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Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; A - 3rd Edition
Daniel Berkeley Updike
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Description for Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; A - 3rd Edition
Hardcover. BIC Classification: HB. Weight in Grams: 666.
In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The 367 illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The closing chapters on choice of type and on the ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Language
English
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674503885
SKU
V9780674503885
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Reviews for Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; A - 3rd Edition
To praise this great work by America’s greatest book printer and printer-scholar at this late date would be idle. Standing head and shoulders above any other book that has been written on the subject either before or since, it is the foundation stone of any well ordered printing or typographic library.
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