The origin of the serif. Brush writing & Roman letters

by Edward M. Catich

$350 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

Davenport, IA: Catfish Press, St. Ambrose College, 1968 . First edition, 4to, pp. x, 2 , 310, 2 ; typographgical illustrations throughout, some printed in red and green; very handsome book; fine copy in a fine dust jacket, t.e.g. A new approach to the history, lineage, and development of our alphabet jacket blurb . The author was a well-known stone-cutter and calligrapher. Philip Hofer, of Harvard, said the book was a work of genius. This copy with a

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