Catalogue of I: Typefounders' Specimens; II: Books Printed in Founts of Historic Importants; III: Works on Typefounding, Priniting & Bibliography, Offered for Sale de Birrell & Garnett, Ltd - 1972

London: Birrell & Garnett, Ltd. , 1972. This is a very good hardcover copy in a very good dust jacket with almost no wear. Completely clean inside and out. This is the limited edition reprint of 500 copies. Illustrated in black & white. 11" high X 9" wide, 107 pages. . Limited/Numbered 500 Copies.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

Tony Appleton, Brighton, 1972 reprint of 1928 first edition. Limited edition of 500 numbered copies. Boards, 4to,. xii, 108 pp,. 252 entries. The catalogue was compiled by Graham Pollard, a partner in the firm of Birrell & Garnett. James Mosley,writing in 1983, commented that the catalogue "remains a work of permanent value. Pollard... was concerned, like Morison, to discover the 'original sources on which the scientific study of type design must be based,' and collections of type specimens were a major part of these sources. Published catalogues...were indispensable to the typographical historian. The practical application of Pollard's theory was seen to startling effect in his use of evidence derived from type specimens to convict the forgeries of nineteenth-century pamphlets perpetrated by Thomas James Wise. Copy No. 299. Very Good in a dustwrapper. which is torn with loss.

Brighton: Tony Appleton, 1972. Hardcover. Fine. Brown buckram gilt, DW, 4to., vii, (4), 107, (1) pages, illustrated. Facsimile of the Birrell & Garnett catalogue printed in 1928. One of 500 numbered copies. A fine copy in a near fine DW with just a touch of soiling, in archival mylar.

Lond., 1928.. 4to. Lettered wrapps. 108pp. b/w plates. & illustrations. Fine. Contained in the original bookseller's envelope addressed to a gentleman in Manchester.

London: Tony Appleton, 1972. 1st ed. thus. Nice copy. large octavo. hardback with dust jacket 108pp., text ills., The catalogue was compiled by Graham Pollard, a partner in the firm of Birrell & Garnett. Pollard. was concerned, like Morison, to discover the 'original sources on which the scientific study of type design must be based,' and collections of type specimens were a major part of these sources. Published catalogues were indispensable to the typographical historian. The practical application of Pollard's theory was seen to startling effect in his use of evidence derived from type specimens to convict the forgeries of nineteenth-century pamphlets perpetrated by Thomas James Wise". Number 432 of 500 copies

London: Birrell & Garnett, Ltd. 1928. First edition, 4to, viii, 107, [1]pp., facsimiles, orig. printed wrappers bound-in, contemporary green cloth, signs of a label having been removed from base of spine.

Tony Appleton, 1972. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1972 reprint. Number 438 of a limited edition of 500. Small mark to side page edges and a couple of small marks on the rear dust-jacket. Slight rubbing to edges of price-clipped dust-jacket, now protected using removable clear wrap, otherwise in very good condition. Next day dispatch by Royal Mail in sturdy, recyclable packaging. 1000's of satisfied customers! Please contact us with any enquiries.

London: Birrell & Garnett, 1928. Catalogue of: 1 Typefounders' specimens. II Books printed in founts of historical importance. III Works on typefounding, printing & bibliography. Offered for sale. Introduction by Graham Pollard. Pp. xii+108, text illustrations (mostly full page), index; demy 4to; printed stiff paper wrappers, slightly soiled, edges and backstrip lightly rubbed and split, with bookseller's sticker on reverse of upper wrapper; scattered foxing and occasional slight soiling; Birrell & Garnett, London, 1928. One of 1750 copies thus (total edition of 1825). *From the collection of Australian graphic designer and typographer Eric Maguire, with his inked signature on the title page and a long inscription in his hand on the limitation page (noting that this catalogue was commended by both D. B. Updike and John Carter). This copy was previously from the Ingleton collection, and has Geoffrey Ingleton's signature and catalogue markings on reverse of wrappers.