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Author | : Jerry Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Book design |
ISBN | : 9781605830940 |
The story of a foundational aspect of publishing, from Gutenberg's press to today's digital type. It's common knowledge that the name Gutenberg and the words "moveable type" go together. What's far less known is that Garamond, Baskerville, and Bodoni aren't just font options in a word processing dropdown menu, but the names of some of the real punchcutters and type designers who raised the essential work of typography to the level of art. One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club's prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg's ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly's book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing.
Author | : Henry Watson Kent |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2019-12-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This is a collection of bibliographical notes on old books. The author's relations with the printer or publisher, the success or failure of the books, topics of illustration, and marked irregularities of editions, issues or volumes are discussed in this volume. It covers famous works of influential writers like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe Sidney and many more.
Author | : Anonymous |
Publisher | : Applewood Books |
Total Pages | : 129 |
Release | : 1986-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0918222842 |
Presents an account, first published in 1622, of the Pilgrim's journey to the new world.
Author | : The Grolier Club |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-08-09 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781500783259 |
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them.
Author | : Alan Bartram |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : |
This study of five centuries of book designs looks at the successes and failures, and examines some classics of layout and production from Western Europe and America.
Author | : Grolier Club |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 1903 |
Genre | : Best books |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Fleur Jaeggy |
Publisher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 83 |
Release | : 2019-10-29 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0811229041 |
On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.
Author | : Chris Loker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | : 9781567926569 |
From The Tale of Rabbit (1901) to Last Stop on Market Street (2015), each of the one hundred books is presented with fascinating stories of its publication history and biographies of the creators. On the facing page, a cover and inside spread will bring back memories of the time when, sitting in a classroom or on a lap, someone read you a book and opened up your world.
Author | : Stephen Coles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Design |
ISBN | : 9780500292457 |
The Geometry of Type explores 100 traditional and modern typefaces in detail, with a full spread devoted to each entry. Characters from each typeface are enlarged and annotated to reveal key features, anatomical details, and the finer, often-overlooked elements of type design, which shows how these attributes affect mood and readability. Sidebar information lists the designer and foundry, the year of release and the different weights and styles available, while feature boxes explain the origins and best uses for each typeface, such as whether it is suitable for running text or as a display font for headlines. To help the reader spot each typeface in the wider world, the full character set is shown, and the best letters for identification are highlighted. This beautiful and highly practical work of reference for font spotters, designers and users is a close-up celebration of typefaces and great type design.
Author | : Sidney E. Berger |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 575 |
Release | : 2023-01-16 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1538151332 |
Named a Library Journal Best Reference of 2023 - From Library Journal's Starred Review: "This ambitious and entertaining update solidifies Berger’s volume as a must-have title for librarians, booksellers, collectors, and students of the book arts and book history." This new edition of The Dictionary of the Book adds more than 700 new entries and many new illustrations and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality. The definitive glossary of the book covers all the terms needed for a thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term—more than 2,000—that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge, including: The book as physical object Typeface terminology Paper terminology Printing Book collecting Cataloging Book design Bibliography as a discipline, bibliographies, and bibliographical description Physical Condition and how to describe it Calligraphy Language of manuscripts Writing implements Librarianship Legal issues Parts of a book Book condition terminology Pricing of books Buying and selling Auctions Items one will see an antiquarian book fairs Preservation and conservation issues, and the notion of restoration Key figures, presses / publishers, and libraries in the history of books Book collecting clubs and societies How to read and decipher new and old dealers’ catalogs And much more The Dictionary also contains an extensive bibliography—more than 1,000 key readings in the book world and it gives current (and past) definitions of terms whose meaning has shifted over the centuries. More than 200 images accompany the entries, making the work even more valuable for understanding the terms described.