Anatomy Of a Typeface

by Lawson, Alexander

Anatomy of a Typeface is a book on typefaces written by Alexander Lawson. The book is notable for devoting entire chapters to the development and uses of individual or small groupings of typefaces. Beyond Anatomy of a Typeface Lawson has considered and discussed the classification of types. Within Anatomy, Lawson arranges the typefaces by classification.

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by Alexander Lawson

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by Lawson, Alexander S.

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by Lawson, Alexander.

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David Godine:, 1990. 428 pages, illustrated in b&w. "Lawson explores te vast offspring, with precision, insight, and clarity. From Garamond to Bembo to the design and manufacture of sans-pserif letters and newspaper types, this is the first full-scale investigation of typefaces since Updike's classic Printing Types that was published in 1922." FINE SOFTCOVER allirtua/ . Soft Cover. Fine-.… Read more about this item
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David R. Godine Publisher , 1993. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. hardback, octavo, a well preserved tightly bound copy with a clean and unmarked text and in a pictorial dust jacket which has faded mildly to the spine. Illustrated, 428pp.
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Boston: David R. Godine, 1990. First edition, 8vo, pp. 428; title page in red and black; illustrated throughout with type specimens and facsimile pages; fine in the dust jacket. From the library of Kim Merker. With the ownership signature of "Kim Merker / 20 August 1990" on front free endpaper.
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by LAWSON, Alexander

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Boston: David R. Godine, Publisher, 1990. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's slip laid in. Octavo (23.5cm); maroon cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's initials in blind on front cover; dustjacket; 428,[4]pp; illus. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, unclipped (priced $40.00), with some mild external wear. A historical record of… Read more about this item
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London : Hamish Hamilton, 1990. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 428 p. : ill. Notes: Includes bibliography, index. Contents: Goudy text and black-letter types -- Hammer Uncial -- Cloister Old Style -- Centaur -- Bembo --… Read more about this item
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by Lawson, Alexander.

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by LAWSON, ALEXANDER

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Anatomy of a Typeface: A Comprehensive Survey of 30 Type Families Tracing Their Forms, History And Development Over the Last Five Centuries

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by Lawson, Alexander

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Book. Good. Binding see description. Boston, 1990. 428pp. Richly illus. Extensive bibliography and index. Cloth. Dustjacket. * Lawson explores the vast territory of types, their development and uses, their antecedents and offsprings, with precision, insight and clarity..
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