The Nymph and the Grot: The Revival of the Sanserif Letter

56 pp. An expansion on an article originally written for the journal Typographica in 1965, published to accompany the exhibition Primitive Types organized by the Friends of the St Bride Printing Library in association with Sir John Soane's Museum in 1999. Includes reproductions of historical illustrations, mainly from the 18th and 19th centuries, showing various examples of fonts, typesetting, etc.