Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan: Typographic Tastemakers of the Late Nineteenth Century Tapa dura - 2008

Oak Knoll Press, 2008, 2008. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 0x0x0. ISigned by Author(s). Signed by Author(s) SIGNED by the author at title page. First Edition. 4to. 176 pp. Black cloth lettered in silver at spine. Illustrated jacket. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2008. Hardcover, dust jacket. 8.5 x 11 inches. Hardcover, dust jacket. 176 pages. First edition. This is the first full-length study of the leading American type foundry of the nineteenth century. It is an interesting history of the foundry from both a business and a design point of view. The emphasis is on the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes (with many detailed photographic illustrations) how changing business conditions and technical improvements in typefounding interacted with changes in public taste to modify, over the decades, the appearance of the typefaces that Americans found in their publications. While this is a study of only one of many American foundries, in many ways MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan can stand as an exemplar of all the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful… Leer más