Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use Volume 1; A Study in Survivals

Daniel Berkeley Updike

ISBN 10: 1235946517 / ISBN 13: 9781235946516

Editore: RareBooksClub.com, 2012

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Titolo: Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and ...

Casa editrice: RareBooksClub.com

Data di pubblicazione: 2012

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: Like New

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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. 1922 Excerpt: ...very few words on the title-page (Jig. 83). Such an aesthetic writer as Winckelmann allowed his Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums to appear (at Dresden in 1764) in a very hideous and typical German character (fig. 84). If a well-known printer wrote and printed a book about printing, one would certainly expect him to execute it as well as he knew how; and perhaps Breitkopf did, but his quarto volume Ueber die Geschichte der Erfindung der Buchdruckerkunst, published at Leipsic in 1779, is printed on miserable paper, in ugly fraktur type, poorly composed--a volume such 1 Bilderatlas, 196. The introduction of the copper-plate marked a new epoch in book illustration, and wood-engraving declined with its increased adoption.... Woodcuts, headings, initials, tail-pieces, and printers' ornaments continued to be used in books of the seventeenth century, but greatly inferior in design and beauty of effect to those of the sixteenth century." Crane's Decorative Illustration of Books, London, 1896, pp. 129, 130. 'Bilderatlas, p. 207. 'Ibid., p. 209. "Ibid., p. 211. As to be hated needs but to be seen. At the end of the century, still lighter and weaker types and styles were in vogue. Lessing's Nathan der Weise in 1779l shows the general feebleness of taste. Herder's Briefe, published in 1793, shows the fraktur types which had come to be the fashion.2 As early as 1775 a general desire for light types had influenced the forms of fraktur itself, as in J. G. Jacobi's Iris, evidendy imitating--very unsuccessfully--contemporary French printing (fig. 85). Some of the pale, condensed fraktur used at this period was probably influenced by those French condensed poétique types made fashionable by Fournier and Luce. The attempt to imitate French work was also owing...