Printing types : their history, forms, and use; a study in survivals; Volume 1 / by Daniel Berkeley Updike

Identifier:REF.TS.0524

Dimensions:292 p. : illus., facsims.; 25 cm

Creation dates:1962

Copyright dates:1922

published by: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Oxford University Press

Subjects: Graphic design (Typography) -- History., Printing -- History., Type and type-founding -- History., Type and type-founding -- Specimens.

Library of Congress Subject Headings:Graphic design (Typography)--History, Printing--History, Type and type-founding--History

Description:Chronicles the history of type and printing in two volumes. Volume One (this volume) includes a section on the history of printing, with separate sections on type originating in fifteenth century Germany, Italy, France, Holland, Belgium, Spain, and England. Also includes sections chronicling the evolution of type from the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries in Germany, Italy, and France. Third edition.