Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century: Manufacturing and Design Methods

Southall, Richard

ISBN 10: 0712348123 / ISBN 13: 9780712348126

Verlag: The British Library/ Oak Knoll Press, 2005

Beschreibung

Black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Fine, in fine dust jacket.*** Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century "traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot metal to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution." Illustrated throughout.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 000877

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century: Manufacturing and Design Methods
• Verlag: The British Library/ Oak Knoll Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0712348123
• ISBN-13: 9780712348126
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Fine
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution. The book takes a theoretical view of its topic.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Richard Southall has been involved with type and typography since the early 1960s; in publishing, composing-machine manufacture and development, teaching, research and consultancy.