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Type for books and advertising / Eugene M. Ettenberg.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection Art and Design Z250.A2 E8 1992
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ettenberg, Eugene M., 1903-1992.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Type and type-founding.
- Printing--History.
- Printing.
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 160 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 31 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : The Sarabande Press, 1992.
- Contents:
- The tools of the typographer
- Type anatomy and the four classes of type
- Type families and their cousins and their aunts
- Typographic niceties
- Recognizing typefaces
- Marking type layouts
- Period typography: 15th century typography; 16th century typography; 17th century typography; 18th century typography; 19th century typography
- Masters of typography in the 20th century
- 20 type men speak
- Modern typography: making the better book or advertisement; Books for the type man; Glossary of typeface terminology and the more common printing terms.
- Notes:
- Originally published by Van Nostrand in 1947.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy has label "From the Sarabande Press in the holiday season 1991" affixed to front pastedown.
- Tehon Collection copy has [1] leaf "Season's Greetings" laid in.
- OCLC:
- 50121283
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