Ornamented types
Subtitle: twenty-three alphabets from the Foundry of Louis John Pouchée : the specimens printed from the original wood-engraved blocks in the St Bride Printing Library : with two additional alphabets from other sources.
Contributors: Mortimer, Ian.; Pouchée, Louis John.; Mosley, James.; I.M. Imprimit.; St. Bride Printing Library.
Publisher: I.M. Imprimit in association with the St. Bride Printing Library
Published: 1992
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Alphabets.; Type ornaments -- Specimens.; Type and type-founding -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: "... designed by Ian Mortimer and printed and produced by his Press, I.M. Imprint, London.  The complete edition comprises a Solander box containing the 25 ornamented alphabets on 46 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 text for this accompanying volume has been typeset and pages made up with the illustrations at I.M. Imprint.  The typeface for the text is 14, 12, and 11 point Scotch Roman (Monotype series 137) specially cast for the edition by the Hand Press, Westerham.  Headings and subheadings ar in Fry's French Canon No. 2 and William Caslon IV's 2-line English 'Egyptian'.  Both text and display types were set by hand ..."--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.

Library has no. 78/200.

Introduction by James Mosley.