Atlas Typeforms by Sutton James (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 2.8.

42.0 x 26.0cms 120pp b/w illusts very good+ hardback & dustwrapper The chapters are: Roman inscriptional lettering; scripts; Johann Gutenberg; gothic & roman; Venetian; old face Italian; old face French; old face Dutch; early transitional; transitional; late transitional; modern; display; fat face; Egyptian; Clarendon; decorative display; Williamm Morris; 20th century roman; grotesque; index of typefaces; specimen text settings.

Reprint of the 1968 Edition. Reprint of the 1968 Edition. small folio, black boards in dust jacket. (123)pp. Chartwell Books, An illustrated history of metal type design, starting with the Roman and medieval letterforms and scripts which were the starting points for the alphabet designs we know today, and giving examples of the various stylistic changes that have taken place throughout the centuries. Minor edgewear to jacket. small folio, black boards in dust jacket.

Later edition. F-/F- condition. Full page illustrations in black and white.

cloth, dust jacket. folio. cloth, dust jacket. 116, (8) pages. Reprint of the first edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. "An attempt to show by illustration, rather than by explaining in words, the main changes in type forms over 500 years of printing.".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Illustrated throughout with type specimens and half-tones. Blue decorative cloth, titled in white. A fine copy.

Condition: Good. Original decorated blue boards, a lot of examples, folio.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, fine-ribbed cloth-backed marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 122 pages (4 folded): Illustrations, facsimiles ; 41 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 122). Subjects: Type and type-founding England; Specimens; Type and type-founding specimens; Display type specimens; Printing; Printing specimens; Type and type-founding History; Type and type-founding ; History;Specimens; Printing History; Simbolos Graficos;Display type; SpecimensEngland; typefaces design;typesetting. Other names:Bartram, Alan (1932-)Genre: Bibliography; Illustrated; Specimens. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Blue cloth printed in navy blue and white, tall folio, 116, (6) pages, fold-out leaves. Examples of type specimens, many enlarged, with photos of the actual use of the types. This copy presented by John (Ryder) to Anthony (Mackay Miller) in 1988. A very near fine copy with slight edgewear.

1st edition. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked, fine-ribbed cloth-backed marble boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 122 pages (4 folded): Illustrations, facsimiles ; 41 cm. Notes: Includes bibliography (p. 122). Subjects: Type and type-founding England; Specimens; Type and type-founding specimens; Display type specimens; Printing; Printing specimens; Type and type-founding History; Type and type-founding ; History;Specimens; Printing History; Simbolos Graficos;Display type; SpecimensEngland; typefaces design;typesetting. Other names:Bartram, Alan (1932-)Genre: Bibliography; Illustrated; Specimens. 1 Kg.

Folio, pp. 116, [8]; illustrated throughout with types, letter forms, books, from antiquity to modern times; fine copy in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker.