Posted by Dave Thewlis on August 24, 2002 at 22:03:32 from 148.78.249.10 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Typeface posted by John Lambert on August 24, 2002 at 18:22:23:
I've got a current set of Jonathan Cape editions, a set of Puffin editions, and a smattering of others. None of them have colophons in them at all, so I have no idea where your reference came from, John.
Most of the Jonathan Cape editions were re-set between the 1950s and the 1980s although I think Winter Holiday never was. I gave Swallows & Amazons and The Big Six to my wife Susan, who has been a type nut (her words) for about 20 years, and asked her what they were set in. After checking references she is pretty sure they are set in a variant of Old Style Roman called Bembo, designed by Alfred Fairbank and published by Monotype Corporation Ltd of Surrey in 1929.
Given Alan's posting I would have said J.C. changed typefaces when they re-set the books, at least for SA and BS, but the others all seem to be in the same typeface even WH which doesn't say it was re-set.
Susan's primary reference was Erik Lindegren's "ABC of Lettering and Printin Typefaces: A Complete Guide to the Letters and Tyefaces Used for Typesetting and Printing," Greenwich House, 1982.