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Lettering on buildings.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA4050 .I5G7 1960
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gray, Nicolete, 1911-1997
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lettering.
- Architectural inscriptions.
- Signs and signboards.
- Physical Description:
- 191 pages illustrations 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, Reinhold Pub. Corp. 1960.
- Contents:
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Introductino: the classical theory of lettering
- The Roman letter
- Variatinos on the ROman: modern-face, fat, face compressed and expanded
- Sans-serif
- Egyptian
- Ionic or Clarendon
- Tuscan
- Lower-case or minuscule
- The fluid letter, black-letter, insular, uncial, Gothic majuscule
- Towards a comprehensive theory of lettering
- Fitness and th eexample of street lettering
- Expressionism in lettering
- Materials and design: 1. The three-dimensional letter; 2. Interaction
- Epilogue: lettering and the Modern movement
- Plates.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Gray, Nicolete, 1911-1997. Lettering on buildings.
- OCLC:
- 1579302
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