Marrin's Bookshop

Item Description

4to. 8 x 11.75 inches. xiii + [iii] + 416 pp. In pictorial card wrappers. Some wear to extremities and staining on lower margins of last three pages and foot of inner wrapper; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated throughout by examples of type faces. Decorated by publisher's device on title page. Paperback reprint of the fourth edition of 1970 of this standard reference book on type faces, by W. Pincus Jaspert (b.1926), British editor of German origin and expert on the graphic arts, first published in 1953.