This work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons it contains. The original two-volume set has been combined into one hardbound book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in ...
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This work explores the art of typography from the dawn of printing to the twentieth century. By tracing the development of type design, Updike discusses the importance of each historic period and the lessons it contains. The original two-volume set has been combined into one hardbound book containing the original 367 typographical illustrations selected from rare and beautiful books. In Volume I, Mr. Updike discusses the Latin alphabet, the invention of printing, the cutting and casting of types, fifteenth-century types in Germany, Italy, France, Spain, and England as well as German, Italian, and French types of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Volume II continues the discussion of types to the beginning of the nineteenth century and then describes American types and nineteenth-century types in general. This work is the third edition, reprinted with new introduction by Martin Hutner. Co-published with The British Library. Over 367 typographical illustrations
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Add this copy of Printing Types Their History, Forms and Use to cart. $20.00, good condition, Sold by Book Alley rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pasadena, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Belknap Press.
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Good. *** Volume 1 only *** Second Printing of Third Printing. Lightly used with NO markings in text; binding is tight. Light sunning to text block edges. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.
Add this copy of Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study to cart. $20.40, good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
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Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published:
1966
Language:
English
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16621319141
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Good in very good jacket. Volume one only. Second printing of the third edition, 1966. Cloth hardcover in dust jacket, 292 pp., Good ex-library copy with typical marks (stamps, bookplate removal, etc. ) in Very Good dust jacket, age-toning to the page-edges, a bit of age-toning to the dust jacket, rubbing and light wear to the dust jacket. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Add this copy of Printing Types, Their History, Forms and Use: a Study to cart. $30.00, very good condition, Sold by Autumn Leaves rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Allentown, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1951 by Harvard Univ Press.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. A nice copy of Volume II of the second edition, looking for its mate. The book is bound in dark red boards. The titles on the spine are faded, but the boards show little wear. There is a name on the front flyleaf, but no markings in the text. The pages are lightly age-toned. The illustrations are crisp and wonderful. Fast shipping worldwide.
Add this copy of Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study to cart. $33.01, very good condition, Sold by Paul Brown Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ramsgate, UNITED KINGDOM, published by -BiblioBazaar (2009)-.
Add this copy of Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use: 2 to cart. $34.01, good condition, Sold by Plum Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Roseville, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Cambridge University Press.
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2 hardcover volumes in dust jackets, chips and tears in dust jackets, original owner's name on endpapers, foxing (yellowing/spotting)to edges. Faintly musty smell. Pages clean and unmarked. INV#P-2 g/g.
Add this copy of Printing Types (2 Volumes) Their History, Forms, and to cart. $35.00, very good condition, Sold by Glover's Bookery, ABAA rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lexington, KY, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by Belknap Press of Harvard University.
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Very Good with no dust jacket. 8vo 8"-9" tall Both Volumes I and II. Ex-library with the usual marks. These volumes show very little wear, the cloth is in excellent condition, the lettering on the spine readable and crisp, the hinges are in wonderful shape. The back panel of the DJ is attached to the front paste down each volume. These volumes are nice and tight and show very little wear.
Add this copy of Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use (Two to cart. $45.00, good condition, Sold by Moe's Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Berkeley, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1966 by The Belknap Press of Harvard University.
Add this copy of Printing Types Their History, Forms, and Use 2 Volumes to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by Nilbog Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Portland, ME, UNITED STATES, published 1937 by Harvard University Press.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. 1st Printing. This is the 2 Volume 2nd Edition (1st printing). Volume 1 has a good dust jacket with some wear at the edges. Volume 2 has No dust jacket. Both volumes have penciled notes on the rear endpapers but easily erased. Both vokumes also have former owner's names neatly written on the front endpapers. There are also ghost images of papers having beel laid in on the front endpapers of both volumes. A very nice, clean, tight set of the 2nd edition.
Add this copy of Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study to cart. $57.32, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by BiblioBazaar.
Add this copy of Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use; a Study to cart. $59.39, new condition, Sold by Revaluation Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Exeter, DEVON, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2009 by BiblioBazaar.
