Selected Essays on the History of Letter Forms in Manuscript and - Print 2 Volume Se

Klappentext These two volumes bring together the majority of Stanley Morison's most lasting essays. Zusammenfassung These two volumes bring together the majority of Stanley Morison's most lasting essays. Many of them! pioneering in their day! are now classics in their field. The collection! first published in 1980! spans a period of forty years and includes essays on letter-forms in manuscript and in print. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume I: 1. The art of printing; 2. Towards an ideal roman type; 3. The Chancery types of Italy and France; 4. On script types; 5. Towards an ideal italic; 6. The italic types of Antonio Blado and Ludovico Arrighi; 7. Decorated types; 8. Leipzig as a centre of type-founding; 9. Venice and the arabesque ornament; 10. The development of handwriting: an outline; 11. 'Black-letter' text; 12. Early humanistic script and the first roman type; 13. Notes on the development of Latin script; Volume II: 14. Memorandum on a proposal to revise the typography of The Times; 15. Supplement to the memorandum; 16. The origins of the newspaper; 17. The learned press as an institution; 18. Marcello Cervini! Pope Marcellus II; bibliography's patron saint; 19. Recollections and perspectives of D. B. Updike.

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• Authors: Stanley Morison, Morison Stanley
• Assisted by: David Mckitterick (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.10.2009
• EAN: 9780521184687
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18468-7
• No. of pages: 581
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Interior design, design; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism