Folio. vii, 125pp. A collection of articles and type specimens about 21 different typefaces ranging from Baskerville to Walbaum, each of them illustrated with wood engravings by Robert Gibbings, Edward Ardizzone, and several others. The body of the book is, then, a visual and textual exploration of the techniques of type, and a consideration of those techniques as extensions of aesthetic theories of the look of a book. This emphasis on design as a matter of technological, practical, and aesthetic principles is especially apparent in the complementary portfolio, which contains twelve distinct examples printing various images, typefaces, and watermarks of various papers, both marbled and not. Included are papers made for the Kelmscott Press, a broadsheet with 96-point Caslon, hand-colored illustrations, a wood-engraving by Miriam Macgregor, and marbled sheets by Colleen Gryspeerdt. The whole, with portfolio and full binding, is an admirable historical survey of 20th-century page design, useful as a printer's reference, pedagogical compilation, and typographical archive. Bound in full orange leather over boards with inlaid light-orange "A." Additional portfolio housed in quarter-leather chemise with patterned paper over boards. All stored in dropback box. A beautiful book which continues the tradition of fine printing we have come to expect from the Whittington Press. Very fine.