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The Development of Printing as an Art; A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor of the Bi-Centenary of Franklin's Birth Held at the Boston Public Library Under the Auspices of the Society of Printers

The Development of Printing as an Art; A Handbook of the Exhibiton in Honor of the Bi-Centenary of Franklin's Birth Held at the Boston Public Library Under the Auspices of the Society of Printers


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906. Excerpt: ... MODERN BOOK-PRINTING c. 1800-1905 Though the division of printing into periods is more or less arbitrary, modern book-printing is here considered as beginning with the introduction of the socalled modern-faced types; roughly speaking about 1800. During the last part of the eighteenth century the Old Style Caslon forms of type became more and more refined, --a progression shown in the specimen sheets of Baskerville and of Moore of Bristol, who afterward became foreman to the Frys, and in such types as were used by Bulmer at The Shakespeare Press (see Dept. B, under Bulmer). An impetus to the use of very light type had been given by the delicate engraved work of Thomas Bewick as early as 1780. Meanwhile in Italy, Bodoni of Parma; in France, Didot; and in England and Scotland, Whittingham and Constable, were all working on the same lines. In 1811, when Didot cut his modern types on a point system, based on metric measurements, this fashion was well under way. The weakness of much of this type was, however, soon felt; the reaction from which may be seen in the exaggerated black types cut by Jacquemin in 1818 and the ugly variations of them cut at London in the same year. In 1844 a sounder taste was encouraged by the return to the old-face fonts by The Chiswick Press, which in the Diary of Lady Willoughby reintroduced these admirable types to the booklover. From that time to the present day, excellent work has been done in these types by all the leading presses; and in the best of the modernfaced type under the name of Scotch-face--a revival abroad due chiefly to Constable and other printers in Scotland and to one or two Presses in this country. In 1891 a marked influence was felt from the books which William Morris began to print at The Kelmscott Press...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217679497
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217679498
  • Publisher Date: 31 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 68 gr


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