Without an image it's hard to tell - particularly if the people you're asking don't have a copy of whatever it is you have. I happen to have a copy, but have no idea whether it's the same edition, or the same printing, or whether the hardback, or its dust jacket and the paperback versions are the same.

[Just giving you a hard time!] MY copy, which is the paperback edition, Version 3.1, published by Hartley and Marks, printed by C&C in Hong Kong, appears to have the book title in some version of ALCUIN or Alcuin Light.

What an embarrassing font to use on a book that aims to be perennially typographic.

hhp

@hrant: Bringhurst calls Alcuin "admirable" in his first reference, where he's suggesting fonts designed by women (in this case, Gudrun Zapf-von Hesse). He later decribes it as "a strong and graceful Carolingian face". So I doubt that Bringhurst would find its use embarrassing. YMMV.

- Herb

Well duh.

hhp

Thanks for the info. That is the same typeface as is on my edition, version 3.2. the author's name is in the italic, I assume?