Type : the secret history of letters /: the secret history of letters. (2006)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Loxley.
• Authors: Loxley, Simon
• Contents: Sine qua non -- The naked letter: the anatomy of type -- 1. The adventure and the art: the obscure origins of a revolution -- 2. Dynasty: in which William Caslon makes Britain the type centre of the world -- 3. Garamuddle: when is a sixteenth-century typeface not a sixteenth-century typeface? -- 4. The maverick tendency: the type and strange afterlife of John Baskerville -- Detour -- Meltdown: a stroll around a fallen giant -- 5. 'Hideous Italians': thicks, thins, and the rise of advertising type -- 6. American spring: creating the modern age -- 7. An awful beauty: the private press movement -- 8. Under fire: Frederic Goudy, type star -- Detour -- Typecast: on the trail of the metal fanatics -- 9. Going Underground: Edward Johnston's letters for London -- 10. The doves and the serpent: Stanley Morison and the Wardes -- 11. Dangerous passions: radical European typography in the inter-war years -- 12. Leper messiah: Gill semi-light, Gill heavy -- 13. Europe after the rain: rebirth and twilight -- Detour -- Portable serenity: the precision and the passion of the letter cutter -- 14. Two ghosts: forgotten technologies from the dustbin of history -- 15. Motorway madness: David Kindersley and the great road sign ruckus -- 16. A company man: Herb Lubalin and the International Typeface Corporation -- 17. The twenty-six soldiers: fiddling with the format -- 18. New gods: Neville Brody and the designer decade -- 19. Revolution again: liberating the letter -- Detour Inside the micro-foundry: twenty-first-century type -- 20. Typocalypse.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2006
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 686.22409; Type and type-founding -- History; Type and type-founding; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857717610; 0857717618; 9780857730176; 0857730177
• Related ISBNs: 1845110285; 9781845110284
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.