Politics and Script : Aspects of Authority and Freedom in the Development of Graeco-Latin Script from the Sixth Century B.C. To the Twentieth Century A.D.

Morison, S. ; Barker, N.

ISBN 10: 0198181469 / ISBN 13: 9780198181460

Published by Sandpiper Books, London, 2000 reissue of the 1972 first edition, 2000

Cloth, large 8vo, 28 cm, 5, 361pp, ills, facs. From the blurb: "The central argument of Stanley Morison's Lyell Lectures is that the development of script - inscriptional, calligraphic, or typographical - has been the result of changes in the religious or political environment, of friction between church and state, and of the schism between Eastern and Western Christendom. Morison begins with an early example of alphabetic forms on a gravestone from sixth-century Melos and proceeds, through commentary on a notable collection of more than 180 illustrated specimens, to trace the career of the Graeco-Roman alphabet up to its use in newspaper typefaces of the 1950s. He also seeks to show that the most widely used printers' typefaces of the twentieth century owe more to their Greek than to their Roman antecedents. Originally delivered in 1956-7, when Morison was Lyell Reader in Bibliography in Oxford, the lectures were edited and completed by Nicholas Barker and finally published in 1972." As New in dustwrapper. Seller Inventory # ABE-31524

Synopsis:

Originally delivered as a series of lectures in 1956-57, these papers argue that the script was the result of changes in the religious or political environment and was due to the friction between the Church and the State and between east and West Christendom.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Politics and Script : Aspects of Authority ...
Publisher: Sandpiper Books, London, 2000 reissue of the 1972 first edition
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included