A View of Early Typography Up to About 1600 - Softcover

Harry Carter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0907259219 ISBN 13: 9780907259213

Publisher: Hyphen Press, 2008

Synopsis

A View of Early Typography has long been regarded as the classic text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focusing on type, Harry Carter goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered: the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic, and more); the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages; and the establishment of standards of norms in type design. This is a facsimile of the original edition, of 1969, augmented by a new introduction in which James Mosley explains the significance of the book and gives a short account of Carter's life and work.

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Product Description:

in-8, broché, couv. illustrée à rabats, 22-XII-137 pp., 84 figures hors-texte, index. Reprinted with an introduction by James Mosley. Très bon état.

Synopsis:

A text on the production and use of type in the first 150 years of printing. By focusing on type, Harry Carter goes to the heart of design, the point at which the material processes of printing meet the intellectual concerns of publishers and the nature of the texts they publish. Among the topics covered are: the diversity of letterforms (blackletter, roman, italic and more); the tensions between Latin and the vernacular languages; and the establishment of standards and norms in type design. This is a facsimile of the original edition of 1969, augmented by a new introduction in which James Mosley explains the significance of the book and gives a short account of Carter's life and work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyphen Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0907259219
• ISBN 13: 9780907259213
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208