Author Name
Chappell, Warren.
Title A SHORT HISTORY OF THE PRINTED WORD.
Binding Hard Cover
Book Condition Near Fine
Jacket Condition Very Good
Edition First Edition
Publisher New York Alfred A. Knopf 1970
ISBN Number
0394445341 / 9780394445342
Seller ID 28083
244 pp + Index, 9 9/16" H. B&w photographs, reproductions. "(A) book that will inform the layman and give pleasure to the typophile. In it the aesthetic and technical considerations basic to the art and process of printing, from the earliest formulation of the letters of the alphabet to recent developments in twentieth-century graphic technology, are made clear through a lucid and lively narrative interspersed with more than 200 pertinent illustrations - calligraphy, typefaces, great books and their pages, presses and workshops - all carefully chosen and fitted into the text. Here is the evolution of the printing press - the ingenious and imaginative contributions of the great printers. And always the interaction between printing and the society and culture in which it grew is underlined." Dust jacket has been price-clipped, has very light edge wear/wrinkling/tiny tear at top/bottom of spine.
Joseph
Addison,
Alphabets,
Ludovico
Degli
Arrighi,
Basel,
John
Baskerville,
Bed,
Thomas
Bewick,
Black
Letter,
Block
Printing,
Giovanni
Boccaccio,
Giambattista
Bodoni,
Books,
William
Bulmer,
Calligraphy,
Cameras,
Capitals,
William
Calson,
Old
Face
Type,
Casting,
Censorship,
Chancery
Script,
Color,
Composition,
George
Cruickshank,
Johannes
Da
Spira,
Hornore
Daumier,
Daniel
Defoe,
Firmin
Didot,
Francois
Ambroise,
Didot
Family,
Albrecht
Durer,
England,
Engraving,
Etching,
Fournier
Family,
France,
Frankfurt,
Claude
Garamond,
Germany,
Eric
Gill,
Gothic
Type,
Frederic
W.
Goudy,
Phillippe
Grandjean,
Gravers,
Johann
Gutenberg,
Gutenberg
Bible,
Holland,
Illustration,
Impression,
Incunabula,
Industrial
Revolution,
Intaglio,
Italics,
Nicholas
Jenson,
Kelmscott
Press,
Klingspor
Press,
Rudolf
Koch,
Fritz
Kredel,
Letter
Forms,
Lettera
Rotunda,
Letterpress,
Lettre
De
Forme,
Limited
Editions
Club,
Linotype,
Lithography,
Lower
Case,
Louis
Luce,
Lyons,
Mainz,
Aldus
Manutius,
Matrixes,
William
Morris,
Movable
Type,
New
York
City,
Newspapers,
Offenbacher
Werkstatt,
Ornaments,
Arnold
Pannartz,
Paper,
Paris,
Photocomposition,
Photography,
Cristophe
Plantin,
Platen,
Point
System,
Freedom
Of
Press,
Presses,
Printing,
Prints,
Punch-Cutting,
Punches,
Rembrandt,
Renaissance,
Bruce
Rogers,
Romain
Du
Roi
Louis
XIV,
Roman
Types,
Scribes,
Serifs,
William
Shakespeare,
D.
Stempel,
Stereotyping,
Title
Pages,
Geofroy
Tory,
Type,
Typography,
United
States,
Daniel
Berkeley
Updike,
Vellum,
Venice,
Ambroise
Vollard,
Emery
Walker,
Woodcuts.
Price =
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