Editor: Brooke Crutchley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: 1973, New Edition
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 136
Size: 175 x 265
Text: English
ISBN: 0521200431
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(Preface) 'This work first appeared in 1953, when it was issued as a Christmas keepsake to ‘friends of the University Printer in printing and publishing’. The full title was A Tally of Types cut for machine composition and introduced at the University Press, Cambridge, 1922–1932. Four hundred and fifty copies were printed.
The reasons why the Cambridge University Press was so deeply involved in the typographical burgeoning of those years were recounted in a preface which I wrote for that edition. Stanley Morison became associated with the then Lanston Monotype Corporation in London in 1922 and in the following year Walter Lewis, with whom he had been on close terms for some time, was appointed University Printer at Cambridge. Morison had laid before the managing director of Monotype a plan for the production of an extensive range of type-faces for the firm’s composing machines. He needed the support of a prominent book house to convince the management of the commercial worth of his proposals; he also needed a printer of high quality to do credit to the types produced under his direction. The Cambridge Press under Walter Lewis became an essential ally in his campaign, which was to cause so profound a change in the appearance of books all over the world...'
Condition: Very Good. Shelf ware consistent with age. Light rubbing to cover/edges. Missing dust jacket. Previous owners name first end page.
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