quick path to enlightenmentdust jacket [spine, front+flap], title-page, preface, & opening f

quick path to enlightenmentdust jacket [spine, front+flap], title-page, preface, & opening from stanley morison’s seminal First Principles of Typography [macmillan, new york, 1936].  «First authorised separate edition.» also first US edition. [98b in The Writings of Stanley Morison, tony appleton, brighton, 1976, p24.]  the first draft had appeared in The Fleuron, no.vii, 1930. morison’s distillation : tenets of good [book] typography. printed at the printing-office of the yale university press; monotype composition in bembo throughout; but—surprise—dust jacket, also presumably machined at the yale office, set in weiss types from the bauer foundry—interesting choice (for more info vide ‹sweet vignette›). bruce rogers’ quotation on the dust jacket is apt—had rogers a further involvement? beyond the quotation appleton makes no further mention of rogers; he does, however, tell us that the copy described is ex libris brooke crutchley, & crutchley made pencil annotations—«These marks were made with a view to a possible revised edition.», notably augmenting the title by quantifying typography, i.e. First Principles of Book Typography [ibid.]. morison’s prefatorial intimation, «attempt at a rationale of book-typography», i believe, confirms he was of a like mind with crutchley. -- source link

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