A Short History of the Printed Word"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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... English . helpful in advancing his second career as printer - publisher . In the 1440's , he was in business in Bruges . Within a dozen years he was prominent in the Mercers ' Company , rising to the gov- ernorship of the Guild of English ...
... English . helpful in advancing his second career as printer - publisher . In the 1440's , he was in business in Bruges . Within a dozen years he was prominent in the Mercers ' Company , rising to the gov- ernorship of the Guild of English ...
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... English printing had been Dutch , and it was strengthened when William Caslon , the most suc- cessful and celebrated of English type founders , chose Dutch models for his famous Old Face . Caslon was born in Worcester- shire in 1692 ...
... English printing had been Dutch , and it was strengthened when William Caslon , the most suc- cessful and celebrated of English type founders , chose Dutch models for his famous Old Face . Caslon was born in Worcester- shire in 1692 ...
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... English No. 2. Modern face from William Thorow- good . 1824 . A counterreaction to Neo - classicism and the modern styled types was led by William Pickering , an English publisher asso- ciated with the younger Charles Whittingham ...
... English No. 2. Modern face from William Thorow- good . 1824 . A counterreaction to Neo - classicism and the modern styled types was led by William Pickering , an English publisher asso- ciated with the younger Charles Whittingham ...
Contents
Cutting and Casting | 38 |
The Incunabula 14401500 | 59 |
The Seventeenth Century | 111 |
Copyright | |
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