Morris got into type after helping his friend Emery Walker prepare for a lecture on printing. Within two years he had cut the golden type.
Morris aimed for the Roman of Nicolas Jenson
Morris wanted to print ‘Golden legend’ first but settled for Glittering Plain
Automation putting people out of work is complicated. It seems like, for example, that printing didn’t destroy the market for scribes, the typewriter did! The Linotype didn’t seem to put compositors out of work, the size of industry increased
Plantin - Elzevir - Jannon
What is esparto grass and why is its paper so good?
Read Plantin biography
Visit Plantin museum
Labore et Constantia - Plantin’s device
I need to be cutting Caslon
McMurtie thinks Caslon’s types are the finest ever cut
Caslon was a synthesis of existing types from Holland
Geoffrey Tory, engraver, professor of philosophy, editor of the classics, introduces accents and cedilla into French
Read Champsfleury about type design
Read Goudy’s The Alphabet
Incunabula Typographie 1688
Annales typograhici 1741
Bodoni’s Manuale
Who was Sir Roger de Coverly?
Dard Hunter’s books on making paper
Type of Joachim Ibarra
Linn Boyd benton’s punch cutting machine
Published April 10, 2019 in Reading notes