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Catalogue of specimens of printing types by English and Scottish printers and founders, 1665-1830

Title
Catalogue of specimens of printing types by English and Scottish printers and founders, 1665-1830 / compiled by W. Turner Berry, St. Bride Libraries, & A.F. Johnson, British Museum ; with an introduction by Stanley Morison.
Author
Berry, W. Turner (William Turner)
Publication
London : Oxford University Press, Humphrey Milford, 1935.

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Additional Authors
  • Adler, Elmer, 1884-1962
  • Johnson, A. F. (Alfred Forbes)
  • Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967
Description
liii, [1], 98 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., facsims. (part fold.); 29 cm.
Series Statement
Oxford books on bibliography
Uniform Title
Oxford books on bibliography
Subject
  • Type and type-founding > Great Britain > Specimens > Bibliography
  • Type and type-founding > Scotland > Specimens > Bibliography
  • Type and type-founding
  • Letters
  • Great Britain
  • Scotland
Genre/Form
Type specimens.
Note
  • "Elmer Adler"--Written in pen on p. [2] front cover.
  • Includes index.
Contents
Founder's specimens: Nicholas Nicholls -- Joseph Moxon -- Grover Foundry -- Robert Mitchell -- James Foundry -- Oxford University Press -- William Caslon -- William Caslon & Son -- William Caslon II -- William Caslon III -- Caslon & Catherwood -- Caslon & Livermore -- William Caslon III & Son -- William Caslon IV -- John Baskerville -- Robert Martin -- Thomas Cottrell -- Isaac Moore -- Joseph Fry -- Edmund Fry -- Fry & Steel -- Stephen Parker -- Alexander Wilson -- John Walter -- John Baine -- C. & A. Paas -- John Bell -- Bell & Stephenson -- S. Stephenson -- S. & C. Stephenson -- Vincent Figgins -- Robert Thorne -- William Thorowgood -- Myles Swinney -- Slater, Bacon & Co. -- Bower, Bacon & Bower -- John Matthewson -- William Miller -- Richard Austin -- Blake, Garnett Co. -- Louis J. Pouchée -- Anthony Bessemer -- Bessemer & Catherwood -- Hugh Hughes -- James Orme -- John Humfreys -- Hugh Meere -- Benjamin Motte -- John Moncur -- James Watson -- Cambridge University Press -- Hart & Strahan -- Henry Woodfall -- M. Mechell -- Anne Burton -- George Woodall -- John Reid -- W. Hay -- Samuel Paterson, sale catalogue -- G.F. Harris -- Thomas Rogerson -- J. Clark -- James Hedderwick -- James Moyles -- Benjamin Bensley -- C. Wheeler & Son.
LCCN
35019257
OCLC
  • ocm03227163
  • 3227163
  • SCSB-200716
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library