printing laid in; removed to curatorial files.

Gilt-stamped black boards.

Bound in original gilt-stamped black boards.

Original decorated black boards.

Gilt-stamped black boards.

Original printed paper covers; in case, 38 cm.

Rebound in full brown calf; in cloth case.