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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Tschichold, Jan, 1902-1974. Form of the book. Point Roberts, Wash. : Hartley & Marks, 1991 (OCoLC)645730165 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jan Tschichold |
ISBN: | 0881790346 9780881790344 0881791164 9780881791167 |
OCLC Number: | 24429154 |
Description: | xviii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Clay in a Potter's Hand (1949) -- Graphic Arts and Book Design (1958) -- On Typography (1952) -- The Importance of Tradition in Typography (1966) -- Symmetrical or Asymmetrical Typography? (1965) -- Consistent Correlation Between Book Page and Type Area (1962) -- Typography and the Traditional Title Page (1958) -- House Rules for Typesetting: the Publisher's Standing Instructions for the Typesetter (1937) -- What a Specimen Page Should Look Like (1950) -- Consequences of Tight Typesetting (1956) -- Why the Beginnings of Paragraphs Must be Indented (1950) -- Italics, Small Capitals and Quotation Marks in Books and in Scientific Publications (1964) -- On Leading (1940) -- Typesetting Superscript Numbers and Footnotes (1975) -- Ellipsis Points (1957) -- Dashes (1975) -- Whore's Children and Cobbler's Apprentices (1951) -- Planning the Typographical Layout of Books with Illustrations (1946) -- Headband, Trim-Edge Color, Endpapers and Marker Ribbon (1975) -- Jacket and Wrapper (1946) -- On Books that are Too Wide, Too Large or Square (1975) -- Printing Paper: White or Tinted? (1951) -- Ten Common Mistakes in the Production of Books (1975). |
Other Titles: | Ausgewählte Aufsätze über Fragen der Gestalt des Buches und der Typographie. |
Responsibility: | Jan Tschichold ; translated from the German by Hajo Hadeler ; edited, with an introduction, by Robert Bringhurst. |
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