The alphabet : fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations / by Frederic W. Goudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947.

Contributor:

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alphabet.

Alphabets.

Type and type-founding.

Printing--History.

Printing.

History.

Genre:

History.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

44 pages, 27 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 33 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Mitchell Kennerley, MCMXVIII [1918]

Contents:

I. What letters are

II. Letters before printing

III. The national hands

IV. The development of Gothic

V. The beginnings of types

VI. The qualities of lettering.

Notes:

Author's first book.

"This book has been set by Bertha M. Goudy at the Village Press, Forest Hills Gardens, New York, with types designed by the author, under whose supervision the book has been printed by William Edwin Rudge, New York City, October 1918. The plates for the text illustrations and alphabets were made by the Walker Engraving Co., New York City"--Colophon.

There is one plate for each letter of the alphabet, the 27th for the ampersand and numerals.

Black cloth boards stamped in gold with circular gold alphabet design on front cover.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy has "First Edition" written in ms. on front free endpaper.

Tehon Collection copy has stamp "School of Design and Liberal Arts, 212 Central Park South, New York City on half-title page.

Other Format:

Online version: Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947. Alphabet.

OCLC:

1148275