This work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons it contains. The original two-volume set has been combined into one hardbound book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in ...
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This work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons it contains. The original two-volume set has been combined into one hardbound book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England as well as German, Italian, and French types of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. This work is the third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. Co-published with The British Library. Over 367 typographical illustrations
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Publisher:
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published:
1966
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
16621319141
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Good in very good jacket. Volume one only. Second printing of the third edition, 1966. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 292 pp., Good ex-library copy with typical marks (stamps, bookplate removal, etc. ) in Very Good dust jacket, age-toning to the page-edges, a bit of age-toning to the dust jacket, rubbing and light wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
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2 hardcover volumes in dust jackets, chips and tears in dust jackets, original owner's name on endpapers, foxing (yellowing/spotting)to edges. Faintly musty smell. Pages clean and unmarked. INV#P-2 g/g.
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Very Good. 1922. Cloth, 276 pp; 308 pp. Prev. owner's signatures. Some rubbing to cloth, a little chipping at head and heel of spines. Still quite sound. (Subject: Books on Books & Cartography. )
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Good. *** Volume 1 only *** Second Printing of Third Printing. Lightly used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Light sunning to text block edges. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. A nice copy of Volume II of the second edition, looking for its mate. The book is bound in dark red boards. The titles on the spine are faded, but the boards show little wear. There is a name on the front flyleaf, but no markings in the text. The pages are lightly age-toned. The illustrations are crisp and wonderful. Fast shipping worldwide.