Oak Knoll

First U.S. edition. Fine in fine jacket.

Part I discusses the aspects of type design - vocabulary, legibility, readability, character spacing, etc. Part II looks at the types of Jan Van Krimpen, Frederic Goudy, Rudolf Koch, W. A. Dwiggins and Stanley Morison. "The revolution in typesetting -- a revolution that over the past two decades has eliminated a five-hundred year-old system of hot metal production and replaced it with one of photo-generated and computer-driven composition -- shows no sign of winding down. This book, more than any other we have read, traces the steps that went into that revolution and simultaneously makes the argument that the letter forms themselves, whether used in film computer or hot metal composition, are always in a process of evolution."

English typography Walter Tracy (1917-1967) was responsible for replacing The Times' Times New Roman typeface by creating Times Europa in 1972. From the reference library of Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts with their bookplate included.