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Manuscripts/MS Add.9816/E contains:
1	Acquisition of Frederic Warde's Arrighi italic type
2	Pencil drawings of actresses by Will Carter
3	Specimens of calligraphy
4	Chancery Italics
5	Edition of Ludovico Arrighi, La operina
6	Compositions
7	Talk by Will Carter to the Double Crown Club, 16 Oct. 1962, on the 'Arrighi' type
8	Agency for the European sale of the book Hunt Roman (Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1965)
9	Acquisition of the Hunt Roman type
10	Acquisition of the Golden Cockerel roman type
11	Lecture trip by Sebastian Carter to the United States in 1973
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Title	Chancery Italics
Reference	MS Add.9816/E/4
Covering Dates	1940-1948
Extent and Medium	1 envelope

Content and context

Copy (mostly typescript, including carbons, partly autograph manuscript) for a book by Will Carter with this title, including table of contents; dummy of 'experimental pages'; proofs of title 'Chancery italics' with various notes on italic writing books and showings of italic types; correspondence, some letters enclosing further specimens of type

Correspondents include Alfred Fairbank, Frederick. W. Goudy, Stanley Morison, Paul Standard

The book was never published.

Index Terms

Morison, Stanley Arthur (1889-1967) Editor Typographer

Fairbank, Alfred John (1895-1982) calligrapher

Standard, Paul (b 1900) calligrapher

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