The art & practice of typography : a manual of American printing, including a brief history up to the twentieth century, with reproductions of the work of early masters of the craft, and a practical discussion and an extensive demonstration of the modern use of type-faces and methods of arrangement (1917)
Gress, Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger), 1872-1934, Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress) DLC, Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · New York : Oswald Pub. Co. · leaf 52
E] 7 ^H THE ORIGIN OF TYPOGRAPHY THE invention of typography in the fifteenth centurymarked the beginning of a new civilization and the endof the medieval thousand years. The Middle Ages maybe said to have begun with the capture of Rome by theVandals in 455 a.d. , and to have ended with the… … Printing with separate metal types, while involvinga new principle, was to some extent a development ofother methods. The evolution from manuscript booksto block books, and from block books to books printedfrom types occurred quietly in the natural courseof events;so quietly, indeed, that there is…
Printing · Graphic design (Typography) · Advertising layout and typography
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