XIXth century ornamented types and title pages.
Publisher: Faber and Faber limited
Published: 1938
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
Subjects: Title pages.; Type and type-founding -- Great Britain -- Specimens -- Bibliography.; Type and type-founding -- Great Britain -- Specimens.; Printing -- Great Britain -- Specimens.
Genres: Bibliography.
Description: "My primary object ... has been to record the great variety of nineteenth-century types, and the approximate date of the first introduction of each example, and to analyse the development of the Victorian title page ... I have included a list of the type-founders' specimen books"--Page 7
Notes: "List of type specimen books, arranged by foundries": p. 107-146.
"First published in September MCMXXXVIII".