Pica Roman Type in Elizabethan England
Book Details
Author(s)
W. Craig Ferguson
Publisher
Scolar Pr
ISBN / ASIN
0859677184
ISBN-13
9780859677189
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Sales Rank
#12,549,291
Category
Hardcover
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
First edition. An important study of the differences among letter forms used by Elizabethan printers. Covers the period from 1550, when punch-cutters first arrived in England, to 1610, when new Dutch faces started to flood the market. Well-illustrated, with 171 plates of original text pages.
