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1951 · Best.-Nr. 8877 — HARDBACK "TWO VOLUME SET" SHIPPED FROM THE UK Edition: 2nd . Thus. Impression: 2nd. Date of Publication: 1951 Publisher: Harvard University Press. Binding and cover condition: Crimson cloth gilt title to spines only. Minimal bumps & rubs light wear to bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. No marks to boards or other visible faults. VG. Jacket condition: Both volumes have dust wrappers. NOT PRICE CLIPPED showing a shelf price of $12.50 for 2 vols. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and particularly to head & tail of spine. Minor losses now re-inforced and both jackets in clear un-attached archival wrappers. GD Contents condition: Ex library with a few small stamps and labels. Clean crisp & tight with no reading wear & no marks to text. Minimal paper colouration throughout especially to page edges otherwise no visible faults. VG. Illustrations: B/w facsimile prints and print examples throughout. One two-page print sample to volume I and one three-page fold-out table of type-faces to volume II. Pages: 276 276 pp. text. xvi l pp. supplementary notes to both volumes & index at rear. Description: In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century Mr Updike founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The 367 illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. Two NEAR VG text copies with NO MAJOR FAULTS in rather tatty dust jackets now re-inforced and in un-attached protective wrappers. Harvard University Press hardcover