PRINTER'S TYPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; Manufacturing and Design Methods

Southall, Richard

ISBN 10: 1584561556 / ISBN 13: 9781584561552

Published by The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, London, 2005

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First edition. 238p, colophon, references, index. Blue cloth, gold letters. Illustrated jacket in protective plastic. 156 illustrations. Seller Inventory # 4210

Bibliographic Details

Title: PRINTER'S TYPE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; ...

Publisher: The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, London

Publication Date: 2005

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Dust Jacket Condition: New

Edition: First Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

First edition. The last years of the nineteenth century saw the final stages in the transition of type manufacture from a craft to an industrial process, and the first appearance of complex mechanical systems for the composition of text. A hundred years later, text composition used only the simple mechanisms inside laser printers and image-setters, and type manufacture was well on the way to becoming a craft process once again; though now with computer displays and software replacing steel punches and copper matrices.

About the Author:

Richard Southall has been involved with type and typography since the early 1960s; in publishing, composing-machine manufacture and development, teaching, research and consultancy.