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Publication
Boston, Massachusetts, USA : David R. Godine, 1986.
Description
All lettering is produced for a purpose. It is thus a reflection of the society producing it. In this comprehensive book, Nicolete Gray puts lettering back into its cultural context, demonstrating how it changes in relation to western art and society and providing examples of lettering from a broad spectrum of techniques and sources.
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Physical description
256 p.; 25.3 cm
ISBN
0879236124 / 9780879236120
Copy notes
First printing.
Contents: The origins of the Roman alphabet -- The Roman world : the first three centuries AD -- The Christian empire : the mid-fourth to the mid-sixth century -- Contributions for the new people : focus on the far north west -- The Carolingian renaissance -- Starting again : the mid-tenth to the mid-eleventh century -- A time of experiment : the Romanesque -- A new alphabet : the Gothic capital -- The fifteenth century and the Italian revolution -- A time of division : 1500-1650 -- The triumph of the classical -- The advent of commercial letter-design -- Experiment unlimited : 1870-1910 -- Yesterday and today.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
"Typeset in 9 point Palatino..."
Medium brown and multicolor pictorial dust jacket over black cloth-covered boards, yellow and black endbands.
Previous owner's name in black felt ink on upper right of first free endpaper. Light rubbing on edges of boards. Chips at head and foot of dust jacket. Dust jacket in Mylar.
Contents: The origins of the Roman alphabet -- The Roman world : the first three centuries AD -- The Christian empire : the mid-fourth to the mid-sixth century -- Contributions for the new people : focus on the far north west -- The Carolingian renaissance -- Starting again : the mid-tenth to the mid-eleventh century -- A time of experiment : the Romanesque -- A new alphabet : the Gothic capital -- The fifteenth century and the Italian revolution -- A time of division : 1500-1650 -- The triumph of the classical -- The advent of commercial letter-design -- Experiment unlimited : 1870-1910 -- Yesterday and today.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-235) and index.
"Typeset in 9 point Palatino..."
Medium brown and multicolor pictorial dust jacket over black cloth-covered boards, yellow and black endbands.
Previous owner's name in black felt ink on upper right of first free endpaper. Light rubbing on edges of boards. Chips at head and foot of dust jacket. Dust jacket in Mylar.
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