A Short History of the Printed WordKnopf, 1970 - 244 pagina's "The earliest formuation of the letters of the alphabet to recent developments in twentieth-century graphic technology, are made clear through a lucid and lively narrive interspersed with more than 200 pertinent illustrations ... Here is the evolution of the printing press ... the great printers and the art of the inspired typographers ... and always the interaction between printing and the society and culture in which it grew is underlined"--Cover. |
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Cutting and Casting | 38 |
The Incunabula 14401500 | 59 |
The Seventeenth Century | 111 |
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Albrecht Dürer Aldus alphabet American appeared Aquatint artists became began Bible blocks Bodoni calligraphic Caroline minuscules Caslon cast Chancery classic counter-punch Courant cursive Daumier decorative Didot Dürer early editions England English Enschedé etching etiam example fifteenth font foundry Fournier France French Fritz Kredel funt Garamond Gazette Geofroy Tory German gothic gravers Gutenberg Gutenberg Bible hand Hypnerotomachia Poliphili illustrations influence intaglio italic Italy Jan Lievens Jenson Johann Koch letter forms letterpress lines Linotype lithography London machine magazine Mainz Psalter manuscripts metal models mold Monotype Morris newspaper Nicolas Jenson nihil NYPL paper Paris Plantin plate printers printing produced publication published punch-cutter punches quæ romain du roi roman Rudolf Koch Rustic capitals Schöffer script scrittura umanistica serifs shape sheet sixteenth century steel style techniques tion Title Tournes type design type faces type founder type foundries typographic William William Caslon wood engraving woodcut writing