Author: Columbia University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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The History of Printing from Its Beginnings to 1930
Author: Columbia University. LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Duplicates of Type Specimen Books, Etc., United States and Foreign
Author: Henry Lewis BullenPublisher: San Diego : Frontier Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: The practice of typography. A treatise on title-pages
Author: Theodore Low De VinnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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History of Whiteside County, Illinois
Author: Charles BentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Whiteside County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
History of Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Author: Wilson WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chelmsford (Mass. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan
Author: Doug ClousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
"This study of America's leading type foundry of the nineteenth century, MacKellar, Smiths Jordan, emphasizes 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 how changing business conditions and technical improvements in type founding interacted with changes in public taste over the decades to modify the appearance of American typefaces." "While MacKellar, Smiths Jordan is only one of many American foundries, it can stand as an exemplar of the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796, and set many industry standards in business practice, manufacturing, and design. When taste turned away from ornamented type styles at the end of the nineteenth century, MacKellar, Smiths Jordan's output fell into obscurity. This study proposes that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MSJ's original typeface designs accompanies the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Men and Memories of San Francisco, in the "spring of '50."
Author: Theodore Augustus BarryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Theodore Augustus Barry (1825-1881) and Benjamin Ada Patten (1825-1877) established their credentials as California pioneers by arriving in their adopted state before January 1, 1850. Men and memories of San Francisco (1873) gives later arrivals a detailed picture of the city as it existed a few months before California statehood. They describe the streets and the residences and business that lined each thoroughfare and alley as well as the men and women who owned those homes, boarding-houses, hotels, restaurants, saloons, stores, offices, and shops. They also chronicle the fire of May 1851 which destroyed so many of the structures they describe. While they focus on the city as it was in early 1850, their sketches of its residents extend further, often forming capsule biographies of their subjects.
The Cabells and Their Kin
Author: Alexander BrownWestern Massachusetts
Author: John Hoyt LockwoodPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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