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Daniel Berkeley Updike has been described as the most distinguished American printer. He was one of a handful of of the 20th century's most successful and influential book designers. The Well-Made Book is a collection of virtually all of Updike's writings on the art of the book. Much of this timeless material has been hard to find, and some appears here for the first time. Complete with index, annotations and an extensive new introduction.
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Daniel Berkeley Updike was one of the most successful and influential book designers of the twentieth century. The Well-Made Book is a substantial and timeless collection of virtually all of Updike's writings on the art of the book. William S. Peterson has unearthed and assembled this wealth of material, much of which will be new even to those readers familiar with Updike's writings.
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The well-made book : essays & lectures / by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; edited by William S. Peterson
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xxi, 383 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 25 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; On the planning of printing -- Style in the use of type -- The seven champions of typography -- The essentials of a well-made book -- The place of the educated man in the printing industry -- Gutenberg and his relation to printers today -- Review of Four centuries of fine printing by Stanley Morison -- Some notes on liturgical printing -- Notes supplementary to Gough's Memoirs -- Some revivals of printing in the nineteenth century -- Ecclesiastical printing -- George Lepreux and the Gallia typographica -- Thomas Maitland Cleland -- Rudolph Ruzicka : an appreciation -- Some tendencies in modern typography -- American university presses -- Description of the Merrymount Press -- Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work -- To the trade -- On the decorations of the limited edition of standard prayer book of MDCCCXCII -- To the clergy and laity of the Episcopal church -- The black art : a homily -- Announcement of Mr. Berkeley Updike for the autumn of MDCCCXCV -- Merrymount : being a few words on the derivation of the name of the Merrymount Press -- Designs to be used with type -- An address to the Grolier Club -- The "lost" Caslon specimen of 1748 -- What the printer can do for an architect -- A translation of the reports of Berlier & Sobry on types of Gillé fils -- A Merrymount exhibition of 1928 -- An autobiographical note -- Bruce Rogers and the Oxford lectern Bible -- The Merrymount Press, Boston -- The Updike collection of books on printing at the Providence Public Library -- Recollections of the Athenaeum, 1878 and 1879 -- Nota bene -- Metropolitan Museum printing -- A note on Bruce Rogers -- Stanley Morison -- A Merrymount exhibition of 1940 -- A last word. Subjects; Merrymount Press History. Merrymount Press. Printing History. Printing United States History. Fine books History. Imprimerie Histoire. Imprimerie États-Unis Histoire. Typography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 407989
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The well-made book : essays & lectures / by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; edited by William S. Peterson
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