Essay on Typography

Name: Essay on Typography
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ISBN: 9780879239503

ISBN-10: 0879239506

ISBN-13: 9780879239503

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eric Gill, Christopher Skelton

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An Essay on Typography was first published in 1931, instantly recognized as a classic, and has long been unavailable. It represents Gill at his best: opinionated, fustian, and consistently humane. It is his only major work on typography and remains indispensible for anyone interested in the art of letter forms and the presentation of graphic information. This manifesto, however, is not only about letters their form, fit, and function but also about man's role in an industrial society. As Gill wrote later, it was his chief object "to describe two worlds that of industrialism and that of the human workman and to define their limits." His thinking about type is still provocative. Here…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
Publication date: 9/8/2015
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 133
Size: 4.25" wide x 6.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.242
Language: English