Yale Center for British Art

Title:
Forty sheets to the wind : a new portfolio of old typefaces.
Alternate Title(s):
New portfolio of old typefaces
Published / Created:
Oldham, England : Incline Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 portfolio : illustrations (some color), samples ; 33 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Z232.I375 F6 1999+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Neale Albert, Yale JD 1961, and Margaret Albert

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
49 broadsides illustrating different typefaces and printing techniques, with separate folder containing seven duplicate broadsides, and introductory brochure.

Title from introductory brochure.

"Printed & published by Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen at Incline Press ... to accompany our type specimens, Forty sheets to the wind. Completed in December 1999"--Introductory brochure half title verso.

"[Introductory brochure] keyboarded and cast in 11 pt. Monotype Scotch by Peter Sanderson at the Whittington Press. Of one hundred and fifty sets ... "--Introductory brochure colophon.

BAC: British Art Center copy is no. 137 of a limited edtion of 150 copies. With 2 laid in prospectus: [1] Forty sheets to the wind and [2] Harvesting Colour / Ann Muir.
Subject Terms:
Type and type-founding -- Specimens.
Form/Genre:
Broadsides -- England -- 20th century. | Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Scotch (Monotype) | Prospectuses.
Contributors:
Moss, Graham, printer. | Whalen, Kathy, printer. | Sanderson, Peter J., compositor. | Incline Press, printer. | Whittington Press, compositor. | Collection of Margaret and Neale Albert (Yale Center for British Art).