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Author: Warren Chappell
Publisher: Point Roberts, WA ; Vancouver : Hartley & Marks Publishers
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780881791549
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work makes plain the evolution, impact and development of the printed word as we know it. Covering the earliest forms of the letters of the alphabet, to graphic technology today, this revised edition should appeal to designers, students and typophiles.
Author: Warren Chappell
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 4
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 244
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arthur B. Langlie
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Published: 2013-02
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 9781258559502
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry R. Plomer
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-03-22
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780365246039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcerpt from A Short History of English Printing: 1476-1898 Reed's admirable work, A History of the Old Englis/i Leiier Fonna'ries, written from a differ ent standpoint, to serve as a guide. His own researches at the Record Office have enabled Mr. Plomer to enlarge considerably our know ledge of the printers at work during the second half of the seventeenth century, but when the State made up its mind to leave the printers alone, even this source of information lapses, and the pioneer has to gather What he may from the imprints in books which come under his hand, from notices of a. Few individual printers, and stray anecdotes and memoranda. Through this almost pathless forest Mr. Plomer has threaded his way, and though the road he has made may be broken and imperfect, the fact that a road exists, which they can widen and mend, will be of incalculable advantage to all students of printing. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: John Nichols
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2011-03-21
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 184467679X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPolitical reporter Nichols argues that socialism has a long, proud American history. This short, irreverent book gives Americans back a crucial part of their history and makes a forthright case for socialist ideas today.
Author: Lee Palmer Wandel
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2015-10-14
Total Pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9004305203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReading Catechisms, Teaching Religion makes two broad arguments. First, the sixteenth century witnessed a fundamental transformation in Christians’, Catholic and Evangelical, conceptualization of the nature of knowledge of Christianity and the media through which that knowledge was articulated and communicated. Christians had shared a sense that knowledge might come through visions, images, liturgy; catechisms taught that knowledge of ‘Christianity’ began with texts printed on a page. Second, codicil catechisms sought not simply to dissolve the material distinction between codex and person, but to teach catechumens to see specific words together as texts. The pages of catechisms were visual—they confound precisely that constructed modern bipolarity, word/image, or, conversely, that modern bipolarity obscures what sixteenth-century catechisms sought to do.
Author: Kate Brideau
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2021-10-19
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 0262365626
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn innovative examination of typography as a medium of communication rather than part of print or digital media. Typography is everywhere and yet widely unnoticed. When we read type, we fail to see type. In this book, Kate Brideau considers typography not as part of "print media" or "digital media" but as a medium of communication itself, able to transcend the life and death of particular technologies. Examining the contradiction between typographic form (often overlooked) and function (often overpowering), Brideau argues that typography is made up not of letters but of shapes, and that shape is existentially and technologically central to the typographic medium. After considering what constitutes typographic form, Brideau turns to typographic function and how it relates to form. Examining typography's role in both the neurological and psychological aspects of reading, she argues that typography's functions exceed reading; typographic forms communicate, but that communication is not limited to the content they carry. To understand to what extent the design and operations of the typographic medium affect the way we perceive information, Brideau warns, we must understand the medium's own operational logic, embodied in the full diversity of typographic forms. Brideau discusses a range of topics--from intellectual property protection for typefaces to Renaissance and Enlightenment ideal letterforms--and draws on a wide variety of theoretical work, including phenomenological ideas about comprehension, German media archaeology, and the media and communication theories of Vilém Flusser and others. Hand-drawn illustrations of typographic forms accompany the text.
Author: Robert Bartlett Harmon
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780810835405
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains information on the compilation of enumerative and analytical bibliographies, the use of electronic help to search out bibliographic material, career opportunities in the fields related to bibliographic study, the future of bibliography, and the history of the creation of bibliographies. This new edition has been revised to take into account the impact of computer technology and new media practices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0192898132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study provides one of the most detailed and comprehensive examinations ever devoted to a critical transformation in the material substance of the printed page; it carries out this exploration in the history of the book, moreover, by embedding these typographical changes in the context of other cultural phenomena in eighteenth-century Britain. The gradual abandonment of pervasive capitalization, italics, and caps and small caps in books printed in London, Dublin, and the American colonies between 1740 and 1780 is mapped in five-year increments which reveal that the appearance of the modern page in English began to emerge around 1765. This descriptive and analytical account focuses on poetry, classical texts, Shakespeare, contemporary plays, the novel, the Bible, the Book of Common Prayer, sermons and religious writings, newspapers, magazines, anthologies, government publications, and private correspondence; it also examines the reading public, canon formation, editorial theory and practice, and the role of typography in textual interpretation. These changes in printing conventions are then compared to other aspects of cultural change: the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752, the publication of Johnson's Dictionary in 1755, the transformation of shop signs and the imposition of house numbers in London beginning in 1762, and the evolution of the English language and of English prose style. This study concludes that this fundamental shift in printing conventions was closely tied to a pervasive interest in refinement, regularity, and standardization in the second half of the century--and that it was therefore an important component in the self-conscious process of modernizing British culture.
