I quite like the crisp rationality of the text typeface used in this book, but I can't identify it. I suspect it's a Linotype machine face, judging by the buttonhook 'f' and the overly wide italic.
http://www.iampeth.com/books/palmer_method_1935/palmerMethod_1935_page2....
I particularly like the 'g', which strikes me as rather distinctive.
It looks close to Century Old Style
@fvilanakis Thanks. It does look like it, doesn't it?
The book type seems rather less condensed than the digital Century Old Style fonts I see. (Letters like 'o' look noticeably rounder, and the tracking in general is much looser.) But I supposed that could be accounted for by a different size being used for the digital masters.
Yes, it looks very close and I can't spot a similar /g on any other font I looked.
You can find a more "round" (less compressed) version of Century Old Style on the latin subset of (Chinese) Mac OS font Biau Kai (1995) but I doubt the book is set on Biau Kai
See also:
http://typophile.com/node/76885
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