Michael Everson wrote:

>
> At 15:48 -0500 2005-12-06, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
>
> >My most treasured possession is "Johnson's Typologia" (1826), two tiny
> >(32mo, I think) volumes amounting to more than 1000 pages covering
> >everything a printer could possibly want to know -- including scores of
> >pages on exotic (nonroman) types. Libraries list copies of the work in
> >larger sizes, but I can't imagine that he set the text more than once;
> >the same formes must have been printed on various sizes of paper.
>
> What is this book? I have tried searching the title "Typologia" with
> and without the author name "Johnson" and the date 1826, to no avail.
> Perhaps there just isn't a copy in any of the British and Irish
> libraries listed at copac.ac.uk.

I don't know what copac is, or how comprehensive, but several copies are
listed, with different years and different sizes, at nypl.org. (CATNYP,
not LEO)
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...