Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use : A Study in Survivals. [ 2 vols, complete set ]

Updike, D.B.

Published by Dover Publications, New York, 1980 reprint of the1937 second edition, 1980

About this Item

2 vols, laminated wrappers, 8vo, 24 cm, xl, 292 + xviii, 326 pp. From the blurb: "Printing Types presents the standards, the landmarks in typography that anyone connected with printing must know. In its mammoth, illustrated coverage, it is without doubt the definitive guide to the subject. Beginning with the invention of printing, Volume One considers how type was made, the sizes of types, the systems which have been devised for their measurement, the Latin alphabet, and the following types: types of the fifteenth Century in Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and England; the Aldine Italic; and German, Italian and French types from 1500-1800. Volume Two takes up immediately where the first volume leaves off, continuing the discussion of types from 1500-1800 in the Netherlands, Spain and England; and then analyzing types in the American Colonies, nineteenth- century "Classical" types, English types from 1800-1844, and the English and American revival of early type-forms. This volume concludes with Mr. Updike's own choices for types in a composing-room and a fascinating chapter on industrial conditions of the past in the printing field. A listing of notes appears at the end of each volume." Good set.

Seller Inventory # ABE-32707

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use : A Study in Survivals. [ 2 vols, complete set ]
• Publisher: Dover Publications, New York, 1980 reprint of the1937 second edition
• Publication Date: 1980
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Type & Typography