Randle, John, & Berry, John D. [Introductions].

First Edition, first printing, with number line '10 987654321'. Publisher's illustrated paper covered boards, with title lettering in white within a black panel on the spine. Clear, removable, archival protective sleeve fitted to the illustrated dust-jacket. Quarto, pp. [i-xi] xii-xx [4] 374 [blank] [colophon] with 180 illustrations. Main text set in the rarely seen Comenius font, designed by Hermann Zapf for Berthold in 1976 with folios and other matter set in Zapf Renaissance and Gill Sans. Thirty-five essays by leaders in the world of type and the arts, including Brooke Crutchley, Sebastian Carter, Christopher Skelton, Jan van Krimpen, Christopher Sandford, Roderick Cave, Peter Foden, Mark Arman and many others.

A book in Fine condition in a Fine dust-jacket.