Printing types : their history, forms, and use / by Daniel Berkeley Updike.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding--History.

Type and type-founding.

History.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Printing--Specimens.

Genre:

Specimens.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Fourth edition, expanded.

Place of Publication:

New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, [2001]

Contents:

I. The Invention of Printing: The Cutting and Casting of Types in Relation to Their Design 3

II. A Font of Type and its Case: The Typographical Point: Point-Set and Lining Types 15

III. The Latin Alphabet and its Development up to the Invention of Printing 38

IV. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Germany 58

V. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Italy 70

VI. Types of the Fifteenth Century in France 82

VII. Types of the Fifteenth Century in the Netherlands

Holland and Belgium 93

VIII. Types of the Fifteenth Century in Spain 99

IX. Types of the Fifteenth Century in England 113

X. The Aldine Italic 125

XI. A Word on Type Specimens 133

XII. German Types: 1500-1800

I. Examples of German Printing 139

1. XVI Century 139

2. XVII Century 146

3. XVIII Century 147

II. German Foundries and Specimens 149

XIII. Italian Types: 1500-1800

I. Examples of Italian Printing 159

1. XVI Century 159

2. XVII Century 165

3. XVIII Century 170

II. Italian Foundries and Specimens 179

XIV. French Types: 1500-1800

I. Examples of French Printing 188

1. XVI Century 192

2. XVII Century 205

3. XVIII Century 213

II. Royal Types and the Imprimerie Royale 233

III. The Fournier Family 248

IV. French Foundries and Specimens 266

Notes to Volume I of This Edition 277

XV. Types of the Netherlands: 1500-1800

I. The Work of the Plantin Press 3

II. The Elzevir Editions 15

III. Other Examples of Netherlands Printing 23

1. XVI Century 24

2. XVII Century 28

3. XVIII Century 32

IV. Netherlands Foundries and Specimens 35

XVI. Spanish Types: 1500-1800

I. Examples of Spanish Printing 45

1. XVI Century 60

2. XVII Century 67

3. XVIII Century 70

II. Spanish Foundries and Specimens 80

XVII. English Types: 1500-1800

I. From Pynson to William Caslon 88

II. William Caslon and the Caslon Foundry 101

III. John Baskerville 107

IV. Wilson, Fry, Martin, and Other Founders 116

V. Examples of English Printing 124

1. XVI Century 125

2. XVII Century 130

3. XVIII Century 133

XVIII. Types Used in the American Colonies, and Some Early American Specimens 149

XIX. Nineteenth Century "Classical" Types. Bodoni and the Didots

I. The "Classical" Movement 159

II. Giambattista Bodoni 163

III. The Didot Family 176

IV. Nineteenth Century French Foundries and Specimens 181

XX. English Types: 1800-1844 188

XXI. Revival of Caslon and Fell Types 198

XXII. English and American Revival of Early Type-Forms and its Effect on Continental Types

I. England and the United States 202

II. The Continent 219

XXIII. The Choice of Types for a Composing-Room 226

XXIV. Industrial Conditions of the Past and Their Relation to the Printer's Problem To-Day

II. Early Conditions in the French Printing Industry 247

III. Some Sixteenth Century Labour Troubles 253

IV. Printing at Paris in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries 258

V. The Censorship 266

VI. Rate of Production, Hours of Labour, Etc. 270.

Notes:

"With 367 illustrations."

Originally published: 3rd ed. Cambridge, Mass : Belknap Press, 1962. With new pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1584560568

1584560606

OCLC:

47126734