Printing Types History Forms by Updike Daniel (332 results)

Condition: Very Good. 2nd. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good. New Edition. xl., 292 pages, b/w illustrations. Minor wear, spotting, sunned spine. Size: 235mm. x 155mm. Book.

Condition: Good. Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. with illustrations (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Firmly bound, pink cloth boards. Slightly faded and rubbed spines. No jackets.

Hardcover. Condition: VG/VG/ND. y 2nd. Edition, 1st Imp. HARDBACK "VOLUME ONE ONLY," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 2nd . Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1937 * Publisher: Humphrey Milford for the Harvard University Press.* Binding and cover condition: Crimson lake cloth, gilt title to spine only. Spine slightly darkened. Minor bumps to corners. Some wear to corners and to head & tail of spine. Slight marks to boards. GD++.* Jacket condition: No original dust wrapper. ND* Contents condition: Not ex-library but with "Print Shop," stamps to several pages. Binding tight with no reading wear. Minimal paper colouration throughout especially to page edges & margins, a good legible reference copy. GD++.* Illustrations: B/w facsimile prints and print examples throughout. One two-page print sample to this volume.* Pages: 276pp. text.* xviipp. supplementary notes & blank pages to rear.* Description: In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Mr Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The numerous illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers.* This is a NEAR VG text copy with some age & shelf wear. No dust wrapper.* (Volume 2. also available separately from this seller).* 1937-09-01. n.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

2nd Edition. Volume II only. 2nd edition, 2nd printing. A clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Protected in removable plastic film, with loss at spine head & foot. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket).

Facsimile of the 1922 edition 2009. Paperback. Spine uncreased. Near fine.

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Condition: Good. 1962. Third Edition. 326 pages. Dust jacket over blue cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with mild thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine. Books has a backward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild scratching and marking to boards. Unclipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Heavy tanning to spine and edges. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Condition: Sehr gut. Second Edition. XIX; 326 S. / p., viele Schriftproben. Papierbedingt leicht gebräunt, Buchrücken leicht bestoßen, innen gut und sehr sauber / Slightly browned due to paper, spine slightly bumped, inside good and very clean - Volume 2 - In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Daniel Berkeley Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The closing chapters on choice of type and on the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to the problem of printers today are particularly valuable. -- XV. TYPES OF THE NETHERLANDS: 1500-1800 I. THE WORK OF THE PLANTIN PRESS II. THE ELZEVIR EDITIONS - III. OTHER EXAMPLES OF NETHERLANDS PRINTING § 1. XVI CENTURY - § 2. XVII CENTURY § 3. XVIII CENTURY - IV. NETHERLANDS FOUNDRIES AND SPECIMENS - XVI. SPANISH TYPES : 1500-1800 - I. EXAMPLES OF SPANISH PRINTING § 1. XVI CENTURY § 2. XVII CENTURY § 3. XVIII CENTURY II. SPANISH FOUNDRIES AND SPECIMENS - XVII. ENGLISH TYPES: 1500-1800 - I. FROM PYNSON TO WILLIAM CASLON II. WILLIAM CASLON AND THE CASLON FOUNDRY - III. JOHN BASKERVILLE - IV. WILSON, FRY, MARTIN, AND OTHER FOUNDERS V. EXAMPLES OF ENGLISH PRINTING - § 1. XVI CENTURY § 2. XVII CENTURY § 3. XVIII CENTURY - XVIII. TYPES USED IN THE AMERICAN COLONIES, AND SOME EARLY AMERICAN SPECIMENS XIX. NINETEENTH CENTURY "CLASSICAL" TYPES. BODONI AND THE DIDOTS I. THE "CLASSICAL" MOVEMENT II. GIAMBATTISTA BODONI - III. THE DIDOT FAMILY - IV. NINETEENTH CENTURY FRENCH FOUNDRIES AND SPECIMENS - XX. ENGLISH TYPES: 1800-1844 XXI. REVIVAL OF CASLON AND FELL TYPES - XXII. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REVIVAL OF EARLY TYPE-FORMS AND ITS EFFECT ON CONTINENTAL TYPES I. ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES II. THE CONTINENT - XXIII. THE CHOICE OF TYPES FOR A COMPOSING-ROOM - XXIV. INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS OF THE PAST AND THEIR RELATION TO THE PRINTER'S PROBLEM TO-DAY - I. INTRODUCTORY - II. EARLY CONDITIONS IN THE FRENCH PRINTING INDUSTRY - III. SOME SIXTEENTH CENTURY LABOUR TROUBLES - IV. PRINTING AT PARIS IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES - V. THE CENSORSHIP - VI. RATE OF PRODUCTION, HOURS OF LABOUR, ETC. VII. CONCLUSION - NOTES TO VOLUME II OF THIS EDITION CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF SPECIMENS INDEX // Music Types employed in De la Helens Masses: Plantin, / Antwerp, 1578 / From Rooses' Christofihe Plantin, Antwerp., 1896 / Roman and Italic Types: Plantin Specimen, Antwerp, / 1567 / From Rooses' Christofihe Plantin / Roman and Italic Types: Plantin Specimen, Antwerp, / 1567 / From Rooses' Christofihe Plantin / Roman, Italic, and Cursive Types: Plantin Specimen, / Antwerp, 1567 / From. Rooses' Christofihe Plantin / Canon d1 Espagne from Plantin Office / From Sfiecimen des Caracteres employe's dans VImfirimerie Plantinienne, Antwerfi, 1905 / Calligraphic Initials from Plantin Office From Rooses' Christofihe Plantin / Page of Roman Type from Biblia Polyglotta: Plantin, / Antwerp, 1572 / From Druckschriften des XV bis XVIII Jahrhunderts / Text-page and Title in Plantings early manner, Antwerp, 1567 From Claude Paradin's Symbola Heroica / Page from Rariorum Stirpium Hispanix Historia: / Plantin, Antwerp, 1576 / From a copy in Harvard College Library - u.v.v.a.m. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 600 Original Leinen kaschiert / Original linen laminated.

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Condition: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 2 volumes, original cloth, , worn, with letters from D.B.Updike, Mw Marsden, and Bruce Crutchley, without dustjacket, inner joints cracked, inquire for postage outside U.K.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2 volumes, original cloth, lacks front endpapers, , good set without dustjacket,

Republication 1980 of the 1937 second edition, in two volumes. -- Softcover. Condition: near fine (owner name).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 8vo, 2 Volumes - Vol. (1). xlvi, 292pp, Illustrated. Vol. (2). xix,326pp. Illustrated, Both volumes Dark Red Cloth/Hardbacks (Very Good) with Dust Jackets (some minor soiling & wear o/w Good).

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use A Study in Survivals Second Volume UPDIKE, Daniel Berkeley Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press, London, 1937, hardback with dust wraer, VG/gd, boards blue/gilt, illustrated from 367 examples of print types, 326 Boards clean and firm, previous owner inscription to title page, several annotations in blue ink, sound tight binding, slight lean to the spine, pages clean, lightly tanned Wraer quite grubby, rubs and small chips to edges and corners, significant damage to spine strip (see scan), now protected by paper and film book cover, price clied Ephemera included - Four leaflets about printing and one concerning the Wood Engravings of Robert Gibbings ARTS, PRINTING, PRINTING TRADE, TYPES FROM NETHERLANDS, SPAIN, ENGLAND, AMERICAN CONOLIES, INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS, LABOUR, CENSORSHIP 47022 ARTS/PRINT (cs arts) £2650 326.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A very good (ex-Library) copy of the Second Volume of this history of printing. Originally published by Harvard University press in 1922 and 1937. This copy undated but probably 1937 at OUP. No Dust Jacket (as issued?). Cover: tan cloth covered boards (probably library re- binding), with gilt lettering to spine; in very good condition for its age; very bright and clean with few signs of shelf wear. Internally: Very clean and tightly bound; several stamps to preliminary pages and ticket pocket to front paste-down, for Lambeth Public Libraries and another stamp for BLDSC; label on title page covering a reference library stamp; otherwise very clean and bright. Illustrated throughout in black and white. xx, 326 pp,