TYPE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF LETTERS.
Publisher: I.B. TAURIS
Published: 2004
Place of publication: LONDON
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 248
Description: "Type: The Secret History of Letters tells its story for the first time, treating typography as a hidden measure of our history. From the tempestuous debate about its beginnings in the fifteenth century, to the invention of our most contemporary lettering, Simon Loxley, with the skill of a novelist, tells of the people and events behind our letters. How did Johann Gutenberg, in late 1438, come to think of printing? Does Baskerville have anything to do with Sherlock Holmes? Why did the Nazis re-invent Blackletter? What is a Zapf?"--Jacket.