The Identification of Type Faces in Bibliographical Description

Authors

  • G. Thomas Tanselle

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.34314/vhcf0e70

Abstract

Two suggestions may be helpful to descri ptive bibliographers in working out a method for describing the typography of a book: bibl iographers should base their measurement of type on its appea rance on the printed page rather than to infer the size of the type body; and their system of classification of type designs should be graduated so that different degrees of detail can be presented under differing circumstances and for the several periods of book production.

Author Biography

  • G. Thomas Tanselle
    G. Thomas Tanselle is associate professor of English at the University of Wisconsin (Madison, Wisconsin 53706). Dr. Tanselle's articles frequently appear in bibliographical journals, and he has recently been concerned with the identification of type and the use of type-damage evidence in descriptive bibliographies. He is bibliographical editor of the fifteen-volume Writings of Herman Melville, to be published by The Newberry Library and Northwestern University Press.

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Published

2026-03-25

Issue

Vol. 1 No. 4 (1967): Volume 1.4

Section

Journal Article