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Very Good condition. Neat ownership name "R.F Waley" to blank front endpaper. Machine-and hand-sent and printed in red and black with type ornaments and initials on wove paper. The text of the type book from a work originally prepared by John Baskerville. Although this is specimen book of fairly conventional types: Imprint, Garamond, Baskerville, Caslon, Cloister, Milner Initials - it is an exemplary work of composition.
THE KYNOCH PRESS BOOK OF TYPE SPECIMENS -
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THE KYNOCH PRESS BOOK OF TYPE SPECIMENS
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- Hardcover
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Birmingham: Kynoch Press, 1927 pp119. Illustrated with examples of type specimens and page set-up examples. Black paper covered boards with green cloth spine, gilt with white number at base of spine. Ex-Library with small neat round stamps in top margins of two prelim pages and in bottom margin of last page. Title page clean but neat number written on verso. A little light ear to rear top corner and leaves 109 and 111 have tiny pieces missing from top corner. Good+.
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C & J Read
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- Format/Binding Hardcover
- Book Condition Used - Good
- Jacket Condition No Jacket
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition First Edition
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Kynoch Press
- Place of Publication Birmingham
- Date Published 1927
- Keywords TYPE, LETTERING, PRINTING
- Size 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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The Kynoch Press Book of Type Specimens ( Specimen Book )
by Kynoch Press / John BASKERVILLE / Typography
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- Hardcover
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