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| Genre/Form: | Bibliography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967. Typographic book, 1450-1935. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, c1963 (OCoLC)755214573 |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Stanley Morison; Kenneth Day |
| OCLC Number: | 329922 |
| Notes: | Designed to supersede Morison's Four centuries of fine printing, first published in 1924. The 377 pages of plates follow p. 66 and precede p. 71. |
| Description: | xiii, 98 p., 377 p. of plates, [1] folded leaf of plates : facsims. ; 32 cm. |
| Contents: | The commercial book -- Conventions of letter-design -- Typographical discipline -- Genesis of the Bauhaus -- Ornament and the Bauhaus -- The individual craftsman -- Trade book of standards -- Typographical ornament -- Evidence of tradition -- Gothic and Roman -- The black letter -- The Chancery hand -- Nicolaus Jenson -- Venetian technique -- Influence of Jenson -- The Aldine style -- Birth of French influence -- French and Parisian typography -- Jean De Tournes and Robert Granjon -- Cardinal Richelieu -- The 'Roman Du Roi' -- The Didot family -- Baskerville and Bodoni -- William Pickering and the Whittinghams -- The Oxford Renaissance -- Johnston and Newdigate -- Daniel Berkeley Updike -- The Imprimerie Nationale -- The architectural simile -- The commercial publisher -- The monotype design programme -- Formative influences -- Plates. |
| Responsibility: | with an introductory essay by Stanley Morison and supplementary material by Kenneth Day. |
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