American wood type, 1828-1900; notes on the evolution of decorated and large types and comments on related trades of the period. / Rob Roy Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Rob Roy, 1925-2004.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Atha Tehon Thiras Art and Design Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type and type-founding--United States--History.

Type and type-founding.

Wood types (Printing)--History.

Wood types (Printing).

History.

Printing--United States--History.

Printing.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

350 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Wood type, 1828-1900.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Cincinnati ; Toronto : Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, [1969]

Contents:

Evolution f display types

The wood type industry in America during the 19th century

Wood type manufacture

Competition among the wood type manufacturers

Wood type styles

Chronological development of the wood type styles

Competition among the related trades

Epilogue to the wood types.

Notes:

"A Van Nostrand Reinhold Book."--Dust jacket.

"Designed by Rob Roy Kelly."--T.p. verso.

"Notes on the evolution of decorated and large types. 106 complete alphabets of wood type."--Dust jacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-342) and index.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has clipping of woodtype advertisement from the New Yorker June 1976 laid in.

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

OCLC:

21357