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xvi,[2], 278, [2] pp. Color portrait frontispiece, photographic plates and facsimiles. (folio) 38x25 cm (15x10"), blue cloth with gilt spine and cover design, dust jacket. One of 1000 copies. First Edition.

Nicolas Barker wrote in The Book Collector: "There will never be another book like this. No other material has enjoyed a revival in the same romantic circumstances. No other work of this nature is likely to be set by hand and printed in types of 16th and 17th century origin by the same press that purchased the equipment for making the types. It is the last and greatest work on the history of printing types by Stanley Morison. It is not without errors and blemishes; no work of this magnitude could escape some mistakes. But it is one of the greatest works of typographical history of this century."