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Type design : a homily: PB 454-2003

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Type design : a homily

Maker(s)

Author: Goudy, Frederic William
Typographer: Goudy, Frederic William
Publisher: Press of the Good Mountain
Designer: Johnson, Herbert Harrison
Printer: Johnson, Herbert Harrison

Categories

Description

By Frederic W. Goudy; with an introduction by Alexander S. Lawson.

Originally published in Ars typographica, v. 1, no. 4, 1919.

Vii, 22 p. ; 33 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Rochester

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1961

Note

" ... designed and printed by Herbert Harrison Johnson ... Composed and printed in F.W. G's Mediaeval & Californian types. 100 copies"--Colophon. Binding: blue paper boards with paper label on spine and front cover.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 454-2003
Primary reference Number: 98454
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 10 December 2014 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

Citation for print

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