Posted by Alan Hakim on August 24, 2002 at 15:13:27 from 212.137.171.139 user awhakim.
In Reply to: Re: Typeface posted by Peter H on August 24, 2002 at 14:13:40:
No, Peter, New Century Schoolbook is the font used by Dave Sewart in the Amazon reprint. To my mind, it's nothing like the original text.
All the early Jonathan Cape hardbacks were printed in Monotype Caslon. The upper-case Q's and words in Italics, such as Swallow, are the best clues.
The dustcovers, up to and including The Picts and the Martyrs, had headings in Perpetua and text in Baskerville. Great Northern? went into Times New Roman for everything except the top and bottom lines of the back cover, still in Perpetua.
I don't have a new hardback with me, but I have noticed they have been reset in a different type in recent years. Possibly something like Garamond, but I've never looked closely. I just react that they look wrong
and I haven't checked the dustcovers at all.