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Printer's type in the twentieth century: Manufacturing and design methods [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Richard Southall (Author) "The first recognizable description of making printer's type is in the Dialogues francois pour les ieunes enfans, a French reader and childrens' encyclopaedia published by..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 238 pages
  • Publisher: British Library Publishing Division; illustrated edition edition (1 Mar 2005)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0712348123
  • ISBN-13: 978-0712348126
  • Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18 x 2.6 cm
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Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century traces the evolution of type manufacture and design from hand punch-cutting through hot-metal and photographic composition to laser image-setting and the PostScript revolution. The book takes a theoretical view of its topic.


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Richard Southall has been involved with type and typography since the early 1960s; in publishing, composing-machine manufacture and development, teaching, research and consultancy.
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The first recognizable description of making printer's type is in the Dialogues francois pour les ieunes enfans, a French reader and childrens' encyclopaedia published by Christopher Plantin in Antwerp in 1567. Read the first page
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