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The Centaur type by Bruce Rogers : being the design of which the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enjoyed for many years the exclusive use, and which more recently has been employed for the monumental Bible designed by Bruce Rogers and printed at the Oxford University Press, England

Catalog Data

Author:
Continental Typefounders Association  Search this
Type designer:
Rogers, Bruce 1870-1957  Search this
Subject:
Continental Typefounders Association  Search this
Physical description:
1 folded sheet (4 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ; 28 cm, in envelope 33 cm
Type:
Specimens
Catalogs
Type specimens
Typefaces (Type evidence)
Date:
1935
[1935]
Notes:
Cover title.
Facsimile on page [3] of the Oxford Bible title page is dated 1935.
"Specimen no. 163"--Page [4].
Includes specimens of Centaur Roman and Centaur Italic (Arrighi).
Topic:
Centaur roman type  Search this
Italic type  Search this
Printing  Search this
Type and type-founding  Search this
Centaur  Search this
Call number:
Z250.5.C44 C66 1935
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1056848