Daniel Berkeley Updike – författare

In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The 367 illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The closing chapters on choice of type and on the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to the problem of printers today are particularly valuable.Printing Types is the master work of a master printer, collecting in two volumes a wealth of material once scattered through widely diverse sources. Everyone interested in the graphic arts will welcome the reissue of this classic on the art of printing.

In his comprehensive study of types from the earliest times to the twentieth century, Daniel Berkeley Updike, founder of the famous Merrymount Press of Boston, traces the sequence of development in typography and discusses the relative importance of each period and the lesson that it holds for the modern printer. The 367 illustrations reproduce carefully selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The text constitutes a running commentary on the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which exemplify the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The closing chapters on choice of type and on the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to the problem of printers today are particularly valuable.Printing Types is the master work of a master printer, collecting in two volumes a wealth of material once scattered through widely diverse sources. Everyone interested in the graphic arts will welcome the reissue of this classic on the art of printing.

Tipos para imprenta: su historia, formas y uso es la obra fundacional de un maestro impresor que explora el arte de la tipografia desde los albores de la imprenta hasta el siglo XX. Por primera vez traducida al espanol en su version integra, esta edicion recupera un clasico de la historia de la tipografia. Rinde, tambien, un homenaje a Daniel Berkeley Updike, fundador de la legendaria Merrymount Press, en Boston, y pionero como editor e impresor, labor en la que se intereso particularmente por la recuperacion historica de los tipos de imprenta y su estudio. Este primer volumen comprende el alfabeto latino, la invencion de la imprenta, el corte y la fundicion de tipos, los tipos del siglo XV en Alemania, Italia, Francia, Espana e Inglaterra, asi como los tipos alemanes, italianos y franceses de los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII. Al hacer un recuento del desarrollo del diseno tipografico, Updike resalta la importancia de cada periodo historico y las lecciones que encierra para impresores y disenadores tipograficos actuales. Las ilustraciones que se incluyen reproducen paginas cuidadosamente seleccionadas de libros raros y bellos. El texto que las acompana constituye un comentario continuo sobre la importancia historica y artistica de estos especimenes, que ejemplifican el mejor trabajo de impresores y fundidores de tipos.