Dowding (Geoffrey) - An Introduction to the History of Printing Types.

An Introduction to the History of Printing Types. An illustrated summary of the main stages in the development of type design from 1440 up to the present day. An aid to type face identification. By Geoffrey Dowding. First edition, xxiv, 277 pages : facsimiles ; 26 cm., London: Wace, 1961.

Many illustrations and reproductions, text includes a useful bibliography. Black cloth with pictorial endpapers, red spine label titled in gilt. Typographic dust-jacket. Ownership signature of G. Allen Hutt. Dust-jacket faintly chipped at the head of the spine. A near fine copy.

Primers for students of Typography No.3.