Item #901439 An Introduction to the History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day; An Aid to Type Face Identification. Geoffrey Downing.
An Introduction to the History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day; An Aid to Type Face Identification
An Introduction to the History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day; An Aid to Type Face Identification

An Introduction to the History of Printing Types: An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day; An Aid to Type Face Identification

London: Wace & Company LTD, 1961.
First Edition. Hardcover.

Third volume in a Wace & Company series on typography. An Introduction to the History of Printing Types is a succinct and authoritative account of the evolution of type design from the earliest Blackletters to present day forms. It is divided into two parts - Book Types and Display Types - treated chronologically and arranged in groups with similar characteristics which are defined and illustrated. Reference is made to current equivalents. Practically all illustrations are reproduced in facsimile and many sources have been searched to obtain representative examples. Notes accompany each illustration and appendices deal with such elements of design as stress and serif. The book is an essential framework for understanding expressive letter design and simplifies the problem of identifying unfamiliar types.

Item #901439

6-1/4 x 10", black cloth, blue top-edge, pictorial endpapers, xxiv, 277pp, notes, appendices, bibliography, index, 117 illustrations, 10 of which are double-page (including endpapers).

Minor crimping to cloth at heel of spine, clean of owner's marks, crisp, square, near fine in very good, toned dust wrapper with a bit of edge-wear, in protective mylar.

Price: $75.00

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