- Hardcover: 276 pages
- Publisher: Dorset Pr; New edition edition (May 1990)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0880293241
- ISBN-13: 978-0880293242
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 726 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #312,856 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This classic book will inform the layman and delight the typophile. Here is the history of printing from the earliest alphabets, through the evolution of the printing press, the contributions of great printers and typographers, and twentieth century graphic technology. A new chapter by Robert Bringhurst takes up this short history where Chappell leaves off, covering the most recent developments in the printed word. Over 200 illustrations, appear throughout this lively narrative.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Check out updated version by R. Bringhurst,
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This review is from: A Short History of the Printed Word (Hardcover)
The Canadian typographer and book designer Robert Bringhurst updated Chappell's (1904-91) history. He is also the author of Element of typographic style (which is also a classic)Althought I haven't yet read this classic by Chappell. I want to read it and would like any help in finding it too! I think the new version is by Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
4.0 out of 5 stars
a must read,
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This review is from: A short history of the printed word (Paperback)
The book is a great source of information. The 4 (not 5) stars is given cause the book is filled with postscript errors (missing letters, ligatures replaced by spaces, accented glyphs...). Disapointing for a book about typography.
5.0 out of 5 stars
What Historians Don't Know,
This review is from: A short history of the printed word (Paperback)
Among graphic designers, one of the finest, most popular books in recent years is Robert Bringhurst's The Elements of Typographic Style (Hartley & Marks, 1992). In this book, Bringhurst revisits a classic history of typography, publication design and printing techniques that was originally produced in 1970 by Chappell (1904-1991), a book designer, illustrator and author who had studied with Rudolf Koch. Of eleven highly readable chapters, all were written by Chappell, with the exception of the last on "The Digital Revolution and the Close of the Twentieth Century." Why reissue Chappell's book? As Bringhurst explains in the preface, "He knew some of the things that historians know, but mostly he knew what historians don't know. I wanted the names and dates set straight, insofar as possible, and yet to hear the story told as Chappell told it, from a workbench rather than a keyboard, with silences in place of self-advertisements, and graver marks and acid stains in place of any footnotes." (Review copyright 2000 by Roy R. Behrens from Ballast Quarterly Review 15, No. 4, Summer.)
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