One hundred books famous in typography / by Jerry Kelly ; with a foreword by Sebastian Carter ; based on an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, New York, 2021.
Publisher:
Grolier Club,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
333 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 31 cm
"Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Grolier Club, 12 May through 31 July 2021"--Title page verso. "Lenders to the exhibition: American Type Founders Company Library & Museum at Columbia University ; Robert Bringhurst ; T. Kimball Brooker ; Laure Burns ; Sebastian Carter ; David R. Godine ; The Grolier Club Library ; Martin Hutner ; Jerry Kelly ; Nancy Leo-Kelly ; The Morgan Library & Museum ; David Pankow ; Rochester Institute of Technology/Cary Library"--Unnumbered page 23. "Fifty typefaces famous in typography"--Pages 263-314. "'One hundred books famous in typography' has been typeset in Palatino Nova types designed by Hermann Zapf. Seven hundred and fifty copies printed on Cougar Opaque paper, of which twenty-six copies are specially bound and signed by the author. Design & typography by Jerry Kelly"--Colophon. Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-324) and index.
Summary:
"One Hundred Books Famous in Typography, the latest entry in the Grolier Club's prestigious Grolier Hundred series, is the story of art and technology working in harmony with each other, all the way from Johannes Gutenberg's ingenious development of a system for reproducing texts through the introduction of newer technologies like hot-metal line casting, phototype, and digital type. Featuring scholarly yet accessible context for the works discussed and their typographical significance, and illustrated with more than two hundred images, Jerry Kelly's book is the most comprehensive exploration yet of this essential facet of bookmaking and publishing"--University of Chicago Press website, viewed April 29, 2022.
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