Main entry:

Twyman, Michael.

Title & Author:

The British Library guide to printing : history and techniques / Michael Twyman.

Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Description:

88 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Series:

The British Library guides

Notes:
Originally published: London : British Library, 1998.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-85) and index.
What is printing? Origination. Multiplication. Words and pictures. Printed artefacts -- Hand production. The invention in the Far East. The invention in Europe. Early printing. The monochrome book. The growth of illustration. Printing presses. Matching process to job -- Innovation and proliferation. New opportunities. Lithography: an entirely new process. Wood-engraving: pictures for mass markets. The search for verisimilitude. Colour printing becomes a necessity. New types for advertising. Speeding up production -- From analogue to digital. Letterpress gives way to lithography. Photocomposition. The digital revolution.

Summary:

"In this authoritative introduction, Michael Twyman focuses on printing methods and techniques, from the invention of printing in the Far East and in Europe to today's digital revolution, and how they have played a part in shaping their end product." "With over 60 colour and black-and-white illustrations, The British Library Guide to Printing: History and Techniques is one of a series of titles providing accessible and lively introductions to practical aspects of the history of books and how they are made."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0802081797
9780802081797

Subject:

Printing History.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Printing.
Drucken
Drucktechnik

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

British Library guides.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 210324
Call No.: Z124 .T9 1999
Status: Available