Typefaces for Books, by James Sutton & Alan Bartram.Square 4to, 288 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm., London, British Library 1990
Type facsimiles and illustrations; grey canvas with black spine titling, printed dust-jacket. A near fine copy.
More than 100 currently available filmset typefaces are displayed in large-format, double-page specimen settings, in several different sizes and spacings, showing also display sizes bold, roman, italic, small caps and figures. The authors also provide an introduction, including notes on the technical and visual development of typefaces, a comprehensive "family tree" of types related to their historical models, and a long illustrated essay in which many examples of widely various typographic problems and their solutions (all of relevance to today's book designers) are discussed. The book itself is set in a new Monotype face designed by Michael Harvey.
