Selected Essays on the History of Letter-forms in Manuscript and Print 2 Volume Set

by Stanley Morison , Edited by David McKitterick

• ISBN13: 9780521184687
• ISBN10: 0521184681
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

During his long career Stanley Morison held appointments as typographical adviser to Cambridge University Press, to the Monotype Corporation, and to The Times, where he was responsible both for its radical new design in 1932 and for the standard history of the paper. These two volumes bring together the majority of his most lasting essays. Many of them, pioneering in their day, are now classics in their field. The collection, first published in 1980, spans a period of forty years. It includes essays on letter-forms in manuscript and in print, beginning with those published in The Flueron in the 1920s, on typefaces in sixteenth-century Italy, on the development of Latin script, on the history of learned presses and on the typography of newspapers.

Table of Contents

The art of printing

Towards an ideal roman type

The Chancery types of Italy and France

On script types

Towards an ideal italic

The italic types of Antonio Blado and Ludovico Arrighi

Decorated types

Leipzig as a centre of type-founding

Venice and the arabesque ornament

The development of handwriting: an outline

'Black-letter' text

Early humanistic script and the first roman type

Notes on the development of Latin script

Memorandum on a proposal to revise the typography of The Times

Supplement to the memorandum

The origins of the newspaper

The learned press as an institution

Marcello Cervini, Pope Marcellus II; bibliography's patron saint

Recollections and perspectives of D. B. Updike

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