Editor: Edward F. Strange
Publisher: George Bell & Sons
Publication: 1907, Reprint
Binding: Hardcover, section sewn
Pages: 298
Size: 130 x 190
Text: English
(Introduction) 'The alphabet is so closely linked up with our everyday life, that its very familiarity causes it to be, in a measure, overlooked and neglected as a seriousstudy. With the exception of the very partial revival of 1845-55, from which the names of the younger Pugin and Owen Jones are inseparable, our designers have been content, until quite recently, with letters whose only characteristic was their uninspired conventionality. The chief textbooks at all generally used have been those published by Henry Shaw (1845), Delamotte (1864, 2nd edit.), and Messrs. Newbery and Alexander...'
Condition: Good. All titles are used and show shelf ware consistent with age. Rubbing, soiling, fading to covers. Tanning to interior pages.
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