Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print
2 Volume Set
- Real Author: Stanley Morison
- Editor: David McKitterick
- Date Published: March 2010
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521184687
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During his long career Stanley Morison held appointments as typographical adviser to Cambridge University Press, to the Monotype Corporation, and to The Times, where he was responsible both for its radical new design in 1932 and for the standard history of the paper. These two volumes bring together the majority of his 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. It includes essays on letter-forms in manuscript and in print, beginning with those published in The Flueron in the 1920s, on typefaces in sixteenth-century Italy, on the development of Latin script, on the history of learned presses and on the typography of newspapers.
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- Date Published: March 2010
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521184687
- length: 581 pages
- dimensions: 325 x 250 x 68 mm
- weight: 1.67kg
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
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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