-i34~ Book types make up the largest number of entries in Goudy's
Some designers and record of designs, and a fair number of them deserve comment.
their types The first Village type has been described on an earlier page,
because of its origin as an advertising type. The next text face to
note is the one correctly known as Monotype 38-E - though it has
sometimes been called Goudy Old Style or Light. It was designed
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Monotype 38-E.
in 1908, at the request of a magazine house which backed out of
the project. It is an undistinguished design, but it does show that
Goudy's studies of the work of the private presses and of text
printing generally had had their effect. He now understood the
essential difference between a piece of lettering drawn for a
specific context and an alphabet whose twenty-six components
would be used in an infinity of combinations.
In 1911 the roman of the celebrated Kennerley Old Style made
its appearance (the italic was not designed until seven years
later). The event which brought the type into being has already
been described. There are conflicting accounts of the source of
the design. Writing to John Henry Nash in 1930, Henry L. Bullen
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[Goudy] designed Kennerley he worked from our copy of
Jenson's Eusebius of 1470 . . .'* Goudy's account was quite dif¬
ferent. He said that the source was the canon size of the Fell types
held at Oxford, which Goudy was able to study in a copy of
Horace Hart's Notes on a Century of Typography at the Univers¬
ity Press, Oxford (1900), given to him by Mitchell Kennerley. 'I
had drawn maybe a dozen letters when I noticed a movement in
my own type drawings not shown by the specimen types ... I
went back over the letters already drawn and brought them into
*Quoted by Robert D. Harban in his Chapter Nine, The Typophiles (New
York, 1982).
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canon size (about 48 point)
of the Fell type.