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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Page 63
... decorative touches are not solely for ornament ; they help to reduce the large counters which could otherwise open up holes in the over - all texture and color of the type mass . The large , decorative letters , which are below in the ...
... decorative touches are not solely for ornament ; they help to reduce the large counters which could otherwise open up holes in the over - all texture and color of the type mass . The large , decorative letters , which are below in the ...
Page 76
... decorative title pages and the first mathemati- cal diagrams . The diagrams appeared in his Elementa Geome- triae of Euclid . He also was an innovator in the printing of multicolor woodcuts . Above all , he was responsible for some of ...
... decorative title pages and the first mathemati- cal diagrams . The diagrams appeared in his Elementa Geome- triae of Euclid . He also was an innovator in the printing of multicolor woodcuts . Above all , he was responsible for some of ...
Page 143
... decorative quality to a page of such type , but at great cost to legibility . Roman has come to be divided into three categories . Those having calligraphic stress and bracketed serifs are old style . Romain du roi was the fore- runner ...
... decorative quality to a page of such type , but at great cost to legibility . Roman has come to be divided into three categories . Those having calligraphic stress and bracketed serifs are old style . Romain du roi was the fore- runner ...
Contents
Cutting and Casting | 38 |
The Incunabula 14401500 | 59 |
The Seventeenth Century | 111 |
Copyright | |
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