Printing History. The Journal of the American Printing History Association. Number 26–27, Volume XIII, No. 2 and Volume XIV No. 1, 1991–1992

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The American Printing History Association, New York, 1992. 112 pages. Double issue. Tall 8vo. Sewn with printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrations in black and white. Printed at the Stinehour Press. New copy. Table of contents: Matthew Carter: Theories of Letterform Construction. Part 1. Kay Amert: Origins of the French Old-Style; The Roman and Italic Types of Simon de Colines. Maxwell Whiteman: The Introduction and Spread of Hebrew Type in the United States. Alastair Johnston: ’Guard the Mysteries! Constantly Reveal Them!’ The History of Printing as Shown in Type Specimens. Mark Argetsinger: Adobe Garamond: A Review. Jerry Kelly: Adobe Garamond: A New Adaptation of a Sixteenth-Century Type. REVIEWS: John Bidwell (reviewer), Martin Hutner: The Making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928. Peter Van Wingen (reviewer), John Dreyfus: A Typographical Masterpiece; An Account of… the Golden Cockerel Press Edition of ’The Four Gospels’ in 1931.