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Chancery Italics, 1940-1948

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS Add.9816/E/4

Scope and Contents

Copy (mostly typescript, including carbons, partly autograph manuscript) for a book by Will Carter with this title, including table of contents; dummy of 'experimental pages'; proofs of title 'Chancery italics' with various notes on italic writing books and showings of italic types; correspondence, some letters enclosing further specimens of type. Correspondents include Alfred Fairbank, Frederick. W. Goudy, Stanley Morison, Paul Standard. The book was never published.

Dates

  • Creation: 1940-1948

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

From the Fonds:

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Extent

1 envelope(s) (1 envelope)

Language of Materials

English

Repository Details

Part of the Cambridge University Library Repository

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