Typography
Subtitle: type specimens grouped, displayed and numbered for the ease of customers who desire a particular character and size : the written word and the printed word : some tests for types : concerning printers' flowers : the pioneer work of the Pelican Press : the points of a well-made book : a glossary of printers' terms : borders and initials : second impression to which has been added examples of new of new faces.
Contributors: Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967.; Pelican Press.
Publisher: Pelican Press
Published: 1927
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Printing -- Specimens.; Type and type-founding -- Specimens.; Type and type-founding -- Design.
Notes: Described by Appleton as a reprint with revisions of "The craft of printing" (Pelican Press, 1921).

Includes "The written word and the printed word" attributed to Stanley Morison (T. Appleton in The writings of Stanley Morison (1976), entry #19a).

"This book was compiled and was for the most part written by Francis Meynell for the Pelican Press": colophon.

MASS copy: Inscription on front fly-leaf: "Frank P. Restall".

MASS copy: Note laid in.