The Design and Printing of Ephemera in Britain and America 1720-1920 - Couverture rigide

Hudson, Graham

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0712349049 ISBN 13 : 9780712349048

Editeur : The British Library Publishing Division, 2007

Synopsis

This book is new in that it discusses ephemera as an aspect of design history, showing how function, process and period have affected the changing appearance of leaflets, tickets, posters, trade cards and other ephemera. The printing histories of Britain and America are closely woven. Colonial printers and engravers imported British type and equipment and took instruction from the same manuals, a relationship that continued through the first half of the nineteenth century. It was in the years following the Civil War that American and British graphic design and typography began to establish their own identities as developments in colour printing brought an explosion of colourful ephemera. Richly illustrated with letterforms, engravings, drawings and the reproduction in colour of 200 items of ephemera, this is a book for collectors, students, design historians and all those with an interest in the visual arts.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Graham Hudson is Secretary and founding member of the Ephemera Society. He has published articles on aspects of ephemeral printing in the Journal of the Printing Historical Society, Art Libraries Journal, the Journal of the Writing Equipment Society, Industrial Archaeology and numerous articles in The Ephemerist.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The British Library Publishing Division
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0712349049
• ISBN 13: 9780712349048
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 160
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible