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TYPOLOGIA: Studies in type design & type making. With comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing
by Goudy, Frederic W
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About This Item
Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1940. Pp. xx+170+[2](colophon, blank), frontispiece portrait, text illustrations and facsimiles (some full page), one decorative initial printed in red; tall narrow cr. 4to; qr. brown leather, spine lettered in gilt between raised bands, slightly worn at head and tail of spine, parchment papered boards, the upper board lettered in gilt, a trifle foxed, with the parchment lifting slightly at junction with leather; uncut; marbled endpapers; within card slipcase, edges worn and lightly frayed; bookplate of Geoffrey Ingleton on upper pastedown, plus his small catalogue stamp and markings on recto of lower free endpaper, a little light foxing; University of California Press, Berkeley, 1940. Autographed edition, limited to 300 numbered copies, signed by the author..
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- Bookseller
- Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 163658
- Title
- TYPOLOGIA: Studies in type design & type making. With comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing
- Author
- Goudy, Frederic W
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley, Calif
- Date Published
- 1940
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- Edges
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Raised Band(s)
- Raised bands refer to the ridges that protrude slightly from the spine on leather bound books. The bands are created in the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Bookplate
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- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Parchment
- Pages or book covering made from a prepared animal skin. Parchment describes any animal skin used for books, while vellum is a...
- Foxed
- Foxing is the age related browning, or brown-yellowish spots, that can occur to book paper over time. When this aging process...
- Spine
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