Main entry:

Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941.

Title & Author:

Printing types, their history, forms, and use : a study in survivals / by Daniel Berkeley Updike.

Edition:

2nd edition.

Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, 1980.

Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Reprint of the second edition: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1937.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
V. 1. The invention of printing : the cutting and casting of types in relation to their design -- A font of type and its case : the typographical point : point-set and lining types -- The Latin alphabet and its development up to the invention of printing -- Types of the fifteenth century in Germany -- Types of the fifteenth century in Italy -- Types of the fifteenth century in France -- Types of the fifteenth century in Netherlands-Holland and Belgium -- Types of the fifteenth century in Spain -- Types of the fifteenth century in England -- The Aldine italic -- A word on type specimens -- German types : 1500-1800 -- Italian types : 1500-1800 -- French types : 1500-1800.

ISBN:

0486239284 (paperback ; volume 1)
9780486239286 (paperback ; volume 1)
0486239292 (paperback ; volume 2)
9780486239293 (paperback ; volume 2)

Subject:

Type and type-founding.
Printing History.
Printing Specimens.
Imprimerie Histoire.
Imprimerie Spécimens.
Printing.
Typografie.
Letters.

Form/genre:

History.
Specimens.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 108666
Call No.: PO7682; ID:86-B21888
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main 108665
Call No.: PO7682; ID:86-B21888
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available