A Tally of Types - with Additions by Several Hands

MORISON, Stanley (edited by Brooke Crutchley)

ISBN 10: 052109786X / ISBN 13: 9780521097864

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1973

Beschreibung

Tall 4to. in colour printed stiff glossy card covers, 137pp on thick paper, index etc . [CONDITION: An extremely well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked and unread copy (merest hint of tanning to leaves) ] . . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers TN250444

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Tally of Types - with Additions by Several Hands
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052109786X
• ISBN-13: 9780521097864
• Einband: SOFTCOVER
• Auflage: 1st Edition Thus.
• Zustand: Fine

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Inhaltsangabe

The Tally of Types was first circulated in a privately printed edition in 1953, achieving a fame and influence wholly disproportionate to the comparatively small number of copies in existence. In 1973 Cambridge University Press published a version edited and expanded by Brooke Crutchley and others, making this classic of typographical history and practice available to a wider readership; it is this edition we have reprinted here. Stanley Morison provided the impetus and judgement behind the programme of typographical revival carried through by the Monotype Corporation in the 1920s and early 1930s. The Tally is an account, historical, critical and functional, of the types cut under Morison's direction during this period. It is an impressive performance: a fine example of what is now recognised as Morison's characteristic blend of erudition and insight. What started as no more than an attempt to record the facts developed, under his hand, into one of the major statements of typographical practice of its time.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.