The well-made book : essays & lectures /

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Main Author: Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941
Other Authors: Peterson, William S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Created: West New York, NJ : Mark Batty, Publisher, 2002.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • On the planning of printing
  • Style in the use of type
  • The seven champions of typography
  • The essentials of a well-made book
  • The place of the educated man in the printing industry
  • Gutenberg and his relation to printers today
  • Review of Four centuries of fine printing by Stanley Morison
  • Some notes on liturgical printing
  • Notes supplementary to Gough's Memoirs
  • Some revivals of printing in the nineteenth century
  • Ecclesiastical printing
  • George Lepreux and the Gallia typographica
  • Thomas Maitland Cleland
  • Rudolph Ruzicka : an appreciation
  • Some tendencies in modern typography
  • American university presses
  • Description of the Merrymount Press
  • Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work
  • To the trade
  • On the decorations of the limited edition of standard prayer book of MDCCCXCII
  • To the clergy and laity of the Episcopal church
  • The black art : a homily
  • Announcements of Mr. Berkeley Updike for the autumn of MDCCCXCV
  • Merrymount : being a few words on the derivation of the name of the Merrymount Press
  • Designs to be used with type
  • An address to the Grolier Club
  • The "lost" Caslon specimen of 1748
  • What the printer can do for an architect
  • A translation of the reports of Berlier & Sobry on types of Gillé fils
  • A Merrymount exhibition of 1928
  • An autobiographical note
  • Bruce Rogers and the Oxford lectern Bible
  • The Merrymount Press, Boston
  • The Updike collection of books on printing at the Providence Public Library
  • Recollections of the Athenaeum, 1878 and 1879
  • Nota bene
  • Metropolitan Museum printing
  • A note on Bruce Rogers
  • Stanley Morison
  • A Merrymount exhibition of 1940
  • A last word.