Edward Philip Prince. Type Punchcutter

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Glenview Press, London, 1967. 104 pages. + 2 plates. Red cloth, dust jacket . Jacket somewhat dark to spine. Portrait, plate with punches, mounted smoke proofs, type specimens. Printed in 1000 copies, set in Linotype Venezia, which is based on the original Venezia cut by Edward Prince for George W. Jones in 1914.

Edward Philip Prince was a type punchcutter for approximately sixty years. Although virtually unknown, he was one of the greatest of his craft. For the printing trade at large he cut a considerable number of types and, between 1890 and 1914, the proprietary faces of every English private press of note. The volume contains, in addition to its biographical content, reproductions of types for which Edward Prince cut the punches, their history and a chronology of the cuttings.