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From: em@dce.ie (Eamonn McManus)
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Subject: Re: Optima
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Date: 18 Jan 91 16:42:04 GMT
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dhosek@linus.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
>A good general outline of type history is in _An Atlas of
>Typefaces_ (forget the author), although I suspect this volume
>may be out of print. Unfortunately, it does not cover Optima
>directly, but the development of letter forms is well described.

I have a copy of `An Atlas of Typeforms' by James Sutton and Alan
Bartram.  It is a 1988 edition of a book first published in 1968; as far
as I know the only difference is that there is a short note at the front
saying that the book is no longer a working tool, but a classic record of
typeface history, since the technology it describes is now obsolete.  The
original 1968 edition was published by Percy Lund, Humphries & Co Ltd.
The 1988 edition I have was published by something called Wordsworth
Editions (address: 8b East St, Ware, Hertfordshire, England).  I picked
it up in a Bargain Books shop so I think it might have been remaindered.

,
Eamonn