Selected Essays on Books and Printing. Edited by Percy H. Muir

Amsterdam, London, New York: Van Gendt & Co, Routledge & Kegan Paul, Abner Schram, 1970 4to (31 cm), XIV, 489 pp. Publisher's cloth (minor shelf-wear). Forty essays on the history of printing, publishing, type founding, type design, etc. by English bibliographer and librarian Albert Forbes Johnson (1884-1972). Most papers concerned Johnson's favored period, the 16th century. Included: "The Classification of Gothic Types"; "A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century"; "A Short History of Printing in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Chancery Types of Italy and France" (jointly with Stanley Morison); "Italian Sixteenth-Century Books"; "Books printed at Lyons in the Sixteenth Century"; "The Supply of Types in the Sixteenth Century"; "Some French Bible Illustrations in the Sixteenth Century"; "Geofroy Tory"; "Oronce Fine as an Illustrator of Books"; "The 'Antwerp' Ornaments"; "An Alphabet by Pieter Coecke van Aelst"; "Some Notes on German Renaissance Title-Borders"; "The Title-Borders of Hans Holbein"; "Basle Ornaments on Paris Books, 1519-36"; "Some Cologne and Basle Types, 1525-52"; "English Books printed Abroad"; "Books printed at Heidelberg for Thomas Cartwright"; "Some Types used by Paolo Manuzio"; "The Italic Types of Robert Granjon"; "Christian Egenolff of Frankfurt and his Types"; "On Re-reading Updike"; "Title-Pages: their Forms and Development, 1500-1800"; "English Typography in the Seventeenth Century"; "Notes on Some Seventeenth-Century English Types and Type"; "Specimens"; "An Unrecorded Specimen Sheet of a Scottish Printing House"; "Type Designs and Type-founding in Scotland"; "The Exiled English Church at Amsterdam and its Press"; "J. F. Stam, Amsterdam, and English Bibles"; "Typography at the Cambridge University Press, c. 1700"; "The 'Goût Hollandois"'; "John Bagford, Antiquary, 1650-1716"; "The King's Printers, 1660-1742"; "English Type Specimen Books"; "The Homes of the London Typefounders" (jointly with W. Turner-Berry); "The Modern-Face Type in England; Fat Faces: their History, Forms, and Use"; "Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor"; "Old-Face Types in the Victorian Age"; "Nineteenth-Century Typefounders and Mechanical Inventions". Beautifully printed at the Stamperia Valdonega.