Author: ENSCHEDé, Ch.- Typefoundries.- 1978
Title: Typefoundries in the Netherlands from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century...a history based mainly on material in the collection of Joh.Enschedé en zonen at Haarlem. First published in French in 1908. An English transl. w.rev.and notes by H. Carter.
Description: Haarlem, Stichting Museum Enschedé, 1978. Folio. Original hlf. lightbrown polished clf., gilt lettering on sp., over brown decorated [w. type sepcimen] paper brds. (XXVIII, 477, I pp.). A very good copy. Revised and substantially annotated 2nd edition published in a limited edition on the occasion of the 275th anniversary of the Company of Joh. Enschedé & Sons. "For the 1908 ed. many historic types used in the composition of the illustrations were cast from the original matrices in our collection. The standing type from which these illustrations were originally printed was preserved and - with a few exceptions - has been used again for this revised edition....Enschedé's work has an enduring value as a catalogue and display of one of the world's richest collections of typographical treasures." (From the preface).

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