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035 _a(OCoLC)1032588725
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050 4 _aZ4
_b.B637 2019
100 1 _aBoardley, John,
245 1 0 _aTypographic firsts :
_badventures in early printing /
_cJohn Boardley.
264 1 _aOxford :
_bBodleian Library,
_c2019.
264 4 _c©2019.
300 _a192 pages :
_billustrations (chiefly color) ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent.
336 _astill image
_bsti
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 175-185) and index.
520 8 _aHow were the first fonts made? Who invented italics? When did we figure out how to print in color? Many of the standard features of printed books were designed by pioneering typographers and printers in the latter half of the fifteenth century. Johannes Gutenberg is credited with printing the first books in Europe with moveable type in the fifteenth century, but many different European printers and publishers went on to find innovative solutions to replicate the appearance of manuscript books in print and improve on them throughout the Renaissance. The illustrated examples in 'Typographic Firsts' originate in those early decades, bringing into focus the influences and innovations that shaped the printed book and established a Western typographic canon. From the practical challenges of polychromatic printing and sheet music printing to the techniques for illustrating books with woodcuts and producing books for children to the design of the first fonts, these stories chart the invention of the printed book, the world?s first means of mass communication. Also covering title pages, maps, printing in gold, and printing in color, this book shows how a mixture of happenstance and brilliant technological innovation came together to form the typographic and design conventions of the book.
650 0 _aPrinting
_xHistory
_xOrigin and antecedents.
999 _c236519
_d236519