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: Font ID: Example plate from Jan Tschichold’s “The Form of the Book” This is an example plate illustrating the typesetting of superscripts and footnotes. The book itself is set in Monotype

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This is an example plate illustrating the typesetting of superscripts and footnotes. The book itself is set in Monotype Van Dijck in the original German edition and Tschichold’s own Sabon in the English edition, neither of which this is.

Any help would be appreciated.

(Note especially roman and italic “J” and italic “N”.)

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@Turnbaugh909

It's a Baskerville but quite which cut is not going to be easy to determine.

It's actually the J which you pointed out which allows identification. A letterpress printer once told me that the italic J could be used upside down as £ and there is one cut which does show that.



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