The typographic book, 1450-1935 : [a study of fine typography through five centuries, exhibited in upwards of three hundred and fifty title and text pages drawn from presses working in the European tradition] / With an introductory essay by Stanley Morison and supplementary material by Kenneth Day.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1963Description: xiii, 98 p. : 377 facsímiles byn ; 30 cmOther title:
  • The typographic book [Parallel title]
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • Z250 M86 1963
Contents:
The period 1925-1935 -- the plates : Biblia latina (42-lines) 1450-1455 -- fifteenth century 1450-1499 -- sixteenth century 1500-1596 -- seventeenth century 1608-1689 -- eighteenth century 1702-1800 -- nineteenth century 1801-1900 -- twentieth century 1903-1935.
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A generation of amateurs of typography as an art, and practitioners of what are now known in Art Collages as graphics as a profession, have been nurtured on Four Centuries of Fine Printing by Mr. Morison, brought out by the present publishers in 1924. -- Prefacio

The period 1925-1935 -- the plates : Biblia latina (42-lines) 1450-1455 -- fifteenth century 1450-1499 -- sixteenth century 1500-1596 -- seventeenth century 1608-1689 -- eighteenth century 1702-1800 -- nineteenth century 1801-1900 -- twentieth century 1903-1935.

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