(CHISWICK PRESS)

[HANNAH MARY RATHBONE]. SO MUCH OF THE DIARY OF LADY WILLOUGHBY AS RELATE TO HER DOMESTIC HISTORY.

London: Printed by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman, 1844.

Small 4to. Contemporary half calf. See Printing and the Mind of Man, BM Exhibition, No. 148: 'an important point in the revival of 'old face' types. It was the first book to be printed in [original] Caslon's types.... The Diary was an artistic and commercial success and led to the gradual reintroduction of old faces into English typography....'; Updike, Printing Types, Volume II, pp. 198 199: '...the chief typographic event of the mid nineteenth century was this revival of the earliest Caslon types in the competent hands of Pickering and Whittingham...'; Charles Whittingham, No. 32. Purchased 1975.