Emile Kerssemakers – Antiquarian Books
Type. The Secret History of Letters. – LOXLEY, Simon

Boeknummer: 65889

Type. The Secret History of Letters.

LOXLEY, Simon

I.B. Tauris, London - New York

ISBN: 9781850433972

€ 22,00

2005, 248pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition.

A historical and cultural analysis of the development of type, letters, and typography traces the motivations of typography's creators, noting the persecution and political upheavals that marked their efforts and tracing the period between the creation of the first moveable type to the dawning of the Internet.