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- PublisherOak Knoll Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1584560568
- ISBN 13 9781584560562
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number4
- Number of pages329
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Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use (Volumes One & Two)
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 4th Edition. Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dust jacket. Volumes One and Two bound as one volume. Still sealed in the publisher's plastic wrap, unread. The dust jacket seems to have some wrinkling to it, otherwise a bright and attractive copy, as new. Seller Inventory # 000752
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Printing types : their history, forms, and use ; a study in survivals / by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; with 367 illustrations - Complete in 2 volumes
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Book Description Fourth Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new with shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical desc.:2 v. in 1 (xlvi, 292, xix, 329 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Type and type-founding --Printing --History --Specimens. art / Typography / General HistoryType and type-founding Typography ; History of specific subjects. Summary: This study of typography traces the development of type design over the past five centuries, and discusses the lessons they hold for today's designers. The 367 illustrations reproduce selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The accompanying text examines the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which represent the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The two original books are here reproduced in one huge volume of over 1000 pages. This work should belong in the library of a typographer or those interested in printing history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 171066
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Printing types : their history, forms, and use ; a study in survivals / by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; with 367 illustrations - Complete in 2 volumes
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New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library
(2001)
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ISBN 13: 9781584560562
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Book Description Fourth Edition. Fine paperback copy. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new with shrink-wrap.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 0 pages; Physical desc.:2 v. in 1 (xlvi, 292, xix, 329 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm. Subjects: Type and type-founding --Printing --History --Specimens. art / Typography / General HistoryType and type-founding Typography ; History of specific subjects. Summary: This study of typography traces the development of type design over the past five centuries, and discusses the lessons they hold for today's designers. The 367 illustrations reproduce selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The accompanying text examines the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which represent the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The two original books are here reproduced in one huge volume of over 1000 pages. This work should belong in the library of a typographer or those interested in printing history. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 171066
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