Product Description
This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height. Taken from a Dutch collection, this exuberant selection traverses the evolution of the printed letter in all its various incarnations via exquisitely designed catalogs displaying not … More >>
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles, Vol. 1
Tags: 19th century, color catalogs, dutch collection, font catalogs, graphic, graphic styles, History, history of typefaces, incarnations, remarkable examples, Styles, Type, typefaces, Visual, visual history, vol 1, Vol.
The book came in time, in its original wrapping, etc. but had been damaged during the trip because the packaging was shotty.
Rating: 3 / 5
this is a huge book, both physically and contextually. It’s beautiful, well designed and I can’t wait to order Vol. 2.
Rating: 5 / 5
Jan Tholenaar got for many years in the ban of the beuatiful typespecimenbooks particularely of the 19th century. He collected an unbelievable number of these books and know you can believe it after having seen a view in a number of items of his collection. I had the pleasure to meet him when he was in the middle of the creation of the visual history of typefaces and he enthousastically explained me how typesetters sometimes worked more than a month on one page! Recomended to everybody that loves old typography.
Rating: 5 / 5