Pre-Owned Printing Types : Their History Forms and Use: A Study in Survivals (Hardcover) 9781584560562

This work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons it contains. The original two-volume set has been combined into one hardbound book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. In Volume I Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet the invention of printing the cutting and casting of types fifteenth-century types in Germany Italy France Spain and England as well as German Italian and French types of the sixteenth seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. This work is the third edition reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. Co-published with The British Library. Over 367 typographical illustrations