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Palatino : the natural history of a typeface / Robert Bringhurst.
LIBRA - Vilain-Wieck Collection Book Club of California 157
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bringhurst, Robert, author.
- Series:
- Publication (Book Club of California) ; no. 235.
- Book Club of California publication ; number 235
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Palatino type.
- Type and type-founding--Specimens.
- Type and type-founding.
- Type and type-founding--History.
- Printing--Specimens.
- Printing.
- Printing--History.
- Letterpress printing--History.
- Letterpress printing.
- Graphic design (Typography)--History.
- Graphic design (Typography).
- type specimens (documents).
- Genre:
- History
- Specimens
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Aldus Buchschrift.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Palatino Sans.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Palatino.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Zapf Renaissance Italic.
- Typefaces (Type evidence) -- Aldus.
- Physical Description:
- 292 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm + 2 pamphlets.
- Other Title:
- Natural history of a typeface
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, California : The Book Club of California, 2016.
- Summary:
- "Provides a detailed ... history of the evolution of all members of the Palatino tribe: Foundry Palatino, Linotype Palatino, Michelangelo, Sistina, Aldus, Heraklit, Phidias, American Palatino, Enge Aldus, Linofilm Palatino, Zapf Renaissance, PostScript Palatino, Palatino Nova, Aldus Nova, and Palatino Sans. It includes new specimens of the foundry and Linotype faces printed by hand directly from the metal, as well as hundreds of color illustrations documenting the artistry and care expended in creating these components of our typographic heritage."--Publisher's website.
- Contents:
- From Medici to Michaelangelo
- Haraklit, Aldus, and American Palatino
- The retreat to two dimensions
- Lyricism reborn
- Digital linotype
- Aldus Nova and Palatino Nova
- Palatino Unserifed
- The ecology of letterforms.
- Notes:
- "This book was designed and (except for the letterpress pages) set in type by Robert Bringhurst. The foundry type ... was handset in Stamford, Connecticut by Jerry Kelly. The Linotype metal was set by Davin Kuntze at the Woodside Press in Brooklyn, Jim Daggs at Ackley Publishing in Ackley, Iowa, and Michael Babcock at Linotypesetting in Allston, Massachusetts. The main text and illustrations were printed by five-color offset lithography at C&C (Zhōnghuá shāngwù cǎisè yìnshuā) in Shēnzhèn, Guǎngdong, on paper from the Yùlóng (Jade Dragon) mill in Lóngkǒu, Shāndōng. The letterpress portions were printed in Stamford, Connecticut, by Jerry Kelly on Mohawk Superfine, made in Waterford, New York. The principal type faces are Aldus Buchschrift and Palatino Sans. The type on the title page is foundry Palatino, Zapf Renaissance italic, and Aldus. There are three hundred copies, each numbered and signed by the author, and an additional twenty-five copies hors de commerce, lettered B-Z."--Colophon.
- Issued in slipcase.
- Inserts: Each copy contains two additional specimens of printed letterpress by Richard Seibert, one from polymer plates, the other from handset Heraklit loaned for this purpose by Norman McKnight.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-288) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Bound in full navy blue cloth, with two-color typographic endpapers and a two-color letterpress titling label; slipcased.
- Book Club of California 157: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck. In slipcase with the two letterpress printed pamphlets.
- ISBN:
- 9780981959788
- 0981959784
- OCLC:
- 951065960
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