Typologia : studies in type design & type making, with comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing / Frederic W. Goudy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goudy, Frederic W. (Frederic William), 1865-1947, author.

Contributor:

University of California Press, 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.

Legibility (Printing).

Printing--History.

Printing.

Genre:

Specimens.

History.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

xviii, [2], 170, [2] pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First paperback edition

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1977, 1940.

Contents:

By Way of Explanation

Books Before Printing

The First Types

The Force of Tradition

What Type Is

The Story of a Type

The Design of Types

The Designer's Problem

Details of Construction

Making the Patterns

Matrix Engraving

Legibility of Type

Fine Printing.

Notes:

Reprint of the 1940 edition published by University of California, Berkeley.

Local Notes:

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

ISBN:

0520033086

9780520033085

0520032780

9780520032781

OCLC:

3840896