The Theory of Relativity

by Albert Einstein

$500 · Offered by Swan's Fine Books

San Francisco: The Arion Press, 2005. Hardcover. 10-1/2 by 8 inches, eighty pages. Printed by letterpress from lead-alloy type cast in the Mackenzie & Harris typefoundry, the formulas were set by hand, as was the display type, while the prose was composed and cast in Monotype. The types are Modern for the text, with special characters as needed for mathematical symbols; Egyptian for the interspersed annotations, printed in blue; and Lining Gothic for

  • Binding: Hardcover

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