Type & typography : highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mark Batty, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding--History.

Type and type-founding.

History.

Type designers--History.

Type designers.

Printing--History.

Printing.

Penn Provenance:

Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 374 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Type and typography

Place of Publication:

West New York, N.J. : Mark Batty, Publisher, 2003.

Summary:

This is the first title in a planned series of anthologies drawing on the archives of Matrix, the renowned journal produced for over 20 years by John and Rose Randle at 'The Whittington Press'. It will be an essential purchase for printers, typographers and bibliophiles.

Contents:

Logic, lucidity, and Mr. Morison / Brooke Crutchley

The typographical importance of Maximilien Vox / John Dreyfus

Victor Hammer / Sebastian Carter

Eric Gill's Typography examined / Christopher Skelton

The types of Jan van Krimpen / Sebastian Carter

On preparing designs for monotype faces / Jan van Krimpen

Making a visible spirit : cutting the regulus punches by hand / Dan Carr

A type for all seasons / Alan Dodson

The compleat Caslon / Justin Howes

Type for books, and books for type / Sebastian Carter

Types for books at Cambridge, 1923-45 / Brooke Crutchley

Eric Gill and the Golden Cockerel type / James Mosley

A note on the Golden Cockerel type / Christopher Sandford

Saving face : the ITC Golden Cockerel type / Roderick Cave

Two Oxford Bible types / Paul Luna

An unexpected legacy, and its contribution to early Indian typography / Fiona Ross and Graham Shaw

The Colum Cille Irish type / Dermot McGuinne

The Oxford University Press and Robert Proctor's Greek types / J.F. Coakley

John Johnson and the Treyford type / Peter Foden

Letters are things : the wood-engraved initials of Eric Gill / Sebastian Carter

Bishop Fell's overlooked bequest in the OUP Museum / Peter Foden

Borders and swelled rules designed by Edward Bawden for the Oxford University Press / Michael Johnson

A collection of printers' flowers / Mark Arman

Creating printers' flowers / David Bethel

Cutting a new music type / Stan Nelson

The setting of plainchant / Sister Valerie Cryer

The printing of mathematics / David Wishart

Some notes on the design of poetry / Sebastian Carter

On printing poetry aloud / Glenn Storhaug

How far the abracadabra / Philip Gallo

Sans serif / Richard Kennedy

'Seems to see with his fingers' : the printing of Joyce's Ulysses / Glenn Storhaug

El Lissitzky 1914-1924 : 'Prouns' to 'Die Kunstismen' / Adela Spindler Roatcap

Edward Johnston and letter spacing / Colin Banks

The dust-jacket designs of Hermann Zapf / Jerry Kelly.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.

Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck copy has dust jacket. 4 circulars for Mark Batty books laid in.

ISBN:

0971568766

0972424083

OCLC:

51770165