Author: Ferguson, W. Craig
Title: Pica Roman Type in Elizabethan England
Description: Aldershot, Scolar Press, 1989. Hardcover. A brown hardcover book with gilted text down the spine. It has a dust jacket with an illustration and the title printed in white text on the front. The spine is pinkish and has the title typed in black. The back cover is red with mostly black text. There is a mylar covering as well. Pages: (8), 1-33, (20), (171), (1). There are 171 black and white plates in one section of the book. During the second half of the sixteenth century roman type face replaced blackletter as the standard and most widely used face in printed English books. The most widely used size of type was pica. The aim of Professor Ferguson's book is to show the reader how to identify the printers of books and also how the types of a single common size and face are differentiated. The book starts in the early 1550s, because this was when punchcutters first came to England, and it ends at 1610, for soon after that date the shops were flooded with new Dutch faces which give an entirely different appearance to later seventeenth-century printing. Professor Ferguson's clear explanations and comprehensive tables provide the reader with an invaluable tool with which to identify individual printers and the date of books by known printers, thus countering a number of problems facing the student of Elizabethan texts. VG: Former library book. Stamps and stickers from previous owners on front pasted- and free-end pages, on the top text block, and on the back pasted- and free-end pages. There is a library checkout card clued to the back cover. There is a small sticker on the dust jacket on the spine, and a small sticker on the back cover on the dust jacket. This is a very clean copy with tight binding, clean pages, and sharp edges.

Keywords: Books and Manuscripts and Printing ; Type ; ;


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