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American Proprietary Typefaces / David Pankow, ed.
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REF.TY.1079
176 pages, 38 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
1998
Typography, Private presses
This book provides a survey of typefaces intended for composition in metal for the use of an individual or press that were developed in America after 1892.
Contents: Introduction by David Pankow—Acknowledgments by Martin Hutner —A Note on American Arts and Crafts Typefaces by Susan Otis Thompson—On the Montaigne and Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers by Herbert H. Johnson—The Typefaces of Dard Hunter, Senior and Junior by Cathleen A. Baker— Frederic Warde, Stanley Morison, and the Arrighi Type by Mark Argetsinger—Joseph Blumenthal’s Spiral/Emerson Type by Jerry Kelly—Frederic Goudy’s Kaatskill Type by Dwight Agner—Victor Hammer’s Uncial Types by W. Gay Reading—The Experimental Types of W.A. Dwiggins by John Kristensen—Contemporary Private Types by Paul Hayden Duensing.
Contents: Introduction by David Pankow—Acknowledgments by Martin Hutner —A Note on American Arts and Crafts Typefaces by Susan Otis Thompson—On the Montaigne and Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers by Herbert H. Johnson—The Typefaces of Dard Hunter, Senior and Junior by Cathleen A. Baker— Frederic Warde, Stanley Morison, and the Arrighi Type by Mark Argetsinger—Joseph Blumenthal’s Spiral/Emerson Type by Jerry Kelly—Frederic Goudy’s Kaatskill Type by Dwight Agner—Victor Hammer’s Uncial Types by W. Gay Reading—The Experimental Types of W.A. Dwiggins by John Kristensen—Contemporary Private Types by Paul Hayden Duensing.