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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32706556 Title: Typographers on type : an illustrated anthology from William Morris to the present day Author: Ruari McLean Publisher: New York : Norton, 1995. ISBN/ISSN: 0393702014 9780393702019 OCLC:32706556

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Typographers on type : an illustrated anthology from William Morris to the present day

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Typographers on type : an illustrated anthology from William Morris to the present day

Author:	Ruari McLean
Publisher:	New York : Norton, 1995.
Edition/Format:	Book : Biography : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
Summary:	"These essays provide a view of the development of modern typography and cover a diverse range of subjects reflecting concerns of the time and timeless considerations: from William Morris's 'Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press' (1895) to Roderick Stinehour's 'Computers and Printing' (1984). Arranged in chronological order, the essays chart the course of the profound technological advances that have taken place in Read more...
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Genre/Form:	Biography
Material Type:	Biography
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ISBN:	0393702014 9780393702019
OCLC Number:	32706556
Notes:	"A Norton professional book."
Description:	xii, 188 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Contents:	William Morris. Aims in founding the Kelmscott Press. 1895 -- Theodore Low De Vinne. Printing in the nineteenth century. 1901 -- Thomas James Cobden-Sanderson. The whole duty of typography. 1900. I do not believe in the doctrine of William Morris. 1902 -- Bruce Rogers. The typography of the Cambridge University Press. 1917 -- Joseph Thorp. The noblest and most essential of the crafts. 1919 -- William Addison Dwiggins. An Investigation into the Physical Properties of Books. 1919 -- Bernard Newdigate. On printing poetry. About type-design. Offset printing and illustration. A Blue Book on good printing. 1920-1922 -- Francis Meynell. 'With twenty-five soldiers of lead ... '. 1923 -- Daniel Berkeley Updike. The Seven Champions of Typography. 1924 -- Jan Tschichold. The principles of the new typography. 1928. The word. 1935 -- Frederic Warde. Printers Ornaments. 1928 -- Edward Johnston. On a master craftsman by a scribe who worked for him. 1929 -- Stanley Morison. First principles of typography. 1930 -- Harry Carter. Sanserif types. 1931 -- Beatrice Warde. Printing should be invisible. 1932. 'This is a printing office'. 1940 -- Elmer Adler. The Making of a Book. 1935 -- Carl Purington Rollins. Whither now, Typographer? 1936 -- Frederic W. Goudy. The Trajan Capitals. 1936 -- Eric Gill. A book is a thing to be read, 1936 -- Peter Beilenson. The Walpole Printing Office, etc. 1938 -- Thomas Maitland Cleland. My mission is to suppress typography. 1940 -- Fred Anthoensen. The Southworth-Anthoensen Press. 1943 -- John Dreyfus. Mr Morison as typographer. 1947 -- George Bernard Shaw. My interest in typography before the Kelmscott Press. 1949 -- P.J. Conkwright. University Press book design. 1949 -- Jan Van Krimpen. On designing and devising type. 1957 -- Sem Hartz. On assessing the early work of Jan van Krimpen. 1965 -- Paul Rand. The good old 'Neue Typografie'. 1959. The grid system. 1985 -- William Golden. It is a very complicated job to produce something simple. 1959 -- Philip Hofer. The artist and the book. 1961 -- Herbert Spencer. Printers and designers. 1963. Pioneers of modern typography. 1969 -- Leonard Baskin. To colour thought. 1967 -- Rudolph Ruzicka. Studies in type design. 1968 -- Michael Twyman. Influence of printing on the environment in the nineteenth century. 1970 -- Massin. The universal language of mankind. 1970 -- Milton Glaser. A conversation about design. 1973 -- Robert Harling. Notes on Eric Gill and Perpetua. 1976 -- John Lewis. Painters and typography. 1978 -- Joseph Blumenthal. Printing education. 1982 -- Hermann Zapf. Is creative art in design really needed in this day of electronics? 1983 -- Roderick Stinehour. Computers and printing. 1984 -- Seymour Chwast. A designer who illustrates. 1985 -- Walter Tracy. Legibility and readability. 1986. The vocabulary of type. 1986 -- Sebastian Carter. Do we need so many new types? 1987 -- George Mackie. Designing for an enlightened publisher. 1988 -- Adrian Frutiger. Light and shadow -- black and white. 1989 -- Greer Allen. Library Exhibition catalogues. 1990 -- Matthew Carter. Now we have mutable type. 1990 -- Afterword -- The Book as Object. 1995.
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"These essays provide a view of the development of modern typography and cover a diverse range of subjects reflecting concerns of the time and timeless considerations: from William Morris's 'Aims in Founding the Kelmscott Press' (1895) to Roderick Stinehour's 'Computers and Printing' (1984). Arranged in chronological order, the essays chart the course of the profound technological advances that have taken place in the printing industry this century from a unique perspective: that of the typographer witnessing and experiencing these changes." "Each piece is prefaced by a short introduction to the typographer's life and work, and many are illustrated with examples of the typography."--Jacket.

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