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One of the most peculiar classes of lierature in the 19th century was the specimen book, issued by typefounders to show the styles of type available for sale. This entertaining survey combines typographic scholarship and literary criticism to discuss hundreds of examples of text, from the arcane to the mundane and the texts can be read with a poetic as well as a typographic sensibility.
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Alphabets to Order The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens
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Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, DE & London, 2000
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Alphabets to order : the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders' specimens
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Oak Knoll Press, New Castle, Delaware, 2000
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ISBN 13 : 9781584560098
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Hardcover. Etat : VG. Color illustrated dj, red boards with gilt text on spine. 213 pp. Some bw illustrations. "Alphabets to Order provides a survey of an overlooked artform - the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type specimen books during the typefounding boom of the nineteenth century." "Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Alastair Johnston explores the apparent randomness of the texts that typesetters used to show off their typefaces. Discussing hundreds of examples from British and North American specimen books, Johnston shows that the typefounders' 'nonsense' reflected their interests and preoccupations from the arcane to the mundane. Through this new lens, we see that the specimen books had plenty to say about the reading habits, politics, amusements and whimsies of the day." "Johnston argues that the typefounders' specimens are of significant literary interest as well. Playing both with words and with the graphic shapes of the letterforms, these nameless pioneers trod paths later explored by concrete poets, book artists, dadaists, performance artists, and other experimenters with literary form." "Alphabets to Order is for anyone interested in vernacular art, typographic history, or literary studies, combining all three in a fresh expose of a new class of cultural hero - the worldly wise typesticker.". N° de réf. du vendeur 210418
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Alphabets to order : the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders' specimens / by Alastair Johnston
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 213 pages; Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index. Subjects: Type and type-founding --United States --Great Britain --History --English literature --19th century --History and criticism. Summary: This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co- founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the apparently random texts employed by British and North American typesetters to display their typefaces actually reflected the typesetters' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane, and that they had plenty to say as well about the reading habits, politics, amusements, and whimsies of the day. Includes a number of reproductions of texts. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 155587
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Alphabets to order : the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders' specimens / by Alastair Johnston
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New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 2000
ISBN 10 : 1584560096
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First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw, now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered.; 213 pages; Description: 213 p. : ill. ; 29 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index. Subjects: Type and type-founding --United States --Great Britain --History --English literature --19th century --History and criticism. Summary: This appropriately lovely history surveys the literary output of the anonymous craftsmen who set type-specimen books during the typefounding boom of the 19th century. Combining typographic scholarship and literary criticism, Johnston (a bibliographer and co- founder of Poltroon Press) shows that the apparently random texts employed by British and North American typesetters to display their typefaces actually reflected the typesetters' interests and preoccupations, from the arcane to the mundane, and that they had plenty to say as well about the reading habits, politics, amusements, and whimsies of the day. Includes a number of reproductions of texts. 2 Kg. N° de réf. du vendeur 155587
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