Ornamented types : twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Poucheé
Title:
Ornamented types : twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Poucheé
Author:
Pouchée, Louis John, 1782 or 1783-1845.
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Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 54 cm
General Note:
Vol. [2] has subtitle: The specimens : printed from the original wood-engraved blocks in the St Bride Printing Library : with two additional alphabets from other sources. Date is 1992.
"Designed by Ian Mortimer and printed and produced by his Press, I.M. Imprimit, London. The complete edition comprises a Solander box containing the 25 ornamented alphabets on 46 sheets, a title-page, a two-sheet Printer's Note, a two-sheet visual Index, and a colophon; and this book with its slip-case ... The binding and slip-case are made by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough"--colophon.
Language:
English
Local Note:
Rare Book Room copy no. 136 of 200 printed.
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Format :
Book