Type specimen facsimiles; reproductions of fifteen type specimen sheets issued between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Accompanied by notes mainly derived from the researches of A.F. Johnson [and others] With an introductory essay by Stanley Morison.

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Dreyfus, John, Type specimen facsimiles;, 1963

Creator:: Dreyfus, John
Title(s):: Type specimen facsimiles; reproductions of fifteen type specimen sheets issued between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Accompanied by notes mainly derived from the researches of A.F. Johnson [and others] With an introductory essay by Stanley Morison.
Published/Created:: London, Bowes & Bowes [and] Putnam, 1963.
Physical Description:: 15 typog. specimens and xxviii, 23 p. (in portfolio) 46 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A Z 16
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Public Domain
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3334779
Classification:: Books
Notes:: In box as issued.
Facsimiles: 61 x 46 cm. fold. to 30 x 46 cm.
Subject Terms:: Bowes & Bowes and Putnam -- Publisher.
Printing -- History.
Printing -- Specimens.
Type and type-founding.
Contributors:: Morison, Stanley, 1889–1967.
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