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Title: A Short History of the Printed Word by Warren Chappell, Robert Bringhurst ISBN: 0881791547 Publisher: Hartley & Marks Publishers Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67
Rating: 4
Summary: a must read
Comment: The book is a great source of information. The 4 (not 5) stars is given cause the book is filled with postscript errors (missing letters, ligatures replaced by spaces, accented glyphs...). Disapointing for a book about typography.
Rating: 5
Summary: What Historians Don't Know
Comment: Among graphic designers, one of the finest, most popular books in recent years is Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style (Hartley & Marks, 1992). In this book, Bringhurst revisits a classic history of typography, publication design and printing techniques that was originally produced in 1970 by Chappell (1904-1991), a book designer, illustrator and author who had studied with Rudolf Koch. Of eleven highly readable chapters, all were written by Chappell, with the exception of the last on "The Digital Revolution and the Close of the Twentieth Century." Why reissue Chappell's book? As Bringhurst explains in the preface, "He knew some of the things that historians know, but mostly he knew what historians don't know. I wanted the names and dates set straight, insofar as possible, and yet to hear the story told as Chappell told it, from a workbench rather than a keyboard, with silences in place of self-advertisements, and graver marks and acid stains in place of any footnotes." (Review copyright 2000 by Roy R. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review 15, No. 4, Summer.)
Rating: 5
Summary: Chappell's "Short History" is Lively and Thorough
Comment: A thoroughly enjoyable read on the people, places, and things that make up the history of type and publishing. Warren Chappell's book was revised and appended by noted author Robert Bringhurst and this book is the perfect complement to Bringhurst's own "Elements of Typographic Style". The content is alive with names, significant facts, technological contributions, and lots of good illustrations. This is an amazing book that is well-written and historically significant, and the authors fill in all of the gaps on the history of type and printing. The short history they describe is concise and thorough. The only disappointment is Bringhurst's final chapter on "The Digital Evolution and the Close of the Twentieth Century", where he completely overlooks the significant contributions of the people and technologies in the digital age and opts instead to explore the work of a few small private presses. Also, how can one brief summary chapter hope to describe the accomplishments of the last thirty years? Sadly, Bringhurst missed a real opportunity to provide a keen insight on the digital revolution and its impact on the printed word. All the same, this is a "must have" book for typographers, type designers, and typophiles.
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Title: The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst ISBN: 0881791326 Publisher: Hartley & Marks Publishers Pub. Date: 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein ISBN: 0521447704 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: April, 1993 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Scribes and Illuminators (Medieval Craftsmen Series) by Christopher De Hamel ISBN: 0802077072 Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr Pub. Date: July, 1992 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Anatomy of a Typeface by Alexander Lawson ISBN: 0879233338 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Typographers on Type: An Illustrated Anthology from William Morris to the Present Day by Ruari McLean ISBN: 0393702014 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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