Letters of credit : a view of type design / Walter Tracy
by Tracy, Walter
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0860920852
- ISBN 13
- 9780860920854
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About This Item
London: Gordon Fraser, 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 219 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-219) and index.Contents: Part I: Aspects of type design -- The vocabulary of type -- Type measure -- Types for study -- Legibility and readability -- The making of type -- Proportion -- The forms of letters -- Secondary types: italic, bold face -- Numerals -- Character spacing -- The slab-serif -- The sans-serif -- Part II: Some designers and their types -- The types of Jan van Krimpen -- Some types by Frederic Goudy -- Three types by Rudolf Koch -- The types of W. A. Dwiggins -- Stanley Morison's Times Roman -- Prospects. Subjects: 1900-1999 Type and type-founding History 20th century. Type and type-founding. Printing Design.Type and type-founding History 20th century.Type and type-founding.Type designers. Typografie. Letters. Ontwerpen.Type design. Type and type-founding History 20th century. Type and type-founding. Typography.Typefaces. Type and type-founding. Type designersType and type-foundingType and type-founding History 20th centuryTypography Design. Typography : graphic design. Printing History 20th century. Printing Technical education.Printing Technique Type design.
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- Bookseller
- MW Books Ltd. (IE)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 393341
- Title
- Letters of credit : a view of type design / Walter Tracy
- Author
- Tracy, Walter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0860920852
- ISBN 13
- 9780860920854
- Publisher
- London: Gordon Fraser
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
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