Creator
Lucien Alphonse Legros & John Cameron Grant
Title
Typographical Printing Surfaces.
Coverage
London & New York
Publisher
Longmans, Green and Co.
Date
1916
Subject
Octavo
Description
Typographical Printing Surfaces is one of the first, and still one of the best, scientific analyses of printing types. Coming at the end of the industrial revolution, and a few short decades after key inventions such as the pantographic punchcutting machine, the Linotype machine, and the Monotype machine, the book surveys major developments in the production of printing types.
The authors were both civil engineers, not printers, so they approach the subject with a scientific objectivity that might be lacking in others more closely tied to the printing industry.
The authors were both civil engineers, not printers, so they approach the subject with a scientific objectivity that might be lacking in others more closely tied to the printing industry.
Relation
PROVENANCE: David R. Godine