RARE copy of Fournier typeface specimen, 1927

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Seller: mart4020 ✉️ (86) 100%, Location: Seaton, Devon, GB, Ships to: GB & many other countries, Item: 325573359297 RARE copy of Fournier typeface specimen, 1927. This was a promotional piece created by the Lanston Monotype Corporation to display its new Fournier typeface, based on a classic old-face design by the most famous of French type-founders, Pierre Simon Fournier, in Paris in the mid-18th century. This was one of many classic type fonts that Monotype developed during the 1920s and 1930s, and which gave the Corporation an unrivalled position as a supplier to the book and magazine trade, particularly in the United Kingdom, but increasingly worldwide.

The typeface development programme was led by Monotype's Typographic Consultant Stanley Morison, who was almost certainly responsible for the prefatory notes.

This type of promotional material was extensively used by Lanston Monotype, since it enabled them to show the typeface is use. The printed label on the front cover, which would have been fixed by hand, implies a limited edition, aimed at printers who used the Monotype composing system.

The publication has 36 pages (26 printed) in saddle-stitched signatures/sections. It measures approximately 205 x 130mm (8 x 5in).

This is a fine specimen of a rare publication, not normally seen outside of specialist collections and libraries (such as, for instance, the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection in the New York Public Library). This makes it highly collectable.

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  • Condition: The publication has a glassite/tissue dust jacket, which shows slight signs of tanning. The oversize cover boards are in very goo condition, with sharp corners front and back. The inside pages are very clean and sharp, with minimal edge-fading. There is some very minor spotting on the fore-edges. All in all, it is in exceptionally good condition for a publication that is now 96 years old.
  • Binding: Saddle-stitched (in thread) hard-back
  • Non-Fiction Subject: History of printing and typeface development
  • Language: English
  • Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
  • Publisher: Lanston Monotype Corporation
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

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