An Introduction to the History of Printing Types. An Illustrated Summary of the Main Stages in the Development of Type Design from 1440 up to the Present Day. An Aid to Type Face Identification

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The British Library & Oak Knoll Press, London, UK/ New Castle, USA. 1998. xxiv, 277 pp. Black cloth in excellent dust jacket. Extensively illustrated. Copy as new! Divided into two sections, ’Book Types ”and” Display Types ”. The fonts presented chronologically and arranged according to characteristics. Then follows a detailed commentary to the illustrations with the documentation of the printing types. Part III of the series ”Primers for Students of Typography.” The other titles are: The ’Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type’, II ’Factors in the Choice of Typeface’.

For anyone who has an interest in type design, this book gives an invaluable knowledge of typefaces and their history and origin. Today, when computer aided design seems to make anything possible, there has never been a greater need to study the practical achievements of our predecessors.

This has always been a scarce book, but those who have been lucky to have access to a copy would surely agree with Alan Bartram who states in his foreword that he has ’found its admirably concise arrangement immensely useful’.