Italic titling font from a 1940s UK edition of a Graham Greene Book

[Roly]

Thanks for helping me with this! I'm in love with this italic used on a book spine in the 1940s.

The book publisher was HEINEMANN.  But I don't think this was a company style.

Any idea what it might be? 

[Kevin Thompson]

Allegro seems to have been the inspiration.

[Kevin Thompson]

Strange that the slip cover to this edition sets the title in Bodoni Ultra and the author's name in Caslon, but the spine is a modified Allegro. I do like the contrast between the light violet of the slipcover and the gold of the boards/cloth binding, however.

 

[Roly]

Thanks both! 

Yes, the contrast doesn't quite work, does it? I think that the case binding has dated better.