Degering (Hermann) - Lettering: A Series of 240 Plates illustrating Modes of Writing

Lettering: A Series of 240 Plates illustrating Modes of Writing in Western Europe from Antiquity to the End of the 18th Century. With an Introduction by Hermann Degering of the Prussian State Library. First edition, 4to, pp.38 + 240 plates, 31cm, Ernst Wasmuth, Berlin, 1929.

Black cloth lettered in gilt on the upper board, spine lettering rather rubbed, acetate dust-jacket. Inner hinge a little tender. A good copy.

A study of the evolution of letter forms both calligraphically and as typefaces.