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The design of library publications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

J.F.W. Bryon
J.F.W. Bryon*
Affiliation:
Department of Library and Information Studies, Liverpool Polytechnic
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Abstract

A survey of recommended principles and practice for the preparation of publications for the art library.

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Research Article
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Art Libraries Journal , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , Summer 1978 , pp. 28 - 40
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Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 1978

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(1) One remembers the late Stanley Snaith, former Librarian of Bethnal Green, and Edward Sydney, Librarian of Leytonstone.Google Scholar
(2) For this reason, one views with some misgivings the move to adopt a national library symbol.Google Scholar
(3) The present writer admits to a prejudice against ‘condensed’ or narrow type, as being relatively illegible.Google Scholar

Recommended reading: Type faces

Type specimen books of type founders and major printers.Google Scholar
Biggs, John R. An approach to type. Blandford Press, 1949.Google Scholar
Jaspert, W. Pinces et al. The encyclopaedia of type faces. 4th ed. Blandford Press, 1970.Google Scholar
Lieberman, J. Ben. Types of type faces, and how to recognise them. New York: Sterling Publishing Co., 1967 Google Scholar
Longyear, William. Type and lettering. 4th ed. Watson-Guptill Publications, 1966.Google Scholar

Design with type: Graphis annual: Penrose annual

Biggs, John R. The use of type. Blandford Press, 1954.Google Scholar
Jones, Herbert. Tvpe in action: a manual of elementary typographic layout. 2nd ed. Sidgwick and Jackson, 1950.Google Scholar
Lewis, John and Brinkley, John. Graphic design, with special reference to lettering, typography and illustration. Routledge, 1954.Google Scholar
Simon, Oliver. Introduction to typography. 2nd ed., by Bland, David. Faber, 1963.Google Scholar
Swann, Cal. Techniques of typography. Lund Humphries, 1969.Google Scholar