An atlas of typeforms.
Contributors: Bartram, Alan, 1932-
Edition: [New edition].
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Ware, Hertfordshire, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Typography
First sentence: William Morris write of Nicholas Jenson's Roman: 'This type I studied with much care, getting it photographed to a big scale, and drawing it over many times before I began designing my own letter.'
Notes: Note to the 1988 edition:
An Atlas of Typeforms was first published in 1968, and is a unique record of five centuries of metal type. Since the original publication the whole process of creating type has changed. Redrawn for photocomposition and redrawn again for digital setting, the type names stay the same, but shapes and sizes have altered.   The last twenty years have seen more technological development to the printing process than the previous five centuries.

An Atlas of Typeforms is today not a working tool, but a classic record of metal type design.
Table of contents: title: Introduction 5; title: Roman inscriptional lettering 6; title: Scripts 10; title: Johann Gutenberg 18; title: Gothic and roman 20; title: Venetian 21; title: Old Face Italian 26; title: Old Face French 36; title: Old Face Dutch 43; title: Early Transitional 55; title: Transitional 59; title: Modern 68; title: Display 77; title: Fat Face 80; title: Egyptian 82; title: Clarendon 87; title: Decorative Display 94; title: William Morris 96; title: Twentieth-century roman 98; title: Grotesque 105; title: Index of typefaces 116; title: Specimen text settings; title: Short bibliography