Author: Doug Clouse
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Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 186
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"This study of America's leading type foundry of the nineteenth century, MacKellar, Smiths Jordan, emphasizes the design of the hundreds of typefaces that were produced by the foundry, from its inception in the 1860s until its merger with most other American foundries at the end of the century. The author describes how changing business conditions and technical improvements in type founding interacted with changes in public taste over the decades to modify the appearance of American typefaces." "While MacKellar, Smiths Jordan is only one of many American foundries, it can stand as an exemplar of the rest. It was the descendant of the first successful American type foundry, Binny and Ronaldson, started in Philadelphia in 1796, and set many industry standards in business practice, manufacturing, and design. When taste turned away from ornamented type styles at the end of the nineteenth century, MacKellar, Smiths Jordan's output fell into obscurity. This study proposes that the earlier styles were very successful in their own time and should be judged on that basis. A completely illustrated appendix showing MSJ's original typeface designs accompanies the text."--BOOK JACKET.
Mackellar, Smiths & Jordan
Catalogue of the Technical Reference Library of Works on Printing and the Allied Arts
Author: St. Bride Foundation Institute. Technical Reference Library
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
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The Practice of Typography
Author: Theodore Low De Vinne
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Category : Graphic arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : Graphic arts
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Central Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: USA Patent Office
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Languages : en
Pages : 2126
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Languages : en
Pages : 2126
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The Practice Builder
Author: Charles R. Hambly
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Category : Dental offices
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Category : Dental offices
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Seeger and Guernsey's Cyclopædia of the Manufactures and Products of the United States
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Category : Manufactures
Languages : en
Pages : 1412
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Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office
Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Type and Presses in America
Author: Frederick William Hamilton
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Category : Printing presses
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Category : Printing presses
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
Author: United States. Patent Office
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Publisher:
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Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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