Typologia : studies in type design & type making, with comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing
Author:
Goudy, Frederic William
Publisher:
University of California Press
Xviii, 170 p : ill. facsims., ports ; 28 cm.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1940
Colophon: "This autographed edition of Typologia, limited to 300 copies, is set in University of California Old Style Types, designed by Frederic W. Goudy for the exclusive use of the University of California Press and here used for the first time. The book has been arranged by Mr. Goudy in collaboration with Samuel T. Farquhar, manager of the Press, and printed at the press in August, 1940. This is copy no. [in ms] 217. " Signed by Frederic W. Goudy. Marbled endpages. Original half brown morocco. It appears that the publication was originally issued in a slipcase but this is not present.
Support composed of paper ( xviii, 170 p)
Accession number: PB 27-2003
Primary reference Number: 94126
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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