Italian old style : a new type designed by Frederic W. Goudy and produced by the Lanston Monotype Machine Company of Philadelphia, 1924.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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[Philadelphia] :
Lanston Monotype Machine Company,
[1924]
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| Item Description: | The text printed to display the type is "Early printers in the city of Venice: from Dibdin's Bibliographical Decameron, the fourth day"; "Translations" (of Latin portions of the text) by R.T. Nichol on page 12. "The Lanston Monotype Machine Company has had eleven thousand six hundred copies (either more or less) of this pamphlet, printed by Rudge, Mount Vernon, New York with the Italian old style & ornaments arranged by Bruce Rogers ..."--Colophon. The Cushing Library/Lowman/Bibliography & Book Arts copy is from the Edgar Fisher Wells Collection of Typography and Fine Printing. |
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| Physical Description: | 12 pages, 4 unumbered pages : illustrations ; 31 cm |