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Typographic years : a printer's journey through a half-century, 1925-1975 /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blumenthal, Joseph, 1897-1990
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : F.C. Beil, [1982]
Subjects:
Blumenthal, Joseph, > 1897-1990.
Spiral Press > History.
Printers > United States > Biography.
Printing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Book design > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Publishers and publishing > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Printing > History > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Typographic years
  • Beginnings
  • The Spiral Press
  • Early years
  • The nineteen twenties
  • Why printing?
  • Separation of printer and designer
  • The American Institute of Graphic Arts
  • Germany and Holland
  • Robert Frost at the Spiral Press
  • The Colophon
  • The Depression
  • Of type and the alphabet
  • Emerson type
  • Printing on the hand press
  • The limited editions club
  • What makes fine printing fine
  • Printing education
  • The Museum of Modern Art
  • The public papers and addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • The typophiles
  • Printer and publisher
  • Printing houses and the artists
  • World War II
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum Press
  • Steuben Glass
  • Institutions and foundations
  • The Grolier Club
  • The Pierpont Morgan Library
  • Liquidation and dispersal
  • Art of the printed book
  • The printed book in America
  • The heroic generation
  • Exhibitions.