[Rarebooks] For Sale: Nicolette Gray: XIXth Century Ornamented Type and Title Pages

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Nicolette Gray (1911-1997).

XIXth Century Ornamented Types and Title Pages.

London: Faber and Faber Limited, (1951).

8vo. 8 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches. 213 pp. Half-title, examples of decorative 
initials throughout, 8 plates, illustrations of early ornamented types, 
Old Face, Transitional Fat Face and Modern Face, Fat Face, Fat Face 
Italic, Fat Face Black, etc., chart of ornamental types, index; text 
clean, unmarked. Gray cloth, spine title blocked in red, top edge 
stained red; binding square and tight, boards a bit bowed. Mel Kavin's 
copy. KJH1123-067. Very Good.

$40 plus $4 Media Mail, ordered through my website

SECOND IMPRESSION, first impression 1938. Records the variety of 
nineteenth-century types, along with the approximate date when each 
example was introduced. Also focuses on the development of the Victorian 
title page. Includes a list of type-founders' specimen books.

11 copies of the 1951 impression in OCLC; the first impression is much 
better represented institutionally.

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