Twentieth century type designers / Sebastian Carter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carter, Sebastian, author.

Contributor:

Taplinger Publishing Company, publisher.

Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Type designers--Biography.

Type designers.

Type and type-founding--History--20th century.

Type and type-founding.

History.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

168 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Taplinger Publishing Company, 1987.

Contents:

Old types for new machines

The designers

Frederic W. Goudy

Bruce Rogers

Rudolf Koch

William Addison Dwiggins

Eric Gill

Victor Hammer

Stanley Morison

Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig

Jan van Krimpen

Georg Trump

Joseph Bluemnthal

Robert Hunter Middleton

Jan Tschichold

Berthold Wolpe

Roger Excoffon

New types for newer machines

Hermann Zapf

Adrian Frutiger

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

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

Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dustjacket. Invoice for book laid in.

ISBN:

0800879163 :

OCLC:

16306974