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Anatomy of a Typeface: A Comprehensive Survey of 30 Type Families Tracing Their Forms, History And Development Over the Last Five Centuries - Hardcover
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A survey of type faces which assesses their development from Gothic black letter to photo-composition and computer-generated forms. The book divides the faces into families and traces contemporary faces like Galliard and Janson back to their ancestors.
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Anatomy of a typeface
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London : Hamish Hamilton, 1990
ISBN 10: 0241129435
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 428 p. : ill. Notes: Includes bibliography, index. Contents: Goudy text and black-letter types -- Hammer Uncial -- Cloister Old Style -- Centaur -- Bembo -- Arrighi -- Dante -- Goudy Old Style -- Palatino -- Garamond -- Galliard -- Granjon -- Sabon -- Janson -- Caslon -- Baskerville -- Bodoni -- Bulmer -- Bell -- Oxford -- Caledonia -- Cheltenham -- Bookman -- Times Roman -- Newspaper types -- Franklin Gothic and the twentieth century gothics -- Calrendon and the square-serif revival -- Optima and the humanist sans-serif types -- Futura and the geometric sans-serif types -- Script, cursive and decorated types -- Type making from punch to computer. Subjects: Typefaces Lettering; Printing; Specimens; Periodicals Publishing; Typefaces; Type and type-founding; Typograph; Letter; Forms; Printing; Development; Study; Analysis; Design. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389986
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Anatomy of a typeface
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ISBN 10: 0241129435
ISBN 13: 9780241129432
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 428 p. : ill. Notes: Includes bibliography, index. Contents: Goudy text and black-letter types -- Hammer Uncial -- Cloister Old Style -- Centaur -- Bembo -- Arrighi -- Dante -- Goudy Old Style -- Palatino -- Garamond -- Galliard -- Granjon -- Sabon -- Janson -- Caslon -- Baskerville -- Bodoni -- Bulmer -- Bell -- Oxford -- Caledonia -- Cheltenham -- Bookman -- Times Roman -- Newspaper types -- Franklin Gothic and the twentieth century gothics -- Calrendon and the square-serif revival -- Optima and the humanist sans-serif types -- Futura and the geometric sans-serif types -- Script, cursive and decorated types -- Type making from punch to computer. Subjects: Typefaces Lettering; Printing; Specimens; Periodicals Publishing; Typefaces; Type and type-founding; Typograph; Letter; Forms; Printing; Development; Study; Analysis; Design. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 389986
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Anatomy of a Typeface
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ISBN 10: 0241129435
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23.5 x 15.5 cm. Cloth, with dust jacket, 428 pages. Illustrated. Text in English. In good condition. See picture. 960g. Seller Inventory # 79599
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