An essay on typography. [4th ed.].

12mo: 127 pp. (some faint fox.).

Publ. green cloth, d.w. printed in red.

New ed. (1st 1931) of this essay set in the Joanna type of Gill's own design and illustrated with some typographic examples. By E. Gill (1882-1940), English typeface designer and printmaker, creator of the "Gill Sans typeface", based on the sans-serif lettering originally designed for the London Underground and of the "Joanna serif typeface". Ref. Gill 21. We join, various sizes and present.: A selection of types from six centuries in use at the office of Joh. Enschedé en Zonen at Haarlem [...]. Haarlem, Enschedé, 1931. 2nd impression. - Meynell, Fr. - English printed books. London, Collins, 1946. - Reiner, I. - Modern and historical typography. An illlustrated guide. St Gall, Zollikofer, 1946. - A handbook of printing types [...] used by Cowells. Ipswich, Cowells Ltd, 1947. - Fairbank, A. - A book of scripts. G.B., Penguin books, 1949. - Simon, O. - Introduction to typography. G.B., Peguin books, (1954). - Monotype-Letterproef. Amst., Monotype-Zetterij, s.d. (8 vol., num. typogr. examples, some ill.)