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PRINTING TYPES: THEIR HISTORY, FORMS AND USE

by D.B. Updike

Published by Oak Knoll Press; The British Library. 4th. 2001

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. This is the combined edition, volumes I & II. Foruth Edition, expanded. A classic study of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. Green cloth boards, gilt title to spine. A fat volume.

Spine is slightly concave but does not affect overall contents. Contents are clean. Pictorial dustwrapper is lightly faded to spine.

ISBN: 0712347348
Stock no. 1827615

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Contents

  • VOLUME I
  • INTRODUCTION
  • I. THE INVENTION OF PRINTING: THE CUTTING AND CASTING OF TYPES IN RELATION TO THEIR DESIGN
  • II. A FONT OF TYPE AND ITS CASE: THE TYPOGRAPHICAL POINT: POINT-SET AND LINING TYPES
  • III. THE LATIN ALPHABET AND ITS DEVELOPMENT UP TO THE INVENTION OF PRINTING
  • IV. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN GERMANY
  • V. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN ITALY
  • VI. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN FRANCE
  • VII. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN THE NETHERLANDS - HOLLAND AND BELGIUM
  • VIII. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN SPAIN
  • IX. TYPES OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY IN ENGLAND
  • X. THE ALDINE ITALIC
  • XI. A WORD ON TYPE SPECIMENS
  • XII. GERMAN TYPES : 1500-1800
  • VOLUME II
  • XV. TYPES OF THE NETHERLANDS: 1500-1800
  • XVI. SPANISH TYPES: 1500-1800
  • XVII. ENGLISH TYPES: 1500-1800
  • XVIII. TYPES USED IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES, AND SOME EARLY AMERICAN SPECIMENS
  • XIX. NINETEENTH CENTURY "CLASSICAL" TYPES, BODONI AND THE DIDCOTS
  • XX. ENGLISH TYPES: 1800-1844
  • XXI. REVIVAL OF CASLON AND FELL TYPES
  • XXII. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REVIVAL OF EARLY TYPE FORMS AND ITS EFFECT ON CONTINENTAL TYPES
  • XXIII. THE CHOICE OF TYPES FOR A COMPOSING ROOM
  • XXIV. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS OF THE PAST AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PRINTER'S PROBLEM TODAY
  • NOTES TO VOLUME II OF THIS EDITION
  • CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SPECIMENS
  • INDEX

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