The well-made book
Subtitle: essays & lectures
By: by Daniel Berkeley Updike ; edited by William S. Peterson.
Contributors: Peterson, William S.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Mark Batty, Publisher
Published: 2002
Place of publication: West New York, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Merrymount Press.; Printing -- History.; Printing -- United States -- History.; Fine books -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: On the planning of printing; title: Style in the use of type; title: The seven champions of typography; title: The essentials of a well-made book; title: The place of the educated man in the printing industry; title: Gutenberg and his relation to printers today; title: Review of Four centuries of fine printing by Stanley Morison; title: Some notes on liturgical printing; title: Notes supplementary to Gough's Memoirs; title: Some revivals of printing in the nineteenth century; title: Ecclesiastical printing; title: George Lepreux and the Gallia typographica; title: Thomas Maitland Cleland; title: Rudolph Ruzicka : an appreciation; title: Some tendencies in modern typography; title: American university presses; title: Description of the Merrymount Press; title: Notes on the Merrymount Press and its work; title: To the trade; title: On the decorations of the limited edition of standard prayer book of MDCCCXCII; title: To the clergy and laity of the Episcopal church; title: The black art : a homily; title: Announcement of Mr. Berkeley Updike for the autumn of MDCCCXCV; title: Merrymount : being a few words on the derivation of the name of the Merrymount Press; title: Designs to be used with type; title: An address to the Grolier Club; title: The "lost" Caslon specimen of 1748; title: What the printer can do for an architect; title: A translation of the reports of Berlier & Sobry on types of Gillé fils; title: A Merrymount exhibition of 1928; title: An autobiographical note; title: Bruce Rogers and the Oxford lectern Bible; title: The Merrymount Press, Boston; title: The Updike collection of books on printing at the Providence Public Library; title: Recollections of the Athenaeum, 1878 and 1879; title: Nota bene; title: Metropolitan Museum printing; title: A note on Bruce Rogers; title: Stanley Morison; title: A Merrymount exhibition of 1940; title: A last word.