Drawing on type / by Newfeld, Frank, 1928-

Table of Contents: “…Robertson -- Conceptual mathematics -- The most gainful commission -- Early days on Simcoe Street -- Many faces -- Alligator pie -- The jaguar messenger system -- Authors, illustrators, art directors -- Many types -- Home is where.…”
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Adrian Frutiger - typefaces : the complete works / by Frutiger, Adrian, 1928-2015

Table of Contents: “…; The digital versions ; Imitations of Frutiger ; The colour of a typeface ; Typeface comparison ; Back to signage type: Astra Frutiger -- Glypha ; Icone ; Breughel ; Dolmen ; Tiemann ; Versailles ; Linotype Centennial ; Avenir ; Westside ; Vectora ; Linotype Didot ; Herculanum ; Shiseido ; Frutiger capitals ; Rusticana ; Frutiger stones / Frutiger symbols ; Frutiger neonscript ; Nami -- Synopsis of Frutiger-typefaces ; Production of type: Handsetting ; Lumitype photosetting ; Machine setting: single-letter casting ; Monophoto photosetting ; Machine setting: line-casting ; OCR technology ; Strike-on composition ; Transfer type ; Linofilm photosetting ; CRT setting ; Lasersetting ; Digital typesetting -- Logos and wordmarks.…”
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The Adrian Frutiger, typefaces : the complete works / by Osterer, Hein, Stamm, Philipp

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The Bentons : how an American father and son changed the printing industry / by Cost, Patricia

Table of Contents: “…Metal type -- Three generations of Bentons -- The North-Western Type Foundry -- Challenges and solutions -- The development of Benton's punch-cutting machine, and how it made the linotype a success -- The formation of the American Type Founders Company -- Linn Boyd Benton and the century type -- An overview of Linn Boyd Benton's patented inventions -- Morris Benton at ATF -- How type was made at ATF -- The Benton family's early years in Plainfield, New Jersey -- Prosperity and hard times -- The typographic climate in the early twentieth century -- Morris Benton's type designs -- The later Plainfield years -- The Benton legacy.…”
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Robert Granjon, letter-cutter (1513-1590) : an oeuvre-catalogue / by Vervliet, Hendrik D. L.

Table of Contents: “…Granjon's biography -- Granjon's publications by date -- Granjon's types in context -- Granjon's types classified by date -- Granjon's types classified by kind and body size -- Granjon's types classified by kind and date -- Facsimiles of Granjon's types by kind and date.…”

John Baskerville : art and industry in the enlightenment / by Archer-Parre, Caroline, Dick, Malcolm

Table of Contents: “…List of Figures vii -- Acknowledgements xi -- Foreword xiii -- Timeline xv -- Baskerville Family Tree xvii -- Introduction: John Baskerville: Art and Industry of the Enlightenment; Caroline Archer-Parre and Malcolm Dick -- The Topographies of a Typographer: Mapping John Baskerville since the Eighteenth Century; Malcolm Dick -- Baskerville's Birmingham: Printing and the English Urban Renaissance; John Hinks -- Place, Home and Workplace: Baskerville's Birthplace and Buildings; George Demidowicz -- John Baskerville: Japanner of 'Tea Trays and other Household Goods'; Yvonne Jones -- John Baskerville, William Hutton and their Social Networks; Susan Whyman -- John Baskerville the Writing Master: Calligraphy and Typein the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; Ewan Clayton -- A Reappraisal of Baskerville's Greek Types; Gerry Leonidas -- John Baskerville's Decorated Papers; Barry McKay and Diana Patterson -- The 'Baskerville Bindings'; Aurelie Martin -- After the 'Perfect Book': English Printers and their Use of Baskerville's Type, 1767-90; Martin Killeen -- The Cambridge Cult of the Baskerville Press; Caroline Archer-Parre -- The 'Baskerville Bindings' -- Members of the Baskerville Club -- Comparative Bibliography -- Further Reading -- General Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.…”
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History of the Linotype Company / by Romano, Frank J.

Table of Contents: “…Clephane's history of the linotype -- Linotype's early years : great expectations and unforeseen betrayals -- Mackey's 1936 history of the Linotype Company -- Mergenthaler's linotype machines, 1883/1972 -- The logotype and other competitors -- The intertype -- John Rogers : inventor, and perfecter of the linotype -- Key people who built the company, 1888/1960 -- The war years -- The business of type -- Fonts manufactured by Linotype or its subsidiaries -- Mergenthaler expands beyond the linotype -- Linotype's periodicals and special publications -- Mergenthaler offices and factories -- My life at Linotype -- The phototypesetting era and corporate mergers -- Eltra : linotype becomes a modern conglomerate.…”
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The scythe and the rabbit : Simon de Colines and the culture of the book in Renaissance Paris / by Amert, Kay

Table of Contents: “…Parisian printing in the early sixteenth century : establishing an international idiom -- Origins of the French old-style : the roman and italic types of Simon de Colines -- Medicine, typography, and Renaissance ideals in early sixteenth-century Paris -- Sculpture under the microscope : a closer look at some sixteenth-century letterforms -- Duet for the design of letters : the work of Simon de Colines and Geofroy Tory -- The humanization of a medieval form : Geofroy Tory's and Simon de Coline's books of hours -- The phenomenon of the gros canon : the birth of roman display type in Renaissance Paris -- The intertwining strengths of Simon de Colines and his stepson Robert Estienne -- The Aldine hypothesis : appraising and reviving early Italian and French printing types.…”
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Mobituaries : great lives worth reliving / by Rocca, Mo, Greenberg, Jonathan Daniel, 1968-

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Katharine and Isabel : mother's light, daughter's journey / by Saunders, Frances Wright, 1920-

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Self-portrait : ceaselessly into the past / by Macdonald, Ross, 1915-1983

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King Leopold's ghostwriter : the creation of persons and states in the Nineteenth Century / by Fitzmaurice, Andrew

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Beautiful country : a memoir / by Wang, Qian Julie, 1987-

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The Doves Press / by Tidcombe, Marianne

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George Berkeley : a philosophical life / by Jones, Tom, 1975-

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Transnational ties : Australian lives in the world /

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Howard Aiken : portrait of a computer pioneer / by Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003

Table of Contents: “…First Steps Toward a New Type of Calculating Machine --…”
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George Gaylord Simpson : paleontologist and evolutionist / by Laporte, Léo F.

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Herman Melville : a half known life / by Bryant, John, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Nuku Hiva -- Jumping ship -- Island masculinities -- Taipi and Typee -- Escaping paradise -- Tahiti, Eimeo, Hawai'i (1842-1843). …”

Melville in His Own Time : a Biographical Chronicle of His Life, Drawn from Recollections, Interviews, and Memoirs by Family, Friends, and Associates /

Table of Contents: “…Wolfe, From Literary Shrines (1895) -- Oscar Wegelin, "Herman Melville As I Recall Him" (1935) -- Eleanor Melville Metcalf, [Childhood Recollection, 1921] -- Frances Thomas Osborne, [Childhood Recollection, 1965] -- Arthur Stedman, "Herman Melville's Funeral" (1891) and From "Introduction to the 1892 Edition [of Typee]" -- [J.E.A. Smith], From "Herman Melville. …”
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