Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; A Study in Survivals: Volume 1
Third Edition
Daniel Berkeley Updike(Author)
The Belknap Press
Published on 1. January 1966
Book
Hardback
978-0-674-50389-2 (ISBN)
Description
In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Daniel Berkeley 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 industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to the problem of printers today are particularly valuable.
Printing Types is the master work of a master printer, collecting in two volumes a wealth of material once scattered through widely diverse sources. Everyone interested in the graphic arts will welcome the reissue of this classic on the art of printing.
Printing Types is the master work of a master printer, collecting in two volumes a wealth of material once scattered through widely diverse sources. Everyone interested in the graphic arts will welcome the reissue of this classic on the art of printing.
Reviews / Votes
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. * The American Printer *More details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
Harvard University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
1098 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-674-50389-2 (9780674503892)
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